ML20043F174
| ML20043F174 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 03/26/1990 |
| From: | Carr NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Bevill HOUSE OF REP., APPROPRIATIONS |
| References | |
| CCS, MYERS-900326, NUDOCS 9006140222 | |
| Download: ML20043F174 (1) | |
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.MR..MYERS:
The Administration's fiscal 1991 budget request for the NRC shows an increase of $23.4 million.
Of this' amount, $12 million
'is _re' quested to address safety improvements.
What are some of the safety improvements that the Commission will be focusing on in the coming-year.
Is the amount requested enough to ensure adequate safety needs are met?
CHAIRMAN CARR:
7 The NRC's fiscal year 1991 budget request is $23.4 million above fiscal year 1990.
This includes $12.6 million to improve the safety performance of operating reactors and materials licensees and to be responsive to the nation's future energy needs and industry initiatives.
This $12.6 million increase will allow NRC to establish the criteria for renewing reactor licenses beyond their current 40-year -term to ensure that operating license renewal applications can be reviewed on a schedule compatible with industry submittals; to establish licensing criteria and be prepared to respond to both the industry's and the Department of Energy's schedule for submitting advanced standard reactor designs for approval; to reduce the volume and complexity of the technical specificatiot:s under which all reactors are required to operate; to resolve, in a timely meiner, the technical issues to l
support regulatory decisions on reactor safety systems and containments for l
operating plants as well as those for advanced reactor designs to further enhance the protection of the public in the event of a severe accident; to conduct additional inspections of materials licensees, improve the accounting of approximately 200,000 generally licensed nuclear materials devices, begin the review of approximately 18,000 materials and fuel cycle f acility licenses terminated.since 1965 to ensure that the sites were adequately decontaminated, and initiate financial reviews for non-reactor licenses to ensure compliance with new decounissioning requirements; to develop the regulatory framework for, and review a first-of-a-kind application to construct and operate the nation's eCSI 9006140222 900326
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FDC Question 55/Bevill/0C 03/26/90
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- first privately owned uranium enrichment facility; and to provide full regulatory support for the implementation of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act.. This includes expanded research to assess alternatives to shallow land burial for low-level waste and additional assistance to Agreement States as they proceed with developing and implementing plans to construct low-level waste disposal facilities.
The NRC's fiscal year 1991 budget request is sufficient to ensure that. adequate safety needs 'are met.
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