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July 14, 2006

REDACTED VERSION FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

STAFF REQUIREMENTS - SECY-06-0125, "PROPOSED REORGANIZATION OF THE OFFICES OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS AND STATE AND TRIBAL PROGRAMS"

NOTE: The Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM) associated with SECY-06-0125 - Proposed Reorganization of the Offices of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards and State and Tribal Programs indicated that the "office titles, organizational changes, and functional statements for the proposed new ONMP and its three divisions should better reflect the roles of the Agreement States in the NMP and the importance of the intergovernmental liaison."

These areas continue to evolve based on interactions with internal and external stakeholders.

THE SECRETARIAT

REDACTED VERSION

June 16, 2006

The Commission has approved the proposed reorganization of the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS) including a merger of a portion of NMSS with the Office of State and Tribal Programs (STP), subject to the comments provided below. The resulting functional alignment will provide for effective organizational focus on each of these major areas, including the Nation’s evolving energy and fuel cycle strategy and the increasing contribution of the Agreement States in the regulation of radioactive materials. As proposed, the new Office of National Materials Program (ONMP) elevates the visibility of State and Tribal programs to a major program office level. The staff should remain engaged with the States to strengthen their roles in the NMP to make it a truly national program.

The office titles, organizational changes, and functional statements for the proposed new ONMP and its three divisions should better reflect the roles of the Agreement States in the NMP and the importance of intergovernmental liaison. The staff should further refine the draft revised functional statements (as attached) to clarify these points. The functional statements should be shared with State leadership in the Organization of Agreement States and the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors to obtain their feedback on the new functional alignment.

The Commission has disapproved the proposed 17 unbudgeted positions for FY 2007. The staff should further refine organizational changes to keep the number of unbudgeted positions as close to zero as possible.

The Executive Director for Operations should provide a recommendation to the Commission on establishing a single, visible, high-level point of contact in OEDO for the Tribes.

The staff should develop a communication plan that is fully vetted with both NMSS and STP to rollout the reorganizations to staff, States, Tribes and other stakeholders. This plan should provide for engaging internal and external stakeholders, particularly the Department of Energy and the NRC’s fuel cycle licensees and applicants, to emphasize the elevated importance of this dynamic area and the Commission’s intent to maintain an effective, forward-looking focus on the fuel cycle. The staff should also ensure that the organization moving to the new Executive Boulevard office space will have ample communication equipment and other infrastructure support, such as video-teleconference capability, and secure video-teleconference capability, to preclude the need to travel to the White Flint Complex for such services.

The staff should inform the Commission of the feedback from the States and the status of the above actions through a Commissioner Assistants briefing.

Attachment: Proposed Function Statements for the Office of National Materials Program (ONMP)

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