ML20003E373

Weekly Info Rept for Wk Ending 810320

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March 27, 1931 For:

The Co M ssioners From:

T. A. Rehm, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO

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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT WEEK ENDING MARCH 20, 1981 A sun.ary of key events is included as a cdnvenience to those Comissioners who r.ay prefer a condensed version of this report.

Contents Enclosure Administration A

Nuclear Reactor Regulation B

Standards Development C

Nuclear Material Safety and. Safeguards D

Inspection and Enforcement E

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Management and Program Analysis J

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Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data L

Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization M*

Items Approved by the Comission N

Calendar of Speaking Engagements 0

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T. A. Rehm, ant for Operations Office. of the Executive Director for Operations

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CONTACT:

T. A. Rehm, 27781 C)104.0 SOut

SUMMARY

OF WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT Week Ending March 20, 1981 Consolidation of the Office of Standards Develooment (SD) and the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES)

The Executive Director for Ooerations approved consolidating SD and RES on March 18, 1981. NRC Announcement #26 provides an organization chart of the new Office and functional descriptions.

Beaver Valley A reactor coolant pump was declared inoperable, and its replacement or repair will extend the current planned outage about two weeks.

Udall Insoection at TMI On March 27, 1981, Congressman Morris Udall and members of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee plan to make an inspection tour of TMI Units 1 and 2 and meet with representatives from GPU and NRC.

Radiation Policy Council At a meeting of the Working Group of the Radiation Policy Council (RPC),

its Director, Mr. Carl Gerber, announced that OMB had deleted all the resources for the RPC from EPA's FY 82 budget. Mr. Gerber said that without these resources the RPC and its functions could not be continued in FY 82, but that there are adequate resources to continue operations until October 1, 1981. He is pursuing various possibilities of having the FY 82 resources reinstated.

Safety and Relief Valve Testing During steam testing of PORVs at Marshall generating facility (Duke Power),

EPRI tested several PORV block valves in anticipaticn cf an NRC requirement for qualification of block valves. There were several instances of failure to close against full flow. NRC was informed that none of the failures involved valves on operating plants, although four operating plants have valves similar to those that failed. The Union of Ccncerned Scientists wrote to the Commissioners raising a number of issues concerning the block valves and NRR is preparing an answer.

FY 82 Budget NRC received OM8's allowance letter which establishes personnel ceilings for full-time permanent personnel as follows:

FY 81: 3,300 (end-strength)

FY 82: 3,325 (full-time equivalents)

Also, the equioment moritorium has been cancelled.

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l OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION Week Ending March 20, 1981 ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM 0F INFORMATION ACT STATUS OF REQUESTS i

Initial Appeal of Request Initial Decision Received 150 3

Granted 83 0

Denied 8

0 Pending 59 3

ACTIONS THIS WEEK 4

Rrceived Nicholas S. Reynolds, Requests 18 categories of documents relating to Debevoise & Libennan Memorandum and Order CLI-80-21 and I&E Bulletin 79-01.

(81 -97)

Fred Eberlein, Requests a copy of 10 CFR Part 50.

Control Data Corporation (81-98) 4 Amy Goldsmith, Requests a copy of NUREG/CR-0811, NUREG-0561 and NRC Twin Cities Northern preposed pre-notification to State officials of Sun Alliance radwaste shipments.

(81-99)

Rodney D. Ice, Requests inspection reports of nuclear phannacies The University of under license category 02500 for the years 1979 and Oklahoca 1980 and copies of any PN0's concerning licensees (81-100)-

licensed under 02500 for the years 1979 and 1980.

Nicholas S. Reynolds, Requests 13 categories of documents regarding Debevoise & Liberman Memorandum and Order CLI-80-21 and I&E Bulletin 79-01E (81-101) j Lisa M. Newell, Requests copies of regulations, policies, maps, etc.

Gary Howard Simpson, P. A.

concerning the definition of "consnuting area" l

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Barbara Stamiris Requests copies of 12 listed documents relating to

'(81-103) the soil settlemer9 proceeding at the Midland Nuclear Power Plant.

CONTACT:

J. M. Felton 492-7211 l

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2 Received, Cont'd Ellyn R. Weiss, Requests all documents dealing with delays or Harmon & We.iss slippages in nuclear plant construction or licensing (81-104) schedules and the length of time required to design, construct and license a nuclear plant.

Mrs. Stacy Marsh, Requests all information concerning requests for, OUCH, Inc.

or the actual permitting of, the disposal of nuclear (81-105) waste by Sunny Farms /Stabatrol/ Waste Management and Liqwacon Corporation in Pennsylvania.

Martin Levy, Requests the number of people that have been promoted NTEU Steward to a GG-15 in the last year and how many of those (81-106) people have been promoted to a GG-15 in.non-supervisory positions.

Edward C. Sittnick, Fequests the names of those firms which responded Science Management to RFP No. RS-NMS-79-050, " Enhancement of the Corporation Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards System (81-107) -

(NMMSS)", the name of the firm awarded the contract and the dollar amount and a copy of the winning technical proposal.

John D. R. Cole, Requests productivity data that the NRC submitted to George Mason University the Bureau of Labor Statistics for compilation of (81-108) the annual report of Federal Productivity for the years 1957 through 1980; all comprehensive analyses prepared by the NRC dealing with overall productivity changes and/or trends and all staff memoranda or other work papers dealing with significant changes in the productivity measurement system within the NRC since the passage of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

Nicholas S. Reynolds, APPEAL TO THE COMMISSION for 11 denied documents Debevoise & Liberman regarding Memorandum and Order CLI-80-21 and I&E (81 -A-3-80-556)

Bulletin 79-018.

Granted Anthony F. Earley, sh.,

In response to a request for specific documents Hunton & Williams pertaining to SECY-80-409, " Proposed Rulemaking to (80-587)

Amend 10 CFR Part 50 Concerning Anticipated Transients Without Scram (ATWS) Events," dated September 4,1980, made available 738 documents.

