ML19199A479
| ML19199A479 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 07/18/2019 |
| From: | James Downs Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review |
| To: | |
| Marcano J | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19199A476 | List: |
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| Download: ML19199A479 (8) | |
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Building a Smarter Fuel Cycle Licensing Program James Downs, P.E.
Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review
Purpose
- Review Working Group charter (ADAMS ML19115A011)
- Summarize progress
- Discuss comment resolution
- Solicit additional input/feedback 2
Working Group Charter
- Conduct holistic assessment of Fuel Cycle licensing program
- Improve effectiveness and efficiency
- Engage a broad range of stakeholders
- Establishes Working Group purpose, tasking, and proposed schedule 3
Summary of Tasking
- Engage stakeholders for feedback
- Assessment of licensing process and associated guidance
- Develop recommendations
- Evaluate recommendations
- Develop report with conclusions and proposed enhancements 4
Schedule Activity Target Date Identify areas within the guidance that may need to be improved and/or end of May revised to reflect the Office Director memorandum and other risk- 2019 informed activities. & on-going Engage Stakeholders May 2019 Engage Stakeholders July 2019 Develop draft working group report with identification of proposed September 2019 enhancements to licensing program.
Engage Stakeholders September 2019 Issue working group proposed enhancements report. November 2019 Calendar Years Implement enhancements (may be either short term or long term).
2020-2021 5
Summary of Progress
- Engaged working group members from across the NRC (NRR, NMSS/DSFM, NMSS/FCSE)
- Issued detailed summary of May meeting (ML19163A267)
- Developed a comment resolution table
- Evaluated many of the comments and provided a potential path forward 6
Discussion of Comment Resolution
- Comment #3 - Status updates at each previously established milestone? Method?
- Comment #4 - Meeting during the acceptance review would be standard practice or only utilized if requested by either the applicant or the NRC?
- Comment #6 - OGC staff to discuss
- Comment #14 - Define safety significant?
Examples?
- Comment #15 - Concepts from LIC-206?
- Any others?
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Soliciting Additional Input/Feedback
- Open to additional recommendations for improvement
- Maintain reasonable assurance of adequate protection of safety and security
- Adhere to NRCs Principles of Good Regulation
- independence
- openness
- efficiency
- clarity
- reliability 8