ML20151P086
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| Issue date: | 06/22/1988 |
| From: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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June 22, 1988
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CH AIRMAN The Honorable Morris K. Udall, Chairman Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment Comittee on Interior and Insular Affairs United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
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Dear Mr. Chainnan:
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requesting approval to reprogram funds in FY 1988 as shown in the enclosed table and associated explanation.
The enclosure also serves as the NRC's FY 1988 Base Table report through April 30,1980. Your early consideration of the proposed reprograming actions is appreciated.
Sincerely, n
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g, Lando W. Zech,
Enclosure:
As stated cc: Rep. Manuel Lujan, Jr.
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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FY 1988 BASE TABLE AND REPR0 CRAMMING REQUEST (Dollars in Thousands)
TABLE 1 Non-Reprogramming Adjustments FY 1988 Re-distribution of FY 1988 President's Re-structure of Administrative Support President's Program Budget
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-47 Nuclear Reactor k.gulation (NRR)
$154,460
$-154,460 Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards ( v.3) 46,955
-46,955 Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) 132,396
-132,396 Program Technical Support (PTS) 52,084
-52,C84 Program Direction and Administration (PDA) 41,905
-41,905 Reactor Safety and Safeguards Regulation (RSSR) 154,460
$-2,822
$151,638 Neclear Safet" Research (NSR) 132,396 503 132,899 Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Regu'lation (NMSSR) 25,370
-170 25,200
%uclear Wste Regulation (NWR) 21,585
-206 21,379 Special and Independent Reviews, Investigations, and Enforcement (SIRIE) 41,524
-5,421 36,103 Nuc? ear safety Management and, Support (NSMS) 52,465 8,116 60,581 TOTAL
$427,800 1427,800 $427,800
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ILSe NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FY 1988 BASE TABLE AND REPROGRAMMING REQUEST (Dollars in Thous 6nds)
TABLE 1 1/ NRC Budget dddendum Submitted to Congress in May 1987.
$I The NRC has re-structured its program titles to more descriptively reflect the work being carried out.
Resources and activities for: (a) NRR programs are new called RSSR; (b) NMSS programs for nuclear materials
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safety, transportation and safeguards are now called NMSSR; (c) NMSS programs for high-level and low-level waste are now called NER; (d) RES programs are now caliec NSR; (e) PTS programs for Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Parx1, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Pacel, Office of Investigations, Of fice of Enforcement, and Office of Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data are now included in SIRIE; (f) PTS programs for Office of General Counsel and Office of Governmental and Public Affairs are now included in NSHS; (g) PDA program far Office of Inspector and Auditor is now included in SIRIE; and (h) PDA programs for Office of the Commission, Office of the Secretary, Office of the Executive Director for Operations, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization and Civil Rights, Office of Administration end Resources Management, Office of Personnel, and Office of Consolidation are now included in f;SMS.
$/ The distribution of administrative support and travel has been modified to be consistent with the NRC's revised allocatior procedures.
3/ HRC @udget Addenauen submittad to Congress in May 1987 as modified to reflect NRC's current programs. All modificat;ons were 'ccmparability ad,iustments.
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U.Se E1UCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FY 1988 BASE TABLE AND REPROGRAMMIRG REQL'ES1 (Dollars in Thousands)
TABLE 2 Distribution FY 1988 of Non-Reprogramming Adjustments El Program Budget
-yj Appropriation / C mparability FY1987 Contract Program 4/30/8P President's Reductior. -
Adjustrents Coren_i tments Changes 2/ Estimate 2
Reactor Safety and Stfeguards Regulation
$151,636
$-9,016
$-10
$1,172
$4,510
$148,294 Nuclear Safety Resear,ch 132,8n9
-18,382
-99 609
-3,150 111,877 Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Regulation 25,200
-1,271
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192 347 24,256 Nuclear Waste Regulation 21,3}9
-2,383
-53 1,861 158 20,962 Special and Independent Reviews, Investigations, and Enforcement 36,103
-2,806 54 275 618 34,244 Nuclear Safety Management and Support 60,b81
-1,142 320 497 1,867 62,123
$427,800
$~35,0C0 $4,606
$4,35(!
$401,7562/
Al NRC Budget Addendum submitted to Congress in May '987 as modified to reflect NRC's current programs (see Table 1).
All modifications were compeability adjustments.
SI These changes are discussed on the following pages.