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Granted, Cont'd Fonica Ancres, In response to a request for copies of memoranda of Center for. National understanding between the NRC and other named agencies Security Studies regarding nuclear threats, made available two (81-24) documents.

Referred documents to the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency for direct response to her.

Joseph Cassiere In response to a request for specific information (81-58) concerning the nature, causes and violations of an accident on July 24, 1964 at the United Nuclear Corporation facility at Wood River Junction, Rhode Island, made available two documents.

McNeill Watkins, II, In response to a request for five categories of Debevoise & Liberman records pertaining to a study by Gage-Babcock and (81-75)

Associates, Inc., with regard to the Coernission's fire protection rulemaking, made available six documents.

Infer =ed the requester fcur additional documents subjer.t to this request are already available at tre PDR.

Thomas L. Stovall, Jr.,

In response '.o a request for records containing The Executive Cleaning names; addresses and pnene numbers of NRC individals Service who may have been involved in furniture cleaning (81-76) or upholstery shampooing within the last two years, informed the requester the NRC has no documents subject to this request.

Lynn Connor, In response to a request for a copy of SECY-80-359A Doc-Search Associates and SECY-80-3593, made available a copy'of these (81-82) documents.

Robert L. Turocy, In response to a request for all infor=ation on a Picker Corporation lawsuit filed by Thel =a M. Roberts against Atomic (81-94)

Energy of Canada, Ltd., et al., made available 20 docurnents.

FrGd Eberlein, Made available a copy of 10 CFR Part 50.

Control Data Corporation (81-98)

Denied (An individual requesting In response to a request for documents used in the information about himself) evaluation of his application for employment with the

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NRC, made available five documents. Denied portions of two documents, the disclosure of which would reveal the identity of confidential sources and would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

ENCLOSURE A

DIVISION OF ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL Week Ending March 20, 1981 Tentative Aoreement With NTEU The Agen:y and NTEU reached tentative agreement on the terms of a comprehensive contract on March 17 with the assistance of a Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.ediator.

Conforming language and editorial changes remain to be complete: in the negotiations scheduled for March 25.

The contract will be signed snortly thereaf ter.

Consolidatic, of the Office of Standards Development and the Office of f.uclear :egulatory Research The EDO approved consolidating the Offices of Standards Development and Nuclear Regulatory Research on March 18.

NRC Announcement #26 provides an organization chart of the new Office and functional descriptions.

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CONTRACTS CLOSED OUT (All administrative action completed and final payment made)

Contract No.

Contractor Closecut-Date AT(49-24)-0350 South Dakota School of Mines &

Technology 3/13/81 NRC-04-74-198 Northwestern University 3/13/81 NRC-04-77-135 University of Pittsburg 3/13/81 NRC-01-77-038 Food & Drug Acm.inistration 3/13/81 NRC-03-79-159 Radiation Research Associates 3/16/81 NRC-03-80-112 Antonio Refre 3/18/81 NRC-01-8 -005 Dr. Henry I. Kohn 3/19/81 NRC-01-81-006 Dr. Harold Rossi 3/16/81 NRC-04-77-031

- American Nuclear Society 3/19/81 NRC-02-80-048 Keystone Center for Continuing Education 3/19/81 NRC-01-75-115 Naval Surface Weapons Center 3/18/81 NRC-04-78-226 MFB Technical Association 3/13/81 NRC-04-76-351 United Engineers & Constructors 3/16/81 NRC-03-79-170 Dr. David Slemmons 3/19/81 t

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DIVISION OF SECURITY

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Week Ending March 20, 1981 Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Security Committee Workshop The Director of Security has been asked to speak at the EEI Security Committee Workshop on May 6, 1981, in Boston, MA, on the NRC Security Program, including the Classified Safeguards Program.

Classified Safeauards Proar?,(CSP)

SEC provided comnents to Tri-State Motor Transit Co., Joplin, M0, and Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., Rockville, MD, regarding their security plans submitted under Part 95 to protect National Security Information or Restricted Data'.

The comments were coordinated with OIE.

Contacted General. Atomics and Rockwell International to determine the status of their proposed revisions to their CSP security plans. General Atomics and Rockwell International indicated their replies would be in within two weeks.

10 CFR Part 10 SEC and ELD representatives met to discuss final revisions to 10 CFR Part 10,

" Criteria and Procedures for Determir.ing Eligibility for Access to Restricted Data or National Security Information," before circulating to other NRC offices for comment.

GSA Crime Prevention Seminar An analysis of the critique sheets submitted by attendees of this seminar revealed four topics which are of interest to employees and about which they would appreciate additional information. These four topics are:

1) home burglaries /

street muggings, 2) expansion of the same topic, 3) office sexual harrassment, and 4) laws and penalties for rape and how to get legal help. SEC is exploring ways to satisfy their desire for additional information on these topics.

Security Packets The part-time Personnel Security Branch staff member in O&P reviewed 54 security l

packets on-site in order to expedite the employment / security clearance of NRC applicants.

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f 0FFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION DAILY HIGHLIGHTS - WEEK OF ftARCH. 21, 1981 NORTH ANNA AND OCONEE There will be a meeting with the NRC staff, VEPCO, DUKE POWER, EPRI, and WESTINGHOUSE at 1:00 PM, Friday (March 20, 1981) in Room P-422, Phillips Building to discuss and review EPRI block valve testing.

BE, AVER VALLEY On March 17, 1981, reactor coolant pump RC-P-lC was declared inoperable due to apparently shorted motor windings causing the pump breaker to trip upon attempting to start the pump. The NSSS vendor is attempting to locate a replacement motor. The licensee will replace or repair the motor as This event is expected to extend the current unplanned outage necessary.

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Core Cooling Mode: Heat transfer from the reactoi coolant system (RCS) loops to reactor building amb.ent.

F Available Core Cooling Modes:

Long-term cooling "B" (once through

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Standby Pressure Control (SPC) System.

