ML20196J337

Forwards NRC Annual Rept on Participation in Development & Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards as Required by OMB Circular A-119.Rept Covers from 971001-980930

ML20196J337
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Issue date:	11/30/1998
From:	Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Cooke P NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS & TECHNOLOGY (FORMERL
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Dear Mr. Cooke:

Enclosed is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) annual report on its participation in the development and use of voluntary consensus standards as required by OMB Circular A-119, " Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities." The annual report covers the period October 1, 1997, through September 30,1998. This report has also been transmitted to you by e-mail.

If you have any questions concerning the enclosed report, please contact Mr. John W. Craig, NRC Standards Executive, at (301) 415-6207 or at <jwc1 @ nrc. gov >.

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ENCLOSURE ANNUAL REPORT U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PARTICIPATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF VOLUNTARY CONSENSUS STANDARDS (October 1,1997 - September 30,1998)

The NRC Strategic Plan for Fiscal Year 1997 - Fiscal Year 2002 establishes a framework that will guide future decision-making and will help the NRC continue to meet its responsibility for prctecting public health and safety, promoting the common defense and security, and protecting the environment. The plan includes general goals consistent with the NRC's mission in specific strategic arenas that include nuclear reactor safety and nuclear materials sc'ety. In these arenas, one strategy is to increase the involvement of licensees and others in the NRC regulatory process. Consistent with the provisions of Public Law 104-113,

• National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995," enacted March 7,1996, NRC will encourage industry to develop codes, standards, and guides that can be endorsed by the NRC and carried out by the industry. Agency-wide procedures are being developed to further promote the efficiency and effectiveness of the NRC process for implementing Public Law 104-113 and the supporting procedures in OMB Circular A-119, " Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Standards and in Conformity Activities," issued February 19,1998.

During the period for this annual repod, the NRC staff conducted two stakeholder meetings to identify issues and develop options for improving its participation in the development and use of consensus standards. The first meeting, held in July 1998, was with NRC staff (internal stakeholders) from various NRC offices to discuss issues and options related primarily to NRC participation on standards committees. Discussions focused on identifying options for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of NRC staff participation in developing consensus standards.

The second meeting, held in Chicago in September 1998, was with external stakeholders to discuss their concerns regarding NRC staff participation in the development and use of consensus standards. This meeting included representatives from individual utilities (reactor licensees), the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), standards developing organizations (SDOs) such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), nuclear steam supply system (NSSS) vendors, the Department of Energy, State governments, and the public. A transcript of this meeting was made available at the NRC web site shortly after the meeting. Information gained from this meeting, and other sources, will be used to formulate a program to improve NRC participation in the development and use of consensus standards.

The following is the NRC response to the reporting provisions of OMB Circular A-119.

1) The number of voluntary standards bodies in which there is aaency participation. as well as the number of aaency employees Darticipatina There are 145 NRC staff members who participate on 16 standards developing organizations (SDOs). NRC staff participate on a total of 254 standards writing, consensus, and board level committees.

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2) The number of voluntary consensus standards the aaency has used since October 1.

1997. based on the orocedures set forth in Sections 11 and 12 of the Circular None. Procedures are in place to ensure that proposed and final rulemakings request information on the use of govemment-unique standards in accordance with the Circular.

The NRC endorsed 27 standards in regulatory guides, which provide one method acceptable to the NRC staff for meeting NRC regulations, and 28 standards in NUREG reports, which contain consolidated guidance for material licensees. These standards and the means of endorsement are identified in the table below.

3) Identification of voluntary consensus standards that have been substituted for aovernment-uniaue standards as a result of an aaency review under section 15b(7) of the Circular No voluntary cunsensus standards were substituted for government-unique standards.

4) An evaluation of the effectiveness of Circular A-119 colicy and recommendations for any chances The NRC believes that OMB Circular A-119 has been effective in providing a basis for uniform implementation of P.L. 104-113 by Federal agencies, and that coordination by the interagency Committee on Standards Policy has been equally effective. We do recommend, however, that additional guidance be provided regarding whether a report need be provided to OMB if an agency places limitations or modifications on a voluntary consensus standard that it uses in a regulation. Depending on the guidelines, this could appreciably increase the number of instances in which a report would be required to be submitted to OMB.

