ML19343D547
| ML19343D547 | |
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| Issue date: | 02/18/1981 |
| From: | Rehm T NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Combs F NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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| FOIA-81-145 NUDOCS 8105050200 | |
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Thomas A. Rehm Assistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director for Operations
SUBJECT:
FY 80 AUTHORIZATION BILL Your note of February 2,1981, requested an updated status of our compliance A with:
1 (1) specific reporting requirements identified in the FY 80 Authorization Bill (P.L.96-295) and (2) certain budget and resource allocations camarked for specific programs also within this Bill.
Our review of the?e activities in the Authorization Bill has been completed and attached is a copy of the sumary analysis. I hope you find this information helpful in preparing for the upcoming Congressional hearings.
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p Thomas A. Rehm. Assistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director for Operations
Attachment:
As Stated cc: w/ attach. NJ.. aller, MPA lE. Bassett, MPA S. Conver, MPA l
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MAJOR PROVISIONS OF FY 80 NRC AUTHORIZATION ACT Lead
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Section Office Requirement Status 101(a)(1)
NRR Not more than $1M to be used to accelerate effort No applications for gas-cooled thermal reactors were in gas-cooled thennal reactor preapplication under review in FY 1980 nor were any technical reports review supporting a preapplication review formally submitted.
Subsequently, no contract support funds were expended.
NRC is not anticipating any formal submittals from industry in the area of gas-cooled thermsl reactors.
101(1)(2)
$4,684,000 shall be available for support for 146 The required amount has been expended in support of the additional inspectors for the Resident inspector resident inspector program. The 146 additional positions program have been added to the authorized strength.
101(a)(4)
'NMSS (A) Not less than $60,000 shall be available only (A) Two qualified people have been assigned full-time for employment of two individuals for implementa-to implement the US-IAEA safeguards Treaty. In tion of the US-IAEA safeguards treaty (Treaty addition, several other safeguards licensing personnel entered into force 12/9/80 - Senate ratified are involved in implementing the treaty.
the treaty 7/2/80)
(B) Not less than $180,000 and 6 additional positions (B) A task force of six people was established ourtng h60 for material accounting and transportation for material accounting and transportation safeguards safeguards improvements.
improvements. The $180K was interpreted to be the salaries for these six people. The personnel ceiling
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for the Division of Safeguards has been increased by six positions for these activities in FY81:
(C) Not less than $9,675,000 for waste management (C) During FY80, more than five staff years were expended including support for five additional positions in by the Division of Waste Management to implement the the Division of Waste Management for implementation Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of of the mill tailings act (PL 95-604) 1978 (PL 95-604)
FY80 Auth.
FY80 Approp.
FY80 Actual 4
FIN Plan I Oblications 101(a)(5)
RES (A) Not more than $3,700,000 to accelerate gas-
$3.7M
$1.7M
$1.7H cooled thermal reactor safety research.
(B) Not more than $4,400,000 to implement the Improved
$4.4M
$1.0M 1950K Safety Systems Research Plan required by section 205(f) of the ERA (PL 93-438) as amended.
(C) Not more than $6,700,000 for nuclear waste research
$6.7M
$5.6M
$5.45M act' "+ 4s.
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MAJOR PROVISIONS OF FY 80 NRC AUTHORIZATION ACT Lead
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Section O f fice Requi rement Status 101(a)fl)
NRR Not more than $1M to be used to accelerate effort No applications for gas-cooled thermal reactors were in gas-cooled thermal reactor preapplication under review in FY 1980 nor were any technical reports review supporting a preapplication review formally submitted.
Subsequently, no contract support funds were expended.
NRC is not anticioating any formal submittals from industry in the area of gas-cooled thermal reactors.
101(1)(2)
$4,684,000 shall be available'for support for 146 The required amount has baen expended in support of the additional inspectors for the Resident Inspector resident inspector program. The 14b additional positions program have been added to the authorized strength.
(A) Two qualified people have' safeguards Treaty.