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Decay Hent Removal (DHR) System.

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Major.. Para _ meters, (.as.gf 0500. Mar-h 20,1981) (approxirrgte. val _ues) _,, _

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Concentration: 1.15 x 10-4 uCi/cc (Krypton-85 (Kr-85))

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contained no.det.ectable. radioactivity at the discharge point and individual effluent sources which originated within Unit 2 contained

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Results from EPA monitoring of the environment around tne IMI site were as I

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detected in any of the. samples collected from the EPA's air and gama rate networks during the period from March 11, 1981, T

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Licensee Radioactive Material and Radwaste Shipments.

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On Tuesday, March 17,1981, a 40 ml Unit 2 reactor coolant

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Contaminated areas have been de. contaminated and followup surveys are being performed.

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The onsite TMI program Office, with Region I specialist assistance, has commenced a special inspection of the SDS.

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Reactor Building dntry.

The seventh entry into the Unit 2 Reactor Building cor:rnericed on Tuesday, March 17, 1981, dnd an wmpletuterr-- ---

Friday, March 20, 1981.

The entry was originally scheduled for a three day period but was extended when difficulties were encounterert 7

with equipment designed to pass sump water through zeolite and collect the effluent.

This task was eventually completed and except for some valve servicing tasks, which were teminated because of personnel fatigue, all of the planned entry operations were completed.

During the entry, three.1 liter samples of sump water were obtained for analysis at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

A 150 milliliter water was obtained for archive storage.

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The sump water processing equipment obtained effluent from the zeolite test column for use in evaluating alternatives for further processing of swnp water after passing hrough the SDS 2eolite media.

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temperature inside the Reactor Building is approximately 64*F, the plastic protective clothing retains body heat and humidity and l[

increases physical discomfort significantly.

The licensee is evaluating other types of protective clothing for use in future j}

entries.

The next Reactor Building entry is scheduled for April.

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since November 1980, has indicated a gradual decrease over the past i

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NI-2 had been inoperable since the March 28, 1979, accident.

Repairs to the NI-2 channel cocuenced during the third Reactor Building entry.

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NI-1, the othei source range monitor, is indicating approximately 1.4 counts per second.

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Or Monday, March 16, 1981, the Citizens Advisory Panel met with the

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On Friday, March 20, 1981, Lake Barrett, Ronald Bellamy and Joel Wiehe met with a group of university professors from City College of New York and Fordham University to discuss cleanup of the Reactor Building sump water.

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On Tuesday, March 24, 1981, Lake Bgrrett' will meet with area mothers to discuss various issues related to the decontamination of TMI Unit 2.

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On Tuesday, March 24, 1981 Harold Centon and Lake Barrett will attend a meeting of the Anerican Society of Zoological Nrk Managers in Hershey.

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b 0FFICE OF STANDARDS DEVEL9P"ENT IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 'tARC4 20,1981 1.

Meeting with Radiation Policy Council: There was a meeting of the Working Group of the Radiation Policy Council (RPC) on '1 arch 13,1981 attended by Karl R. Goller, the NRC's designated member to this Group.

Th1 meeting was called by the Director of the RPC staff, Mr. Carl Gerber, with the primary purpose of announcing that OMB had deleted all the resourcrs for the RPC from EPA's FY '82 budget and to discuss what action the RPC staff and the Working Group should take thereon.

'tr. Gerber declared that without these resources the ROC and its functions could not be continued in FY '82, but that there are adequate resources to continue operations until October 1,1981. Mr. Gerber is actively pursuing various possibilities of having the FY '82 resources reinstated.

As a result of discussion by the Working Group, it was decided that efforts to finalize the action plans for the RPC's long term agenda should be continued and hopefully completed and also, that to the extent resources and participating agency efforts permit, a limited number (2 or 3) of high priority tasks would Le continued and hopefully completed during the balance of FY '81.

An immediate objective of the Working Group and RPC staff was to select these tasks.

Contact:

K. R. Goller 443-5991 Publications to be Issued in the Near Future

Title:

Standard Format and Content of Site Characterization Reports for High-Level Waste Geologic Repositories Expected Issuance Date: April 1981

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This is the Standard Format for Site Characterization Reports for HLW Geologic Repositories and is scheduled to be issued when.the proposed rule,10 CFR 60, is issued for public comment (October).

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Instruction Concerning Prenatal Radiation Exposure (P.eg. Guide 8.13 Re, ?)

Expected Issuance Date: May 1981

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Make the risk estimates consistent with the flCRP recommendation to keep occupational radiation exposure of the embryo to less than 0.5 rem during the entire gestation period, and consistent with the technical background: of women ir, the guide's audience.

Include cc parative. type risk analysis.

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OFFICE OF NUCLEAR HATERIAL SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS Items of Interest Week Ending March 20, 1981 Selection of Criteria for Kerr-M: Gee Slud;e Burial Proposal A meeting was held on March 16, 1981 with SAI representatives (J. Hammelman, Project Manager and R. Roland, Environmental Specialist) to discuss the selection cf criteria to be used in developirg the environmental assessment for the Kerr-McGee sludge burial proposal.

SAI supplied the NRC project manager with a preliminary list of criteria for review.

SAI plans to visit the Kerr-McGee site (near Gore OK) during the week of Ma ch 33,1981 to obtain information necessary for the assessment, to cen'. et State Officials and to become familiar with the proposed burial site.

5;ximum Water Density and Their Affects Members of the Fuel Cycle Division met with representatives of Cc-bustion Engineering (CE) on March 17, 1981 to discuss the maximum water density from automatic sprinkles and their affects on nuclear criticality safety. CE proposes to increase their fuel assembly storage capacity by decreasing the spacing between rows of their storage racks and by decreasing the spacing between fuel assemblies within a row. Since the maximum moisture density possible from a water sprinkler system determines whether a condition of accidental criticality is possible, CE presented the results of a study made for them that indicates the maximum moisture density is far below that required for criticality. The staff plans to make an independent review of this study. CE will submit an amendment application requesting authorization for the increased capacity in the fuel storage area.

