ML20141J205
| ML20141J205 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/14/1986 |
| From: | Roberts T NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Udall M HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
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April 14, 1986 CHAIRMAN 1
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The Honorable Morris K. Udall, Chairman Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs i
United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requestit.g approval to reprogram, j
adjusting the amounts sequestered by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (P.L.99-177).
The proposed reprogramming adjustments with explanation are enclosed. Your early consideration of the proposed reprogramming actions is appreciated.
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Thomas M. Roberts Acting Chairman
Enclosure:
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s ENCLOSURE U. S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SECOND FY 1986 REPROGRAMMING REQUEST (Dollars in Thousands) 1 P.L. 99-17 7 -
Revised Changes to NRC Base Sequestered Sequestered Planned Revised Program 12/31/85 Amounts Amounts Reductions Base Nuclear Reactor S 83,760 S-3,478
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478 S-3,000 S 80,760 Regulation (NRR)
Nuclear Material 40,970
- 1,705 35
- 1,740 39,230 Safety E Safeguards (NMSS) 1,565
- 2,510 95,730 Inspection and 98,240
- 4,075
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Enforcement (IE)
Nuclear Regulatory 134,710
- 5,665
- 3,299
- 8,964 125,746 Research (PES)
Program Technical 30,290
- 1,261
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521 740 29,550 Support (PTS)
Program Direction 43,342
- 1,790
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770
- 1,020 42,322 and Administration (PDA)
TOTAL
$431,312 3-17,974 S $-17,974
$413,338
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The NRC received instructions from OMB (reference OMB Bulletin No. 86-7) that specified that uniform reductions (4.3 percent) against NRC's appropriation must be taken below the account level to be in compliance with the President's order implementing provisions of the l
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control /.ct of 1985 (P.L.99-177). These uniform j
reductions are specified in the above column titled " Sequestered Amounts".
The uniform reductions required in implementing P.L.99-177 did not provide for appropriate management evaluation of agency priorities. As such, to minimize the impact on high priority efforts, the NRC has conducted a review of its FY 1986 programs and priorities. The.results of that review resulted in reductions to accommodate P.L.99-177 as shown in the column titled "NRC Planned Reductions". The specific impacts that will result from these reductions are detailed on the following pages.
The NRC is requesting reprogramming approval to change the jmounts sequestered under P.L.99-177. The column titled " Changes to Sequestered Amounts" represents the amount to be reprogrammed.
It is the net change from the amount sequestured to the amount of the planned reduction.
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. t Explanation of "NRC Planned Reductions" to implement P.L. 99-177:
The major program impacts resulting from these reductions are as follows:
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NRR Reduce program support for conducting unanticipated generic safety studies for reactor license applicants and for reviewing operating reactor licensing actions. About 120 fewer licensing i
actions will be completed. Eliminate contract support for developing criteria and reviewing advanced reactor concepts in FY 1986.
NMSS Eliminate the program support in developing the decommissioning policy for uranium mills thereby delaying NRC reviews of anticipated license amendment applications by about one year, j
Also, NRC's ability to identify and resolve potential long lead time high level waste j
repository licensing issues will be reduced.
IE, Reductions in program support will: delay by about six months the verification of licensee implementation of environmental qualification of equipment; reduce NRC's ability to monitor i
licensee's activities related to their vendor-suppliers; reduce NRC's Aerial Measurement i
Program by 23 percent; delay the procurement of replacement equipment for environmental sample analysis by about one year; reduce support to emergency preparedness exercises and annual j
inspections by 20 percent; and reduce support for incident response studies.
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Reductions in program support will result,in several activities being cancelled or delayed.
1 Activities being terminated are: (1) internaticnal workshops in the area of thermal hydraulic transients, resulting in delays in evaluating foreign test results; (2) work to evaluate survivability of electrical equipment during severe accidents, meaning that the NRC will not have an improved technical base for evaluating industry qualification plans; j
(3) work to evaluate non-linear effects of large earthquakes on plant structures, meaning i
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that the uncertainty in seismic margin estimates at operating plants will not be reduced; (4) separate effects fission product release experiments, with the result that the existing 1
uncertainties in implementif.g the Severe Accident Policy will remain; (5) guidance on the effectiveness of physical security systems; (6) the pilot progran for severe accident l
management in boiling water reactors, resulting in the suspension of efforts to assess the j
impact on acciden't management strategies; and (7) health effects and radiation protection 1
work..resulting in a significant stretch-out of the revision of 10 CFR Part 20 and a l
greater reliance on EPA in such areas as residual activity for decommissioning.
Activities being delayed or reduced include: (1) reduce Semiscale Test Facility 1
maintenance, resulting in no operational U. ?. Integral Test Facility for about a nine month period; (2) defer work on Two-Phase Flou Analyses and delay the Nuclear Plant Analyzer Program; (3) slow the study of the fatigue problem in steels, delaying NRC from I
obtaining a more quantified measure of aging and certainty in the basis for vessel requalification; and (4) delay until FY 1987 the resolution, documentation, and understanding of the extent of the MEER seismic fault in Oklahoma, i
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.. PTS Reduce program support for providing training assistance to the states and for conducting special studies of operational experience. This will result in canceling lower priority training courses and lower priority studies of operational experience. Also, some limited savings will be realized due to lower cost estimates for transcription service contracts.
PDA Reductions to program support will result in fewer cost studies being performed on proposed NRC regulations.
Salaries and Benefits The reduction to salaries and benefits will be accommodated by a reduction in staff years (FTE's) used in FY 1986. This reductica to salaries and benefits will not require a reduction-in-force or furiough of staff in FY 1986.
Administrative Support The reduction in housekeeping c osts will be accommodated by curtailing and/or delaying many activities such as; (1) reduce the number of copier machines cnd eliminate one copy center; (2) stretch out the security clearance process, (3) eliminate the purchase of most furniture; (4) reduce the services provided by the document control system; (5) reduce guard services, which will affect building access controls; (6) reduce training activities; (7) reduce ADP timesharing which will delay the development of the corporate data network; (8) postpone planned additional office space in the regional offices; and (9) eliminate the purchase of mechanized filing equipment.
In addition, some savings have resulted from more current estimates of the ccst of some purchases and activities.
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