INFORMATION REPORT

June 23, 2004 SECY-04-0100

For: The Commissioners

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

Subject: SECY-04-0100 WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK 

ENDING JUNE 11, 2004

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 and 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:

T. Kim, OEDO
June 23, 2004 SECY-04-0100

For: The Commissioners

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

Subject: SECY-04-0100 WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK 

ENDING JUNE 11, 2004

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 and 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:

T. Kim, OEDO

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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING JUNE 11, 2004

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

Headquarters and Regional Office activities. 

Contact: T. Kim, OEDO by E-mail: tjk3@nrc.gov. 

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NRR 2 STP *

NMSS 4 OPA 17

RES 8 OIP *

NSIR 9 SECY 19

OGC * Region I *

ADM * Region II 21

CIO 11 Region III *

CFO * Region IV 23

HR 15 OEDO *

SBCR * OCA 24

OE *

*No input this week
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE A

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Nuclear Procurement Issues Committee (NUPIC) Vendor Meeting

On June 8-10, 2004, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) staff attended the 13th

Annual NUPIC Vendor meeting held in Indianapolis, Indiana. The staff conducted a

presentation on several topics including, NRC participation on NUPIC audits, future

NUPIC/NRC interaction, NRC participation on American Society of Mechanical Engineers

(ASME) nuclear quality assurance (NQA) committees, and staff efforts to assess options for

adopting other international quality assurance standards, as described in SECY 03-0117,

“Approaches for Adopting More Widely Accepted International Quality Standards.” 

Approximately 140 vendor and 50 utility representatives, including several international utilities,

attended the meeting. 
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE B

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

NRC Regulatory Issue Summary (RIS) 2004-09: Status on Deferral of Active Regulation of

Ground-Water Protection at In Situ Leach Uranium Extraction Facilities

NRC issued the subject RIS dated June 7, 2004, which supersedes RIS 2004-02 in its entirety,

to inform interested parties of: (1) NRC’s plans for the deferral of active regulation of groundwater protection at in situ leach uranium extraction facilities; and (2) the comments received in

response to RIS 2004-02. No specific action nor written response is required to this RIS. A

notice of availability will be published in the Federal Register. In a related action, the staff has

scheduled meetings with the State of Nebraska for the week of June 28, 2004, to begin 

comparison of the State’s ground-water protection program to the NRC’s program. Similar

meetings with the State of Wyoming are tentatively planned for late this summer.

5th Annual Meeting of the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence

Division of High-Level Waste Repository Safety (HLWRS) staff attended the fifth annual

meeting of the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC), sponsored by the Radioactive Waste

Management Committee of the Nuclear Energy Agency. The meeting took place during

June 1-3, 2004, in Paris, France. Of particular note at this meeting were three topical sessions: 

(1) “Decision Making Processes at the Strategic Choice Stage - How Different Stakeholders Are

Involved, and Which Values Are Taken into Account”; (2) ”Media Relations”; and (3)

“Addressing Issues Raised by Stakeholders - Impacts on Process, Content, and Behavior in

Waste Organizations.” As part of the third topical session, the staff presented a paper entitled,

“Building Confidence in Nuclear Waste Regulation - How NRC is Adapting in Response to

Stakeholder Concerns.”

Annual Meeting of the Northeast High-Level Radioactive Waste Task Force of the Council of

State Governments

On June 2-3, 2004, Spent Fuel Project Office (SFPO) staff presented a status of SFPO

activities to the annual meeting of the Northeast High-Level Radioactive Waste Task Force of

the Council of State Governments. The presentation covered the (1) SFPO licensing of storage

facilities; (2) the recent rulemaking on 10 CFR Part 71, “Packaging And Transportation of

Radioactive Material”; (3) the Package Performance Study (PPS); (4) the two active National

Academy of Sciences studies on spent fuel storage and high-level waste transportation; and (5)

Private Fuel Storage. Several offices in the Department of Energy and Department of

Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration also made presentations. The State

Government representatives expressed appreciation for the NRC presentation and had many

questions on the PPS and the availability of future NRC work on security (such as the storage

and transportation Vulnerability Studies).
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE C

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Research Monthly Seminar

On June 10, 2004, RES staff presented a seminar on the AP1000 design and its safety features 

to NRC staff as a part of monthly seminars on critical research projects and other topics of

interest in RES. This seminar provided an overview of the AP1000 design and its safety

features, with particular emphasis on thermal-hydraulic and severe accident analysis issues

addressed during the Design Certification effort, and how experimental and analytical work

performed by the RES helped to resolve those issues. 
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE D

Nuclear Security and Incident Response

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Indian Point - Emergency Preparedness Exercise

On June 8, 2004, the NRC, along with Department of Homeland Security, North American

Aerospace Defense Command, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and

State/local entities, participated in a full-participation, FEMA-evaluated emergency

preparedness exercise at Indian Point. The NRC headquarters response team was lead by the

Chairman and the on-site response team was lead by Regional Administrator of Region I.

