ML19292E726

Advises That DOE Advisory Panel on Waste Mgt Final Draft Rept Re Alternative Means of Financing & Managing High Level Radwaste Facilities Expected to Be Available by mid-Dec 1984.NRC Regulatory Role Will Be Examined

ML19292E726
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Issue date:	11/30/1984
From:	Jennifer Davis NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Cunningham G, Harold Denton, Minoque R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES), NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD)
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'D0E ADVISORY PANEL

. NOV 3 0 BB4 MEMORANDUM FOR:

Harold Denton, Dir., NRR Robert Minogue, Dir., RES Guy Cunningham, ELD Jack Zerbe, Dir., OPE FROM:

John G. Davis, Director Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

SUBJECT:

DOE ADVISORY PANEL ON WASTE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION In response to Section 303 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the Secretary of Energy appointed an advisory pane! to study alternative means of financing and managing high-level radioactive waste facilities (the AMFM Panel).

The Panel's final meeting on November 13 and 14 concluded in a meeting with Secretary Hodel to discuss their recommendations and forthcoming report. A member of your staf f was informed of this meeting on Friday November 9.

A final draft of the Panel's report is expected to be available by mid-December, which we anticipate will be used by DOE as the basis for its report to Congress.

Since Section 303 requires the Secretary to consult with the Chairman on the AMFM study, I intend to provide staff comments to the Commission on the Panel's final draft report, and will be requesting your assistance in reviewing this report within the next two weeks.

The current draft report concludes that several organizational forms are more suited than DOE for managing the waste program, including an independent federal agency or commission, a public corporation, and a private corporation.

Among these alternative organizations, the draft report identifies a public corporation as the Panel's preferred alternative, as it best meets criteria the Panel developed for an acceptable waste management organization.

The draft also recommends adoption of several specific program components which are inGependent of the type of organization Congress ultimately chooses to run the Foremost among these, the Panel believes an Advisory Siting Council program.

should be estitblished with representatives from all legitimate stakeholders.

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t DOE' ADVISORY PANEL 2-The Chairman has indicated that his consultation to the Secretary on the AMFM study will be limited to an examination of how NRC's regulatory role would be affected by any alternative management proposals.

I will forward a final draft of the Panel's report to you as soon as it is available for your assistance in identifying such impacts.

(Sisted) 7ehn G. tav's John G. Davis, Director Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards 4

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