INFORMATION REPORT

October 31, 2003 SECY-03-0184

For: The Commissioners

From: William M. Dean, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO

Subject: SECY-03-0184 WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK 

ENDING OCTOBER 24, 2003

Contents Enclosure

Nuclear Reactor Regulation A

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards B

Nuclear Regulatory Research C

Nuclear Security and Incident Response D

General Counsel E*

Administration F

Chief Information Officer G

Chief Financial Officer H*

Human Resources I

Small Business & Civil Rights J*

Enforcement K*

State and Tribal Programs L*

Public Affairs M

International Programs N*

Office of the Secretary O

Region I P

Region II P

Region III P*

Region IV P

Executive Director for Operations Q*

Congressional Affairs R

*No input this week.

/RA/

William M. Dean

Assistant for Operations, OEDO

Contact:

L. Roche, OEDO
October 31, 2003 SECY-03-0184

For: The Commissioners

From: William M. Dean, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO

Subject: SECY-03-0184 WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK 

ENDING OCTOBER 24, 2003

Contents Enclosure

Nuclear Reactor Regulation A

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards B

Nuclear Regulatory Research C

Nuclear Security and Incident Response D

General Counsel E*

Administration F

Chief Information Officer G

Chief Financial Officer H*

Human Resources I

Small Business & Civil Rights J*

Enforcement K*

State and Tribal Programs L*

Public Affairs M

International Programs N*

Office of the Secretary O

Region I P

Region II P

Region III P*

Region IV P

Executive Director for Operations Q*

Congressional Affairs R

*No input this week.

/RA/

William M. Dean

Assistant for Operations, OEDO

Contact:

L. Roche, OEDO

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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 24, 2003

The Weekly Information Report is compiled by the Office of the EDO and includes highlights of

Headquarters and Regional Office activities. 

Contact: L. Roche, OEDO by E-mail: lar2@nrc.gov. 

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*No input this week
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE A

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

D.C. Cook Plant - New Site Vice President

Joseph (Joe) N. Jensen was named as the Site Vice President for D.C. Cook Nuclear Power

Plant and will be responsible for Plant Operations and Maintenance of the D.C. Cook Plant. 

Mr. Jensen is scheduled to assume his duties at D.C. Cook on October 27, 2003. Mr. Jensen

has most recently held the position of Plant Manager at the Point Beach Nuclear Plant. Prior to

that, he spent 15 years at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Station where he held various

positions including Training Manager, Engineering Director, and Production Planning Manager. 

Closeout of GSI-186 - “Potential Risk and Consequences of Heavy Load Drops in Nuclear

Power Plants”

The Division of Systems Safety and Analysis (DSSA) and the Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research (RES) met on October 20, 2003, to discuss closeout of GSI-186, "Potential Risk and

Consequences of Heavy Load Drops in Nuclear Power Plants," and coordination of related

actions to enhance regulatory guidance in the area of heavy load handling.

Assuring the Availability of Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors

On October 16, 2003, a Federal Register notice (68 FR 59645) was published, announcing the

issuance and availability of Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.159, "Assuring the Availability of

Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors." This revision was developed to reflect recent

changes in a direct final rule on 10 CFR 50.75, which was signed by the Executive Director for

Operations on October 20, 2003. This document provides guidance to licensees and applicants

of nuclear power, research, and test reactors concerning acceptable methods for complying

with requirements in the rules regarding the amount of funds for decommissioning. It also

provides guidance on the content and forms of the financial assurance mechanisms in those

rule amendments. 

Early Site Permit (ESP)

On October 21, 2003, the NRC staff received an early site permit (ESP) application dated

October 16, 2003, from System Energy Resources, Inc., a subsidiary of Entergy Corporation, for

a site on property co-located with the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station near Port Gibson, MS. This is

the final ESP application of the three the staff expected to receive in 2003. The first two, for

North Anna and Clinton, were received on September 25, 2003. 

