ML20011E251
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| Issue date: | 02/06/1990 |
| From: | Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| TASK-PINC, TASK-SE SECY-90-038, SECY-90-38, NUDOCS 9002120354 | |
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POLICY ISSUE February 6, 1990 SECY-90-038 (NEGATIVE CONSENT)
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James M. Taylor Executive Director for Operations
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RENEWAL OF THE NUCLEAR SAFETY RESEARCH REVIEW COMMITTEE (NSRRC)
Purpose:
To request Comission approval to renew the Charter of the Nuclear Safety Research Review Comittee for an additional two-year period under FACA guidelines.
Discussion:
The Nuclear Safety Research Review Comittee (NSRRC) was established February 9, 1988 to provide advice to the Director of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) and through him the Commission, on matters on overall management importance in the direction of the NRC's program of nuclear safety research.
The NSRRC two-year Charter will expire February 9, 1990.
In accordance with the Federal Advisory Comittee Act (FACA),
and after consultation with the General Services Administration (GSA), the NRC has determined that there is a i
continuing need for the NSRRC and that renewal of the Comittee for a two-year period beginning February 9,1900 is in the public interest.
I Recommendation:
That the Comission:
_g_te that.the staff intends to issue a Federal Resister 1.
W 1FoITce (Enclosure 1) announcing the renewal of the Nuclear Safety Research Review Comittee for an additional two-year period.
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SUMMARY
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Nuclear Regulatory Comission as a Federal advisory comittee in February 1988 to provide advice to the Director. Office-of Nuclear Regulatory Research, on matters relating to NRC's nuclear safety research programs. The comittee is composed of experts capable of providing a wide variety and managerial viewpoints -
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- FOR~FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Robert L. Shepard, Office of Nuclear
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- 11. PROV IDE A BR itF 5TATth4NT CQVERING T 4E CDhMITItt'5 3GQPt AND CWACTIVt3 CF IT5 ACTIVITV.
NSRRC provides advice to the Director of the Of fice of Nuclear Regulatory Research and throust him the Commission, on matters of werall management importance in the direction of the NRC's l
program of nuclear safety research.
Nuclear safety research is understood to encompass techni cal investigations of-the implications for public health and safety of the peaceful uses of ctonic energy and the reduction of those investigations to regulatory practice.
- 12. DE5CRl5E THE DullE5 AND RE5PON515tLITIES OF THE COMM4TTEE AND INDICATE IF THE GROUP PERFORM 5 QTHER THAN ADVl5 CRY PUNCT40N5.
NSRRC duties and responsibilities are to provide the NRC with assessment of and recommendation on the following:
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Conformance of the NRC nuclear safety research program to the NRC Philosophy 'of Nuclear Regulatory Research, as stated in the Commission's Strategic Plan, and to specific Commission directions.
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- 13. W HY 45 THE COMMIT TEE E55ENTIAL FOR THE CONDUCT OF AGENCY BV51NE55 AND IN THE PUBL4G INTERE5T7 The National Academy of Sciences recommended in 1986 that this committee be established to provide an independent review of the overall structure and thrust of the NRC research program.
This committee. being comprised of experta experienced in the performance and management of research and familiar with the disciplines involved in reactor safety research, is qualified to ask questions about the structure, direction and focus of the overall research program.
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answers to such questions assist in making the program more responsive to agency needs, thus providing confidence that funds are being used to adequately protect public health and safety.
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- 14. EXPLAlfe WHY THE ADVICE OR INFORMATION CANNOT BE 05TAINED FRoM OTHER 50VRCE5.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in its report on revitalizing nuclear safety r.esearch l
in the U.S. recommended that a first rank advisory committee be established to advise the Commission on its RES programs. The Commission believes that this advisory committee is the most appropriate vehicle for obtaining in an expeditious and consistent mgnner the views of non-NRC experts on the overall thrust and direction of the work of the work of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. The Commission has assembled in one small group a team of (Continued in Section C)
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- 15. Dt3CRl5E THE AGENCY'5 PLAN TO ATT AIN BALANCED h4h4ER5 HIP.
The Commission intends to retain a balance of membership by appointing experts capable of providing a' wide range of technical"atrd managerial. viewpoints drawn from industrial, national laboratory, university, and not-for-profit research organizations.
1 In addition to having had experience in dealing with the problems of managing large research efforts, panel members will have demonstrated expertise in relevant areas of applied science 1
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T4, HavE int COMMITTEE ANO SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS BEEN BRIEFED ON CURRENT ETHIC 5 LAWS AND REGULATION 57
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Likelihood of the program meeting the needs of the users of research.
Appropriateness of the longer range research programs and the correctness of their.
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Whether the best people are doing the work at the beet places; whether there are other options, including cooperative programs, that would yield higher quality work, or otherwise improve program efficiency.
Whether the program is free of obvious bias, and whether the research products have been e.
given adequate, unbiased peer' review.
In addition, NSRRC will conduct specialized studies when requested by the Commission or the Director of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
If appropriate, these studies will b3 published as reports.
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cx:cutives experienced in'the peformance and management of research and familiar with the disciplines involvedtin reactor safety research.
There are no other advisory committees in NRC or elsewhere which have the diversity of viewpoints and individual expertise capable of providing the in-depth advice' contemplated by the NAS report.
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