[Federal Register: September 9, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 174)] [Notices] [Page 49031-49032] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr09se99-83] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Public Stakeholder Meeting Concerning The Revision of the Safety Inspection Program for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). ACTION: Notice of meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: NRC will host a public meeting in Rockville, Maryland to provide the public, those regulated by the NRC, and other stakeholders, with information about and an opportunity to provide views on how NRC plans to revise its safety inspection program for nuclear fuel cycle facilities. Similar to the revisions of the inspection and oversight program for commercial nuclear power plants, NRC has initiated an effort to improve its programs 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 NRC Web Page at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/COMMISSION/SECYS/index.html. Purpose: To explain the planned revision of the fuel cycle safety inspection program and obtain stakeholder's views. The baseline safety inspection 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, or environment. In revising the inspection program, the goals are to have an inspection program that: (1) Provides earlier and more objective indications of acceptable and changing safety performance, (2) increases stakeholder confidence in the NRC, and [[Page 49032]] (3) increases regulatory effectiveness and efficiency. In this regard, the NRC desires the revised inspection program to be more risk-informed and performance-based and more focused on significant risks. Where practicable, the program will use more objective safety performance indicators (PIs) with accompanying performance thresholds. DATE: This meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 16, 1999, from 9 am to 4 pm and is open to the public. ADDRESS: NRC's Licensing Board Hearing Room at Two White Flint North, Room 3B45, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. Visitor parking around the NRC building is limited; however, the meeting site is located adjacent to the White Flint Station on the Metro Red Line. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walter Schwink, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-7253, e-mail wss@nrc.gov. Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 2nd day of September, 1999. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Philip Ting, Chief, Operations Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 99-23408 Filed 9-8-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P