Meeting with NRC and Department of Transportation (DOT)

On October 16, 2003, members of the Emergency Preparedness and Plant Support Branch and

the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards met with representatives of the DOT’s

Office of Enforcement. Discussions included recent changes to the Public Radiation Safety

Cornerstone, Appendix D of NRC Inspection Manual 0609, “Public Radiation Safety

Significance Determination Process” and the Memorandum of Understanding between NRC and
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE A

DOT. This meeting was in preparation for a meeting requested by the Nuclear Energy Institute

to discuss changes to the Public Radiation Safety Cornerstone. 

Public Meeting on Davis-Besse High-Pressure Injection Pump Modifications

On October 21, 2003, FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC), the licensee for the

Davis-Besse nuclear power station, met with the NRC staff in a public meeting in Rockville,

Maryland to discuss its modifications to its high-pressure injection (HPI) pump. The purpose of

the meeting was for FENOC to describe its pump modifications and associated testing and

analyses that ensure the HPI pumps will perform their required safety functions under all design

conditions. The licensee discussed the design issues of concern, its planned modifications to

resolve the design issues, and the results of ongoing analyses and testing supporting the

modifications. The presentation also included a discussion of the modifications major

conservatisms and assumptions used in the analyses and testing. The licensee’s design

modifications are complete and the pumps are currently being modified. A final report will be

submitted to the NRC in the next few weeks.

NRR staff will review the final report, evaluate the adequacy of the pump modifications, and

make a recommendation to the NRC's Davis-Besse Oversight Panel prior to plant restart.
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE B

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

2003 Annual Organization of Agreement States Meeting in Oak Brook, Illinois

During the week of October 13-17, 2003, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

(NMSS) managers and staff attended and participated in the 2003 Annual Organization of

Agreement States meeting in Oak Brook, Illinois. Staff participated in the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency workshop on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking related to

disposal of low-activity radioactive wastes. Staff made presentations on the status of National

Materials Program (NMP) pilot projects and participated in panel discussions on NRC and

Agreement State priorities, expectations, and resources for the NMP. In addition, staff made

presentations on: (1) decommissioning guidance consolidation; (2) issues related to 10 CFR

Part 35 policy, implementation, and training and experience; (3) status of rulemaking on control

of disposition of solid materials, and working group activities for jurisdiction/source material;

(4) 10 CFR Part 40 rulemaking activities; (5) assured isolation; (6) reevaluation of the

two-person rule for radiography; and (7) revision to materials inspection guidance. NMSS

senior management discussed activities and initiatives to risk-inform the nuclear materials and

waste arenas and made a presentation on the status of the source tracking system.

Representatives from the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response also participated.

They discussed matters related to the U.S. General Accounting Office report on materials

security, Agreement State and NRC coordination on Homeland Security, analysis of the

TOPOFF 2 exercise, and compensatory measures training. 

Meeting of the Radiation Therapy Committee of the American Association of Physicists

in Medicine in Salt Lake City, UT

On October 18, 2003, a member of the staff from the Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear

Safety represented NRC, at the fall meeting of the Radiation Therapy Committee of the

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM RTC). The staff member provided

information on a variety of topics through a presentation and accompanying question and

answer session. Current publicly-available information was provided on the following topics: (1)

NRC rulemaking addressing the sections of the revised 10 CFR Part 35 involving training and

experience requirements for authorization; (2) discussion topics for the upcoming meeting of

NRC’s Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes on November 12 and 13, 2003; (3)

the status of legislation possibly extending NRC regulation to accelerator-produced and

naturally-occurring radioactive materials; and (4) the status of anticipated enhanced NRC

security requirements for some radioactive sources used in medicine. Additionally, information

was sought and acquired about current or upcoming AAPM RTC activity on the issue of

guidance on quality control for the Leksell Gamma Knife Automatic Positioning System.