5) As reauired by P.L. 104-113 identification of allinstances when the acency used novemment-uniaue standards in lieu of voluntary consensus standards (for each instance include aaency rationale for such use. as well as the specific covemment-uniaue standard used)

No government-unique standards were used by NRC in lieu of voluntary consensus  ;

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STANDARDS ENDORSED BY NRC OCTOBER 1,1997 - SEPTEMBER 30,1998 i

Method of 1 SDO' Standard Date Title Endorsementz ANS 3.2 1994 Administrative Controls and Quality Assurance for the Operational R.G.1.176 Phase of Nuclear Power Plants l t

3.4 1996 Medical Certification and Monitoring of Personnel Requiring Operator R.G.1.134 i Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants 8.1 1988 Nuclear Criticality Safety in Operations with Fissionable Materials R.G. 3.71 Outside Reactors ,

8.3 1997 Criticality Accident Alarm System 8.5 1996 Use of Borosilicate-Glass Raschig Rings as a Neutron Absorber in Solutions of Fissile Material 8.6 1995 Safety in Conducting Subcritical Neutron-Multiplication Measurements in Situ 8.7 1987 Guide for Nuclear Criticality Safety in the Storage of Fissile Materials 8.9 1995 Nuclear Criticality Safety Criteria for Steel-Pipe Intersections Containing Aqueous Solutions of Fissile Materials 8.10 1988 Criteria for Nuclear Criticality Safety Controls in Operations with Shielding and Confinement 8.12 1993 Nuclear Criticality Control and Safety of Plutonium-Uranium Fuel  !

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8.20 1991 Nuclear Criticality Safety Training 8.21 1995 Use of Fixed Neutron Absorbers in Nuclear Facilities Outside Reactors  ;

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8.23 1997 Nuclear Criticality Accident Emergency Planning and Response HPS ANSI N13.1 1993 Sampling Airbome Radioactive Materials in Nuclear Facilities NUREG-1556 l r

ANSI N13.4 1983 Specification of Portable X- or Gamma Radiation Survey Instruments  !

i ANSI N13.5 1989 Performance and Specifications for Direct Reading and Indirect i Reading Pocket Dosimeters for X- and Gamma Radiation ANSI N13.6 1989 Practice for Occupational Radiation Exposure Records Systems INMM ANSI N14.5 1997 Leakage Tests on Packages for Shipment of Radioactive Materials l IEEE ANSI N42.12 1995 Calibration and Usage of Sodium lodide Detector Systems  !

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ANSI N43.4 1989 Classification of Radioactive Self-Luminous Light Sources ANSI N43.9 1991 Specifications for Design and Testing of Apparatus for Gamma Radiography i I

ANSI N43.10 1984 Safe Design and Use of Panoramic, Wet Source Storage Gamma frradiators (Category IV) ,.

ANSI ANSI N44.1 1984 Integrity and Test Specifications far Selected Brachytherapy Sources [

ANSI N44.2 1984 For Leak-Testing Radioactive Brachtherapy Sources ASME ANSI N45.2.2 1972 Packaging, Shipping, Receiving, Storage and Handling of items for R.G.1.176 l Nuclear Power Plants (During the Constmction Phase)  :

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Plants ANSI N45.2.12 1977 Requirements for Auditing of Quality Assurance Programs for Nuclear Power Plants ANSI N45.2.13 1976 Quality Assurance Requirements for Control of Procurement of items ,

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IEEE ANSI N449.1 1984 Procedures for Periodic inspection of Cobalt-60 and Cesium-137 Teletherapy Equipment ANSI ANSI N537 1976 Radiological Safety Standard for the Design of Radiographic and Fluoroscopic Industrial X-Ray Equipment ANSI N538 1979 Classification of Industrial lonizing Radiation Gauging Devices ANSI N542 1977 Sealed Radiation Sources, Classification ASME BPVC Section XI 1989 Rules for Inservice inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components R.G.1.175 OM Code 1995 Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants ,

Code Case N-560 1996 Attemative Examination Requirements for Class 1, Category B-J Piping R.G.1.178 Welds (Section XI)

Code Case N-577 1997 Risk-Informed Requirements for Class 1,2, and 3 Piping, Method A (Section XI)

