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Director if such rescheduling would

result in major inconvenience.

Further information regarding topics

to be discussed, whether the meeting

has been cancelled or rescheduled, the

Chairman’s ruling on requests for the

opportunity to present oral statements

and the time allotted therefor can be

obtained by contacting the ACNW

Executive Director, Dr. John T. Larkins

(telephone 301/415–7360), between 7:30

a.m. and 4:15 p.m. EST.

Dated: February 28, 1995.

Andrew L. Bates,

Advisory Committee Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 95–5496 Filed 3–6–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–M

Regulatory Information Conference

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The objectives of the

conference are to give the licensees and

the public insights into our approach to

safety regulations and to provide a

forum for feedback from those in

attendance on their concerns about our

overall approach, as well as feedback on

differences that may exist on technical

issues. NRC staff will provide

information regarding on-going

programs and potential new initiatives

as a basis for discussion.

Discussions will proceed from general

(i.e., the plenary sessions) to specific

issues (i.e., the breakout sessions), with

emphasis on plant operations and the

NRC view of these operations based on

experience in carrying out its regulatory

mission. Three plenary sessions are

planned, two of which will be followed

by breakout sessions that will include

presentations by the NRC staff and

industry representatives.

DATES: Conference will be held May 9–

10, 1995.

ADDRESSES: The conference will be held

at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1750

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.

Telephone: (301) 468–1100 FAX (301)

468–0163 (Refer to Group REG).

FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION CONTACT:

ES Inc., by facsimile on (202) 835–0118

or by phone on (202) 835–1585.

PARTICIPATION: This conference is open

to the general public; however, advance

registration is required by April 24,

1995. The following is the preliminary

program for the conference:

Tuesday, May 9, 1995—(8:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m.)

1. Welcome and Introductory Remarks—

William T. Russell, Director Office of

Nuclear Reactor Regulation

2. Morning Plenary Session: Regulatory

Trends

3. Breakout Sessions:

1. On-Line Maintenance and Maintenance

Rule

2. Steam Generator Issues

3. Probabilistic Risk Assessment Policy and

Implementation Plan

4. 10 CFR Part 54—License Renewal

Rulemaking and 10 CFR Part 51—

Environmental Protection Rulemaking

for License Renewal

4. Post-Luncheon Speaker: Commissioner

Kenneth C. Rogers

5. Afternoon Plenary Session: Regional

Administrator Panel Issues:

1. Inspection Planning, Oversight, and

Followup

2. Cost Reduction and Safety

3. Feedback Report on Inspector

Professionalism

4. Systematic Assessment of Licensee

Performance Process

6. Breakout Sessions:

1. Outage Planning and Shutdown Risk

2. 10 CFR Part 52—Advanced Reactors/

Design Certification

3. Regulatory Process Improvements

(Commitment Management and Cost

Beneficial Licensing Actions)

4. Boiling Water Reactor Internals Cracking

7. Dinner Speaker: Commissioner E. Gail de

Planque

Wednesday, May 10, 1995—(8:00 a.m.–4:30

p.m.)

1. Breakout Sessions:

1. NRC/Licensee Interface and

Communications, Region I

2. NRC/Licensee Interface and

Communications, Region II

3. NRC/Licensee Interface and

Communications, Region III

4. NRC/Licensee Interface and

Communications, Region IV

2. Breakout Sessions:

1. Reactor Vessel Material Issues

2. Spent Fuel Issues/Dry Cask Storage/

Independent Spent Fuel Storage

Installations/Palisades and Davis Besse

Experience

3. New Source Term (Design Certification

Application and Future Applications to

Operating Licenses)

4. Security Issues

3. Post Luncheon Speaker: James M. Taylor,

Executive Director for Operations

4. Breakout Sessions:

1. New Approach to Assessing

Performance Through Inspection—the

Integrated Performance Assessment

Process (IPAP, formerly CIPP)

2. Self Assessment (Inspection Procedures

& Lessons Learned)

3. Standard Technical Specifications

4. Enforcement (Notice of Enforcement

Discretions) and Allegations

Closing Plenary Session: NRR Executive

Team and Regional Administrators

Note: There will be a question and answer

period after each session each day.

