[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 126 (Friday, June 28, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 33783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-16553]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Joint Meeting of the 
ACRS Subcommittees on Probabilistic Risk Assessment and on Plant 
Operations

    The ACRS Subcommittees on Probabilistic Risk Assessment and on 
Plant Operations will hold a joint meeting on July 17-18, 1996, Room T-
2B3, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland.
    The entire meeting will be open to public attendance.
    The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows:

Wednesday, July 17, 1996--8:30 a.m. until the conclusion of business

    The Subcommittees will discuss risk-based analysis of reactor 
operating experience.

Thursday, July 18, 1996--8:30 a.m. until the conclusion of business

    The Subcommittees will discuss the issues identified in the Staff 
Requirements Memoranda dated May 15 and June 11, 1996, including the 
role of performance-based regulation in the PRA Implementation Plan, 
plant-specific application of safety goals, requirement for risk 
neutrality versus the allowance for an acceptable increase in risk, 
risk-informed inservice testing (IST) and inservice inspection (ISI) 
requirements, and methods for judging the acceptability and 
unacceptability of assumptions and models used in performing PRAs. The 
Subcommittees will also discuss the pilot applications for risk-
informed and performance-based regulations. The purpose of this meeting 
is to gather information, analyze relevant issues and facts, and to 
formulate proposed positions and actions, as appropriate, for 
deliberation by the full Committee.
    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 Committee. 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 
Subcommittees, their consultants, and staff. Persons desiring to make 
oral statements should notify the cognizant ACRS staff engineer 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 Subcommittees, along 
with any of their consultants who may be present, may exchange 
preliminary views regarding matters to be considered during the balance 
of the meeting.
    The Subcommittees will then hear presentations by and hold 
discussions with representatives of the NRC staff, its consultants, 
representatives of the Nuclear Energy Institute, and other interested 
persons regarding this review.
    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 cognizant ACRS 
staff engineer, Mr. Michael T. Markley (telephone 301/415-6885) between 
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (EDT). Persons planning to attend this meeting 
are urged to contact the above named individual one or two working days 
prior to the meeting to be advised of any potential changes to the 
agenda, etc., that may have occurred.

    Dated: June 20, 1996.
Sam Duraiswamy,
Chief, Nuclear Reactors Branch.
[FR Doc. 96-16553 Filed 6-27-96; 8:45 am]
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