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Forwards Input to NRC Draft Comments Re Hearing on Export of SNM to India.Info Partially Withheld (Ref FOIA Exemptions 1 & 4)
ML20126K310
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Issue date: 01/10/1979
From: Sherr T
NRC
To: Oplinger G
NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP)
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FOIA-80-336 NUDOCS 8105120527
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Gerald G. Oplinger, Assistant Director Export / Import and International Safe::uares Office of Internaticnal Programs

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DRAFT i;RC STAFF C0!"'.ENTS PROPOSED FCR THE HE ARlt;G ON EXPORT OF SDECIAL tlUCLEAR RATERIAL (LICENSE NO. XSNM-1222) g'!.%

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-le apprec' ate the cp;crtunity to revien the draft com.ents precered by your stafT Tor use in the upccming heerin;: on the export of special

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nuclear material to India.

Revisions to carts of paces 4 and 5 are propose in our enclosed comm ents.

In order to expedite the transmittal of oJr ccanents, this memorandu i is being Torwarded to you without complete NMSS coordination.

Any gp, additional coments t.hich may be raised as a result of NMSS coordination 44 will be forwarded as soon as possible, w !rg mm T. S. Sherr, Chief Technology Assessment Branch

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eletion of the phrase "at TAP 5" is recc = ended since the exportec caterial would go to the fuel fabrication piant at Hyderabad as tiell as the reactor facility.

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Sir.iiar Ic cther forms of audit reporting, ine identifica-l ticr. cf system deficiercies does not necessarily rean that l

a law (5.:reement) has been violated or that the auditor is lj vr.able ::: form a reliable judgment as to the status of a

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With respect to 1977, the IAEA has confirmed, takir.g into accour.t all circu. stances including cualitative obser.a:icns, tr.at in all 40 5:ates u".cre safegu rds : gree-rcents. tire in. full impler.er. ation, all safeguarded nucitar raterial remcined in the declared peaceful nucitar activity cr.tas ctr.erwise adeouately accounted Tor.

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