ML20154P320

Informs That Office of State Programs Would Concur in Initial Response Drafted for Dircks Signature on 1821. Office of State Programs Believes That Separate Authority Would Be Beneficial in Long Run

ML20154P320
Person / Time
Issue date:	12/26/1979
From:	Bunting J NRC
To:	Martin J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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TASK-TF, TASK-URFO NUDOCS 9810220290
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! M MORANDUM FOR: John B. Martin, Director Division of Waste Management 1

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. C0!9IENTS ON S.1821: DISAGREEMENT ON ESTABLISHENT t < 0F A NUCLEAR WASTE AUTHORITY The Office of State Programs would not concur in the initial response drafted _

for Mr. Dircks signature. They believe that a separate Authority would be. ,

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beneficial in the long run to solving the nuclear waste management problem that now exists and will not concur unless thMr' position is stated in the response. . As you know, John Surmeier and I believed that an organizational-change would be productive. This was reflected in our original draft. . In John's discussion with you, we used the Office of Naval Reactors ~as an example.

Are we inconsistent in implying to Greer that DOE needs an organizational

' change to overcome the problems you perceive associated with its decentralized-

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MEMORANDUM FOR: John B. Martin, Director Division of Waste Management FROM: Joseph 0. Bunting, Jr., Chief Licensing Process and Integration Branch

SUBJECT:

COMMENTS ON S.1821: DISAGREEMENT ON ESTABLISHhENT OF A NUCLEAR WASTE AUTHORITY

< The Office of State Programs would not concur in the initial response drafted for Mr.'Dircks signature. They believe that a separate Authority would be p) t beneficial in the long run to solving the nuclear waste management problem that now exists and will not concur unless thsir position is stated in the .

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