101(a)(4)
' NMSS (A) Not less than $60,000 shall & available only been assigned full-time for employment of two individuals for implementa-to implement the US-IAEA In,
tion of the US-IAEA safeguards treaty (Treaty addition, several other safeguards licensing personnel entered into force 12/9/80 - Senate ratified are involved in implementing :he treaty.
the treaty 7/2/80)
(B) Not less than $180,000 and 6 additional positions (B) A task force of six people was established curing H60 for material accounting and transportation for material accounting cnd transportation safeguards safeguards improvenents.
imr rovenents. The $180K was interpreted to be the salaries for these six people. The personnel ceiling for the Division of Safeguards hs been i icreased by
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six positions for these activitit s in FY81:
(C) Not less than $9.675,000 for waste management (C) During FY80, more than five staff years were expended including support for five additional positions in by the Division of Waste Management to implement the the Division of Waste Management for implementation Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 2
of the mill tailings act (PL 95-604) 1978 (PL 95-604) s i
FY80 Auth.
FY80 Approp.
FY20 Actual FIN Plan !
Oblications j
101(a)(5)
RES (A) Not more than $3,700,000 to accelerate gas-
$3.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M cooled thermal reactor safety researca.
I (B) Not more than $4,400,000 to implement the Improved
$4.4M
$1.0M
$950K Safety Systems Pesearch Plan required by section 205(f) of the ERA (PL 93-438) as amended.
l (C) Not more than $6,700,000 for nuclear waste research
$6.7M
$5.6M
$5.45M act'
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101(a)(6)
$4,238,000 shall be available for the Office of State AtthebeginningofFf1980,thefunctionsoftheOffice Programs including support for 8 additional positions of State Programs fell into three major areas: (1) State for training and assistance to State and local govern-A,Jeements, a program Congressionally mandated under ments in radiological emergency response planning and Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; operations and for reviewing State plans.
(2) State Program Development; and (3) Emergency Planting and Pre".'dness. All these functions were covered by the appropriation of $4,238,000.
On December 7, 1979, President Carter directed the Fed-'
eral Eneroy Managemeat Agency (FEMA) to assume lead agenet responsibility for working with State and local gover anents in radiological emergency response planning and preparedness.
In order to permit the orderlystransfer of responsibil-ities, on January 14, 1980, NRC detailed a tean of 13 i
staff members to FEMA and made available to that agency all funds that had been appropriated for the emergency preparedness function previously carried out by tha Office of State Programs. These funds were man.;c.j the NRC detail team, under the general direction of FEMA, to insure that ongoing programs affecting State and local government emergency preparedness were not interrupted.
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In addition, NRC and FEMA negotiated a determination order, which would result in the transfer to FEMA of
$2,619,136 for personnel and program support, along with 8 personnel positions. This determination order was l
signed by the Director of the Office of Management and j
Budget on January 12, 1981.
101(a)(7)
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$400,000 shall be available for support of 8 additional Early in FY 81. the Executive Director for Operations alloca-positions in the Division of Contracts.
ted a total of five additional positions to the agency con-tracting function, two for the Office of Small and Disadvantage Business Utilization and three for the Division of Contracts.
These positions are now filled. Three additional positions i
were provided to the Division of Contracts in the FY 81 budget, but the hiring freeze has prevented their being filled.
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101(b).
CON Reprograming requirements.
During FY 6980 two reprogramming requests (March 7, 1980 and June 25,1980) were submitted and approved by the C(ngressional Committees. These actions were in compliance with this section. In addition, Con-gressional Committees were provided with quarterly base tables which identified all funding changes.
101(c)
$50,000 cap on safeguards contracts unless specifically All safeguards contracts which exceeded $50K during approved by the Comission.
FY80 were approved by the Comission.
101(d)
CON Contracts greater than $500,000 must be approved by a A Senior Contract Review Board was appointed in Senior Contract R; view Board to be appointed by the September 1980. Procedures provide for the Board's Comission. The Ccmission must approve each contract approval of actions of $500,000 or more and Com-in excess of $1,000,000.
mission approval of actions of 51,000,000 or more.