Spanish Nuclear Safety Counsel Commissioner Tours Yucca Mountain

On October 15, 2003, NRC’s On-Site Representatives for Yucca Mountain escorted Spanish

Nuclear Safety Counsel Commissioner Julio Barceló, the Director of NRC’s Office of Nuclear

Material Safety and Safeguards, the Regional Administrator of NRC Region IV, NRC’s Chief
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE B

Financial Officer, the Deputy Director of NRC’s Division of Waste Management, and a staff

member from NRC’s Office of International Programs on a tour of Yucca Mountain. The tour

included entering the exploratory studies facility (main tunnel), with stops that included the driftscale thermal test, and areas of fracture and fault studies. The tour also included a visit to the

DOE’s Yucca Mountain Science Center in Las Vegas. 

NMSS High-level Waste Staff Attends Steering Committee Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden

On October 13-16, 2003, Division of Waste Management (DWM) staff, along with the Center for

Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses (CNWRA) staff, attended the final workshop and steering

committee meeting of the DECOVALEX (development of coupled models and their validation

against experiments) international project on coupled processes. NRC is one of the funding

organizations for this multi-phase project. One of the experiments that is being modeled for

validation by the international participants is the Drift-Scale Heater Experiment at the Yucca

Mountain Project. Representatives from DWM and CNWRA made presentations and discussed

the progress made to date in modeling the thermal-hydrological aspects of the heater

experiment. Also discussed were the scope and schedule for a potential future extension of the

project to predict the permanent changes in mechanical and hydrological properties as a result

of thermal impacts.

Meeting with Local Elected Officials on Proposed Louisiana Energy Services Enrichment Plant

On October 16, 2003, staff from the Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards and the

Offices of Congressional Affairs and Public Affairs, met with the County Manager of Lea County,

New Mexico, and two Lea County Commissioners, to discuss the status of the Louisiana Energy

Services proposed gas centrifuge enrichment plant project. The Lea County officials stated that

they appreciate NRC efforts to discuss the plant licensing at the planned November 4, 2003,

public meeting in Eunice, New Mexico. They also stated that they will support any NRC

requests for information needed for licensing.
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE C

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

Human Factors and Ergonomics Annual Conference

On October 16, 2003, RES participated in a panel discussion on "Human Factors in Regulation"

at the annual Human Factors (HF) and Ergonomics Society Convention. Other participants in

the panel were from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Aviation

Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, and the Food and Drug Administration. 

The primary conclusion from the panel was that all of the agencies are faced with similar

problems, both technical and organizational. Some of the technical areas of common interest

are the effects of fatigue and its measurement, root cause analysis techniques, HF job aide for

non-HF inspectors (e.g., tool for use by inspectors), and safety culture. The organizational

issues include lack of regulatory basis, limited HF staff, and lack of accident data. Other topics

of interest discussed at the conference were cognitive factors in homeland defense, mental

models in counter terrorism, team process and performance measures, and cognitive

engineering and decision making. 

There was also a consensus that it would be appropriate to establish an interagency task force

of HF professionals working in regulatory agencies to share information, leverage resources,

and possibly form cooperative agreements to fund research. The representative from the FDA

volunteered to take the lead in setting up a meeting in the first quarter of FY-2004. NRC staff

will participate to the extent allowed by resources. 

Project Meeting at the Center for Safety-Critical Systems, University of Virginia

RES staff met with researchers at University of Virginia's Center for Safety-Critical Systems

(CSCS) to discuss application of CSCS’ digital system safety assessment techniques and tools

to evaluating security of safety-critical digital systems. The staff has been involved in

cutting-edge research on digital system safety assessment through a cooperative agreement

with CSCS and other federal agencies. The techniques have been applied to safety-critical

digital systems in both the United States and Europe. Currently, CSCS is involved in a design

effort with Electricite de France (EdF). The purpose of the meeting was to identify ways for RES

to gain more leverage on the embedded system security research between CSCS and the

National Science Foundation for application to nuclear digital safety systems.

