1 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3 *** 4 Affirmation Session 5 *** 6 PUBLIC MEETING 7 *** 8 Nuclear Regulatory Commission 9 Commission Hearing Room 10 11555 Rockville Pike 11 Rockville, Maryland 12 13 Thursday, August 7, 1997 14 15 The Commission met in open session, pursuant to 16 notice, at 10:49 a.m., the Honorable SHIRLEY A. JACKSON, 17 Chairman of the Commission, presiding. 18 19 COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: 20 SHIRLEY A. JACKSON, Chairman of the Commission 21 GRETA J. DICUS, Member of the Commission 22 EDWARD McGAFFIGAN, JR., Member of the Commission 23 NILS J. DIAZ, Member of the Commission 24 25 . 2 1 STAFF AND PRESENTERS SEATED AT COMMISSION TABLE: 2 JOHN C. HOYLE, Secretary 3 KAREN D. CYR, General Counsel 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 . 3 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 [10:49 a.m.] 3 CHAIRMAN JACKSON: Now we have an affirmation 4 session. You can stay and be part of our audience, if you 5 wish. 6 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is an 7 affirmation session. 8 Am I allowed to start 11 minutes early? 9 We have two items to come before us this morning. 10 Before I ask the Secretary to lead us through the items for 11 affirmation, do any of my colleagues have any opening 12 comments they would like to make? 13 [No response.] 14 CHAIRMAN JACKSON: If not, Mr. Secretary, please 15 proceed. 16 MR. HOYLE: Thank you, Chairman Jackson. 17 The first of the two is SECY 97-165. In this 18 paper, the Commission is being asked to act on an order 19 responding to the staff's petition for review of two Atomic 20 Safety and Licensing Board issuances, 97-2 and 97-6. Both 21 of these have to do with a senior reactor operator license 22 for Mr. Ralph Tetrick. 23 The Commission has voted to approve the order 24 which grants the petition for review and reverses the 25 Presiding Officer's decision requiring an issuance of an SRO . 4 1 license to Mr. Tetrick based upon the rounding of 2 Mr. Tetrick's written examination scores. 3 Chairman Jackson, Commissioners Dicus and Diaz 4 would disapprove this order. 5 I ask you to affirm your votes. 6 [A chorus of ayes.] 7 MR. HOYLE: Thank you. 8 The second one is acting on an order responding to 9 an appeal from the Native American Petitioners in the Energy 10 Fuels Nuclear, Incorporated, case, appeal of a Presiding 11 Officer's order, 97-12, rejecting the Native American 12 Petitioners' claims for standing. The order proposes to 13 instruct the Presiding Officer to pass upon the motions to, 14 one, reconsider his decision and, two, to reopen the record. 15 The order indicates that the Commission believes 16 the Presiding Officer's greater familiarity with the prior 17 proceeding and pleadings in this case renders him better 18 equipped than the Commission to make prompt initial rulings 19 on the merits of these motions. 20 All of you have voted to approve the order. I ask 21 you to affirm your votes. 22 [A chorus of ayes.] 23 MR. HOYLE: Thank you. 24 CHAIRMAN JACKSON: Is there anything else to come 25 before us this morning? . 5 1 MR. HOYLE: No, there isn't. 2 CHAIRMAN JACKSON: If not, we stand adjourned. 3 [Whereupon, at 10:52 a.m., the affirmation session 4 was concluded.] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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