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provide views on how NRC plans to

revise its oversight program for nuclear

fuel cycle facilities. This public

workshop follows the recent public

stakeholder workshop held on March

22–23, 2000. Presentations and other

documents provided at each workshop

are placed on the NRC Internet web

page (http://www.nrc.gov/NMSS/FCSS/

FCOB/INSP/REVISED/fcindex.htm).

Similar to the revision of the oversight

program for commercial nuclear power

plants, NRC initiated an effort to

improve its oversight program for

nuclear fuel cycle facilities. This is

described in SECY–99–188 titled,

‘‘Evaluation and Proposed Revision of

the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility Safety

Inspection Program.’’ SECY–99–188 is

available in the Public Document Room

and on the N R C Web Page at http://

www.nrc.gov/NRC/COMMISSION/

SECYS/index.html.

Purpose of Workshop

To obtain stakeholder views for

improving the NRC oversight program

for ensuring licensee and certificate

holders maintain protection of worker

and public health and safety, protection

of the environment, and safeguards for

special nuclear material and sensitive

information and material in the interest

of national security. The oversight

program applies to nuclear fuel cycle

facilities regulated under 10 CFR parts

40, 70, and 76.

The facilities currently include

gaseous diffusion plants, highly

enriched uranium fuel fabrication

facilities, low-enriched uranium fuel

fabrication facilities, and a uranium

hexafluoride (UF6) production facility.

These facilities possess large quantities

of materials that are potentially

hazardous (i.e., radioactive, toxic, and/

or flammable) to the workers, public,

and environment. In revising the

oversight program, the goal is to have an

oversight program that: (1) provides

earlier and more objective indications of

acceptable and changing safety and

national security related performance,

(2) increases stakeholder confidence in

the NRC, and (3) increases regulatory

effectiveness, efficiency, and realism. In

this regard, the NRC desires the revised

oversight program to be more riskinformed and performance-based and

more focused on significant risks and

poorer performers.

The public workshop will focus on:

• Plans for communicating revision of

the oversight program with stakeholders

internal and external to the NRC.

• Cornerstones of safety and national

security for meeting the NRC mission.

• Performance indicators for

monitoring licensee/certificatee

performance within each cornerstone

area.

DATES: Members of the public and other

stakeholders are invited to attend and

participate in the workshop, which is

scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on

Wednesday, May 24, and Thursday,

May 25, 2000.

ADDRESSES: NEI, 1776 I Street (Republic

Place), Washington, DC. Visitor parking

around NEI is limited; however, the

public meeting site may be reached from

Rockville by taking the Red line metro

to Farragut North, and exiting at K

Street. Farragut Park will be in front of

you. Notice that 17th Street is parallel

to the park. Walk one block along 17th

Street to I Street, turn right, walk one

more block. NEI is on the left on corner

of 18th and I Streets, NW From Reagan

National Airport, NEI may be reached

by taking the Blue line train towards

Addison Road to Farragut West. Exit to

18th Street, and NEI is diagonally across

the street on the corner of 18th and I

Streets, NW.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Walter Schwink, Office of Nuclear

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301)

415–7156, e-mail wss@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 13th day

of April 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Philip Ting,

Chief, Operations Branch, Division of Fuel

Cycle Safety and Safeguards.

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Advisory Committee on Reactor

Safeguards and Advisory

Committee on Nuclear Waste Joint

Subcommittee Meeting; Notice of

Meeting

The Advisory Committee on Reactor

Safeguards (ACRS) and the Advisory

Committee on Nuclear Waste (ACNW)

Joint Subcommittee will hold a meeting

on May 4, 2000, Room T–2B3, 11545

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland.

The meeting will be open to public

attendance.

The agenda for the subject meeting

shall be as follows:

Thursday, May 4, 2000—8:30 a.m. until

the conclusion of business

The ACRS and ACNW Joint

Subcommittee will discuss the

development of risk-informed regulation

in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety

and Safeguards, including riskinforming fuel cycle programs,

integrated safety assessments, byproduct

material risk analysis, dry cask storage

risk analysis, the results of a public

workshop on the use of risk information

in regulating the use of nuclear

materials, and related matters. The

purpose of this meeting is to gather

information, analyze relevant issues and

facts, and formulate proposed positions

and actions, as appropriate, for

deliberation by the ACRS and ACNW

full Committees.

Oral statements may be presented by

members of the public with the

concurrence of the Subcommittee

Chairman; written statements will be

accepted and made available to the

ACRS and ACNW full Committees.

Electronic recordings will be permitted

only during those portions of the

meeting that are open to the public, and

questions may be asked only by

members of the Subcommittee, its

consultants, and staff. Persons desiring

to make oral statements should notify

the cognizant ACRS/ACNW staff

members named below five days prior

to the meeting, if possible, so that

appropriate arrangements can be made.

During the initial portion of the

meeting, the Subcommittee, along with

any consultants who may be present,

may exchange preliminary views

regarding matters to be considered

during the balance of the meeting.

The Subcommittee will then hear

presentations by and hold discussions

with representatives of the NRC staff, its

consultants, and other interested

persons regarding these matters.

Further information regarding topics

to be discussed, whether the meeting

has been canceled or rescheduled, the

Subcommittee’s ruling on requests for

the opportunity to present oral

statements and the time allotted therefor

can be obtained by contacting the

cognizant senior fellow, John N.

Sorensen (telephone 301/415–7372)

between 8:00 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. (EDT)

or by e-mail JNS@NRC.gov or senior

staff engineer, Michael T. Markley

(telephone: 301–415–6885). Persons

planning to attend this meeting are

urged to contact the above-named

individuals one to two working days

prior to the meeting to be advised of any

potential changes in the proposed

agenda, etc., that may have occurred.

Dated: April 11, 2000.

Sam Duraiswamy,

Acting Associate Director for Technical

Support, ACRS/ACNW.

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