October 3, 2016

The Honorable Lamar Alexander

Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy 

 and Water Development

Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

Dear Mr. Chairman:

Enclosed is the August 2016 Monthly Congressional Status Report. The monthly status 

report is provided in accordance with Section 402(e) of the Energy and Water Development and 

Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016. 

In addition, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) section of the Joint Explanatory 

Statement that accompanied the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, contains the following 

direction regarding reallocations of funding across business lines within the Nuclear Reactor 

Safety control point:

“The Commission is directed to report any transfer of more than $500,000 across 

business lines, as identified in the budget request to the Committees on 

Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, as soon as practicable but not later 

than two weeks after the transfer is made.”

On August 31, we exceeded the threshold of $500 thousand in funds reallocated 

between the business lines within the Nuclear Reactor Safety control point. Resources were 

reallocated from new reactors to operating reactors to fund high priority mission activities. The 

activities included $6 thousand for the Integration of the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) 

system and the Replacement Reactor Program System (RRPS) and $945 thousand for the 

Learning Transformation Initiative (LTI). 

The new reactors resources reallocated to fund these activities support the analysis and 

requirements definition for the migration of the EPM system and RRPS for licensing and 

inspections activities. The LTI provides continued support of learning modernization activities 

such as power plant engineering, systems overview courses, probabilistic risk assessment 

basics for regulatory applications, and other critical courses.

 

The agency does not anticipate any programmatic impact in performing its mission due 

to the reallocation of funds from new reactors.
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Please feel free to contact me or Eugene Dacus, Director of Office of Congressional 

Affairs, at (301) 415-1776, if you have any questions or need information.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Stephen G. Burns

Enclosure:

As stated 

cc: Senator Dianne Feinstein

 Alexander Louie, OMB
October 3, 2016

The Honorable Mike Simpson

Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy 

 and Water Development

Committee on Appropriations

United States House of Representatives

Washington, DC 20515

Dear Mr. Chairman:

Enclosed is the August 2016 Monthly Congressional Status Report. The monthly status 

report is provided in accordance with Section 402(e) of the Energy and Water Development and 

Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016. 

In addition, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) section of the Joint Explanatory 

Statement that accompanied the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, contains the following 

direction regarding reallocations of funding across business lines within the Nuclear Reactor 

Safety control point:

“The Commission is directed to report any transfer of more than $500,000 across 

business lines, as identified in the budget request to the Committees on 

Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, as soon as practicable but not later 

than two weeks after the transfer is made.”

On August 31, we exceeded the threshold of $500 thousand in funds reallocated 

between the business lines within the Nuclear Reactor Safety control point. Resources were 

reallocated from new reactors to operating reactors to fund high priority mission activities. The 

activities included $6 thousand for the Integration of the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) 

system and the Replacement Reactor Program System (RRPS) and $945 thousand for the 

Learning Transformation Initiative (LTI). 

The new reactors resources reallocated to fund these activities support the analysis and 

requirements definition for the migration of the EPM system and RRPS for licensing and 

inspections activities. The LTI provides continued support of learning modernization activities 

such as power plant engineering, systems overview courses, probabilistic risk assessment 

basics for regulatory applications, and other critical courses.

The agency does not anticipate any programmatic impact in performing its mission due 

to the reallocation of funds from new reactors.
-2-

Please feel free to contact me or Eugene Dacus, Director of Office of Congressional 

Affairs, at (301) 415-1776, if you have any questions or need information.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Stephen G. Burns

Enclosure:

As stated 

cc: Representative Marcy Kaptur

 Alexander Louie, OMB