This practice is being conthiued into FY 1981.
106 IE The NRC is directed to develop a plan for responding Requirement was to submit a plan to Congress by to accidents at utilization facilities.
9/30/80. A report (NRC Incident Response Plan) was Nf4 sent to Congress on 10/3/80. Action completed.
108
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The NRC should develop siting criteria for utilization The requirement is that NRC must develop regulations facilities.
establishing demographic requirements for siting of nuclear power plants. The Comission intends to
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publish a proposed rule with an EIS by June 1981.
109 IE (A) Provides that no operating license is to be (A) This guidance is being followed.
issued without an effective State, local or utility emergency plan.
(B) The NRC shall study the effectiveness of State (B) The requirement was that NRC shall review the and local emergency plans.
existing State plans for emergency response and submit an assessment to Congress by 12/30/80.
NRC has completed short-term upgrading on 9/80.
A ieport to Congress was given to the Comission
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for review on Jan. 5, 1901 (SECY 81-05) on long term plans for upgrading which is currently awaiting Commission approval. Plans call for agencies to implement lono tem ajograding by 4/81. NRC will review the results over the next 18 months.
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Lead Page 4 Status 110 NRR The NRC shall devise and implement a plan for the The staff has submitted to the Commission a plan for s.
systematic safety evaluation of operating reactors.
implementing the requirements of Section 110 of Public Law 96-295. This plan states that the Commission will identify the rules and regulations uf partitular sig-nificance using moderately stringent screening criteria.
One basis for determining whether those rules and regu-lations are met will be the acceptance criteria of the l
Standard Review Plan (SRP), which are related to these rules and regulations.
As an integral step in implementing the plan, the staff is revising the SRP. This next revision of the SRP, scheduled for completion in April 1981, will consist of the May 1980 version of the SRP, modified to reference all applicable safety and safeguards regulations, Div-ision 1 regulatory guides, staff positions, and other documents currently used by the staff to interpret the intent of these regulations. Requirements resulting j
from the TMI accident will also be incorporated.
i Under the plan proposed by the staff each licensee would be required to evaluate the plant against the SRP
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revision in effect one year prior to the date on which the NRC requires documentation. The licensee would be
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required to: (1) document conformance with the SRP L
acceptance criteria or (2) identify deviations'from those SRP acceptance criteria. in areas where the plant deviates from the revised SRP, the licensees would I
be required to provide a technical discussion of the safety significance and a judgment of whether the alter-native provides an equivalent method of meeting the regulations. The staff would then review each licen-see's submittal and evaluate further those deviations that appear to have potential safety significance, i
These assessments by the licensees and evaluations by
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the staff would be suitably phased to be integrated with other ongoing NRC programs for the evalutation of the safety of operating reactors, such as the System-atic Evaluation Program (SEP) and the National Rella-bility Evaluation Program (NREP).
SECY-81-13 was sent to the Commission on Jan. 8, 1981, and is currently awaiting approval.
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Lead Section Office Reouirement Fag 2 5 Status 201 NRR The NRC shall amend each license for a utilization facility to require immediate reports of releases New licenses for poQer reactors issued since enactment of the FY80 Authorization Bill contain this requirerent as a of fission products in excess of limits for normal license condition. In addition, Part 50.72 of 10 CFR operation.
(effective on 2/29/80) requires immediate reporting of any accidental, unplanned or uncontrolled radioactive release.
203 NRR The NRC must prescribe a threshold level for acci-dental releases for the definition of the term The Office of Standards Development-(RSSB) is working
" basic component."
on an issuance of Section 203 (amending section 223 of the Act) to firms constructing or supplying components of a utilization facility. There is currently no direct effort to prescribe a (new) threshold level for
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accidental releases for the definition of the term
" basic component." The current SD-led project for revision of Part 20, Standards for Radiation Protec-tion, is likely to be assign'ed this effort. The pro.
posed revised Part 20 rule is projected to be issued late in CY 1981. Part 20 currently limits levels of radiation in unrestricted areas to 0.5 rems /yr; and con-centrations of radioactivity in effluents to eNu specified in Table II. Appendix 8 of Part 20.
