ML19347F283
| ML19347F283 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 11/07/1980 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Fraley R Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19347C794 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-81-145 SECY-81-013, SECY-81-13, NUDOCS 8105180239 | |
| Download: ML19347F283 (3) | |
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NOV 7 1980 MEMJRANDUM FOR:
Raymond F. Fraley, Executive Director ACRS FROM:
William J. Dircks, Executive Director for Operations
SUBJECT:
STAFF'S PRELIMINARY PLANS FOR ADDRESSING THE REQUIREMENTS IN SECTION 110 0F THE FY-60 NRC AUTHORIZATION BILL i
Your memorandum, dated October 14, 1980, provided ACRS coments on the staff's preliminary plans for addressing the requirements of Section 110 of the FY-80 NRC Authorization Bill. The Ccanittee expressed concern regarding the results of the staff's trial screening of the regulations using two sets of proposed possible criteria for selecting those regulations of particular safety signifi-
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cance. The Comittee expressed the view that the resultant lists do not include 1
all the items of particular significance, and recomended that other groups, r
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As you know, the staff has requ'ested Comission review and approval of a pre-liminary conceptual plan in SECY-80-414. An import $nt element of that plan on which we seek a Commission decision is the manner in which the regulations of particular safety significance would be selected. We plan further discussions of this and other features of the proposed plan with the Comission in Decernber, following the receipt and analysis of public coments en the recent Federal Register Notice regarding our propcsal to require all licensees and applicants to review their Jesigns against the Standard Review Plan.
Prior to this discussion ~ ith the Comission, the NRR staff intends to recuert w
other NRC offices to review the results of the preliminary screening of the regulations. The staff also intends to utilize risk analyses, to the extent practical, to establish the priority for subsequent reviews of deviations from the regulations of particular significance.
The Comittaa noted that the staff's trial screenings resulted in the omission of General Design criterion 29, " Protection Against Anticipated Operational Occurrences", from the list of particularly significant regulaticts. This omis-sion illustrates the difficulties inherent in 3ny such screening process. The staff team perfonning the trial screenfra judged that, although GDC-29 appears
'to be quite important when viewed separately, the significant aspects of GDC-29 are addressed more explicitly in GDC's 20 through 28, and that GDC-29 cculd 'oe screened out. On reflection, however, it appears that no useful purposes would be served by omitting GDC-29 from the list, sir. e it clearly is complementary
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Raymond F. Fraley I appreciate the endorsement of the Committee on the need to implement tight management controls over this program. Such controls will be particulariy important to exercise reasonable and safety-related constraints on the ident-ification of those regulations having particular safety significance, and in the development of priorities and schedules for the follow-on reviews of 'all operating reactors.
We will keep the Committee infonned of future dev91opnents regt.rding the plan for addressing Section 110, and will arrange another meeting with the Comittee after receipt of public ccenents on the final draft plaa.
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