ML20042F719
| ML20042F719 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 02/07/1990 |
| From: | Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Geoffrey Miller HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20042F715 | List: |
| References | |
| CCS, MILLER-900207, NUDOCS 9005090302 | |
| Download: ML20042F719 (2) | |
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l QUESTION 4.
What correspondence or comunications have taken place between NRC and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Nuclear Utilities Management and Resources Council (NUMARC),
l the Edison Electric institute (EEI) and the Environmental l
Protection Agency (EPA) regarding BRC? Please provide any and all correspondence or comunications (draft and final).
ANSWER.
Correspondence and communications between the listed' organizations.and the NRC staff have taken place on BRC issues. In order to allow an open, exchange of information, an exchange protocol wasl developed to guide NRC staff interactions.
I with potential petitioners for rulemaking to' exempt radioactive waste-streams -
from regulatory control (Record No. 236).
In. addition, the NRC staff routinely receives copies of EPRI technical reports as well as' industry papers given at technical symposiums, including those pertaining to potential BRC
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waste disposals. Telephone conversations between NUMARC representatives and NRC staff' have'also taken ~ place ~.The timin'g of tihe indu~stry's submission of '
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i its petition, requests to brief NRC staff on the industry's BRC position, and other matters were discussed.
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EPA representatives attended and participated in the NRC-sponsored International Workshop on Rules for Exemptions from_ Regulatory Control. The EPA also submitted comments on the NRC's advance notice of policy development-(issued on l
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t Question 4 (Continued)
December 12,1988) and participated in the January.12, 1989 public meeting..
L Draft copies of the-proposed policy statement and responses to public comment, transmitte'd~to.the Commission in SECY-89-184 (Record,No. 121), were~ informally sent to EPA staff in the Office of Radiation Programs, and several meetings were held between EPA and NRC representatives in~which policy provisions and
. EPA comments were discussed.
. c Ava11able' records documenting these communications are included in the list of
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Copies of these records.are also'provided.
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