ML19305A759
| ML19305A759 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 12/10/1979 |
| From: | Carbon M Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| To: | Udall M HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-0603, RTR-NUREG-603 ACRS-R-0851, ACRS-R-844, ACRS-R-851, NUDOCS 8002220259 | |
| Download: ML19305A759 (1) | |
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g WASHINGTON, o. C. 20555 g.v...f December 10, 1979 The Honorable Morris K. Udall, Chairman Comittee on Interior and Insular Affairs U. S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515
Dear Congressman Udall:
h is letter is in response to oral requests for ACRS comments on the amend-ment for supplemental appropriation for the NRC W-80 Authorization.
The NRC proposed supplemental funds for research are, for the most part, in good agreement with those previously reviewed by the ACR4 ard discussed in Part 2 of its report NURD3-0603, "Coments on the NRC Sc Research Program Budget." However, the ACRS strongly recomended a supplemental request for
$3.4 million for Research to Improve Reactor Safety, and stated that an W-80 budget of $4.4 million was barely sufficient to begin work on the initial pro-gram proposed in NURH3-0438. We ACRS continues to support strongly its rec-omendation for an additional $3.4 million supplement for Research to Improve Reactor Safety. We ACRS considers it essential that the NRC significantly increase the pace of this program.
In its letter of July 18, 1979 to NRC Chairman Hendrie, the ACRS recommended that there be strong programs of re-search to improve reactor safety both in the NRC and DOE. In that letter, the ACRS stated that a level of $4.4 million within the NRC for W-80 would be less funding than desirable.
If an additional $3.4 million cannot be added to the supplemental W-80 budget for the NRC, the ACRS recomends that money be reprogramed from other areas to provide the recomended funding for Research to Improve Reactor Safety.
The ACRS also wishes to note that it places considerable importance on its l
recomendations for new directions in research as made in NURE3-0603. We ACRS recommends that the NRC be given sufficient reprograming authority to address these ACRS recomendations vigorously in W-80.
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