$/ This is the total of the NRC's FY 1983 appropriation of $392,800,000; the utilization of $8,145,000 of the
$8,218,000 in unobligated funds at the end of FY 1987 and carried over into FY 1988; and the utilization of
$811,000 in de6bligations from prior-year contracts.
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DISTRIBUTIOW OF APPROPRIATI0F REOUCTION The NRC's FY 1988 apcropriation of $392,800,000 is $35,000,000 less than the President's Budget request. The reduction has been allocated as shown below:
Reactor Safety and Safeguards Regulation
$-9,016K Significantly reduce contractual support for conducting safety eval-i uations. Based on projected workloads, this will rtsult in an increase i
of about 20% in the operating reactor license amendment inventory by the end of FY 1968.
Postpone until FY 1989 NA.C's initiative to conduct more reactor operator L
examinations, enough to be assured that ooerators will be retested at Not once during the six year term of their license.
Three or fcur Safety System Outage Modifications Inspections and Safety System Functional Inspections will be deferred until FY 1989.
Reduce comprehensiveness of our FY 1988 control room design reviews and safety parameter display system reviews by about 25%.
The completion of generic studie:; and analyses intended to improve the reactor licensing process will be delayed to FY 1989. This incluaes the developnent of guidelines for pipe wall thinning analysis and development of a computer based system to track radiologicci events.
Reduce environmental measurements and support for probabilistic risk assessment enhancements to the reactor inspection program.
Reduce the level of effort associated with the review of standard plant design submittais. This may delay completion of standard plant design reviews.
The reactor safeguards vital-area analysis for 2 plants will be deferred until FY 1989.
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$-18,382K Essentially all reactor containment structural testing, except for completing post-test evaluation of the 1/6 scale reinforced concrete containment, will be postponed until FY 1989. Also, postpone until FY 1989 testing of prestressed concrete containment, seismic testing of steel containment models, and separate effects tests of inflatable seals and bellows. As a result, understanding of the failure modes of various containment types under severe accident challenges will be lessered.
Postpone until FY 1989 a portion of the analytical work on the effects of natural circulation on reactor core melt progression and containment failure by direct heating. This will delay resolution of large uncer-tainties in the likelihood of containment failure caused by direct heating, as shown in draft NUREG-1150.
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8 Defer until FY 1989 work on severe accident equipment qualification and technical analyses and eliminate further work on protective action decisionmaking. This will delay by at least one year implementation of new source term results into NRC regulations.
Postpone until FY 1989 work on the high temperature chemical thermo-dynamic database and on improved modeling of iodine behavior in containment.
Defer until FY 1989 the analyses of the uncertainty inherent in the Source Term Code Package and other source term mechanistic codes. Also, defer a study of the effects of fission product revaporization on the source term. This will delay resolving the high level of uncertainty that exists with respect to source terms involving late containment failure.
Defer until FY 1989 the evaluation of potential accident management strategies from an overall risk perspective.
Defer until FY 1989 closure of the program to identify, quantify, and assess the impact of dependent failures upon system failures and accident sequences.
Delay until FY 1989 a trial application of a reliability program for normal operating systems and reduce the number of plant-types used to assess the relative importance of generic safety issues.
Delay at least one year the development of an overall probabilistic risk assessment data base structure.
Delay until FY 1989 the development of the dependent failure analysis capabilities in the Integrated Reliability and Risk Analyses System.
Reduce the number of technical specifications scheduled to be examined for their probabilistic risk importance.
Defer until FY 1989 analysis of MB-2 steam generator thermal-hydraulic data used to test and improve modeling in thermal-hydraulic computer codes. Terminate plans to establish analysis centers at universities that were intended to provide cost-effective safety analyses for NRC regulatory use.
Curtail NRC's ability to address fundamental seismotectonic issues, such as characterization of seismic zones and assessment of seismic hazards.
NRC will have only limited ability to characterize the safety signifi-cance of new seismic events or new discoveries at operating nuclear plants.
Significantly reuuce the testing phase of the Category I structures program. This will delay data needed to determine if, during an earthquake, a safety issue exists regarding the behavior of equipment 1
mounted in the structure. Postpone until FY 1989 the evaluation of the i
effect on seismic safety of new piping design concepts.
Cancel the program to determine the safety significance of high frequency earthquakes such as occurred in the vicinity of the Perry plant.
