NRC: Meeting Transcript - 01/22/1997

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                  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
                NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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                     AFFIRMATION SESSION
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                       PUBLIC MEETING
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                              Nuclear Regulatory Commission
                              Room 1F16
                              11555 Rockville Pike
                              Rockville, Maryland
           
                              Wednesday, January 22, 1997
           
          The Commission met in open session, pursuant to
notice, at 10:00 a.m., the Honorable SHIRLEY A. JACKSON,
Chairman of the Commission, presiding.
COMMISSIONERS PRESENT:
          SHIRLEY A. JACKSON, Chairman of the Commission
          KENNETH C. ROGERS, Member of the Commission
          GRETA J. DICUS, Member of the Commission
          EDWARD McGAFFIGAN, JR., Member of the Commission
           
           
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STAFF:
          JOHN C. HOYLE, Secretary
          WILLIAM J. OLMSTEAD, Associate General Counsel
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
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                    P R O C E E D I N G S
                                                [11:57 a.m.]
          CHAIRMAN JACKSON:  Good morning, ladies and
gentlemen.
          This is an affirmation session.  We have two items
to come before the Commission this morning.
          Before I ask the Secretary to lead us through the
items for affirmation, do any of my fellow commissioners
have any opening comments?
          COMMISSIONER DICUS:  No, thank you.
          CHAIRMAN JACKSON:  If not, please proceed,
Mr. Hoyle.
          MR. HOYLE:  The first item is SECY 96-268.  This
paper presents an immediately effective final rule amending
10 CFR Part 71 to correct a recently discovered defect in
the rule for shipments of fissile material.
          All of you have voted to approve the publication
of this final rule.
          CHAIRMAN JACKSON:  Aye.
          COMMISSIONER ROGERS:  Aye.
          COMMISSIONER DICUS:  Aye.
          COMMISSIONER McGAFFIGAN:  Aye.
          MR. HOYLE:  The second item is SECY 97-04.  The
Commission is being asked in this paper to act on an order
responding to petitions filed by the State of Oklahoma,
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Native Americans for a Clean Environment and the Cherokee
Nation for Commission review of the Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board's memorandum and order of November 5
approving a settlement agreement between the NRC staff and
General Atomics.
          All of you have voted to approve the order
granting the petitions for review and setting a briefing
schedule.  May I ask you to affirm your votes?
          CHAIRMAN JACKSON:  Aye.
          COMMISSIONER ROGERS:  Aye.
          COMMISSIONER DICUS:  Aye.
          COMMISSIONER McGAFFIGAN:  Aye.
          MR. HOYLE:  I will mention that Commissioner Diaz,
who is absent today, has voted for both of these papers.
          COMMISSIONER McGAFFIGAN:  Madam Chairman, could I
just say on the first item Babcock and Wilcox deserves some
real credit for bringing that issue to our attention and the
staff deserves a lot of credit for very promptly responding.
          CHAIRMAN JACKSON:  And we publicly thank both of
them, to the extent we have a public this morning.
          If there are no other items to come before us, we
are adjourned.
          [Whereupon, at 11:58 a.m., the affirmation session
was adjourned.]
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