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Upcoming Conferences

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• Upcoming Predecisional Enforcement and Regulatory Conferences
• About Predecisional Enforcement Conferences
• About Regulatory Conferences

All conferences are open to public observation unless noted otherwise. Items and dates of conferences may change at the last minute. To attend a conference, please either call or e-mail the listed NRC Contact to verify the date and time.

Upcoming Predecisional Enforcement and Regulatory Conferences

The following is a listing of upcoming predecisional enforcement conferences and regulatory conferences with enforcement implications.

Note that the decision to hold a conference does not mean that the agency has determined that a violation has occurred or that enforcement action will be taken. If the NRC subsequently concludes that significant enforcement action is warranted, the action will be posted on the Significant Enforcement Actions Web page.

Last Updated May 7, 2008

Region I (King of Prussia, Pennsylvania)

[No conference is currently scheduled]

Region II (Atlanta, Georgia)

[No conference is currently scheduled]

Region III (Lisle, Illinois)

Region III will conduct a predecisional enforcement conference (PEC) with American Radiolabeled Chemicals, Inc. on May 20, 2008, 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (CDT). The purpose of the PEC is to discuss five apparent violations identified during a routine inspection. The apparent violations involve the licensee's failure to comply with license commitments, failure to secure from unauthorized removal or limit access to licensed materials, and failure to discharge licensed materials into the sanitary sewer in accordance with 10 CFR 20.2003. This conference is being held to obtain information to assist the NRC in making an enforcement decision. The conference will provide an opportunity for the licensee to provide their perspective on these matters and any other information that they believe the NRC should take into consideration in making an enforcement decision. This meeting will be held in the NRC's Region III office, located at 2443 Warrenville Road, Suite 210, Lisle, Illinois 60532-4352.

This is a Category 1 Meeting. The public is invited to observe this meeting and will have one or more opportunities to communicate with the NRC after the business portion, but before the meetings is adjourned. The NRC's Policy Statement, "Enhancing Public Participation on NRC Meetings," effective May 28, 2002, applies to this meeting. The policy statement may be found on NRC website, www.nrc.gov, and contains information regarding visitors and security. Attendance at this meeting should be made known to Matthew Learn at 630-829-9603, e-mail: Matthew.Learn@nrc.gov. The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this meeting, or need this meeting notice or other information from the meeting in another format (e.g. braille, large print), please notify the NRC meeting contact no later than seven business days prior to the meeting. Attendance at this meeting by other NRC personnel should be made knownto the NRC meeting contact. If the NRC subsequently concludes that significant enforcement action is warranted, the NRC will post the action on the NRC public website, www.nrc.gov (Select About NRC Organization and Functions; under EDO Offices select Office of Enforcement; under Related Links, select About Enforcement, then Significant Enforcement Actions, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/enforcement/actions/ (EA-08-126, EA-08-127, LXS)

Region IV (Arlington, Texas)

[No conference is currently scheduled]

Headquarters (Rockville, Maryland)

[No conference is currently scheduled]

About Predecisional Enforcement Conferences

A predecisional enforcement conference is a meeting that the NRC may conduct with a licensee or individual before making an enforcement decision if significant enforcement action appears to be warranted and if the NRC concludes that it is necessary or the licensee requests it. (Significant actions, otherwise known as escalated enforcement actions, are Severity Level I, II, or III violations, civil penalties or orders.)

The purpose of the conference is to obtain information that will assist the NRC in determining the appropriate enforcement action, such as (1) a common understanding of facts, root causes and missed opportunities associated with the apparent violations, (2) a common understanding of corrective action taken or planned, and (3) a common understanding of the significance of issues and the need for lasting comprehensive corrective action.

Section V of the NRC Enforcement Policy addresses predecisional enforcement conferences. Although most conferences are open, conferences will not normally be open to the public if the enforcement action being contemplated:

• Would be taken against an individual, or if the action, though not taken against an individual, turns on whether an individual has committed wrongdoing;
  
• Involves significant personnel failures where the NRC has requested that the individual(s) involved be present at the conference;
  
• Is based on the findings of an NRC Office of Investigations report that has not been publicly disclosed; or
  
• Involves safeguards information, Privacy Act information, or information which could be considered proprietary;

In addition, conferences will not normally be open to the public if:

• The conference involves medical misadministrations or overexposures and the conference cannot be conducted without disclosing the exposed individual's name; or
  
• The conference will be conducted by telephone or the conference will be conducted at a relatively small licensee's facility.

Notwithstanding meeting any of these criteria, a predecisional enforcement conference may still be open if the conference involves issues related to an ongoing adjudicatory proceeding with one or more interveners or where the evidentiary basis for the conference is a matter of public record, such as an adjudicatory decision by the Department of Labor.

About Regulatory Conferences

The NRC conducts regulatory conferences with commercial nuclear power reactor licensees to discuss the significance of inspection findings evaluated by the reactor oversight process's significance determination process (SDP). Regulatory conferences are conducted (in lieu of predecisional enforcement conferences) when apparent violations are associated with findings evaluated by the SDP. Regulatory conferences without enforcement implications are included on the Public Meeting Schedule page.

For more information on the agency's policy on open meetings, see the Public Meeting Frequently Asked Questions page.

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