Handbook of Parameter Estimation for Probabilistic Risk Assessment (NUREG/CR-6823)

The Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) published the subject Handbook, which

provides references on sources of information and methods for estimating parameters for

distributions used in PRA analysis. This includes determination of both plant-specific and

generic estimates for initiating event frequencies, component failure rates and unavailability,

and equipment non-recovery probabilities, all of which directly supplement the “Standard For

Probabilistic Risk Assessment For Nuclear Power Plant Applications” published by the

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2002 (ASME-RA-S-2002). This

Handbook was generated to support this and other documents by providing a compendium of

good practices that a PRA analyst can use to generate the parameter distributions required for

quantifying PRA models. NUREG/CR-6823 is available at the NRC’s website at: 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/contract/cr6823/.
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE D

Nuclear Security and Incident Response

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

Fatigue Order for Security Forces

On October 23, 2003, the NRC approved a clarification regarding turnover time and a relaxation

regarding the conduct of force-on-force exercises related to Order EA-03-038 (April 2003),

which imposes work-hour limits on security force personnel. The letter issuing the relaxation

was posted on the NRC Web page on October 23, 2003, under "New at our Web Site " and

under "Power Plant Security Orders." On October 24, 2003, plant-specific letters were sent to

licensees. The clarification excludes shift turnover time from the calculation of the group

average work hours. The relaxation increases the group average limit from 48 hours per week

to 60 hours per week during the time period that licenses conduct force-on force exercises. Full

implementation of the Order is required by October 29, 2003.
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE F

Office of Administration 

Items of Interest 

Week Ending October 24, 2003

State of Utah: NRC Staff Assessment of Utah’s Proposed Alternative Standard To use Utah’s

Existing Groundwater Regulation in Lieu of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulations;

Addition of Supplementary Information, Notice of Availability of Documents, and Extension of

Comment Period (Part 40)

A document supplementing the information provided in an earlier Federal Register document

was published in the Federal Register on October 24, 2003 (68 FR 60885). The earlier

document, published August 27, 2003 (68 FR 51516), presented the NRC staff assessment of a

proposal from the State of Utah. Utah wishes to regulate a portion of the groundwater aspects

of uranium milling within the State under its existing groundwater protection regulations, which

are based on the Environmental Protection Agency’s drinking water limits, in lieu of a portion of

the specific groundwater requirements in Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 40. This document

provides details about the hearing process discussed in the earlier notice, indicates that two

referenced documents have been placed in the Publicly Available Records component of

ADAMS, and extends the comment closing date until November 24, 2003. 

Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material; Public Meeting (Part 71)

A document published in the Federal Register on October 24, 2003 (68 FR 60886) announces a

Department of Transportation (DOT) meeting at which the NRC will participate. The public

meeting will be held on November 5, 2003. The agencies are seeking public views on DOT’s

positions concerning proposed changes to the requirements of the 1996 Edition for the Safe

Transport of Radioactive Material. These changes will likely require compatibility rulemakings

by both DOT and the NRC. 
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE G

Chief Information Officer

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

NRC Contribution to General Services Administration Federal Technology Service (GSA/FTS)

FTS 2001 Replacement

The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) representatives have been working closely

with the Federal Technology Service (FTS) on the Interagency Management Council (IMC) over

the past year to craft a replacement acquisition strategy and program for FTS2001 and other

telecommunications contracts. This new acquisition is entitled "FTS Network." The Request

For Information (RFI) was posted on EDBIZOPPS for review and comments by industry. The

FTS Network RFI summarizes the characteristics of the contracts to be awarded, the services to

be acquired, and the management and operations requirements developed to date. In addition,

the RFI provides an opportunity for wider input and discussion of the FTS acquisition strategy.