205 SP Change regulations to allow NRC to temporarily A draft Commission paper has been developed which con-suspend State Agreements in an emergency, tains a Federal Reoister Notice with a proposed gen-
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eral statem.nt of policy regarding implemention of section 274a(2). Final office concurrence is-in
- process, 206 IE increase in civil penalty authority.
Commission approved on 9/4/80 the policy statement in SECY-80-139A; sent out for public comment. Comment period expired 12/31/80. Redraft for Commission consideration by April 1981.
207 NMSS The NRC shall prescribed regulations to prohibit the unauthorized disclosure of safeguards information.
The requirement was that NRC provide quarterly reports to "ongress on its application of the regulations.
Proposed rule on safeguards information completed. It was sent to Congress on 12/22/80. The final Rule to be completed in June 1981.
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Lead Steiion-Office Requirement Page 6 Status 301 MMSs 1
The NRC shall prescribe regulations which provide for the timely notification of governors of the planned The requirement is that NRC shall promulgate these movement of radioactive waste in or into each State, regulations by 2/81. Proposed amendments to NRC reg-ulations to assure governors of the States that they are notified in advance of spect fuel shipments and other kinds of radioactive wastes has been published in the Federal Reoister on 12/9/80. Letters to the governors were signed by the Chairman on 1/16/81. The final rule expected in June 1981.
302 MPA The NRC shall contract for an independent review of the management of the NRC.
It is expected that NRC will enter into two con-tracts, one in Feb 1981 and one May 1981, and report to Congress by early 1982.
303 MPA The NRC shall include in the annual report a state.
ment of costs and fees paid for licensing and This requirement has been addressed in the hnual inspections.
Report and is included as part of a Table in Chapter
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The LFMB provided the Special Projects Branch, MPA, with a report of license fees paid in FY 1980 on November 24, 1980 and a second report providing a breakdown of cost for OL's issued during FY i3E a sent on January 26, 1981. There were no CP's issued.
The assignment is complete.
304 FEMA National Contingency Plan.
FEMA has lead - An interim use plan was published on 12/23/80 for comment. NRC is commenting on plan.
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-305 IE (A) The NRC is directed to establish an immediate communications sp tem between licensed reactors This requirement has been completed with the installa-and the NEC regional and headquarters offices.
tion of two dedicated telephone systems.
(b) The NRC shall prepare and transmit to Congress a study of plans for transnission of data from This activity has been completed on 9/80.
A report reactors to the NRC.
(Acquisition of Remote Data from Nuclear Facilities) has been sent to Congress on 10/30/80. This was included as NUREGS 0728, 0729, and 0730.
i 306 IE The NRC shall investigate the flow of information from TMI on the morning of March 28, 1979.
This activity was completed in Jan. 1981.
307 NRR (A) The NRC shall prepare a plan for improving j
operator training.
The plan to be submitted to Congress is more compre-hensive than " operator training." The plan is to Improve the Technical Capability of Licensee Personnel, p
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The plan was transmitted to the Commission from the EDO as SECY-80-555. The plan was disapproved and returned to the staff with several comments for reco -
sideration. The plan will be resubmitted Febru-ary 27. 1981.
(B). The NRC shall study the feasibility and value of
.NRR is performing an in-house evaluation of'what the licensing nuclear power plant managers and senior study should entail.A letter hig511ghting the status licensee officers.
is being prepared and will be forwarded to the Com-mission shortly.
308 SD The NRC and EPA shall. evaluate the feasibility of The requirement was to send a report to Congress by epidemiological research on the health effects of 9/30/80. A report was approved by the Commission and low-level radiation.
letters transmitting the report to Congress were signedbytheChairmanon(/29/81. Action completed.
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