ML20134B967
| ML20134B967 | |
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| Issue date: | 11/07/1984 |
| From: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
| To: | Ottinger R HOUSE OF REP., ENERGY & COMMERCE |
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| FOIA-85-334 CCS, NUDOCS 8508160157 | |
| Download: ML20134B967 (4) | |
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The Honorable Richard L. Ottinger, Chairman Subcomittee on Energy Conservation and Power Comittee on Energy and Comerce United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Chaiman:
For your information, enclosec is a copy of the NRC's FY 1985 Initial Base Table.
Sincerely, Carlton Kamerer, Director Office of Congressional Affairs
Enclosure:
As stated cc:
Rep. Carlos Moorheat IDENTICAL LETTER SENT TO:
Sen. Simpson/cc:
Sen. Hart.
Rep. Udall/cc:
Rep. Lujan Sen. Hatfield/cc:
Sen. Johnston Rep. Bevill/cc:
Rep. Myers
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J'.S. Nuclear Regulatg ;. Commission
,Y ISE: 2 nitia i :.ase Tab,ie r
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President's Congressional Initial Budaet Adjustments 1/
Reduction /
Base 2
Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR)
S 90,950
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-5 700 5 91,251 Znspection and Enforcement (IE) 92,190
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B44 1,000 92,034 Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards-(NMSS) 43,520 884 1,000 41,636 Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) 168,415 655
- 17,300 150,460 Program Technical Support (PTS) 30,545
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86 30,631 Program Direction anc Administration (PDA) 42,580 392 42,188 Total 5468,200
-520,000 5448,200 See attached page(s) for footnotes.
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C.S. Nuclear P.egulatory Comisstor FY 1985 Initial Base Table (Dollars in Thousancs)
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1/ ncludes comparability transfer of $750,000 from the Office of the Secretary I
(SECY/PDA) to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP/ PTS) for the Transcription Services Contract.
ASLBP is using this contract in support of the ASLBP hearing process.
In previous years, SECY funded this entire con-tract.
Now SECY is only funding for effort in the Washington, D.C., area; and ASLBP is funding for effort outside the Washington, D.C., area.
Also includes adjustments for salaries and administrative support. At the time the budget is formulated, salaries and benefits are allocated to each program based on the most current actual average salary rates for the staff within the program.
Portions of aoministrative support costs are assigned directly to the applicable program (i.e., ADT costs directly related to a specific program) with the remainder allocated to programs based on a rate per staff year. The following year, when the next year's budget is formulated, actual salary rates have changed and the estimates for the direct allocation of acministrative support costs are more refined. Therefore, to make the
" current year" column of the budget on a comparable basis with the " budget year," the rate change adjustments are made.
In addition, minor staff changes which have taken place in the past year require a reallocation of salaries and benefits, administrative. support, and travel. The FTE reallocations are related to increased support of reactor operator licensing activities, increased reactor inspection efforts, increases to improve implementation of quality assurance recomendations, reduced uranium mill renewals and amend-ments, reduced research effort consistent with the research funding reductions, and no increase in the number of investigators.
UNRC allocation of the $20,000,000 reduction to our appropriation for FY 1985. Most of the reduction.was applied to the research program (RES).
As we stated in our letter to Senator McClure on August 31, 1984:
"We carefully reviewed how best to distribute this reduction as equitably as possible among Nuclear Reactor Regulation Inspection and Enforcement, Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards, and Nuclear Regulatory Research. There were no easy options. About fifty percent of NRC's budget is non-discretionary -- Salaries /
Benefits and Administrative Support are directly tied to the size of our staff and their corresponding logistical support -- and must be l
paid,.the only remaining area from which the $20 mil. lion reduction l
could be taken was the $237.5 million in Program -Support funds. Of this $237.5 million, $151 million represented research support work and the remaining $86 million was for the support of the day-to-day licensing and regulatory oversight of operating plants, safeguards, transportation safety, and review and appraisal of new plants. We felt we could not cut deeply into the $86 million operating support without seriously threatening our immediate safety oversight respon-sibilities.
Since NRC must give priority, through its inspection and licensing prografhs, to assuring the continued safety of operat-ing facilities and industrial and medical b:e of radioactive O
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- f Nuclear Regulatory Researct absorbe; i larger recucilor. *har a Oro rata share. We were terribly trouciet by *ne neet ;c appiy sucr a disproportionate share of -his 520 million cut to the research program but given the circumstances we fel* we had no other op* ions."
The principal impacts of this reduction to the research program are:
reduction of some of the materials aging studies; termination of certain plant instrumenta-tion and control programs; cancel planned thermal-hydraulic research on steam generators; reduce the analytical coce effort to a maintenance level; signifi-cant reduction in hydrogen research; defer certain high-level waste research; and perform no research to provide technical guidance to states related to low-level waste facilities. Sufficient funds have been provided to complete the Phase I fuel damage test program at the PBF facility.
The remainder of the Congressional reduction was allocated to lower priority activities related to licensing amendments (NRR), inspection support (IE), and transportation safety and wastc management (NMSS).
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