To meet the storage schedule requirements of CE, the staff plans to review the amendment application in two steps:

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reduction in spacing between rows of assemblies and (2) the reduction of spacing between assemblies within a row. As the safety of the utilization I

o' the racks in each step is confirmed, an amendment will be issued author-l 1:ing the use of the racks under the reviewed condition.

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Items of Interest 2

Registration and Licensing of Lixiscope FCMC staff held a meeting on March 17, 1981, with cognizant representatives of IE, SD, SP, and FDA/BRH for the purpose of discussing the registration and licensing of the Lixiscope for industrial use. Attendees were briefed by FCMC personnel concerning the health and safety design review and were given the opportunity to discuss the proposed licensing of the device.

Attendees proposed that the device carrying case be labeled and that an additional statement, " Warning Radiation Hazard - Keep Hands Out of Primary Radiation Beam," be added to the device label. With the addition of these labeling changes, FCMC plans to register the Lixiscope as being acceptable for licensing purposes.

Lixi Inc., plans to market the Lixiscope for both animal and human uses at a later date.

FDA/BRH personnel agreed to advise Lixi, Inc., of specific requirements for medical devices that must be met prior to marketing the device for these uses.

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Meetinos - Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety 1.

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To meet with NEA and delegates from other nations to formulate NEA's long-term work program in radiation protection.

Date/Ti e: March 20-24,1981 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Attendees:

R. E. Cunningham (FC) 2.

Subject:

Technical questions re: Radiological Contingency Plan for B&W's Lynchburg Research Center.

Date/ Time: March 24,1981 - 10:00 am Location: Willste Attendees:

R. G. Page (FC), F. D. Fisher (FC), A. Olson and another individual (B&W) 3.

Subject:

Spent Fuel Storage Research & Development by DOE Date/ Time: March 25,1981 - 10:00 am Location:

Forrestal Building (Room yet to be specified)

Attendees:

L. C. Rouse (FC), J. P. Roberts (FC)

T. J. Carter (NRR), DOE 4.

Subject:

To ' discuss decontamination of Amax site.

Date/ Time: March 26,1981 Location:

East West Towers Attendees:

W. T. Crow (FC), R. G. Page (FC), D. Sly (IE),

An Amax Representative 5.

Subject:

NRC Training and Experience Criteria for Authorized Usges on Nuclear Pharmacy Licenses Date/ Time: 3srch 31,1981 Location: American Pharmaceutical Association Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri Attendees:

J. DelMedico (FC) (Mr. De1 Medico will speak at a " Session on Nuclear Pharmacy Education")

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Review of recent safeguards activities - DOE /NRC Safeguards Liaison Board

'Date:

March 19, 1981, 10:00 a.m.

Location: Germantown, DOE Attendees:

NRC:

E. Perchonok, SG, L. Evans, SG DOE:

J. Tinney, OSS, S. McDowell, OSS 2.

Subject:

Preparation for IAEA Inspection of EXXON Date:

Monday, March 23, 1981, 10:00 a.m.

Location: State Department, Washington, D. C.

Attendees:

Paul Morrow, Larry Wirfs, SG Representatives of IP Members of IAEA Department of State 3.

Subject:

IAEA Inspection of the EXXON Nuclear Fuel Plant Date:

March 25-31, 1981, 9:00 a.m.

Location: Richland, Washington Attendees:

Paul Morrow, Harold Bartz, SG IE Representatives Members of IAEA 4.

Subject:

ISIS Source Evaluation Panel Meeting Date:

April 1,1981, 9:30 a.m.

Location: Willste Bldg., 8th floor conference room Attendees:

Ivan Keller, Gene Sparks, Reginald Brown, SG DOE representatives 5.

Su5 ject: Meeting with NFS-Erwin to discuss DOE report recommendations and routine licensing matters.

Date:

March 30-April 3,1981 Location: Erwin, Tennessee Attendees:

D. Joy, SG K. Hensley, Materials Manager Absence of Director March 26 & 27, 1981 - Annual Leave - Acting:

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Planned Meetines - Division of Waste Management 1.

Subject:

tevelopment of Effective Mechanisms for State Participation Lnder 10CFR60 Date: March 20,1981; 2:00 p.m. (tentative)

Location: State Planning Council,1900 L Street, N.W., Washington, DC Attendees: Robert MacDougall, John Surmeier, NRC; Ed Helminski, SPC 2.

Subject:

Discussion of Solidification and Packaging System with the fiewport News Industrial Corp. (NNI)

Date: March 25,.1981; 9:30-12:00 p.m.

Location: 6507 MN3B Attendees:

R. Bangart, NhR; R. Browning, K. Jackson, T. Johnson, H. Nicolaras, WMLL/NRC; J. Kannard, J. Hurley, NNI 3.

Subject:

International Standards-NEA Program on Long-Term Aspects cf Uranium Mill Tailings Management (sponsored by NRC)

Date: March 23-27,1981 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Attendees: Dan Martin, WMUR/NRC 4.

Subject:

High Activity, Low Volume Waste Generators Date: March 31 - April 1, 1981 Location: Boston (New England Nuclear Co.)

Attendees:

R. Browning, K. Jackson, NRC 5.

Subject:

Solidification of Wastes - Meeting with Chem Nuclear Date: April 2,1981; 9:30 a.m.

Location: Holiday Inn, Bethesda Attendees:

G. Bradley, Chem Nuclear; R. Browning, H. Nicolaras, K. Jackson, T. Johnson, NRC f

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OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT Items of Interest Week Ending t' arch 20, 1981 1.

Tne following Notification of Significant Enforcement Action was dispatched during the past week:

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EN-81-10 Tennessee Valley Authority (Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Units 1, 2 and 3) - A Notice of Violation and Procosed Imposition of Civil Penalties in the amount of $50,000 was issued to subject licensee on fiarch 20, 1981. This action.was based on alleged violations involving a breakdown of the licensee's control of the fire protection progran at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.

