ML19309F954
| ML19309F954 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 11/26/1979 |
| From: | Brown R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Rehm T NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| References | |
| SECY-79-635, NUDOCS 8005020058 | |
| Download: ML19309F954 (1) | |
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Thomas A. Rehm Assistant for Operations Office of the EDO FROM:
Robert S. Brown, Jr.
Assistant to the Director and Chief, Program Support Branc5, NMSS
SUBJECT:
REVISED PROCEDURES FOR ENDORSEMENT OF RES RESEARCH AND FOR PROCESSING RESEARCH REQUESTS In response to your memorandum on this subject dated November 19,1979, HMSS is pleased to see that many of our earlier comments have been incorporated into these latest proposed procedures.
However, we still cannot concur with them for the following reasons.
The limits set on RES endorsed research prograr.s have doubled since the original version last February to a level of a million dollars a program and a total of J
30 percent of the RES budget.
On October 15, 1979 NMSS concurred with an NRR proposal to modify SECY-77-130B to allow RES the flexibility of endorsing research on its own up to a +imit of $500,000 per program and a total of $10,000,000 per fiscal year. We still believe that these limits are reasonable and provide the needed balance between " user office" sponsored research and RE5 sponsored research.
We also believe that an anstal Commission Information Paper sunnarizing procrams initiated by RES is needed to provide the necessary visibility and accountability.
Programmatic endorsement may be appropriate for a program such as LOFT, but for most progrdms a detailed review at the project level is necessary.
procramatic endorsement should be the exception and handled on a case-by-case basis.
Finally, in addressing the relationship to the budget process, the new procedures describe statements of requirements from user officer, for RES's budget formulation as being a type of " endorsement."
The term endorsement" should be reserved for a
the formal orocess described in other se
- ions of he rocedures to avoid confusion.
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