ML19259B470
| ML19259B470 | |
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| Issue date: | 01/31/1979 |
| From: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Udall M HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
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| Download: ML19259B470 (2) | |
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OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN The Honorable Morris Udall, Chairman i
Subcomittee on Energy and the Environment Comittee on Interior and Insular Affairs United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 i
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Public Law 95-601 directs the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to-forward to the Congress a report on the Commission's domestic safeauards program.
We are pleased to forward the enclosed report entitled t
"NRC Annual Report on Domestic Safeguards (Fiscal Year 1978)". We E
are sending you, under separate cover, a classified appendix to the report.
The Congress specifically asked that the annual report include an
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assessment of the effectiveness and adequacy of safeguards.at facilities
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and activities licensed by the Commission.
To this end, the report'
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details NRC's criteria for judging the adequacy of safeguards at
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fuel cycle facilities;' the report also summarizes actions required by NRC at any fuel facility whose safeguards systems are judged to provide less than high assurance protection against our design threat.
In addition, the report contains a discussion of NRC's criteria for safeguards adequacy at nuclear reactors and for transportation act.ivities.
In preparing this report, it became clear that the various NRC offices with safeguards responsibilities have different approaches to safe-guards regulation.
In particular, the definitions of and ways of.
determining safeguards adequacy are different for fuel cycle fac'ilities, transportation, power reactors, and non-power reactors.
A " Task Force on Safeguards Policy" has been established by the ED0 to develop a single integrated approach to NRC safeguards regulation.
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Definition of safeguards adequacy, 2.
Methods used to determine safeguards adequacy, 3.
Meaning and use of terms such as " reasonable" versus "high" assurance, 4.
Levels of design threats against which safeguards must protect, and a
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Need for additional or revised rules.
q We intend to implement any needed chang'es as soon as possible.
The Commission will continue to inform the Congress on all matters of safeguards significance.
Sincerely,-
s oseph M. Hendrie Chairman Attachmeni.:
NRC Annual Report to Congress on Domestic Safeguards (Fiscal Year 1978) cc: Rep. Steven Symms e
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