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Preliminary Notifications ralating to the following actions were dispatched during the week:

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PNO-I-81-36 Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station - Guard Force / Job Action b.

PNO-III-81-31A Quad-Cities, Unit 1 - Unolanned Airborne Release of the Reactor Building (Update) c.

PNO-III-81-32 Dresden - Picket Line Setup by Operating Engineers d.

PNO-III-81-33 Duane Arnold Energy Center - Unplanned Airborne Release to the Reactor Building e.

PNO-IV-81-08 Assured Inspection Managenent, Inc. - Loss of Radiographic Camera Containing 85 Curies of Iridiun-192 in the Gulf of Mexico f.

PNO-IV-81-09 Waterford, Unit No. 3 (Louisiana Power & Light Co.) - Use of Controlled Substance

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PNO-V-81-ll Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant - Unplanned Airborne Release to the Reactor Building h.

PNO-V-81-12 U.S. Ecology, Beatty Nevada Burial Site - Banning of General Atomic Company (NRC License SNM-696, DN 70-734) for Radioactive Waste Shipment 4

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PNO-V-81-13 U.S. Ecology, Beatty Nevada Burial Site - Banning of Exxon Nuclear Concany (NRC License SNM-1227, DN 70-1257) for Radioactive Waste Shiprent J.

PNO-TMI-81-07 Three Mile Island, Unit 2 - Reactor Building (Containnent)

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PNS-I-81-06 United Nuclear Corporation - Naval Products - Bomb Threat 1.

PNS-I-81-07 Maine Uankee Nuclear Power Station - Failure to Control Access to a Vital Area m.

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The following Information Notices were issued:

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IE Infonmation Ntoice 81-07, " Potential Problen with Water-Soluble Purge Dam Materiali Used During Inert Gas Welding", was issued to all nuclear powar

• eactor facilities holding power reactor operating licenses or construction penmits on March 12, 1981.

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IE Information Notice 81-08, "Recetitive Failures of Linitoroue Operator SMB-4 Motor-to-Shaft Key", was issued to all nuclear power reactor facilities holding power reactor operating licenses or con-struction permits.

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Important Items - W:2k Ending March 21, 1981 Material Control and Accounting All evaluation foms have been received from each SVAP Workshop participant.

The evaluation indicated that: SVAP shows tremendous potential for assisting the regulatory process for both NRC and DOE; SVAP should place more emphasis on material control and accounting and less on physical security; a team approach should be employed for implementing SVAP; SVAP would be a useful tool to assist IE when the inspectors start to evaluate licensee's systems for adequacy as well as compliance; and the SVAP Workshop should be repeated.

The next SVAP Morkshop is scheduled for early May.

Inspection Methods On March 6. E. Richard and G. Tomlin attended a meeting at the Department of Energy to review concepts for the detectioc of high explosives (HE) and SNM.

The meeting was called by Mr. Thomes D'Agostino, Division of Incident Manage-nent, Office of Safeguards and Security, DOE. Attendees included representatives from the FBI, USSS, ATF, FAA, DOE, SNL, LANL, and NRC/SG. Matters that were discussed included the following:

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• pplication of lasers for SNM detection; (2) the application of chemileminescence reactions and laser excitation for detecting HE; (3) discussion of proposed funding fo these projects in both FY 1981 or 1982. The chemiluminescence reactions project for detection of high explosives was a RES project for NRR. DOE is considering funding follow-on research to'this project in FY 1982.

GE-EpRI-NRC Meeting RES staff attended the GE-EPRI-NRC meeting held March 12, 1981 at EPRI's Washington Office on the subject of independent assessment of the BWR version of TRAC code.

Under the three-party sponsorship GE will conduct a preliminary assessment phase of the BWR version of TRAC. The purpose of that phase is to provide a quick survey of code's capabilities and an early opportunity for feedback to code developers should significant problems erierge. The first phase of independent assessment will be funded by the NRC and will employ the code version that includes the needed updates identified during the first phase.

t GE stated that they are very pleased, so far, with TRAC perfomance and intend to adopt it as their design code.

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Westinghouse: A team visited EGSG ca l' arch 12,1981.:to review the capabilities.

E and EG&G are developing options and a recocnendation for implemntation.

CE: Visiting 4.0FT in April to study options.

GI. Visiting i.0FT in April to study options.

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Contaircent SEfety Margins _ _ Project A meeting of hhe Peer Review Panel will be held on March 27, 1 931, in Silver Sprfng, Mryland to discuss the preliminary: draft of the test plan. Each member of the Peer Review Panel has received a copy of the draft plan with a list of questions and is expected to provide written cocnents to the questionnaire, i.

Maine Yankee Reactor Vessel Surveillance Asurements o'f the flux and fluence in the Maine Yankee Reactor Yessel from the survY111ance program were some 2.3 times higher than FSAR calculations.~ ~ A review of this infomation last week with HEDL. the M&MEB contractor involved with the surveillance dosimetry program.

showed that this higher fluence is probably correct. : Implications to the plant lifetime based on this infomation are being developed by the licensing.-staff. The MP.RS and HEDL have developed a series of actions that could be used in NRR both for review of future surveillance reports, and for upgrading of the quality of data in future reports.

For the time being, it is also clear that HEDL. under.M&MRB contract.

should become.Jeore involved in the r? view of future sorve111ance program data in order to assess accuracy and c.egree of errors af the data.

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3 Bl.'R CCFL Refill /Reflood Program This program is very tight on fundine in several mejor tasks. GE esticatos that 30' SSTF testing can be perfomed only by testing in a produi: tion line m:nner with r.c pcuses for enalysis.

Single heated bundle data will only re:eive a minimal cmount of analysis.

GE has proposed dropping the 350* Upper Plenum Facility in order to redu:e the overall funding constraints and allow increased enalysis. The 350' facility task w::s included in the program to qualify 30' SSTF results as a condition for NRR concurrence for this program.

