ML20205F270
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| Issue date: | 03/18/1999 |
| From: | Blaha J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| SECY-99-081, SECY-99-081-R, SECY-99-81, SECY-99-81-R, WIR-990312, NUDOCS 9904060162 | |
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SECY 99-081 March 18.1999 Egr.
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James L. Blaha, Assistant for Operations, Office of the EDO
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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING MARCH 12,1999 Enclosure Contents Nuclear Reactor Regulation A
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards B
C Nuclear Regulatory Research incident Response Operations D
General Counsel E*
F Administration Chief Information Officer G
Chief FinancialOfficer H*
i Human Resources Small Business & Civil Rights J'
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Enfo.coment L*
State Program M
Public Affairs N
Intemational Program 0
Office of the Secretary P
Region l P
Region il P
Region 111 P
Region IV Executive Director for Operations Q*
R Congressional Affairs O'
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Items of Interest
~ Week Ending March 12,1999 Meetina With Atomic Enerav Control Board On March 8,1999, Robert Gallo, Chief of the Operator Licensing and Human Performance i
Branch, Frank Gillespie, Deputy Director, Division of Inspection Program Management, and members of their staff, met with their counterparts from the Canadian Atomic Energy Control Board. The meeting, which was held at the NRC's White Flint offices, included comparative discussions of the operator licensing organization and practices in the United States and Canada, with emphasis on licensed operator training program accreditation and evaluation, licensee involvement in the examination process, and the NRC examiner training and i
certification program.
Meetina with Nuclear Enerav Institute (NEI) and industry Reoresentatives on Fuel Bumuo Extension On March 10,1999, the staff of the Reactor Systems Branch in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and the NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) met with representatives from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEl), Electric Power Research Institute, and utilities on the.
u issue of licensing criteria related to fust bumup extension. This meeting was a continuation of previous discussions on plans both at the NRC and in the industry to identify and address those technical issues that must be resolved in order to permit higher fuel bumup limits. NEl presented an approach to this issue which the staff will pursue with the industry in subsequent meetings. The RES staff also will conduct a facilitated meeting with experts on fuel design in the future to discuss this issue. Industry representatives were invited to participate in the RES meeting.
Wolf Creek On October 27,1998, a request was made under 10 CFR 50.80 to transfer control of Kansas t
City Gas & Electric's (KGE) and Kansas City Power & Ught Company's (KCPL) possessory interests in the Wolf Creek Generating Station (WCGS) license to Westar Energy, a new company to be formed at the time of the merger. Currently, KGE and KCPL each own 47 percent of WCGS. Kansas Electric Power Cooperative (KEPCO) owns the remaining 6 percent. With the change, Westar would own 94 percent and KEPCO 6 percent.
On February 18,1999, KEPCO filed a petition to intervene and requested a hearing regarding the anticompetitive consequences of the application. in respont a to the petition, on March 2, 1999, the Commission issued an Order to the applicants and petitioner involved in the Wolf Creek 50.80 merger request to file briefs by March 16,1999, regarding the elimination of the NRC's practice of performing antitrust reviews. The Order was also published in the Federal Register, and copies were sent to DOJ, FERC, and NEl, for comment by March 31,1999. The Commission will make its decision after review of the briefs / comments. The staff will continue with its review of the other at as (i.e., financial qualifications, decommissioning funding, technical qualifications, and foreign ownership) in parallel with the Commission's effort.
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Diablo Canyon i
On March 4,1999, the NRC issued the draft SE for the Diablo Canyon ISTS. Diablo Canyon is j
one member of the Four Loop Owners Group (FLOG), along with Comanche Peak, Wolf Creek, and Callaway. The licensee will be submitting their comments in early April and the final SE is scheduled to be issued by April 30,1999.
-LaSalle Units 1 and 2 On March 8,1999, Commonwealth Edison announced a revised restart schedule for LaSalle Unit 2 that moves the date for mode change up by approximately one month. The licensee had previously planned to enter startup mode on May 2,1999, and be at full power by June 1,1999.
i However, due to efficiencies gained during the completion of bulk maintenance and modifications, the licensee projects that it will change modes on April 7,1999, and be at full
. power by April 19,1999. Romaining activities consist of testing and core reload. The unit has been shut down since September 1996. The NRC will conduct an operational readiness assessment inspection and meet with the licensee prior to restart.