Preliminary Notifications

PNO-II-04-004, Global Nuclear Fuels - Americas, LLC - TRANSPORTATION ACCIDENT

INVOLVING SHIPMENT OF NUCLEAR FUEL ASSEMBLIES.
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE G

Chief Information Officer

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Requests Received During the Period of

June 4 through June 10, 2004:

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, all e-mail communications

between Entergy Corp., Entergy Northwest, Entergy Nuclear Vermont

Yankee, etc. & named resident inspectors, 3-20-04 to 6-09-04

FOIA/PA-2004-0265

Vermont Yankee, all e-mail communications from Entergy Corp.,

Entergy Northwest, Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, to certain NRC

offices, 8-01-02 to 6-09-04

FOIA/PA-2004-0267
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE I

Office of Human Resources

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Arrivals

Michael Alderman Student Management (Summer) OCFO

Jesse Arildsen Sr. Program Manager NSIR

Zvi A. Band Student IT Specialist (Summer) RES

Oleg Bukharin Security Specialist NSIR

David Bradfield Security Specialist NSIR

Richard Chang Student Engineer (Summer) NMSS

Alan Dahbur Reactor Inspector R-III

Alix M. Dvorak Summer Management Analyst (Summer) RES

Clarissa L. Evans-Brown IT Specialist (INFOSEC) NSIR

Alexander Garmoe Reactor Engineer (NSPDP) R-III

Amanda Hollander Student Administrative Intern OIG

David Holley Sr. Program Analyst OCIO

Alex S. Karlin Administrative Judge (Legal) ASLBP

John B. King Summer Faculty RES

Steven A. Laur Reliability & Risk Analyst NRR

James Lieberman Consultant NMSS

William Lovell Chief, Planning Team OCFO

Amanda M. Nerret Student Clerk (Summer) NSIR

Frank Pavlechko Emergency Response Coordinator NSIR

Roger Rihm Management Analyst NSIR

Gregory Roach Reactor Engineer R-III

Jeffrey E. Seifried Student Engineer (Co-Op) NMSS

Meghan Ann Slattery Student Clerk (Summer) NSIR

Richard Smith Reactor Engineer R-III

Joel S. Wiebe Reactor Inspector R-I

Departures

Karen Y. Thompson Criminal Investigator OIG
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE M

Office of Public Affairs

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Media Interest

The Office of Public Affairs (OPA) handled significant media inquiries on the following:

The biennial emergency preparedness drill at the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York, which

included a terrorist scenario.

The corrosion problem discovered in 2002 at the Davis-Besse power plant in Ohio.

Other Public Affairs Items:

Both headquarters and regional OPA staff participated in emergency drills for the Indian Point

and River Bend plants.

OPA staff assisted NRR and Region IV staff at a public meeting for the Diablo Canyon plant in

California to discuss safety issues at the plant.

Press Releases

Headquarters:

04-069 NRC to Hold Public Meeting June 23 in Piketon, Ohio, to Discuss Licensing

Process for Proposed Uranium Enrichment Facility (6/7)

04-070 NRC Establishes Additional Requirements for Electronic Submission of

Documents on Yucca Mountain (6/10)

04-071 NRC Board to Hold Prehearing Conference June 21-23 in Rockville, Md.,

on Early Site Permit Applications (6/10)

04-072 NRC Staff Approves Transfer of Operating License for Kewaunee (6/10)

Regions:

I-04-032 NRC to Discuss Performance, Work Environment Assessments of Hope

Creek and Salem Nuclear Power Plants (6/9)

III-04-037 NRC to Hold Public Meeting June 15 on Proposed License Renewal of

Point Beach Nuclear Plant (6/8) 
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE O

Office of the Secretary

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Document Released

to Public

Date Subject

Decision Documents

1. COMSECY-04-0026 05/19/2004 Public Meeting to Communicate Security

Matters - Revised Agenda

SRM-COMSECY-04-

0026

06/07/2004 (same)