Discussion with NRR staff indicate that they still foel the 350' facility is required. GE feels that the technical benefit of the 360* facility is less than good,30' SSTF data. GE is evaluat.ing the icpset of PMG proposed cost reductions and will also provide a technical basis for dropping the 360* facility.

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This report preser3.5 the new heat transfer correlation for steady state forced convection steam cooling, based on the 17 x17 unblocked bundle tests. This new correlation was found to give higher heat transfer

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Semiscale -

We have decided to add an U percent non-UHI cold leg break to the Semiscale test schedule, as identified last week. My estimate as to when the tests will actually be run, which is significantly ahead of the schedule to complete the series, is:

S-UT-3 2.5 percent non UHI March 19 (without guard heaters)

S-UT-4 2.5 percent'non UHI March 23 S-UT-5 2.5 percent LHI March 26 S-UT-6 45 percent,non UHI April 9 5-UT-7 U percent UHI April 23 This will provide 10 percent, E5 percent and 2.5 percent direct data, comparisons for non-UHI and UHI in Semiscale, and will provide break spectrum data for code evaluation and improvement.

A meeting requested by NRR between RES. NRR and INEL personnel to discuss Semiscale results is to be held at 8:30 a.m. ir. Bethesda on Marc,h 20, 1981.

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4 Safety and Relief Yalve Testing During the stea:: testing of PORVs at Marshall generating facility (Duke Power),

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to close against full flow. NRC was notified of these failures (by telephone) and that nor,e of the failures involved valves on operattag plants.

It has been discovered that there are four operating plants with valves similar to those that failed.

a ncher of issues concerning the block valves. NRR is preparing an

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ITE"5 0F INTEREST OFFICE OF I'.i:F, NATIONAL PROGRAMS WEEK ENDH!G MARCH 20, 1981 NRC-EMI Renewal Arranaement NRC and the FRG Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) appear to have reached agreement on the renewal text of the "NRC-BMI Arrangement for the Exchange of Technical Infor ation and Cooperation in Nuclear Safety "atters," which technically expired on October 1,1080, but which has been continued informally, by an exchange of letters, while active negotiations on the renewal text proceeded. Signature arrancements are being discussed.

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On Monday Dr. Yair Tene, a censultant of the Israel Electric Corporation, ret with D. Jeng, S. Chan, N. Choxshi, and K. Leu, all from SEB/NRR, and W. Regan, SAS/NRR and M. Hartzrann, MEB/NRR, to discus: seismic analysis of structures and mechanical equipment, and safety-related siting considerations.

On Tuesday 'Dr. Yoo, a menber of the Korean ACRS, at Mr. Park, Korean Science Attache, met with R. Rothman, GB/HRR, S. Ch 'dra, HGEB/NRR, and D. Jeng, S. Chan, N. Chokshi, and K. Leu, SEB/NRR, t iiscuss soil /

structure interaction and earthquake problems as the elate to nuclear reactors.

On Tuesday Messrs. Lefebvre and Lienart of Electricitt t France (EdF) met with J. D. Lafleur, IP, to discuss cooperation betwu 1 EdF and INPO, and current prog.ess in the French nuclear power program Retransfer Requests IP is presently reviewing three Japanese requests to retrans

• US-origin scent power reector fuel from Japan for reprocessing. These e the first such requests since passage of the NNPA that do not take into cc. 'ideration the Executive Branch policy of " physical need" or contracts antedating April 1977."

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Wayne Kerr participated in a panel discussion on low level wastes at the annual meeting of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers in San Antonio, Texas, en March 18, 1981.

On March 19, 1981, W. Kerr and Jim Montgomery, RSLO-Region IV, met with Texas officials on the State's progress toward an amended agreement for regulating uranium milling.

4 On March 13, 1981, D. A. Nussbaumer =et with Governor Thone of Nebraska, State and county officials and legislative staff to discuss the State's interest in obtaining an amended agreement

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A uranium deposit has been discovered

h. the northwest part of the State.

In-situ mining is being considered for recovery of the uranium.

The Governor held a press conference at which the purpoce of the meeting was explained.

On. March 19, 1981, William B. Manczer, RSIC Region III, was in I4 cline, Illinois to meet with the chairpersons of the FZMA Interagency Regional Assistance Committees, Region V and Region VII, to. discuss observer, critique, and public meeting arrangements for the Quad cities exercise scheduled for May 21.

On March 20 Mr. Menczer met with State and local representatives from Iowa and Illinois and with representatives of Commonwealth Edison Company to discuss the exercise scenario and other aspects of the Quad cities exercise.

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Congressional Questions Sent responses to Mr. Ottinger's questions to EDO on March 19.

Overtime Report In response to AEDO and OIA, developed a program-and reports on NRC overtime.

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Office of the Centroller Items of Interest Week Ending March 20, 1931 FY 1982 Budget The OMB allowance letter was received which establishes personnel ceilings for full-tine permanent personnel as follows:

FY 1981 3,300 (end-strength)

FY 1982 3,325

^(full-time equivalents)

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' 0FFICE FOR ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF OPERATIONAL DATA ITEMS OF INTc. REST WEEK ENDING MARCH 20, 1981 Propc:ed Cooperative Procram on Operational Data IhP0 (E. Wilkinson) and HSAC (E. Zebroski) have informally indicated general satisfaction with the proposed agreement forwarded by AEOD on February 25, 1931. This agreement covers a proposed cooperative arrangement for.the ex-change of factual information and analysis results on operational experience among INPO, NSAC, and.the NRC.

INP0 and NSAC have initiated steps to have the proposed agreement reviewed by their oversight groups, and expect to be able to provide a formal response by mid-April. After general agreement has been obtained from INP0 and NSAC, a Commission Paper will be prepared on this subject.

