ML20141M037

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Responds to 970502 Request for Info on NRC Small Business Innovation Research Program & Forwards Responses to Questions
ML20141M037
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Issue date: 05/23/1997
From: Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman
NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To: Sensenbrenner
HOUSE OF REP.
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May 23, 1997 The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.

Cha'rman, Committee on Science United States House of Representatives j

Washington, D.C.

20515-6301

Dear Mr. Chairman:

I am responding to your May 2, 1997, request for information on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Small Business -Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.

Please see the enclosed responses to your questions.

As you may be aware, the NRC is going through a phased withdrawal from i

the SBIR program because of budget reductions that have resulted in an extramural research and development budget well below the $100 million 3

threshold for participation in the SBIR program. On September 19, 1995, the NRC requested approval to withdraw from the SBIR program in a letter i

to Mr. Richard J. Shane, Assistant Administrator, Office of Technology, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). On April 16, 1996, SBA approved our plan for a phased withdrawal from the program. The NRC announced its plan for the phased withdrawal in the Federal Register, Volume 61, No. 116, on Friday, June 14, 1996. A copy of that notification is also enclosed.

j If any further information is needed in connection with this response, please let me know, or your staff may contact Marianne Riggs, Office of

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Nuclear Regulatory Research, on (301)'415-5822.

Sincerely, b

Shirley Ann Jackso

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