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No. 96-164 FOR IMMEDIATE

RELEASE

(Friday, November 22,

1996)

NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS

TO MEET DECEMBER 5-7

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on

Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has scheduled a technical meeting

December 5-7 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 November 20.

The meeting may include closed sessions, if required, to

discuss proprietary information.

Here is the complete meeting agenda:

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5

8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. -- Opening remarks by the ACRS

chairman.

8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on

risk-informed, performance-based regulation.

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on

research involving instrumentation and control systems.
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on

issues associated with plant aging.

3:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff on the

NRC Human Performance Program Plan.

5:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. -- Preparation of ACRS reports.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6

8:35 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. -- Preparation for meeting with NRC

Commissioners. Topics of discussion include digital

instrumentation and control systems; Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research Plan for upgrading NRC thermal-hydraulic codes; riskinformed, performance-based regulation; use of safety goals on a

plant-specific basis; and use of RULENET in the regulatory

process.

9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. -- Meeting with the NRC Commissioners

(Commissioners Conference Room, One White Flint North).

11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. -- Future ACRS activities.

11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. -- Report from the planning and

procedures subcommittee. (Note: A portion of this session may

be closed to discuss organizational and personnel matters).

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

regarding modifications to the emergency response program.

2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. -- Reconciliation of ACRS comments

and recommendations.

2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. -- Election of officers for

calendar year 1997.

3:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. -- Preparation of ACRS reports.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7

8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. -- Preparation of ACRS reports.

12:30 p.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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