Records Management Training Offered for NRC Staff

On October 10, 2003, OCIO contacted Office Directors and Regional Administrators and offered

to present a 2-3 hour records management training course to staff who had an interest. The

course covers basic records management principles and is tailored to meet the needs of an

office and to include examples of records that are unique to the office. To date OCIO has

received requests from six offices/regions for the course, and anticipates others will follow.

Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Requests received during the period of

October 17 through October 23, 2003:

FOIA request log, 1-1-2003 to 7-1-2003 FOIA/PA-2004-0018

Application of named individual for “Senior Geophysicist” position FOIA/PA-2004-0019

Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities, transcript of

named individual

FOIA/PA-2004-0020

RIV-2003-A-0021, copy of interviews, etc. FOIA/PA-2004-0021

FOIA Requests, response, administrative tracking files, specific FOIA

requests

FOIA/PA-2004-0022

Quehanna facility, Curtiss-Wright Corp., 1955-1960, by-product

license 37-2416-2, facility license R-36 and any source material or

special nuclear material licenses, and all related indemnification

agreements and radioactivity records

FOIA/PA-2004-0023

Neutron Products Inc., material licenses, applications, reports, memos

re: radioactive waste disposal or residual radioactive contamination

(use of Quehanna Nuclear Reactor facility in the 1980's)

FOIA/PA-2004-0024
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE G

Quehanna Nuclear Reactor facility, licenses issued to PA State Univ.,

1962-1967, reports, assessments, memos re: radioactive waste

disposal

FOIA/PA-2004-0025

Martin Co. (Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin Corp.); by-product

material license from AEC, 6-26-62, 19-1938-29 (F64), all records

FOIA/PA-2004-0026

Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, communications between named

individuals and NRC since 1992 re: complaints, allegations, safety

concerns

FOIA/PA-2004-0027
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE I

Office of Human Resources

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

Arrivals

Hsu, Kaihwa PROJECT MANAGER NRR

LARSON, Brian OPERATIONS ENGINEER R-IV

OPARA, Stella IT SPECIALIST RES

WHEELER, Virginia* CONSULTANT OIG

*Effective 10/28/03
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE M

Office of Public Affairs

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

Media Interest

The Office of Inspector General’s report on NRC oversight of the Davis-Besse nuclear power

plant’s boric acid leakage and corrosion.

NRC tests reportedly indicate the Davis-Besse nuclear reactor’s corrosion-damaged lid was

closer to a catastrophic rupture last year than either the NRC or FirstEnergy Corp. thought.

Energy Department saying it will not slow plans to build a national nuclear waste repository at

Yucca Mountain, despite the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s warning about metal

casks corroding at high temperatures and releasing radioactivity. 

Bucks County Court in Pennsylvania ordering Milford Township to permit CFC Logistics to

operate its irradiator. 

Press Releases

Headquarters:

03-134 NRC To Hold Public Meeting November 4 in Eunice, N.M., To Discuss

Licensing Process For Proposed Uranium Enrichment Facility (10/23)

03-135 NRC Announces The Availability Of License Renewal Application For

Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 2 (10/24) 

Regions:

lV-03-042 NRC To Hold Public Meeting To Discuss Results Of Special Inspection At

Diablo Canyon (10/23)

lV-03-043 NRC To Meet With Nebraska Public Power District To Discuss Recent

Inspections At Cooper Nuclear Station (10/24)
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE O

Office of the Secretary

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

Document Released

to Public

Date Subject

Memoranda

1. M031023A 10/23/03 Staff Requirements - Affirmation Session: I.

SECY-03-0173 - Fansteel, Inc. (Muskogee,

Oklahoma, Site), Docket No. 40-7580-LT.

State of Oklahoma’s Request for Hearing

and Terminating the Adjudicatory

Proceeding; II. SECY-03-0177 - Dominion

Nuclear Connecticut, Inc. (Millstone Nuclear

Power Station, Unit 2)

2. M031007 10/23/03 Staff Requirements - Briefing on

Decommissioning Activities and Status

Commission Correspondence

1. Letter to Congress dated October 16, 2003, provides the status of NRC licensing and

regulatory duties and the status of the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant.

