ML20199E263

Staff Requirements Memo Re 971015 Briefing on PRA Implementation Plan in Rockville,Md

ML20199E263
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Issue date:	11/18/1997
From:	Hoyle J NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
To:	Callan L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
References
REF-10CFR9.7 M971015, NUDOCS 9711210147
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IN RESPONSE, PLEASE REFER TO: M971015 November 18, 1997 SECRETARY MEMORANDUM TO: L. Joseph Callan Executiv Director for Operations

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STAFF REQUIREMENTS: BRIEFING ON PRA IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, 10:05 A.M. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1997, COMMISSIONERS CONFERENCE ROOM, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND (OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENrWCE)

The Commission was briefed by the NRC staff on recent accomplishments, the status of on-going activities, and future tasks in the staff's efforts to ensure timely and integrated agency-wide use of PRA technology and methodology in NRC regulatory activities.

The Commission encouraged the staff to continue to improve the agency's PRA activities and to provide appropriate review and feedback mechanisms to ensure that PRA is appropriately used in a risk-informed regulatory framework and continues to foster a risk-informed regulatory process.

The Commission also requested that the staff:

e in their forthcoming paper identifying the issues raised during the workshop on NRC's draft guidance documents include a discussion of how much variability and what degree of uncertainty in PRAs performed by licensees can be tolerated for regulatory purposes in a risk-informed regulatory framework.

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12/31/97) e address at the next periodic briefing on the PRA Implementacion Plan the extent to which the Commission's objective of establishing a risk-informed regulatory program has been communicated effectively to the NRC staff and to licensees and other excernal stakeholders.

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