ML19281B684
| ML19281B684 | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 04/04/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Bradford P NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| Download: ML19281B684 (2) | |
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UNITED ST ATES OV f'4 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 3
C[ ), h WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 W5j s s.....p APR 4 1979 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Coninissioner Peter A. Bradford L,
THRU:
Lee V. Gossick, Executive Director for Operations FROM:
Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
PROCEDURAL MEETINGS BETWEEN NRR STAFF AND UTILITY REPRESENTATIVES In your memorandum to Mr. Gossick dated March 20, 1979, you requested the staff's views on whether procedural meetings (as discussed in the attached letter to Irving Like) should be opened to the public and whether the staff's policy on open meetings should be amended.
We continue to believe that procedural meetings are usually non-substantive and do not place uninformed parties at a significant disadvantage during our licensing proceedings.
However, because of possible exceptions to this general rule and the apparent public perception of this issue, it is NRR's present view that procedural meetings should be open to the public in the same manner as technical meetings. Generally speaking, they have been in the past.
As a result, NRR does not perceive any need to revise the policy statement set forth in "Open Meetings and Statement of NRC Staff Policy" (43 F.R. 28058), dated June 20, 1978.
As it is stated in the open meeting policy, "... the Commission and staff try to involve concerned citizens in any Commission activity in which they have expressed an interest." Therefore, the policy requires that, "... reasonable efforts will be made by the NRC staff to inform the party or petitioner of forthcoming meetings conducted by the NRC technical staff so that appropriate arrangements for attendance can be made." NRR implements this policy by informing the public with written meeting notices or by telephone in instances where there is insufficient time to issue a meeting notice. However, sufficient notification cannot always be accomplished.
Sometimes the urgency of matters to be discussed by NRR management creates situations where sufficient notification to the parties is not practical.
This type of meeting is going to occur periodically and, therefore, we require a certain amount of flexibility 7905300 %
APR 4 9 79 Commissioner Peter A. Bradford in the policy.
The policy recognizes this difficulty and states that,
"... in some cases the need for a prompt meeting may make it impossible or impracticable to notify all parties and petitioners." Therefore, there may be some meetings in which the open meeting policy is not fully implemented.
I assure you that, in the future, NRR will continue to make every r easonable effort to notice not only the substantive meetings but also the procedural meetings.
Original Signed By Rog2r S. Boyd
, -) Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Harold R. Denton, Director i,
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Enclosure:
M As stated cc:
Chairman Hendrie Commissioner Gilinsky Commissioner Kennedy Commissioner Ahearne Samuel J. Chilk OPE OGC