ML20056G614
| ML20056G614 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/09/1993 |
| From: | Selin I, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Geoffrey Miller HOUSE OF REP. |
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Auaust 9, 1993 CH AIRMAN The Honorable George Miller, Chairman Committee on Natural Resources United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
In my letter to you of June 18, 1993, I committed to keep you informed of the status of NRC's consideration of the proposal to downsize or eliminate our Region V office in Walnut Creek, California.
We have not made a final decision on this matter and are unlikely to do so for several months.
As I am sure you recognize, the Commission, like other Federal agencies, must identify ways to reduce the cost of operating the government and reduce the size of the Federal workforce.
In that context, we have considered a variety of cost savings and program I
reduction ideas.
The Commission decided, for example, to l
eliminate the Uranium Recovery Field Office in Denver, Colorado, I
and transfer its functions to our Region IV office and to l
headquarters.
Moreover, every headquarters program office and most support offices will be required to reduce their authorized i
FTE ceiling by 1995.
We will continue to identify efficiencies I
that would have little or no impact on our ability to protect the l
public health and safety.
This will make possible increased funding to certain programs like materials license oversight and l
advanced reactors that require additional resources to achieve programmatic goals or to maintain existing review schedules.
In examining the future of the Region V office, the Commission has sought to be thorough and to consider carefully the views of its employees.
After requesting the staff to conduct a special study on the options for realigning the Region V office, the l
Commission was briefed on these options on June 25, 1993.
After considering the staff's views and recommendations, the Commission j
determined not to make a decision until we had heard the views
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and concerns of the Region V employees.
j On behalf of the Commission, I met with the employees of Region V on July 21, 1993, to listen to their ideas and to get their views on the study.
They identified several issues and raised a number j
of questions that the Commission had not previously considered and that warrant further investigation.
We will continue to analyze overhead and other ideas raised by the employees before making a decision.
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I want to assure you that the Commission will carefully consider the impacts of the various options on our public health and i
safety mission, the need for resource efficiency and employee corale and welfare.
We appreciate your interest in this matter and your concern about our employees and their families and will inform you when we have reached a final decision, which we expect will occur within the next several months.
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Ivan Selin I
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Rep. Don Young i
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