Federal Register Notices Issued

1. Designation of Presiding Officer - Sequoyah Fuels Corp. - Docket #40-8027-MLA-7.

2. Designation of Presiding Officer - Sequoyah Fuels Corp. - Docket #40-8027-MLA-8.

3. State of Utah: NRC Staff Assessment of Utah’s...; Addition of Supplementary Information,

Notice of Availability of Documents, and Extension of Comment Period.

4. Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards - Notice of Meeting (11/5-8/2003).

5. NRC Peer Review Committee for Source Term Modeling - Notice of Meeting.

6. Application to Request a License to Export Plutonium - DOE Headquarters.

7. Ohio Citizens for Responsibility Energy, Inc. - Denial of a Petition for Rulemaking.
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE P

Region I

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

Indian Point

On October 21, 2003, Entergy, the Indian Point licensee, conducted a 4-minute operational test

of all 154 sirens surrounding the Indian Point site. Observers were stationed at every siren. 

One siren in Rockland County failed. Information available to the Counties incorrectly indicated

nine sirens had failed. Entergy is working to resolve the problems.

On October 23, 2003, a representative from Region I observed an exercise planning meeting for

the upcoming June 2004 emergency exercise. Representatives from Federal Emergency

Management Agency Regions I and II, the New York State Emergency Management Office,

Entergy, and contractors representing Rockland, Westchester and Orange counties attended

the meeting. The discussion focused on the decisions that need to be made regarding

scenario, participation by local and federal entities, and extent of assigned roles. 

Public Meeting Regarding Ginna License Renewal

On October 22, 2003, the staff from Region I and the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation met

with management of Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, which operates the R.E. Ginna

nuclear power plant. The meeting, which was open to public observation, was conducted to

discuss the NRC's aging management program inspections, which are part of the NRC’s review

of the Ginna station license renewal application. Questions by several members of the public in

attendance focused on issues related to the future sale of the facility and past plant

performance.

Quehanna (Permagrain) Pennsylvania Site Visit

During the week of October 20, 2003, an inspector from Region I visited the former Permagrain

site in Quehanna, Pennsylvania, to observe decommissioning activities and meet with

personnel from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the licensee) and its decommissioning

contractor. The license for this site, which is on the Site Decommissioning Management Plan

list, was renewed on September 29, 2003, to allow decommissioning of Hot Cell 4. Work began

this week with the deployment of a robot due to the high levels of residual strontium

contamination from old activities at this site. The strontium will be encapsulated and solidified in

waste containers and shipped to the Barnwell low level waste burial facility for disposal. 

Completion of Cell 4 clean-up is scheduled by the end of 2003.
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE P

Region II

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

Tennessee Valley Authority - Sequoyah Management Meeting

On October 23, 2003, representatives from the Tennessee Valley Authority were in the Regional

Office to attend a management meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the status

and future plans for the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation that is under construction

at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant.
October 24, 2003 ENCLOSURE P

Region IV

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

Envirocare of Utah Public Meeting

On October 21, 2003, a public meeting was held with Envirocare of Utah, Inc., in the Region IV

office. The meeting was held to discuss current issues involving the NRC regulated portion of

Envirocare’s waste disposal facility. 
October 24, 2003 

Office of Congressional Affairs

Items of Interest

Week Ending October 24, 2003

CONGRESSIONAL HEARING SCHEDULE, NO. 36

OCA

Contact

DATE

&

PLACE

TIME WITNESS SUBJECT 

Combs TBA

2123 RHOB

TBA NRC, DOE, Bechtel, NEI,

NARUC

Review of the Progress of DOE’sYucca Mountain Project

Reps. BaEnergy aEnergy a

Gerke 10/29/03

2154 RHOB

 2:30 GAO, AMS, and others Government Financial

Management Problems

Reps. DaGovernm