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Responds to Re Concerns About NRC Role as Independent Regulatory Agency,Isolation & Operation of Agency.Ltr Deserves Consideration from Commission
ML19308C289
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Issue date: 10/20/1977
From: Hendrie J
NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To: Riordan B
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l I have your letter of October 3rd and much aopreciate this. thoughtful summary of your views about the llRC as you movc on to new respon:,ibilities.

I should have answered you sooner, and have had your letter on my desk for some days now, trying to find time to reply to it with the thought it clearly warranted.

Turning to your letter, I consider your views especially valuable to1 me and to the other Commissioners because of the circumstances in which-you have beenlable to. observe the agency's operations.

As Director;of the 0ffice of Planning and Analysis.for,these past two years, you havey,:,

been able to observe the full scope of'our operations during the firstJ J years of the agency's life.

Also, you have been able' to observe the i ;.:p agency with a fresh point of view, not havi.ng been previously. associated with the nuclear industry.or the_ regulatory staff _ oflour predecessori ( m? -

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'c would I' expect that there would be. agreement with. all of your. points by; all of the Commiss' ioners or"the staff of theiagency. f(evertheless, n ' -

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agency was a temporary and now past condition arising from the transit 1'on from the AEC to the. separated ERDA-NRC entities. I certainly intend that?

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with DOE on those interface areas,' notably; o'ur safety research program i '

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and intelligence matters. There are, as we all ~recognizei portions l-theNRCresponsibilityinwhichthisinvolvementisnecessaryLandh.of1 3

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and the. Commission will be discussing'over the~ c^oming'rnonths'prbVeme years 'or so.

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