Aviation Safety Reporting System

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Discussions were held with NASA and Battelle personnel on the voluntary system establisned in the aviation industry for the raporting of unsafe occurrences or situations not associated with actual accidents. This system provides for assuring anonymity of the. reporter (normally a pilot or air traffic controller) and for immunity from civil penalties under certain conditions. Because of this system's success in highlighting potential hazards associated with operator error and other human factors, AE0D is investigating whether a similar system would have nerit for the nuclear industry.

Presentation to Region V i

On March 18,1981,'C. Michelson and J. Heltemes gave a presentation to Region V j

site representatives on the functions, programs, and status of AE00. Because of the newness of AE00 and the relationship between AE00 and the site offices, such presentations and associated discussions are considered an important step i

towards establishing effective communication channels and assuring mutually l

supportive efforts. The presentation covered: AE00 objectives, organization and program activities; current activities to develop LER sequence coding techniques needed for trend and pattern identification; status of IDER regarding needed changes in NPRDS and LER systems for event reporting; the AE00 procedures and philosophy for reviewing ooerating events and judging significance; and i

identification of the case studies that are now in progress. Similar presen-i l

tations have been held in Regions I, II, and III.

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STAFF REQUIRE"E*;TS - DISCUSSI0'; 0F RE"ISED LICENSING PROCEDURES,10:05 A.M.,

yiEDfESDAY, MARC.i 11,1951, C0"l11SSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM. D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTE!.JANCE).

emo SECY to Dircks/Bickwit, dtd 3/16/81.

The Comission continued its discussion of the licensing procedure and procosals to expedite the process.

The Comission requested that OGC orecare and issue without further Co mission censiceration a Federal Register Notice on the proposed rule changes to Part 2, whi:h the Comission considered at the March 10 meeting.

(See staff recuirements memorandum from that meeting dated March 13.)

The Comissien instructed OGC to notify all parties to pending proceecings and otner interested persons of the proposed rule changes and re:uest thei ccrrents within twenty days.

(Subsecuently tne Secretary signed the FRN.)

The Comissien was briefed by EDO on the need for additional resources by NRR and the status of the EDO plan to provide those resources.

Pending further discussions, tne Co=issien authorized EDO to becin implementation of the plan up to approximately the reallocation of resource needs based on a 39 reactor-men-h impact projection.

The Comission authorized EDO to select ne secuence in which the program would be implemented.

In this connection, Comissioner Bradford requested that he be informed in advance of any safety related program deferrals.

Comissioner Ahearne requested that the SEP not be deferred.

The Com:aission further directed ECO to review with applicants their current estimates as to when construction will be completed on impacted plants in an effort to update staff's information and if possible reconcile the differences between -heir estimates and the staff's (90 vs. 39 reactor-months).

(MPA)(SECY Suspense: 3/27/81)

The Corrnission requested submittal by staff of the proposed final rule on interim hydrogen control as quickly as possible.

(SD) (SECY Suspense 4/1/81)

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STAFF REQUIREMENTS - DISCUSSION OF SECY-81-20/20A/20B/20C - POLICY ON PROCEEDING WITH PENDING CONSTRUCTION PERMIT AND MANUFACTURING LICENSE APPLICATIONS,10:10 AM, THURSOAY, MARCH 12, 1981, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE). Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 3/16/81.

The Comission continued its discussion of the requirements for near term construction pemits and manufacturing license applications.

The Comission by a vote of 3-1 (Comissioner Ahearne dissenting) approved publication for coment of proposed licensing requirements applicable to pending CP and ML applications, as modified below. Comissioner Ahearne dissented in going out for further ament. He voted to publish the final rule at this time.

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The Ccmission requested that the Federal Register Notice:

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include an explanation as to why the Comission is requesting further coment at this time; 2.

provide for a coment period of twenty days; 3.

include a reference to manufacturing licenses and request public comment as appropriate; 4.

include the first paragraph of the addendum to SECY-81-20C distributed at the Conmission meeting and revise the second paragraph.

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The General Counsel was authorized to review the FRN and issue it without further Cocnission consideration.

OGC was also instructed to assure that the Notice is widely distributed.

(OGC) SECY Suspense: 3/17/81)

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SECY-81-131 - REVIEW OF ALAB-629 (PATTER OF HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO.).

Memo SECY to Bickwit, ctd 3/17/81.

This is to advise you that the Co= ission (with all Commissioners approving) has decided that.here is no need for a review of this Appeal Board decision.

In connection with his approval, Cc=missioner Ahearne has requested the follcwing infor=ation:

"How many staff-y.aars were spent by (a) NRR, (b)

E*.D, (c) other staff, (d) the Licensing Board, and (e) the Appeal Board in preparing and deciding the su= mary Jisposition motion on the biomass alternative in*Allens Creek?"

The Office of the General Counsel was inferr.ed of this action by telephone on March 16, 1981.

It is requested that you provide a responsre to Co=missioner Ahearne's request by c.o.b. April 7, 1981, C.

SECY-81-136 - DIRECTOR'S DECISION UNDER 10 CFR 2.206 (IN THE MATTER OF COMMON-WEALTH EDIS0N COMPANY)

Memo SECY to Bickwit, dtd 3/17/81.

This is to advise you that the Co= mission (with all Commissioners approving) has decided that there is no need for a review of this decision of the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

The Office of the General Counsel was informed of this action by telephone on March 16, 1981.

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SECY-80-551 AND 551 A - PRELIMINAD.Y POLICY CONSICE:ATIONS IN DEVELOP'ENT OF A S U E ' G;AL. Memo SECY to Hanranan, ctc 3/16/E1.

Inis supplements my me :randum of February 10, 1931, entitled, " Staff Re: ire ents - Discussion of Preliminary Policy C nsiderations in Development of a Safety Goal, 2:05 p.m., ',iednesday, February a,1981, Comissioners' Conference Room, D.C. Office (0 pen to Public Attendance)."