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't Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards items of Interest Week Ending March 12,1999
' Comoarability Exercise at Babcock and Wilcox Technolooies On March 1-5,1999, the Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards conducted a Comparability Performance Evaluation Review (CPER) of the 10 CFR Part 73 physical protection program at Babcock and Wilcox Technologies. The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation provided the team leader and expert support from their Operational Safeguards Response Evaluation program. The purpose of the CPER was to conduct performance testing of all detection, assessment, communications, and response programs. In addition, comparability with the Department of Energy programs for the protection of similar materials was examined. The preliminary results of the CPER provide insight into performance, technical, regulatory, legal, and comparability issues.
Waste Manaoement '99 Conference During the week of February 28,1999, staff fiom the Division of Waste Management attended the Waste Management '99 Conference in Tucson, Arizona. Staff presented the following papers: (1) Overview of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Efforts to Develop Guidance on Decommissioning; and (2) NRC Plans Rulemaking on Clearance of Materials and Equipment Having Residual Radioactivity. Staff also participated in a panel discussion antitlsd "How Clean is Clean" and attended a meeting of the Radioactive Waste Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In addition, staff visited with several.:onference exhibitors to oMerve demonstrations of decommissioning and clearance cost er timating softwa,e, and to discuss survey procedures / technique- %r clearing material anc equipment.
The Minerals. Metals. and Materials Society Conference l
On February 28 - March 4,1999, staff from the Division o Waste han,_ga. ant ute adr, e 128* annual meeting of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society in San Diego, Cal,R w.
The conference consiswi of intemational technical symposia committed to the advanct unt of metallurgy and materials science providing industry, science, and research with a venue from l
which to leam and share the latest comprehensive workiwide technological advancements.
l The staff's primary goal in participating in the conference was to gain insights into materials design, processing, fabrication, and material behavior of the proposed Department of Energy's i
(DOE) waste package for long-term disposal of high-level waste in the proposed mined geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. The relevant topics included long-term stability and mechanical behavior of zircaloy cladding, nickel-base, titanium, and steel alloys, and advanced ceramic coatings on steel, titanium, and nickel-base alloys. Staff also participated in planning 1
committees for future symposia on nuclear materials and corrosion, and environmental effects on materials applicable to the DOE waste package.
1 Interaoency Steerino Committee on Radiation Standards I
1l On March 10,1999, the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS) met. Representatives were present from the Division of Waste Management, Environmental I=
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Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense, Office of Science & Technology Policy, Occupational Safety & Health Administration, Food and Drug Administration, and other federal agencies. Two invited lecturers gave presentations. The first was a discussion of the Environmental Law Institute report on " Similarities and Differences in Chemical and Radiation Risk Management" by Paul Locke, John Hopkins School of Public Health; and the second was the " Government Accounting Office (GAO) Ptudy on Commercial Low-Level Waste Management and Disposal" by Dwayne Weigel, GAO. Other general topics discussed included an update on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) plans for the clearance rule, the high-level waste proposed rule, the implementation of the NRC final rule on
. radiological criteria for license termination, EPA's Fedoral Guidance Report 13, Department of State's international source management proposal, and upcoming international meetings to be held in Rome, May 1999, and in Washington D.C., November 1999. Each subcommittee reported on its 1999 activities. ISCORS members r9 ached consensus on the draft annual summary report which will be available prior to the next meeting. The next ISCORS meeting will be open to the public on June 10,1909, at NRC Headquarters.
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Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research items of Interest Week Ending March 12,1999 IPEdE Senior Review Board Meetina The Senior Review Board (SRB) for the Individual Plant Examination of Extemal Events (IPEEE) program met on March 9-10,1999, to review licensees' responses to requests for 0
additional information (RAls) for the following seven plants: Beaver Valley 1 and 2, Fitzpatrick, Millstone 2, North Anna, Surry and Vogtie. In addition, the SRB reviewed the revised IPEEE fire analysis for Prairie Island. The SRB is comprised of RES and NRR staff and RES consultants (Sandia National Laboratories) with probabilistic risk assessment expertise in 4
seismic, fire, and high winds, floods and other (HFO) extemal events. The overall purpose of the reviews is to determine if the IPEEE submittals meet the intent of Supplement 4 to Generic Letter 88-20. In the fire area, the SRB concluded that additional information is needed for each of the plants discussed except Beaver Valley 1 and 2. In the seismic and HFO areas, follow-up RAls are not needed for any of the plants discussed. Final Technical Evaluation Reports (TERs) and Staff Evaluation Reports (SERs) will be completed for Beaver Valley 1 and 2. Final TERs and SERs for the remaining plants will completed following a review of the licensees' responses to the RAls.