Next year’s conference is scheduled for

April 10–11, 1996, at the Capitol Hilton

Hotel, Washington, DC.

Dated in Rockville, Maryland this 2nd day

of March 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Gary G. Zech,

Chief, Planning, Program, and Management

Support Branch, Inspection and Support

Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 95–5551 Filed 3–6–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–M

[Docket No. 50–245]

Northeast Utilities Millstone Nuclear

Power Station, Unit 1, License No.

DPR–21; Receipt of Petitions for

Director’s Decision Under 10 CFR

2.206

Notice is hereby given that Anthony

J. Ross (Petitioner) has filed four

Petitions with the Executive Director for

Operations requesting that escalated

enforcement action be taken with regard

to alleged violations at Millstone

Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1.

By Petition dated December 30, 1994,

the Petitioner requests that the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC)(1)

‘‘force’’ Northeast Utilities (NU) to

review all existing work orders for the

past 10 or 12 years, with NRC oversight,

to ensure that no quality assurance (QA)

motor and connection work has certain

deficiencies; (2) assess a Severity Level

I violation against NU and its managers

for apparent violations of 10 CFR 50.7

and a Severity Level III violation against

a gas turbine system engineer at

Millstone for his apparent violation of

10 CFR 50.7 and the company’s ‘‘Code

of Conduct and Ethics’’; and (3) institute

sanctions against the system engineer

and NU and its managers for engaging

in deliberate misconduct in violation of

10 CFR 50.5. As grounds for these

requests, the Petitioner asserts that (1)

work control and procedure compliance

are inadequate at Millstone, as

evidenced by the use of standard

commercial-grade lugs in a gas turbine

fuel forwarding pump and motor (QA

subsystems of the emergency gas turbine

generator) that had apparently been

crimped using diagonal pliers; improper

Raychem splices, cable bend radius, and

connections in the connection boxes of

major safety-related QA equipment; and

non-QA lugs crimped improperly and

installed in fire protection quality

assurance emergency lights; and (2) he

had been subjected to ridicule by the gas

turbine system engineer for raising

concerns regarding the lugs on the gas

turbine fuel forwarding pump and

motor.

By Petition dated January 2, 1995, the

Petitioner requests that the NRC: (1)

Assess a Severity Level II violation and

a Severity Level III violation against his

department manager and first line
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supervisor for their apparent violations

of 10 CFR 50.7; (2) institute sanctions

against his first line supervisor, NU, and

the Millstone Unit 1 organization for

engaging in deliberate misconduct in

violation of 10 CFR 50.5; and (3) remove

his first line supervisor from his

position until a ‘‘satisfactory solution to

the falsifying of nuclear documents’’ by

this individual can be achieved. As

grounds for these requests, the

Petitioner asserts that (1) his first line

supervisor willfully falsified nuclear

documents in that he signed off on a

surveillance of the gas turbine battery as

having met acceptance criteria when the

requirements had not been met; (2) he

was ‘‘unjustly chastised’’ by his first

line supervisor and department manager

about absenteeism, and his department

manager threatened him in a

memorandum; and (3) the Unit 1

organization failed to enter into a fourday limiting condition for operation as

required by technical specifications

when the operations department was

notified of the failed surveillance, in

violation of 10 CFR 50.5. In addition,

the Petitioner asserts that a number of

violations occurred in 1992 and 1993

with regard to the emergency gas

turbine battery, which have not been

handled appropriately by the NRC and

NU, and that the utility and NRC are

engaged in an apparent ‘‘cover-up’’ of

the problems.

By Petition dated January 5, 1995, the

Petitioner requests that the NRC

institute sanctions against his

department manager, first line

supervisor, and two coworkers for

engaging in deliberate misconduct in

violation of 10 CFR 50.5. The Petitioner

also asserts that the NRC ‘‘desperately

needs to conduct an investigation’’ of

the procedure violations, and to audit

the Unit 1 maintenance department

measuring and test equipment (M&TE)

folders to reveal widespread problems

regarding noncompliance with this

procedure. As grounds for this request,

the Petitioner describes several

examples of what he alleges have been

violations of procedure WC–8, which

requires that M&TE be signed out from

and returned to a custodian.