The C:=issioners have completed consideratien Of an edited version of

• he pr:;0 sed statement referred to in the last paragraph of the February 10 me.:randum. The Co==issien (with Chairman Hendrie and Comissioners iraefer and Ahearne approving) has approved the proposed Federal Register

ice (FRN) in SECY-80-551, as revised by tneir coments, anc :ne craf t W.i3 c cument (discussion report) in SECY-80-551A, as revised by their c:=en ts.

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Co =issioner Gilinsky disapproved both the FRN and tne associate: NUREG report with the following coment:

"As I c. ::ented on SECY-80-379, we need a si:pler approach. Someone sh:uld be thinking about a goal rather than ho,e to s,et goals."

The Cc=ission requests:

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That the proposed Federal Register notice including the Comission

-statement (Enclosure 1 to SECY-80-551) be revised as shown in Attachment A to this ce=orandum.

(SECYSuspense: March 30,1931) b.

That the discussion report (Enclosure 1 to SECY-80-551A) be revised to conform with the intent of the revi'sions shown in Attachment A.

This should include consideration of the changes shown in Attachnent B.

(SECYSuspense: April 10,1931)

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STAFF REOUIREMENTS - DISCUSSION OF REVISED LICENSING PROCEDURES,10:20 A.M.,

TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1981, COM ISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE. Memo SECY to Dircks/ Bickwit, Cotter /Rosentnal, dtd 3/19/81.

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P;ulemakina on TMI Issues The Comission continued its discussion of this item and reiterated its request to the staff to prepare a proposed rule.

(See Staff Requirements Me=o from 3/10 meeting, dated 3/13).

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Revision to 2.714 Contention Rule Tne Commission deferred consideration of this item pending receipt of an OGC study on the sub.iect.

(See 'ECY memo to OGC dated 3/6; also see SECY-81-ill) 3.

Rulemakina on Financial Oualifications The Commission noted staff nad forwarded recorr endations on this subject in SECY-81-168.

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Ine Comission deferred consideration of this item pending compilation by the joint legal offices of appropriate issues for rulemaking and specific recommendations.

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Better Define ScoDe of " Sufficiency Challenges Under TMI Action Plan Policy Statement The Comission did not address this item, noting that it is being considered in another context.

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Restrict Cross Examination and Proposed Findings to Contentions (Rule Change)

The Commission detemined not to pursue rulemaking o' this item.

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Further Study of Substitutine ALJs for ASLBs i

ine Comission deferred a decision of this item pending receipt of a paper from the Chaiman ASLBP.

(ASLBP) (SECY Suspense: 3/20/81)

Tne Comission indicated that at the next meeting it would discuss the unresolved

' i s abcva and possibly the treatment of unresolved safety issues by the & cards, sua s:::nte powers of the Board, and the Cotter crocosed Statement of Policy ca,ed "aren E.

The Comission autnorized an increase of 10 positions in FY 1981 for the Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel as recommended by the Chairman, ASLBP.

Comissioner Bradford requested information regarding the number of pending OL cases in which alternative sites are at issue.

(ELD) (SECY Suspense: 3/30/81)

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SECY-81 NRC MANAGEMENT STUDY. Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 3/18/81.

This is to advise you that the Commission (with all Commissioners concurring, except as noted below) has approved a proposed letter to the-appropriate Congressiohal Committees as revised

~in accordance with the attached final draft.

However, the Commission has disapproved the scope of work enclosed with i

the paper.

When a full Commission and a permanent Chairman are in place, and the staff efforts related to licensing have eased, the staff should, resubmit for Commission review j

a proposed mancgement study with appropriate justification.

Commissioner Ahearne would have preferred that the stafi proceed with the proposed Procurement and Contract Management i

portion-of the study subject to a few modifications to the i

- st4sement of work.

The office of the' Executive Director for operations was informed of this action by.' telephone on March 18, 1981.

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It'is requested that the letters to the Congress be revised per the attachment and forwarded for the Chairman's signature to the office of the Secretary by c.o.b. March 23, 1981.

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STAFF REQUIREMENTS - AFFIRMATION SESSION 81-11, 2 05 p.M., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1981, COMMISSIONERS' CONFERENCE ROOM, D.C. OFFICE (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE).

Memo SECY to Dircks, dtd 3/19/81.

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SECY-81-95 NRC Transoortation Rulemaking Proceeding (Rulemaking issue - Affirmation)

The Comission by a vote of 4-0* approved for publication in the Federal Register a proposed notice setting forth the position that present NRC transportation regulations are adequata to provide a reasonable degree of safety for the public, and that no imediate changes in the regulation are needed to improve safety.

In connection with his approval, Chairman Hendrie comented: Need to update referen:es to rules in proposed notice.

For example, on page 7 of Enclosure A, top paragragh', rule on simultaneous shipments is already effective."

The Comission requested that:

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the Federal Register Notice at Enclosure A of the staff paper be published.

(50) (SECY Suspense: 4/7/81) 2.

appropriate Congressional Comittees be informec of this action per draft letters at Enclosure E; (OCA/SD) (SECY Suspense: 4/1/81) 3.

a public announcement such as at Enclosure F be issued when the Comission's notice is filed with the Office of the Federal Register.

(OPA/SD)(SECYSuspense: 4/7/81)

• Section 201 of the Energy Reorganization Act, 42 U.S.C. 65841, provides that action of the Comission shall be determined by a " majority vote of the members present." Comissioner Gilinsky was not present when this item was affirmed, but had previously indicated his approval of the Notice.

Had Cor:nissioner Gilinsky been present, he would have affirmed his prior vote.

Accordingly, the formal vote i

of the Comission was 3-0 in favor of the decision.

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SCllEDULED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Data Organization Location Subject Speaker 3/29-4/2/81 American Chemical Atlanta, GA Regulatory implications

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Relationships

-4/1/81 Spouses of Operating Education Center Quality Assurance Require-A. Cerne Staff at Seabrook Seabrook, Nil ments A Licensing Procedures RO I Related to Scabrook Station Station e

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