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No. 96-127 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Tuesday, September 24, 1996)

NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS

TO MEET OCTOBER 9-12

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on

Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has scheduled a technical meeting

October 9-12 in Rockville, Maryland.

The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in

Conference Room 2B3 in the NRC's Two White Flint North Building

at 11545 Rockville Pike.

Although meetings of the ACRS are open, they are not part of

the NRC's public hearing process. The ACRS, an advisory group to

the Commission, conducts independent, highly technical reviews of

safety considerations related to nuclear facilities. While

anyone may attend, the committee will consider only oral or

written statements arranged in advance and limited to specific

matters set forth in a Notice of Meeting published in the Federal

Register September 25.

The meeting may include closed sessions, if required, to

discuss proprietary information.

Here is the complete meeting agenda:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9

8:30 a.m. to 8:35 a.m. -- Opening remarks by the ACRS

chairman.

8:35 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. -- Discussion between ACRS and

members of the Canadian Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety

(ACNS) on missions, regulatory environments, process/products,

interactions and independence.

9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on

risk-informed, performance-based regulation.

1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on

issues associated with plant aging.
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2:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on

training of nuclear power plant operators, and use of simulators.

3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on

digital instrumentation and control systems and issues identified

by the National Academy of Sciences/national Research Council.

4:15 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. -- Discussion of miscellaneous

issues including As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) , costbenefit considerations and safety culture at nuclear facilities.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

8:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. -- Discussion with the deputy

executive director for Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Regional

Operations and Research, on the NRC strategic assessment and

rebaselining effort.

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon -- Discussion with NRC staff on a

proposed standard review plan, sections and branch technical

positions for digital instrumentation and control systems.

1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on a

control room back-panel fire at Palo Verde Unit 2 in Arizona on

April 4.

2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Report of the ACRS planning and

procedures subcommittee.

3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. -- Future ACRS activities.

3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. -- Discussion of responses from

NRC's executive director for operations to comments and

recommendations included in recent ACRS reports.

4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Preparation of ACRS reports.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11

8:35 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. -- Discussions with NRC staff on

activities associated with the NRC thermal hydraulic computer

codes.

10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. -- Report by the acting chairman

of the ACRS human factors subcommittee.

2:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Discussion of proposed ACRS

reports.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
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8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. -- Preparation of ACRS reports.

11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. -- Strategic planning session.

Persons wishing to submit statements on any of these topics

may do so by providing a readily reproducible copy to the

committee or by mailing it to the Executive Director, Advisory

Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, D.C. 20555-0001.

(ACRS meeting schedules are subject to change. Anyone

planning to attend should confirm the schedule the day before the

meeting by calling (301) 415-5024.

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