ML19323C250
| ML19323C250 | |
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| Issue date: | 02/07/1980 |
| From: | Fraley R Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| To: | Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
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| ML19323C237 | List: |
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| ACRS-1716, NUDOCS 8005150201 | |
| Download: ML19323C250 (5) | |
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DRAFT 2 M.C.Gaske/ car 2/7/80 ACRS MDiBERS ACRS STAFF ACRS FELLNS Attached is a draft outline of the manner in which the ACRS Fellowship Program will be carried out.
The outline has been written to apply to Fellows located in Washington, D. C. and should be c:nnplied with, to the degree practical, by ACRS Fellows at other locations.
In order to aid in conducting the Fellowship program, the following desig-nations are made for the Senior Fellows to assist in providing day-to-day technical guidance to the Fellows in carrying out their assignments.
Supervising Sr. Fellow Abbott Kastenberg*
Fellows Bessett Johnson Bicket Zukor Young
- maintains liaison with Chen (effective 2/1/80 at Cal Tech.)
- maintains liaison with Griesmeyer (at UCLA)
Supervising Staff Engr.
Libarkin/McCreless Fellows Stampelos R. F. Fraley ExecutiveDirector ATTACHMENT 3
N IROCEDURES FOR ACRS FELIO/S
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Background===
1he ACRS Fellowship Program was established by Congress:
"To assist the Advisory Connittee on Reactor Safeguards in carrying out its functions, the Connittee shall establish a fellowship program under sich persons having appropriate engineering or scientific expertise are assigned par-ticular tasks relating to the functions of the Committee." In order to assist the Conmittee most effectively, the Fellowship Progran has been structured so that, een practicable, individual Fellows are assigned to work with Sponsoring ACRS Members tose background and interests are similar to those of the individual Fellow. In those cases t erc this is not practicable, the Fellows will be assigned to work with designated members of the ACRS Staff.
Member - Fellow Interaction Fellows have been assigned to work with one Sponsoring ACRS Member or, in a few cases, with more than one Member. It is desirable to have the Members provide technical direction and guidance so that assigned pro-j jects are successfully completed in a manner consistent with the needs/
j desires of the Member (s) and the Committee.
In order to provide the time needed to discuss the scope and content of work being performed by the Fellows and to provide needed guidance, Members should consider set-ting aside time in Washington to provide for such discussion.
In addition, Fellows should take the opportunity to visit the Members at their normal duty station, ten appropriate, so that necessary discussion can take place. Supervising Members should be informed of difficulties on a timely basis. Pbeh of a successful Fellowship Program will depend on a successful Member-Fellow interaction.
To supplement the guidance by Members, the Senior Feliows or more experienced ACRS Fellows will be assigned, as appropriate, to provide technical guidance on a day-to-day basis during periods e en Members are not available.
In regard to the procedural aspects of assignments s ich are out of the ordinary, for example direct contact with a utility, vendor, etc., to request information, documents, etc., setting up a visit to a reactor site to obtain information, etc., the Assistant Executive Director should be contacted concerning the best method for such action.
In selected cases, Fellows may also be assigned to work directly with members of the full-time permanent ACRS staff.
In these cases, Fellows will receive their technical as well as other guidance from the designated ACRS Staff member. In the event a Working Group consisting of ACRS Fellows and permanent ACRS staff members is needed to accomplish a task, supervising ACRS member (s), permanent staff and/or Fellow (s) will i
be designated on a case-by-case basis.
2.
Work Assignments Fellows will be assigned to work with Sponsoring ACRS Members or desig-nated ACRS staff members by the ACRS Assistant Executive Director and will normally receive their work assignrents from the Sponsoring ACRS Member they are designated to assist.
Fellows will normally receive assignments from their Sponsoring ACRS Member.
These assignments will consist of work designed to aid the Committee in carrying out its statutory functions.
To assist in this process, the ACRS Assistant Executive Director will maintain a list of proposed projects.
which takes into account suggestions by all ACRS Members and the ACRS r llows e
In order to add a work assignment to this list, the proposing themselves.
Member / Fellow should provide a brief sumary of the work scope and objectives and an indication of its priority. A major effort (anticipated to involve more than 12 man-months effort) will be discussed with the Procedures Sub-committee by the Assistant Executive Director as early as practicable to determine if it is a practical assignment consistent with the intent and resources of the Fellowship Program.
If Fellows are to be asked to perform short term assignments for other than their Sponsoring Member (e.g., in a direct support of an ACRS meet-(
ing, or in drafting an ACRS report) they will in effect be reassigned on
% e ACRS Assist-a short term basis by the Assistant Executive Director.
ant Executive Director will coordinate the assigrunent with the Sponsor-ing Member to the degree considered appropriate. W e ACRS Office can give Fellows short term assignments, such as attendance at NRC or other meetings, a training session, etc., provided it does not appear that such assignments will interfere unduly with urgent projects for ACRS Members.
For each assignment which is expected to last more than one month, the designated Fellow should develop a general plan of attack (e.g., litera-ture survey, visit to field installations, digest and evaluation of infor-
% is outline will be based on mation, etc.) with proposed target dates.
discussions as needed between the Fellow and the person requesting the work.
A list will be published by the ACRS Office (Assistant Executive Director)
% assist in monthly of the major projects on which Fellows are working.
the preparation of this report, ACRS Fellows should keep the ACRS Assist-ant Executive Director informed of progress regarding their assignments.
(Attachment A should be completed by the Fellows and turned in to W urston Faulder weekly.)
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Document Managerent All ACRS Fellows should ensure that material prepared by them is marked "000, Prepared for Internal ACRS Use Only, FOIA Exemption 5" if it con-I l
If the material con-tains their advice, opinions, or recommendations.
tains proprietary or classified information, see H. Alderman for the All Fellows are encouraged to proper identification of the document. communicate with the ACRS Member providing the Members with preliminary draft material which the Fellow Further distribution of the document for purpcses of re-has written.
view (e.g., obtaining the comments of ACRS consultants) or publication If a document is will be at the discretion of the Supervising Member.
to be made available to the general public and/or is to be published as a NUREG report, it should be given a " peer" review as noted below.
Contacts As indicated above, Fellows should maintain contact with Member (s) they are assigned to assist to ensure that they are carrying out Fellows are free to con-their work assignments in the desired manner.
tact ACRS staff members and working level NRC staff members to discuss If in doubt regarding whom you may/should con-their assigned projects.
tact, see the Assistant Executive Director for guidance and assistance.
j Publication of Material Those reports deemed appropriate for publication (e.g., as a NUREG docu-will be determined by the Member for whom ment) or public distribution"This will ordinarily be material which conforms 1
the work was performed.
to one of the following-Contains significant new analysis and/or data.
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Represents a major consolidation of information.
Is a major report containing significant reconmendations.
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Arrangements will be made by the Assistant Executive Director to have a review of the above type material perfonned by two ACRS Members and/or consultants.
The Member requesting work by an ACRS Fellow will be expected to evaluate recommendations by the Fellow in connection with the assignment and intro-duce them as appropriate into Committee deliberations.
Material written by ACRS Fellows and requested under the FOIA will be retained or released in accordance with the usual procedures for handling doments of this type.
ATTACHMENT A ACRS FELLOWS Week of Name Activity /
% of effort 1.
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Indicate items on which w:rk was performed and % of time expended Also, indicate attendance at meetings, training, leave,
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holiday, etc., so that the total equals 100%.
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