ML20056G754
| ML20056G754 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/23/1993 |
| From: | Bernero R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Jonathan Montgomery NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| NUDOCS 9309070127 | |
| Download: ML20056G754 (3) | |
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APR 2 31993 MEMORANDUM FOR:
John M. Montgomery Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IV l.
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Robert M. Bernero, Director Office of riuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
SUBJECT:
REGION V REALIGNMENT STUDY In response to your April 2, 1993 request, NMSS has assessed the programmatic impact of the Region V realignment.
In general, there are no
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significant' programmatic impacts due to the relocation. A specific discussion of the positive and negative impacts i attache
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ATTACHMENT IMPACT Of REGION V ALIGNMENT ON NMSS PROGRAMS Assumptio,s:
NMSS assumes that the three options under study are essentially the same as far as NMSS programs are concerned (i.e., NMSS activities will be conducted from Region IV under all three options), and that the differences between the options relate only to the reactor program.
Backaround:
Currently Region V conducts the following NMSS activities:
Licensing and inspection of approximately 250 byproduct materials licenses (this is the major NMSS activity in Region V)
Inspection of 2 uranium fuel fabrication facilities:
Siemens Nuclear Power Corporation, Richland, Washington General Atomics, San Diego, California Reactor decommissioning i
Inspection of the SNM license at Hanford Inspection of Part 61 LLW activities at reactors and i
materials licensees The following comments are limited to the impact on direct NMSS programmatic activities.
The primary impacts discussed below address materials licensing and inspection since this represents the majority of the NMSS workload in Region V; however, the " negative" comments regarding travel time, emergency response time, and interaction with State and local governments also appl L. t -1 facility inspection, LLW inspection, and reacte Ja co==-
.'oning activities.
Resource impacts due to i' s sw.i as overhead and rent are being addressed separately oy one study group.
Positigg:
Combining the relatively small number of NRC materials licenses resident in Region V (245 as of 3/31/93) with those in Region IV (731) would result in a total of 976 licensees and resultant economies of scale. The new Region would contain about 80 more materials licenses than Region II, although as noted below, tne geographic extent of the new Region would be significantly greater than any existing Region.
i Neoative:
The negative impacts will primarily be in terms of greater distances to our current Region V licensees.
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comprise about 50% of the licensees in Region V) would be j
incrementally increased. However, because the travel times-to these licensees is already significant, the impact would i
not be as great as it would for licensees in California, particularly, which account for 25% of the licensees in the
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Region. The net effect of this is that labor rates for inspections to licensees located in Region V, which are already higher than those for any other Region, would likely i
increase.
.l Distance would also be a real impact for licensees who have to travel to the Regional office for management meetings or enforcement conferences. Again, the greatest impact would be for California licensees who at present are relatively close to the Regional office.
i There could also be real and perceived impacts in terms of our ability to interact with State and local governments and i
the media in routine and emergency response situations, i
although these are difficult to quantify.
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