Code Case N-578 1997 Risk-Informed Requirements for Class 1,2, and 3 Piping, Method B (Section XI) L IEEE 450 1987 Recommended Practice for Maintenance, Testing, and Replacement of R.G.5.44 '

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2. R.G.1.134: Regulatory Guide 1.134 (Revision 3)-- Medical Evaluation of Licensed Personnel at Nuclear Power Plants (March 1998)

R.G.1.175: Regulatory Guide 1.175 - An Approach for Plant-Specific, Risk-informed Decision-Making: Inservice Testing (August 1998)

R G.1.176: Regulatory Guide 1.176 -- An Approach for Plant-Specific, Risk-Informed Decision-Making: Graded Quality Assurance (August 1998)

R.G.1.178: Regulatory Guide 1.178 - An Approach for Plant-Specific, Risk-Informed Decision-Making: Inservice inspection of Piping (September 1998)

R.G. 3.71: Regulatory Guide 3.71 -- Nuclear Criticality Safety Standards for Fuels and Materials Facilities (August 1998)

R.G. 5.44: Regulatory Guide 5.44 (Revision 3)-- Perimeter Intrusion Alarm Systems (October 1997)

NUREG-1556; Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses (Program specific guidance in nine volumes)

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. . . UNITE 3 STATE 3 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

, NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology

\ o/ Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 0001 September 25,1998 To: Interagency Committee on Standanis Policy (ICSP)

Subject:

Annual Agency Report on Standards Policy Activities Under OMB Circular A-119, " Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Standards," we are required to report annually to the Office ofManagement and Budget on the status of agency interaction with voluntary standards bodies. Dr. Belinda L. Collins, Chairperson of the Interagency Committee on Standards Policy (ICSP), has tasked me to draft the report for 1998.

Inputs from all Executive Branch agencies are essential for the required annual repon. We therefore request that you, as the Standards Executive for your agency, supply me with pertinent information about the status ofyour agency's implementation of the Circular. As described in the attachment to this letter, we need only a brief summary. "Ibe requested information includes legal requirements in P.L.104-113 and, in Circular A-119. I also encourage you to include supplementary information about new agency directives, guidelines, or policy statements relating to A-119 principles and objectives. ,

Please forward narrative text on 3.5 inch diskette in Word Perfect 8 or lower or Word 97 or lower format, or send by attachment to my e-mail address (catrick.cooke@nist.cov). To rneet our deadlines, your report should be here no later than December 4,1998. Obviously, earlier is preferable.

Reports submitted by mail should be sent to me at: NIST, Building 820, Room 164, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Ifyou need any further information, please call me at 301-975-4033 (Fax: 301-963-2871, email: catrickcookeSnist.cov). Thank you.

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Patrick W. Cooke Project Coordimtar Office ofStandards Services Attachment NIST l . _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _

OMB Circular A-119

" Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Vohmtary Standards and Confonnity Assessment Activities" Reanired Informad=t for Anaaev Annn_1 Raaart on Standards Poliev Activities as OutHnad in Ser+iaa 9 " Man ==amaat and Reoortine of Standa ds Use" The following are agency iwinns requirements:

1) the number of voluntary consensus standards bodies in which there is agency participation, as well as the number of agency employees participating;'

2) the number of voluntary consensus standards the agency has used since October 1,1997 based on the procedures set forth in sections 11 and 12 of the Circular;

3) identification of voluntary consensus standards that have been substituted for goverament-unique standards as a result of an agency review under section 15b(7) of the Circular;

4) an evaluation of the effectiveness of Circular A-119 policy and recommendations for any changes;and

5) as reanired by P.L 104-113. Identifica*ia- of allinstances when the arency us=d rowr==*=t-==tane s#==dards in lieu of voluntary ce= := sus st==dards (for =rh instance incInde arency r**'=mie for s=ch =se_ as well as the sMffe esniement-unique standard used.)

Please send your report to me by December 4,1998, by mail or as e-mail attachment at one of the following addresses.

Patrick Cooke NIST Building 820, Room 164 Gaithersburg,MD 20899 Tel: 301-975-4033 Fax: 301- % 3-2871 e-mail: patrick.cooke@nist. gov.

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