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i Defer until FY 1989 analyses of transients for the General Electric and the Babcock and Wilcox simulators at the NRC's Technical Training Center (TTC).
Therefore, the TTC will only be aH e to describe an appropriate variety of accident scenarios for the ComLJstion Engineering and Westinghouse simulators.
Eliminate critiques of foreign assessment reports and thereby, eliminate any formal "lessons-learned" capability in the International Code Assess-ment and Applications Program (ICAP), reducing optimum benefit of ICAP.
Reduce by 50% the training workshops committed to in the ICAP agreements.
Also delay until FY 1989, implementation of completed Nuclear Plant Data Bank software in the Nuclear Plant Analyzer (NPA). Delay until FY 19G9 implementation of General Electric and Combustion Engineering plant transient NPA packages at the NRC's Technical Training Center.
Postpone until FY 1989 improvements to TRAC-PWR, TRAC-BWR, and RELAP5 codes. This will detract from NRC's ability to perform independent safety assessments and will make the NRC more dependent on industry analyses of safety issues.
Postpone until FY 1989 work on the risk based decision making project that was designed to provide the development and demonstration of the PRISIM computer model for use by NRC staff to evaluate the risk importance of changes to plant design and operation. A number of PRISIM plant models were developed and installed for trial use during FY 1987.
Evaluation of these trial applications, the utility of the models in their present form, and recommendations for future work in this area will be delayed.
Terminate domestic assessment of TRAC-BWR and rely on limited inter-national assessment.
Reduce the number of data sets to be installed in the experimental data bank. Tenninate maintenance of RAMONA-3B (3-D BWR kinetics) and put the code "on the shelf" until a need arises.
Reduce by 50% instrumentation support for next Upper Plenum Test Facility (UPTF) outage in FY 1988 and supply only the highest priority instru-mentation.
Terminate experimental work on post-critical heat flux flow and boron mixing work. Rely on the limited, existing database in both areas to develop models.
Provide funding only for final reports and consultation services and seek industry support for further testing of boron mixing.
Postpone until FY 1989 synthesis reports on natural circulation to support regulatory activities.
These synthesis reports are designed to help close out thermal-hydraulic technical issues by collecting results and conclusions of completed resesrch.
Delay until FY 1989 completion of the final scaling studies report on an improved integral experimental facility.
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1 Defer to FY 1989 all Phase 2 experimental studies on component aging I
(i.e., tests of naturally aged components, tests of samples with simulated degradation, and verification of improved inspection, surveil-lance and monitoring methods).
This will delay NRC's ability to confirm the safety of nuclear plants as they age and to review the technical bases for relicensing plants at the end of their present 40-year life.
In FY 1988, funds will only be available for sample acquisition from the Shippingport Reactor. Analysis of the sample properties that must be done to confirm dose rate effect in embrittlement will be postponed until i
FY 1989.
Reductions will also be taken to a variety of chemical effects studies, especially the degradation associated with chemical cleaning.
Postpone until FY 1989 analytical and supporting ene imental work on elastic plastic fracture mechanics for vessels.
Thu will delay under-standing of minimum safe levels for low upper shelf materials. Delay the start of fatigue crack initiation work on vessel steels to confirm or correct the ASME curves for crack initiation, which are not based on real coolant or operating temperature environments. This will delay NRC's ability to confirm the safety of nuclear plants as they age and to rw iew the technical bases for relicensing plants at the end of their present 40-year life.
Delay until FY 1989 the start of new water chemistry related work.
This will delay NRC's ability to assess the extent of unforeseen erosion /
corrosion in operating plants.
Delay until FY 1989 the start of evaluating methods for nondestructive determination of mechanical properties and material state required to make decisions on the safety of a plant facing license renewal.
Delay for one year work related to decontamination and monitoring of EPICOR-II wastes.
This work is required to assure a stable decontami-nation waste form.
Defer initiation of improvements to contaminant transport models needed to make realistic projections of the effective-i ness of low level waste disposal.
As a consequence, a major uncertainty in performance assessment will remain and will likely be reflected in a more protracted licensing process.
Defer to FY 1989 initiation of high-level waste research for a hydro-thermal field analogue study.
Reduce contractor support for the review of tnree DOE advanced reactor concepts in FY 1988.
This may delay issuance of the staff's safety evaluation reports on each concept.