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Incident Response Operations items of Interest Week Ending March 12,1999 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATIONS:
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PNO-l-99-013, gal Consultants, STOLEN PORT ABLE DENSITY GAUGE FROM LICENSEE'S TRUCK '
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Week Ending March 12,1999 Acauisition Trainina
' On March 11,1999, the Division of Contracts and Property Management conducted its
. Acquisition for Project Managers module, " Developing Proposal Evaluation Criteria." This module focuses on the importance of developing appropriate technical evaluation factors (e.g.,
l technical approach, past performance, experience, key personnel) for a procurement action and the relationship of technical and cost evaluation.
Public Meetinas on Proposed Licensina Criteria for the Disoosal of Hiah-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Proposed Geoloaic Reoository at Yucca Mountain. Nevada A document announcing public meetings in the State of Nevada to discuss issues related to the proposed rule that would establish licensing criteria for disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive wastes in the proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada was published in the Federal register on March 4,1999 (64 FR 10405). The criter's are intended to
. address the performance of the repository system at Yucca Mountain. The meetings will be held on March 23 and March 25,1999.
Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions: Interim Enforcement Policy for Generally Licensed Devices Containina Bvoroduct Material (10 CFR 31.5)
A document that amends the NRC's Enforcement Policy by establishing an interim enforcement 1
policy for generally licensed devices containing byproduct material was published in the Federal Register on March 9,1999 (64 FR 11508). The amendment describes the policy the NRC will follow to exercise enforcement discretion for certain violations of the requirements in 10 CFR i
31.5. The amendment to the Enforcement Policy became effective March 9,1999.
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Items of Interest Week Ending March 12,1999 Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Reauests received durina the 5-Dav Period of March 5.1999 throuah March 11.1999:
Department of the Interior, sealed source use in research well logging, license #'s 05-17055-01
& 05-013399-08. (FOINPA 99-138)
Uranium mill tailings, specific 1962-15' alth, Education & Welfare publications, and a 1/22/57 Federal Register, Vol. 22, i t+
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Rudget, FY2000 Information Technc. yf a T1ission re OMB Circular A-11, exhibits 42 and 300B, and any recently published long-rans plans. (FOINPA 99-140)
Cladding report on work performed 6/57 - 6/60, authored by Carlos J. Romero and Steven Elechyshyn. (FOINPA 99-141) l March 12,1999 ENCLOSURE G
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DAM, William GEOCHEMIST NMSS j
KOVACIC, Joseph NUCLEAR ENGINEER NMSS
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COX, Linda SECRETARY (OA)
Rlll SAADU, Coretta REACTOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER NRR j
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Office of Public Affairs items of interest Week Ending March 12,1999 Media Inter _qs1 Gannett News is printing on a story on nuclear waste disposal and the anniversary of the TMl accident.
The Associated Prass in Harrisburg is planning a stoy on the anniversary of TMI.
Press Releases Headquarters:
99-46 NRC Considering Request by Ohio to be an " Agreement State" 99-47 Proposed NRC Rule Would Permit Nuclear Power Plants to Change Accident Analyses of Public Radiation Dose 99-48 NRC Lifts Order Requiring independent Oversight of Employee Concems Program at Millstone Nuclear Power Plants 99-49 NRC lssues Final Environmental Statement on Uranium Mill Tailings Pile in Utah Regions:
I-99-18 NRC Staff Proposes $88,000 Fine Against Northeast Nuclear for Discriminatory Action Against 2 Employees at Millstone l-99-19 Note To Editors: Millstone Meeting March 18 lll-99-7 NRC Staff Proposes $2,500 Fine Against Bemidji, MN, Firm for j
Violations of NRC Safety Requirements i
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' Items of interest
. Week Ending March 12,1999
- Radioloaical incident in Peru On March 8, OIP responded to a report of a radiological incident in Peru caused by an unshielded iridium source. OlP made a number of inquiries about the incident and facilitated a request by the Peruvian nuclear regulatory authority for assistance in providing a dose calculation estimate, which NMSS has performed.
