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NOTATION VOTE

SECY-06-0127

May 31, 2006

• PURPOSE
• BACKGROUND
• DISCUSSION
• RECOMMENDATION
• COORDINATION

PURPOSE:

To request Commission approval to revise the criteria used by the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) to evaluate its performance. This paper does not address any new commitments or resource implications.

BACKGROUND:

In Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM) COMSECY-96-028, dated August 21, 1996, the Commission directed the ACMUI to develop criteria for evaluating its performance and submit these self-evaluation criteria to the Commission for approval. The ACMUI developed and submitted these criteria. Furthermore, SRM-COMSECY-96-028 required that the ACMUI periodically evaluate itself using this Commission-approved criteria and provide the results to the Commission.

Since the issuance of SRM-COMSECY-96-028, the ACMUI has performed self-evaluations annually. In SECY-01-0160, the staff requested approval for the ACMUI to submit biennial self-evaluations, and in SRM-SECY-01-0160, dated August 23, 2001, the Commission approved biennial submissions of ACMUI self-evaluations. The staff last submitted the ACMUI's biennial self-evaluation in 2005 (see SECY-05-0167.)

DISCUSSION:

In both the 2003 and 2005 response to its self evaluation, the ACMUI stated that it believed the self-evaluation criteria should be updated. Specifically, some members of the ACMUI indicated that at least one question was inappropriately directed and/or should be rephrased. While these criteria have been sufficient to help the ACMUI evaluate itself from 1996 until the present and the ACMUI's comments were not substantial, the criteria should be updated to be more relevant for evaluating ACMUI's current performance. Therefore, the staff has updated the criteria, with the ACMUI's input, to be more pertinent, relevant, specific, and applicable, and also to consolidate self-evaluation questions that are similar in nature.

Enclosure 1 provides the self-evaluation criteria currently used by the ACMUI. Enclosure 2 provides the proposed ACMUI self-evaluation criteria. Enclosure 3 explains which self-evaluation criteria were revised and which were rescinded, and also provides an overall rationale for proposed changes.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the Commission approve Enclosure 2 , the revised ACMUI self-evaluation criteria.

COORDINATION:

The Office of the General Counsel has reviewed this Commission Paper and has no legal objection.

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