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No. 96-158                               FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                (Wednesday, November 13, 1996) 



        NOTE TO EDITORS  --  ACRS SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING

     A subcommittee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee
on Reactor Safeguards has scheduled a technical meeting November 21 and 22 in
Rockville, Md.

     The ACRS Probabalistic Risk Assessment Subcommittee meeting, which is open
to the public, will begin at 8:30 a.m. each day in Conference Room 2B3 in the NRC's
Two White Flint North Building at 11545 Rockville Pike.

     The subcommittee will discuss the NRC staff's approach to risk-informed,
performance-based regulation through development of standard review plans and
associated regulatory guides.  Other aspects of the meeting, including the opportunity
for public comment, are described in a Notice of Meeting published in the November 13
edition of the Federal Register.

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