Gore-Primakov Commission In preparation for.the March 23-25,1999, meetings of the U.b.-Russia Joint Commission on I
Economic and Technological Cooperation (known as the Gore-Primakov Commission, or GPC),
OIP staff has attended meetings of the GPC Points of Contact, of the Deliverables Committee, and of the Energy Policy Committee.
One of the most prominent activities in the nuclear area which is being carried out under the Commission's aegis is the conversion of the reactor cores of Russia's three plutonium j
production reactors to a design that does not produce weapons-grade plutonium. At the September 1997 meeting of the Gore-Chemomyrdin Commission (the predecessor of the
' GPC), NRC ChaiMan Jackson and Russian Gosatomnadzor Chairman Vishnevsky signed a
" Joint Statement Concerning Enhancement of Regulatory Oversight of Core Conversion Activities," and noted that their agencies would enter into implementing agreements as appropriate to accomplish their objectives. At the GPC NRC and GAN will sign an j
" Arrangement for the Exchange of Information and Cooperation to Enhance Regulatory Oversight of Core Conversion Activities."
As a result of commitments made by Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton at their summit in Moscow in September 1998, new directions in the area of nuclear safety and security cooperation have been approved, including the establishment of a Nuclear Committee at the Gore-Primakov 1
Commission. This committee will consider a number of broad issues related to nuclear economic, scientific, and technological cooperation; will find solutions to existing problems and develop new directions and mechanisms of cooperation aimed at improving U.S.-Russian cooperation, and will facilitate cooperation between Russian ministries and U.S. agencies in the nuclear area. Participants in the Committee willinclude senior U.S. and Russian officials having expertise in nuclear material and energy-related matters.
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Office of the Secretary items of interest Week Ending March 12,1999 Documents Released Date Subject to Public Decision Documents 1.
SECY-99-016 1/13/99 Proposed Commercial Use of NRC-Developed Codes by Non-U.S.
Organizations SRM on 99-016 3/5/99 (same)
Commission Voting 3/5/99 (same)
Record on 99-016 2.
SRM on SECY-99-010 3/9/99-Closure of Order Requiring Independent, Third Party Oversight of Northeast Nuclear Energy Company's implementation of Resolution of the Millstone Station Employees' Safety Concems Commission Voting 3/9/99 (same)
Record on 99-010 3.
SECY-99-050 2/17/99 Proposed License to Export Deuterium Oxide to Switzerland (XMAT0396)
SRM on 99-050 3/9/99 (same)
Commission Voting 3/9/99 (same)
Record on 99-050 4.
SRM on SECY-99-002 3/12/99 Staff Requirements - SECY-99-002 -
Agreement State Compatibility Designation for NRC Employes Protection Regulations Commission Voting 3/12/99 (same)
Record on 99-002 Information Papers 1.
SECY-99-056 2/22/99 Annual Status Report on the Administration of NRC's Requalification Program and the Initial Operator Licensing Examinations (WITS 8800098) 2.
SECY-99-060 2/25/99 Weekly information Report - Week Ending February 19,1999 Memoranda i
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M990305 3/5/99 Staff Requirements - Affirmation Session, Friday, March 5,1999: 1. SECY-99-048 -
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(Seabrook Station, Unit 1), Docket No. 50-443, Draft Commission Memorandum and CYder Addressing Intervention Petitions and Hearing Requests of New England Power Company ("Nepco") and United illuminating CompanL(" United")
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M990209A 3/8/99-Staff Roquirements - Briefing on Fire Protection Issues, Tuesday, February 9, 1999 4.
M990211B 3/12/99 Staff Requirements - Briefing on Y2K issues (SECY-99-003), on 2/11/99 B
Commission Corresoondence 1.
Letter to Deborah Katz, Citizens Awareness Network, Inc., and James Perkins, New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, dated March 3,1999, concems petitions to intervene and request for hearing on the License Termination Plan for Yankee Nuclear Power Station (incoming dated February 26,1999 and February 24,1999 also released).
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Letter to Representative John Boehner, dated March 3,1999, concems the use of Project l
Labor Agreements (incoming dated February 2,1990 slso released).
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Letter to Saulius Kutas, Republic of Lithuania, dated March 1,1999, concems an upcoming conference on " Nuclear Safety of Ignalina NPP" (incoming dated January 13, 1999 also released).