Commission Voting

Record-COMSECY-04-

0026

06/07/2004 (same)

Information Papers

1. SECY-04-0094 06/07/2004 SECY-04-0094 Weekly Information Report -

Week Ending May 28, 2004

Memoranda

1. M040609A 06/09/2004 Staff Requirements - Affirmation Session: I.

SECY-04-0090 - Private Fuel Storage

(Independent Spent Fuel Storage

Installation) Docket No. 72-22-ISFSI

2. M040602A 06/10/2004 Staff Requirements - Briefing on EEO

Program

Commission Correspondence

1. Letter to Sen. Jeffords, Sen. Leahy, and Rep. Sanders, dated June 8, 2004, concerns the

accountability for two irradiated spent fuel rods presumed missing from the Vermont

Yankee Nuclear Power Station.

2. Letter to Andrew Spano, Scott Vanderhoef, Robert Bondi, and Edward Diana, New York

County Executives, dated June 4, 2004, provides information on the safety of nuclear

power plants.

3. Letter to Rep. Thomas Davis and Sen. Susan M. Collins, dated June 3, 2004, provides

statement of actions taken and plans in response to recommendations made by GAO,

Information Technology Management: Governmentwide Strategic Planning, Performance

Measurement, and Investment Management Can be Further Improved” (GAO-04-49).

4. Letter to Matthew K. Silva, Environmental Evaluation Group, dated June 3, 2004,

responds to request for recommendation of decision to remove the packaging

requirement for double containment for the shipment of certain forms of plutonium.
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE O

Federal Register Notices Issued

1. Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Subcommittee Meeting on ThermalHydraulic Phenomena, notice of meeting (06/22-23/04).

2. Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste, Meeting on Planning and Procedures, notice of 

meeting (06/22/04).

3. Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Subcommittee Meeting on Future Plant

Designs, notice of meeting (06/24/04). 

4. Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Subcommittee Meeting on Future Plant

Designs, notice of meeting (06/25/04). 

5. Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste, notice of 151st meeting (06/22-24/04).

6. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 10 CFR Part 50, RIN 3150-AG48, “Voluntary Fire

Protection Requirements for Light Water Reactors Adoption of NFPA 805 as a RiskInformed, Performance-Based Alternative,” Final Rule. 

7. “NRC Enforcement Policy - NUREG-1600," Policy statement: revision. 
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE P

Region II

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Region I/II Combined Plant Managers’ Meeting

On June 11, 2004, the Deputy Regional Administrator attended the Region I/II Combined Plant

Managers’ Meeting in Rochester, NY.
June 11, 2004 ENCLOSURE P

Region IV

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

Town Hall Meeting in San Luis Obispo, CA

On June 9, 2004, Region IV and NRR staff conducted a town hall meeting in San Luis Obispo,

California to discuss issues regarding the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. The staff

presented the results of NRC inspections following the December 22, 2003, San Simeon

earthquake, which was the subject of a previous public meeting conducted by the staff on

February 4, 2004. The staff addressed specific questions on the structural design of the facility

to withstand the largest postulated earthquake and the seismic faulting in the vicinity of the

plant. The staff also addressed questions regarding plant security, the proposed onsite

independent spent fuel storage installation, and other topics related to the safety performance

of the plant. Over 100 people, including members of the public and representatives from

interest groups attended the meeting.

River Bend - Emergency Exercise

On June 9, 2004, Region IV, led by the Regional Administrator, participated in the biennial

graded emergency exercise for the River Bend Station. The State of Louisiana and local

authorities also participated in the exercise. 
June 11, 2004 

Office of Congressional Affairs

Items of Interest

Week Ending June 11, 2004

CONGRESSIONAL HEARING SCHEDULE, NO. 62

OCA

Contact

DATE &

PLACE

TIME WITNESS SUBJECT 

Keeling TBA

2141 RHOB

TBA Markup H.R. 2934, increase criminal penalties

related to terrorist murders, includingcrimes involving nuclear sabotage

Reps. SenJudiciary

Combs TBA

2154 RHOB

TBA TBA Federal Information Technology R&D Reps. Bur

Human RiGovernme

Portner 06/16/04

2359 RHOB

10:00a.m.

Markup FY 2005 Energy and Water

Development Appropriations

Reps. YouAppropriat

Portner Week of

06/14/04Capitol(Tentative)

TBA Markup FY 2005 Dept. of Homeland Security

Appropriations

Senators SAppropriat