ML19305E824
| ML19305E824 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/28/1980 |
| From: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Hart G SENATE, ENVIRONMENT & PUBLIC WORKS |
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WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 Cf l April 28, 1980 CHAIRMAN The Honorable Gary Hart, C;drman Subcommittee on Nuclear Regular;a Committee on Environment and Public Works United States tenate Washington, :.. C.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
The Subcomittee's staff infonned us that tne Full Committee has 3cc.epted the Subcommittee's recomendations of a 5% reduction to our FY 1981 budget.
Your staff requested that the NRC provide them with its proposed allocation of the reduction by major NRC offices. We are complying; Iowever, I must comment on your decision.
I do not believe there is 5% excess in the NRC budget request.
If approved, the proposed reduction would cause the deferral or termination of numerous programs and projects.
This impact will be felt most severely in the years to come.
This is particularly the case for the research area where the majority of the reductions must be taken.
The discussion of :,pecific programmatic impacts is provided in Enclosure 1.
This discussion, however, does not tell the whole story.
During our recent hearings with Congress on the 1981 budget, we testified that our budget request did not include a rt cently identified need for $7 million to continue the Casework Personrel Loan Assistance Program.
This program will be necessary to avoid delays in nuclear power plant licensing.
In addition to this need, we anticipate it will be necessary to redirect another $1.5 million in the FY 19f,1 budget to fund TMI-related programs.
In applying tb 5% reduction, an underlying assumption has been that the additional funds necessary for the Casework Personnel Loan Assistance Program and the TMI-related prcgrams would be provided through either a congressional add-on or a supplemental appropriation to our FY 1981 budget request.
If neither of these sources materialize, we will be forced to make significant additional reductions in NRC planned safety
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and enuironmental programs and licensing of new plants may be delayed.
Commissioners Gilinsky and Bradford would have preferred to retain
$150,000 of the $500,000 originally allocated for the intervenor funding pilot program.
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Application FY 1980 FY 1981 of 5%
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Nucl ea r Reactor Regul ation....................................
(722) 74,217 (722) 69,385 610 68,775 29,844 Personnel Compensation and Benefi ts.........................
26,649 29,844 26,073 30,413 26,073 Program Support.............................................
Admi ni s t ra t i ve Su ppo rt......................................
15,850 12,238 560 11,678 Travel......................................................
1,305 1,230 50 1,180 Standards Development.........................................
(160) 15,565 (161) 16,390 660 15,730 Pe rsonnel Compensat ion and Benefi ts.........................
6,267 6,653 6,653 Program Support.............................................
7,012 7,150 600 6,550 Administrative Support......................................
2,036 2,347 50 2,297 250 240 10 230 Travel......................................................
Inspection and Enforcement....................................
(874) 44,996 (947) _53,889 840 53,049 Personnel Compensation and Benefits.........................
27,017 32,484 32,484 5,660 6,691 650 6,041 Program Support.............................................
1,237 3,980 3,980 Equipment...................................................
Administrative Support......................................
7,627 6,214 50 6,164 Travel......................................................
3,455 4,520 140 4,380 Nuclear Materi al Safety and Safeguards........................
(313) 31,791 (335) 43,680 1,750 41,930 Personnel Compensation and Benefits.........................
10,950 12,527 12,527 14,865 21,745 1,100 20,645 Program Support.............................................
Administrative Support......................................
5,482 8,778 620 8,158 494 630 30 600 Travel......................................................
Nuclear Regul atory Research...................................
(164) 204,062 (178) 228,228 17,930 210,298
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6,865 7,562 Program Support............................................
186,821 207,100 14,900 192,200 7,737 10,300 2,950 7,350 Equipment..............-....................................
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(267) 17,372 (294) 18,861 350 18,511 10,741 Personnel Compensation and Benefits.........................
9,267 10,741 Program Support.............................................
3,595 2,798 200 2,598 Administrative Support......................................
3,590 4,187 100 4,087 Travel......................................................
920 1,135 50 1,085 Program Direction and Administration..........................
(740) 34,974 (753) 38,057 1,160 36,897 Personnel Compensation and Benefits.........................
22,111 23,739 23,739 Program Support.............................................
2,603 2,537 800 1,737 Admi n i s t ra t i v e S u ppo rt......................................
9,345 10,916 260 10,656 Travel......................................................
915 865 100 765 TOTAL NRC.....................................................
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Support ($150K). These reductions would generally result in a reduction in contractual support with some efforts being d ferred until FY 1982. A majority of the reductions would b2 applied to general management studies, material control and accounting, accountability inspection support, and aerial radiological measurement overflights.
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards........................
(313) 31,791 (335) 43,680 1,750*
41,930 The $330K reduction in the High Level Waste Management decision unit will result in additional delays in providing guidance to DOE for site characterization and in reviewing DOE's site char-acterization reports.
The $300K reduction in the Fuel Cycle Licensing decision unit will result in a reduction in the depth of NRC review possible for proposed DOE remedial actions for fcrmer AEC industrial contractor sites.
The $250K reduction in ths Physical Security decision unit will result in a reduced sccpe of systems hardware testing and field vulnerability assess-ments, as well as elimination of the safeguards conununication analysis project. The $120K reduction in thc Uranium Recovery Licensing decision unit will retalt in reduced technical assist-ance to Agreement States in suppo.*t of licensing actions.
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