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Letter to Dr. Juan Manuel Kindelan, Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear, dated March 1,1999, expresses appreciation for the book Marie Curie and Radioactivity (incoming dated December 1998 also released).
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Letter to W. George Hairston III, Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Inc., dated March 1, 1999, concems the application of the recently developed " streamlined hearing process" to other licensing actions, such as license renewal (incoming dated January 25,1999 also released).
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Letter to Kenneth LaValle, Fred Thiele, Jr., and Patricia Acampora, New York legislature, responds to concems about the operating history of the Millstone facility (incoming dated L
February 2,1999 also released).
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Letter to Representatives Stephen Hom, Dennis Kucinich, and Donald Manzullo, dated February 25,1999, concems the potential Year 2000 problem at nuclear power plants (incoming dated December 17,1998 also released).
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Letter to the President of the U.S., dated December 31,1998, provides the Annual Report for 1997of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
l Federal Reaister Notices issued 1.
Designation of Presiding Officer in the hearing of Atlas Corporation, ASLBP No. 99-763-05-MLA.
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Memorandum and Order, CLI-99-06,Jn the Matter of North Atlantic Energy Service Corp.,
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Notice of a Proposed Agreement with the State of Ohio.
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Proposed rule; Use of attemative source terms at operating reactors.
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I Region 1 ltems of Interest Week Ending March 12,1999 Susaushanna Unit 1: Failure of RHR Inlection Valve Stem This updates previously provided information about RHR injection control valves.
On Susquehanna Unit 1, PP&L discovered that the valve disk of the "B" residual heat removal (RHR) injection control valve had separated from the valve stem. The stem was found severed at the top thread where the stem would thread into the valve disk. The valve disk had failed in i
the closed position, which would have prevented injection into the vessel from the "B" loop of RHR. On Susquehanna Unit 2, PP&L discovered a crack in the valve stem of the "A" RHR injection control valve that effected 75% of the cross section of the valve stem at the valve stem / disk connection. The intemals for both the effected Unit 1 "B" and Unit 2 "A" RHR j
injection control valves have been replaced. The Unit 1 "A" and the Unit 2 "B" RHR injection i
control valves were ultrasonically inspected and determined to be acceptable. Both the Unit 1 F
j and 2 RHR systems are currently considered to be operable.
- PP&L preliminarily has concluded that the cracking failure on the Unit 1 valve was intergranular I
in nature and the propagating mechanism may be hydrogen-assisted, with an influence of j
stress corrosion cracking. PP&L preliminarily concluded that the initiating site for the crack was related to the high level of mechanical stress associated with the 2200 ft-lb of torque used to assemble the stem into the disk. The Unit 2 valve is still undergoing analysis.
i PP&L has formed several teams to investigate the root causes of the valve stem failures as well as to assess the PP&L response to these failures. PP&L has kept the Region I and NRC Headquarters staffs informed of the status of the valves and the PP&L investigation via conference calls on March 1 and March 10,1999. PP&L expects to complete its investigations
. of this event by about March 20,- 1999. NRC Regional and Headquarters staff have performed
- limited inspections and are closely monitoring PP&L activities for potential generic implications.
Additional NRC inspection is planned following completion of the PP&L investigation.
Meetina with Radiation Safety Officers from Broad Scooe Research and Develooment Proarams to Discuss 10 CFR 32.72(a)(2)
On March 8,1999,' Region I staff met with Radiation Safety Officers (RSOs) from six broad
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scope licensees who manufacture radioactive drugs for human use research studies. The RSOs requested the meeting to discuss their concems regarding the requirements of 10 CFR 32.72(a)(2), which requires that an applicant for authorization to manufacture radioactive drugs i
for human use submit evidence to the NRC that they are registered or licensed with the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a drug manufacturer. According to the RSOs, the FDA will not license them as drug manufacturers if they are solely manufacturing radioactive drugs for human use research purposes, and that altematives provided in the regulation are not practical.
The licensees proposed to submit a request for exemption from this requirement and the staff agreed to give the request cueful consideration.