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Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Regulation
$-1,271K Postpone until FY 1989 the initiation of a prograa to test safety features of sealed source and device designs.
Testing was intended to ensure devices are built as designed and to calculate exposure if safety features fail. Also, delay until FY 1989 the procurement of specialized technical training courses for NRC nuclear materiais license reviewers and inspectors.
Reduce by 30% NRC training courses for evaluating the effectiveness of implementation of various types of physical security equipment currently used by licersees.
This includes a reduction in existing course offerings and a delay in initiating new courses.
Eliminate all FY 1988 contractual support to strengthen International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards.
Nuclear Waste Regulation
$-2,383K Delay the build-up of the Federally Furided Research and Development Center (FFRDC) technical program by approximately six months, requiring the NRC to continue dependence on other technical assistance contractors until g proximately mid-FY 1989.
Reduce support for the evaluation of DOE high level waste package test data by approximately 30%. Efforts to identify and resolve deficiencies in the waste package compliance and testing program will be stretched out ct least one year, deferring development of NRC tecnnical positions or waste form and packaging requiring this input. Review of natural resource aspects of DOE documentation as part of NRC technical positions will be reduced.
In accordance with the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987, elimi-nate all site-specific work related to draft Site Characterization Plans (SCPs) except that work related to the SCP for the Nevada site.
Reduce from three to two the number of existing low-level waste (LLW) disposal sites where pertinent geoscience information will be collected ano analyzed. Modeling of these sites is prerequisite to the development of a performance assessment capability for licensing new sites. Also reduce support for responding to requests for guidance for waste below regulatory concern, onsite disposal, and treatment of mixed waste.
Special and Independent Reviews, Investigations, and Enforcement
$-2,806K Implementation of the Emergency Response Data System a+. licensee facil-ities will be postponed until FY 1989.
The number of sites scheduled for the Aerial Measurement Program in FY 1988 will be reduced from 9 to 5.
This reduces NRC support for the DOE program to the minimum acceptable level to maintain emergency support services from 00E.
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i Postpone until FY 1989 a new program for trends and patterns analysis of post-transient data.
Defers program to perform events analysis from a systems perspective until subsequent years.
Eliminates FY 1988 assessment of Licensee N at Report quality used as an input to the Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance.
Postpone until FY 1989 the work on the Integrated Risk Assessment Data Acquisition Program.
Portpone until FY 1989 improvements to the Sequence Coding and Search Syste..,(SCSS) to provide the NRC staff with more ready access to reactor event octa. Ongoing SCSS review results will not be implemented until FY 1989.
Delays the conduct of 4 regional emergency preparedness drills using a Nuclear Plant Analy2r e until subsequent years.
Nuclear Safety Management ano Support
$-1,142K Reduces funds availible for ADP timesharing. This will ;rasticall reduce the effectiveness of Safe 1.y Issue Managenient Systems (SIMS)y and Safety Information Network (SINET) just as the reactor safety data become availatie.
No additional development on SINET will be performed in FY 1988.
Reductions to SINET development wil' result in a slip of one year for the inclusion of additional reactor safety data.
Reductions will be made to Scientific Code Conversions and the Radiation Shielding Information Center (RSIC) at Oak R1 age. The RSIC compiles, analyzes, and distributes information on the producticn and use of radiation, and the transport and disposal of radioactivc materials.
The Center maintains a library of over 750 computer codes in this technical area for the DOE, NRC, and Defense Nuclear Agency.
Reductions in funds for the maintenance of aging reproduction machines will not allow for expedited or emergency maintenance, causing delays in office productivity and in the ability to meet tight deadlines.
There will be no funds for the purchase of new machines and no provision for any increase in Federal Register or GP0 printing charges, if they occur.
Reduce funds for supplemental heat, ventilation, and air conditioning in NRC buildings.
This will limit flexibility to respond to unanticipated requirements for building services during weekends and at night.
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NON-REPROGRAMMING ADJUSTMENTS Comparability Adjustments Subsequent to the submission of the FY 1988 Budget to Congress in May 1987, the NRC made minor adjustments to realign some contract dollars and some staff among program areas. The contract dollars are for site access training for NRC staff, follow-up study of Nuclear Fuel Services Inc., and the collection and evaluation of recruitment and manpower planning data. The realignment of four FTE's from NMSSR and NWR to NSMS were part of dRC's centralization of certain headquarters administrative functions.
