ML20126E180
| ML20126E180 | |
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| Issue date: | 09/17/1984 |
| From: | Beckwith C NRC OFFICE OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (ORM) |
| To: | Dircks W, Rehm T, Solander L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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C. A. Beckwith Office of Resource Management
SUBJECT:
MINUTES - 34th DOE-NRC COORDINATION MEETING A copy of the minutes of the meeting held on September 5,1984 are attached for your information.
No date was discussed for the next meeting.
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j Addressees - Memorandum dated September 17, 1984 W. Dircks, EDO T. Rehm A0ED0 L..Solander, NRR M. Kaltman, NRR W. Batson, RES J. Tomlin, RES A. Muir, IE H. Ragan, ELD L. Cooper, ADM J. Holloway, ADM/LFMB W. Besaw, ADM/TIDC J. Dunleavy, ADM/DS C. Jupiter OPE M.-Landau, SP H. Faulkner, IP D. Loosley, NMSS P. Baker, NMSS D. Mattson, NMSS C. Helteros, AE00 A. Newsor, JCRS V. Deloatch, SDBU/CR J. - ShielG, RM/D N. Nomace, RM/B L. Barrys RM P. Norry, ADM J. Davis, NMSS H. Denton, NRR R. Minogue, RES R. DeYoung IE W. Kerr, SP J. Shea, IP J. Zerbe, OPE G. Cunningham, ELD R. Barber, DOE, PE 221
MINUTES 34th DOE-NRC COORDINATION MEETING September 5, 1984 Agency Lead Item 45 - High Level Nuclear Waste Disposal Act DOE-Stein of 1982 NRC-Kearney This act establishes requirements for the disposal of high level commercial nuclear waste.
Status:
A DOE Office has been set up which reports to the Secretary of Energy.
DOE-NRC working groups are functioning with good coordination. An interagency cooperative agreement was signed on June 27, 1983 which laid out guiding principles for NRC-DOE interface during the site investigation and characterization phase.
NRC has located three representatives at DOE locations:
the first at Richland, the second at the Nevada operating site, and the thi.rd at Battelle Columbus.
This is in conjunction with the DOE site offices.
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in the repository siting guidelines.
Site-specific agreements are being written.
No coordination problems are known at present.
Action:
Continue to coordinate activities.
Item 51 - License Fee Recovery DOE-Ross NRC-Beckwith The rule requiring NRC to collect full costs in the fee recovery process has been passed and is being implemented.
NRC will require identification of all licensing action costs on future projects on a plant-by-plant, action-by-action basis. The laboratories have been able to implement this requirement.
Status:
A standardized procedure to report this data in the monthly letter status reports has been agreed upon by DOE and was incorporated into Manual Chapter 1102.
The new rule, 10 CFR 170 became effective June 20, 1984.
NRC offices require cost data for license fee recovery from October 1, 1983 to the present.
NRR, IE, NMSS, and the Regional Offices are all involved.
NRR noted that some monthly letter status reports by ORNL are late, and some billings from SAN have also been delayed.
DOE agreed to examine the cause and expedite these items.
Action:
The laboratories are to provide the early FY 84 data, as available. All current reports are to be per MC 1102 instructions.
.. Itsn 53 - Changes to 10 CFR Part 20 DOE-Deal (Vallario)
NRC-Tomlin NRC has proposed changes to 10 CFR Part 20.
DOE stated that these (Mills) changes will severely impact DOE programs.
EPA is soliciting
. guidance to set worker exposure standards.
NRC has recomended a 50 year dose comitment extrapolated from the current exposure rate, but made an exception for long-lived radionuclides such as Plutonium and Uranium.
DOE has recommended against using the dose comitment approach for the reasons stated at the ACRS-NRC-D0E Comittee hearings of November, 1982.
Eight or nine other issues have been discussed with DOE.
Most have been resolved.
Status:
DOE presented its views to the ACRS on September 22, 1983.
The final NRC position has yet to be published for public comment.
Action:
DOE will be advised on the final rule in time to provide formal coments.
Item 55 - Cooperative Agreements DOE-Witmer (Ross)
NRC and DOE develop a joint procedure for the release of NRC-Savolainen information on cooperative programs.
(Shomaker)
Status:
The procedure was sent to th DOE field offices for implementation. RES reviewed their projects and reverified the listing provided DOE.
Action:
Item to be Closed.
Item 56 - NRC Use of CPCI DOE-Wagner NRC-Cooper (Dunleavy)
On May 5,1983, NRC requested DOE to allow the NRC Division of Security to process clearances via the DOE (CPCI) system.
DOE agreed. An interagency agreement was written and signed on March 2, 1984 to implement the process.
Status: Necessary equipment has been purchased for this program.
No problems have surfaced to date. Work is progressing satisfactorily via NRC Form 173.
Action:
Item to be Closed.
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Item 57 Changes to 10 CFR 140 DOE-Vallario NRC-Saltzman Changes to the criteria for classification of extraordinary (Peterson) nuclear occurrences is being proposed by NRC. This. issue.
effects Price-Anderson issues in which DOE has a vital interest.
DOE has expressed their concerns in writing and believe that this action may necessitate changes to the DOE rules as well.