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a NRC Staff Meetina with Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company On March 10,1999, Don Davis, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company (CY), Russ Mellor, Vice President, Operations and Decommissioning and members of his staff met with James Wiggins, Deputy Regional Administrator, George Pangburn, Director, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, and members of his staff. Tom Fredrichs, Project Manager, represented the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. The licensee had requested the meeting to discuss the status of the Haddam Neck facility and CY's transition plans for a Decommissioning Operations Contractor. The licensee expects to award a decommissioning contract by early April 1999 and complete the transition within the next several months. Readiness self-assessments for each department and mid-course self-assessments were outlined as some of the tools that CY expects to use during the transition period. Regionalinspection of the decommissioning and the transition to using a Decommissioning Operations Contractor continues.
March Meetina of the Maine Yankee Community Advisorv Panel On the evening cf March 11,1999, a representative from the Division of Nuclear Materials Safety attended a public meeting of the Community Advisory Panel (CAP) on Decommissioning 4
Maine Yankee. Invited guests at this meeting were four members of the Connecticut Yankee Community Decommissjoning Advisory Committee (CDAC). In addition to the twelve CAP members and guests, the meeting was attended by over forty members of the public, local i
media, and Maine Yankee employees and contractors. Primary discussions at this meeting i
involved donation of an approximate 200-acre parcel of the site to a non-profit organization, l
decommissioning and regulatory updates, and an update on a planned ISFSI (Indepandent 4
Spent Fuel Storage Installation) for the site. Significant public comments were received on the land donation issue. The CAP Chairman requested that, at the next meeting on April 29,1999,
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and EPA discuss the NRC license termination annual dose limit of 25 millirem versus the EPA standard of 15 millirem.
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ltems of Interest Week Ending March 12,1999 Florida Power and Llaht Company - St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant On March 8,1999 at 1:00 p.m., a management meeting was conducted in the Region 11 Office with representatives of FP&L's St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss recent operator licensing training issues.' The licensee presented the results of their.
I operator training program self-assessment.
Reaion ll Information Session on the Aaencv's Affirmative Emolovment Plan On March 8 and 9,1999, Ms. B. Williams, Affirmative Program Employment Manager, SBCR, visited the Region 11 Office. Ms. Williams met with Region ll senior management and the Regional EEO Committee to discuss the Agency's Affirmative Employment Plan and its.
relationship to the Regional Operating Plan. She also conducted an informational session on the Mentoring Program.
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Manaoement Meetino with Commonwealth Edison Comoany - Dresden On March 10,1999, a management meeting was conducted in Morris, Illinois, between management representatives from Commonwealth Edison Company and members of the NRC i
staff. The meeting discussion focused on the current status of plant operations at the Dresden Nuclear Power Plant. NRC Region lil Regional Administrator Jim Dyer participated in the meeting.
FEMA Y2K Steerino Committee Workshoo i
On March 10,1999, NRC Region lil participated in a Federal Emergency Management Agency l.
Region 5 Y2K Steering Committee workshop in Rosemont, Illinois. The purp7se of the workshop was to review and discuss issues related to regional preparation and response to the i
the possible consequences arising from Y2K computer conversion probiems. Workshop j.
participants included state, local and federal govemment representatives.
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Region IV Items of Interest Week Ending March 12,1999 Commissioner Merrifield's Visit to Comanche Peak On March 9,1999, Commissioner Jeffrey S. Merrifield visited Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station in Glen Rose, Texas, and met with the resident inspector staff and members of the j
licensee's organization. Mr. Ellis Merschoff, Regional Administrator, accompanied i
Commissioner Merrifield on his visit. The Commissioner also visited the Region IV office in Arlington, Texas, on March 10.
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Portner 03/16 9:30 DOE DOE's FY00 Budget for enators Domenici/Reid 116 DSOB Nuclear Energy nergy and Water propnations Portner 03/16 10:00 DOE Nuclear Waste Management ep. PackardNisclosky i
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Gerke 03/18 9:30 TBA Long-term Health Care eps. Scarborough/Cummings 2203 RHOB insurance for Fedi Employees ivil Service ovemment Reform G:rke 03/18 11:00 TBA Electricity Competition and eps. Barton/ Hall 2123 RHOB Federal and State Roles nergy & Power ommerce Combs TBA TBA TBD High Level Waste Program lSen. Murkowski/Bingaman pnergy and Natural Resources 1 Combs TBA TBA Markup H.R. 45, Amending Nuclear ep. Young / Miller 1324 LHOB Waste Policy Act of 1982 esources March 12,1999 ENCLOSURE R