Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 62 / Friday, March 31, 1995 / Notices 16685

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 27th day

of March 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Paul W. O’Connor,

Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate

IV–1, Division of Reactor Projects III/IV, Office

of Nuclear Reactor Regulations.

[FR Doc. 95–7920 Filed 3–30–95; 8:45 am]

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Nuclear Safety Research Review

Committee; Meeting of Waste

Subcommittee

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

The NSRRC Waste Subcommittee will

hold a meeting on May 1, 1995 in Room

C–103, Main Building, Department of

Energy Federal Building, 2753 South

Highland, Las Vegas, Nevada.

The meeting will be open to public

attendance.

The subject of review will be research

addressed to assessing the safety of

high-level waste disposal.

The agenda will be as follows:

8:00–8:15—Introductory remarks.

8:15–9:45—Research program overview.

10:00–12:00—Review of key technical

uncertainties and their relationship

to specific research projects

(regional hydrologic processes, rock

mechanics, performance

assessment).

1:15–5:30—Review of key technical

uncertainties and their relationship

to specific research projects,

continued (geochemical natural

analogs, sorption mechanisms,

integrated waste package

experiments, tectonics, volcanic

systems).

5:30–6:00—Subcommittee discussion.

The Subcommittee will report to the

full Committee on the facts and analyses

discussed at the meeting

A detailed agenda will be made

available at the meeting.

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

Subcommittee. Questions may be asked

only by members of the Committee and

the staff. Persons desiring to make oral

statements should notify the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission staff member

named below as far in advance as is

practicable so that appropriate

arrangements can be made.

During the initial portion of the

meeting, the Subcommittee 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

and NRC contractors regarding this

review.

Further information regarding topics

to be discussed, the scheduling of

sessions, whether the meeting has been

canceled or rescheduled, and the

Chairman’s ruling on requests for the

opportunity to present oral statements

and the time allotted therefore can be

obtained by a prepaid telephone call to

Mr. George Sege (telephone 301/415–

6593) between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

(EST). Persons planning to attend this

meeting are urged to contact the above

named individual one or two business

days before the scheduled meeting to be

advised of any changes in schedule, etc.,

that may have occurred.

Dated: March 27, 1995.

George Sege,

Technical Assistant to the Director, Office

of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

[FR Doc. 95–7919 Filed 3–30–95; 8:45 am]

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All Licensees; Receipt of Petition for

Director’s Decision Under 10 CFR

2.206

Notice is hereby given that by a letter

dated March 8, 1995 from Thomas J.

Saporito, Jr., to the Executive Director

for Operations, the NRC received a

Petition under 10 CFR 2.206 requesting

that all licensees be required to review

their operating procedures in order to

ascertain whether those procedures

place any restrictions on the ability of

employees to bring safety concerns

directly to the NRC without following

the normal chain of command. The

Petition requests that each licensee be

required to report to the Commission,

under oath or affirmation, that the

review has been completed, that its

employees are free to bring concerns to

the NRC without following the normal

chain of command, and that this

information has been communicated to

all of its employees.

Petitioner’s request is being

considered pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of

the Commission’s regulations. Action

will be taken on these requests within

a reasonable time. A copy of the Petition

is available for inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room

at 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 23rd day

of March 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Joseph R. Gray,

Deputy Director, Office of Enforcement.

[FR Doc. 95–7918 Filed 3–30–95; 8:45 am]

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Draft Report on Responsiveness to the

Public; Availability

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

(NRC) has published its Draft Report on

Responsiveness to the Public. It has

been a long-standing policy of the NRC

to conduct its business activities in an

open and public manner, and in recent

years NRC has moved to be even more

open and responsive to the public. The

public is defined as individual citizens,

public interest groups, petitioners,

licensees, industry groups, contractors,

the Congress, and others with whom

NRC does business.

Recent initiatives to be more

responsive to the public have included

increased use of public workshops for

rulemaking activities, participatory

rulemaking, a pilot program opening

enforcement conferences to the public,

surveys of licensees to identify ways to

reduce the regulatory burden on

licensees, and the Cost Beneficial

Licensing Action Program. While these

initiatives represent significant

improvements, the NRC has not

heretofore given responsiveness to the

public priority attention in all NRC

programs nor had there been a

systematic review of NRC business

activities to identify potential

improvements.

The National Performance Review has

placed new emphasis on Federal

agencies ‘‘placing the customer first.’’

More can be done to broaden and

institutionalize public responsiveness

and openness as an underpinning tenet

of how NRC does business. In this spirit,

on July 27, 1994, the Executive Director

for Operations launched the Public

Responsiveness Initiative asking NRC

program directors to identify the

business activities where public

interaction is relatively frequent and to

develop Public Responsiveness

Improvement Plans. The draft report

reflects the initial results of that effort

and contains improvement plans

prepared by the offices. The

improvement plans are being published

for public comment so that NRC can

consider comments and make

adjustments and improvements in the

plans as implementation proceeds.

Those considering public comment

may obtain a free single copy of draft

NUREG/BR–0199 by writing to the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office

of Administration, Printing and Mail