Status: The pros and cons of both agencies positions were discussed at a prior meeting. An NRC paper to the Commission was supplemented by a second paper noting the DOE concerns and making modifications to the proposed rule. Joint meetings have been held, and NRC has agreed to change 2 of 3 areas of concern.
This item is still under consideration by the Commission.
Action: A Connission decision is needed, after which DOE may choose to address the issues during the public consent wriod.
Item 58 - NRC Manual Chapter 1102 DOE - Witmer NRC - Beckwith Various changes in procedure for tasking of the laboratories have been agreed upon durir:g the past year.
NRC MC 1102 is to be amended accordingly.
This includes cost reporting, changes in equipment reporting, licensee fee recoupment information, cooperative program reporting, etc.
Status: A joint working group revised the Manual Chapter during late 1983 and early 1984. A revised chapter was issued on May 31, 1984.
Action:
Item to be Closed.
New Items:
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NRC Fuel Coordination (Item #59 Assigned):
DOE - Witmer NRC - Van Houten Passage of the Waste Disposal Act, the initiation of efforts to create WIPP, and the assumption by DOE of responsibility for the long-tem storage of high level commercial waste items has opened an area for DOE-NRC discussion.
" DOE-owned, NRC-sponsored" fuel elements
.used in the research projects of NRC must eventually be disposed of.
The disposition, expense, and control of these itend needs a satisfactory resolution.
Status:
NRC noted they are presently inventorying the various fuel rods used in RES programs.
DOE agreed to provide a basis to include these items with other DOE inventory and eventually rid NRC of this waste.
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NRC complete inventory. (2) Both agencies meet,
to discuss eventual disposition in a timely, cost effective manner, b.
Research'in-Progress Data Base (Item #60 Assigned):
DOE - Witmer NRC - Beckwith (Besaw)
DOE is presently compiling an appendium of all research work in progress at the national laboratories.
Oak Ridge Technical Information Center (TIC) requested NRC projects be included in their inventory.
NRC agreed, but only so long as the major effort is performed by DOE.
Status: A report providing a DOE-authored summary of NRC research projects tasked to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was provided NRC on August 13, 1984.
It has been disseminated to the various NRC program offices for review.
Action:
(1) NRC complete their review and notify DOE for inclusion in the report.
(2) DOE provide similar sumaries for the rest of thelaboratories(whenavailable).
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Nuclear Safety Journal (Item #61 Assigned):
DOE - Campbell NRC - Jupiter This publication has been jointly funded by DOE and NRC in the past.
The expense is expected to increase in FY 85 by an additional $150K.
Neither DOE nor NRC indicated they will be able to support the increased cost.
Status:
NRC recently agreed to fund in FY 85 at $60K, which is a slightly smaller amount than in FY 84.
RES stated that NRC will not support the publication in FY 86 due to budget coliiTraints and higher priority work.
Action:
Discuss again at the next meeting, d.
Quarterly Lab Cost Forcasts (Item #62 Assigned):
DOE - Ross NRC - Monoco NRC noted that the required 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quarter l
costs projections by the laboratories is needed, but the format has not been standardized.
Consequently, much extraneous information is being reported.
NRC noted they prefer the BNL format.
DOE agreed to recomend the use of this format to the other laboratories.
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. :. DOE-NRC CONTINUING ACTIVITIES 1.
Foreign Nationals (Item 2)
Update listing of current and projected assignments evory 6 months.
2.
DOE Institutional Planning (Item 4)
Complete on an annual, recurring basis.
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DOE Nuclear Safety Evaluations (Item 6)
Anr.ual list of DOE requests for NRC safety reviews is to be updated each year.
4.
NRC and DOE Program Updates - Current and Budget Year (Item 7)
P Revised NRC program lists, by FIN, are being regularly provided to DOE
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on a quarterly basis.
Both agencies are providing the other with all budget information and submittals as produced.
5.
NRC Evaluation of Laboratories (Item 18)
Annual laboratory evaluations are provided DOE upon request. A standard format has been agreed upon, as developed by RL and NRC to evaluate PNL.
6.
Safeguards Area (Item 31)
' Joint meetings of a users group are being held periodically to continue coordination.
7.
GPP, GPF, and Special Purpose Facilities (Item 38)
This area is reexamined on an annual basis.
8.
NRC Rulemaking (Item 41)
NRC is to advise DOE of proposed rule changes as early as possible before Federal Register publication.
9.
Nuclear Safety, Research, Development, and Demonstration Act (Item 42)
DOE to coordinate their re/isad program plan each year with NRC prior to t submittal to. Congress.
- 10. End-of-Year Funding Changes (Item 43)
Close monitoring of year-end funding changes must be accomplished by both agencies on an annual basis.
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DOE - NRC COORDINATION MEETING September 5, 1984 ATTENDEES DOE NRC R. Barber, PE
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Rehm, A0ED0 F. Witmer, PE C. Beckwith, RM M. Grunspan, NE W. Batson, RES T. Schleiter, NE C. Jupiter, OPE C. Head,'.0CRWM D. Loosley, NMSS L. Brinkerhoff, PE L. Cooper, ADM C. Campbell, PE L. Chase, SEC B. Smith,- DP N. Abrams, ELD C. Currin, OGC M. Kaltman, NRR V. Deloatch, SDBU/CR N. Monaco, RM/B
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