By Petition dated January 8, 1995, the

Petitioner requests that the NRC

institute at least three sanctions against

his department manager, and institute

sanctions against his coworker and

maintenance first line supervisor for

engaging in deliberate misconduct in

violation of 10 CFR 50.5. As grounds for

this request, the Petitioner alleges that

on numerous occasions since January

1994, his department manager

instructed his coworkers to shut off or

turn down the volume on the site paging

system and site siren evacuation alarm

in the Unit 1 maintenance shop, and his

first line supervisor and coworker

complied with this request, in violation

of Technical Specification 6.8.1 and

NUREG–0654.

The requests are being treated

pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the

Commission’s regulations. The requests

have been referred to the Director of the

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

Copies of the Petitions are available

for inspection at the Commission’s

Public Document Room at 2120 L Street,

NW, Washington, DC, and at the local

public document room for Millstone

Unit 1 located at the Learning Resource

Center, Three Rivers CommunityTechnical College, Thames Valley

Campus, 574 New London Turnpike,

Norwich, CT 06360.

Dated at Rockville, MD, this 23rd day of

February 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

William T. Russell,

Director, Office of the Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 95–5494 Filed 3–6–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–M

[Docket No. 70–27 and License No. SNM–

42 EA 94–169]

Babcock and Wilcox Company,

Lynchburg, Virginia; Order Imposing

Civil Monetary Penalty

I

Babcock and Wilcox Company

(Licensee) is the holder of Special

Nuclear Material (SNM) License No.

SNM–42 issued by the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC or

Commission) on May 31, 1984. The

license authorizes the Licensee to

possess and use Special Nuclear

Material in accordance with the

conditions specified therein.

II

Inspections of the Licensee’s activities

were conducted on June 1–July 1, 1994,

July 1–8, 1994, and July 1—August 9,

1994. The results of these inspections

indicated that the Licensee had not

conducted its activities in full

compliance with NRC requirements. A

written Notice of Violation and

Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty

(Notice) was served upon the Licensee

by letter dated October 21, 1994. The

Notice states the nature of the

violations, the provisions of the NRC’s

requirements that the Licensee had

violated, and the amount of the civil

penalty proposed for Violations I.A and

I.B.

The Licensee responded to the Notice

in two letters, both dated November 20,

1994. In its responses, the Licensee

protested the proposed imposition of

the civil penalty, disagreed with NRC

statements concluding that the

violations represented a Severity Level

III problem, denied Violations I.B.1,

I.B.2, and II.C, and disagreed with the

application of the escalation and

mitigation factors.

III

After consideration of the Licensee’s

responses and the statements of fact,

explanation, and argument for

mitigation contained therein, the NRC

staff has determined, as set forth in the

Appendix to this Order, that the

violations occurred as stated and that

the penalty proposed for the violations

designated in the Notice should be

imposed.

IV

In view of the foregoing and pursuant

to Section 234 of the Atomic Energy Act

of 1954, as amended (Act), 42 U.S.C.

2282, and 10 CFR 2.205, it is hereby

ordered that:

The Licensee pay a civil penalty in the

amount of $37,500 within 30 days of the date

of this order, by check, draft, money order,

or electronic transfer, payable to the

Treasurer of the United States and mailed to

Mr. James Lieberman, Director, Office of

Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, One White Flint North, 11555

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852–2738.

V

The Licensee may request a hearing

within 30 days of the date of this Order.

A request for a hearing should be clearly

marked as a ‘‘Request for an

Enforcement Hearing’’ and shall be

addressed to the Director, Office of

Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555,

with a copy to the Commission’s

Document Control Desk, Washington,

DC 20555. Copies also shall be sent to

the Assistant General Counsel for

Hearings and Enforcement at the same

address and to the Regional

Administrator, NRC Region II, 101

Marietta Street, NW., Suite 2900,

Atlanta, GA 30323.

If a hearing is requested, the

Commission will issue an Order

designating the time and place of the

hearing. If the Licensee fails to request

a hearing within 30 days of the date of

the order, the provisions of this Order

shall be effective without further

proceedings. If payment has not been

made by that time, the matter may be

referred to the Attorney General for

collection.