FY 1987 Contract Commitments The following FY 1987 funds were certified available for specific contracts to be issued during FY 1987 but were not awardeo until after October 1,1987 (i.e., FY 1988).
These funds are part of the NRC's FY 1987 unobligated funds carried forward into FY 1988 and have been reallocated for obligation against the same contracts for which they had been committed in FY 1987.
Amount Program Contract Description (Dollars in Thousands)
RSSR Allocated portion of administrative support contracts listed below.
$1,137 Technical assistance for evaluation of events, construction deficiencies and allegations.
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$1,172 NSR Allocated portion of administrative support contracts listed below.
$ 159 Comprehensive aging assessment of circuit breaker / relays used in nuclear power plants.
150 Integrated waste package experiments.
$ 300 Subtotal NSR
$ 609 NMSSR Allocated portion of administrative support contracts listed below.
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NWR Allocated portion of administrative support contracts listed below.
95 Identification file of all low-level waste generators that disposed of wastes at Barnwell, S.C. facility during FY 1986.
10 Operation of the Center for Nuclear W6ste Regulatory Analysis.
$1,756 Subtotal NWR
$1,861 SIRIE Allocated portion of administrative support contracts listed below.
$ 192 Electrical instrumentation technology and codes training course.
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Subtotal SIRIE
$ 275 NSMS Allocated portion of administrative support contracts listed below.
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Total FY 1987 Contract Commitments
$4,606 Details of Administrative Suppurt Contracts Allocated Back to Programs The following administrative support contract comitments have been allocatea back to the NRC programs consistent with the NRC's revised allocation procedures.
Amount (Dollars in Thcusands)
Contract for Furniture and Equipment for White Flint
$ 95 Electronic publishing systems
$300 Assess NRC Policy & Procedures for work performed by DOE labs
$100 IBM system programming
$ 95 Traditional licensing support systems procedures project
$ 80 Application of optical disk technology 1237 The Automated Contracting Systems
$ 80 Region 1 move
$475 Region III telecommunications equipment
$350 CRC telecomunications network analysis
$ 80 Various requisitions and purchase orders $75,000 and under
$380 Total Administrative Support
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PROGRAM CHANGES The proposed reprogramming of funds, as shown in Table 2 and detailed below, results from the need to provide for unfunded requirements which were identified following the submission of NRC's FY 1988 budget to Congress.
These requirements will be satisfied using $3,539,000 of unobligated funds carried over from FY 1987,$811,000 in deobligations of prior-year contracts,
$185,000 from administrative support, and $3,765,000 from program support.
The salaries and benefits, administrative support and the travel funding adjustments have been allocated to NRC programs consistent with the NRC's revised allocation procedures.
(DollarsinThousands)
Salaries Admin-and istrative Program Net Benefits Support
, Travel Support Change Reactor Safety and Safeguards Regulation
$3,277
$551
$462
$220
$4,510
-3,355
-3,150 Nuclear Safety Research 288
-83 Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Regulation 694 127 136
-610 347 Nuclear Waste Regulation 404
-362 61 55 156 Special and Independent Reviews, Investigations, and Enforcement 785
-134 167
-200 618 Nuclear Safety Management and Support 1,852
-284 174 125 1,867 TOTAL
$7,300
$-185
$1,000
$-3,765
$4,350 Salaries and Benefits The increase of $7,300,000 to salaries and benefits is necessary to fund the 2 percent pay raise for Federal employees contained in P.L. 100-202 (effective January 1988) and the additional agency contributions required under the Federal Employees Retirement System.
Administrative Support These changes represent net, minor reductions to administrative support and adjustments to administrative support based upon minor changes to FTE allo-cations. The FTE changes primarily reflect reductions to NRC's high-level waste program brought about by the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendment Act of 1987 cnd increased staff to oversee nuclear materials safety and reactor safety.
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Travel Projected travel costs are exceeding prior estimates because of the increase in Federal Government per ditm rates authorized by GSA (effective in March 1987) and the additional staff travel being conducted to increase NRC presence and oversight of the safety activities being carried out by licensees at their facilities.
Program Support The majority of the program support reductions were taken in Nuclear Safety Research for programs primarily associated with high and low-level nuclear waste research and risk reliability research. An increase in program support funds in Reactor Safety ano Safeguards Regulation is needed to provide addi-tional support for NRC's review of TVA plants and Comanche Peak plants.
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