ML20209B193
| ML20209B193 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 03/02/1999 |
| From: | Dicus G NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Vietticook A NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20209B181 | List: |
| References | |
| SECY-99-024-C, SECY-99-24-C, NUDOCS 9907060296 | |
| Download: ML20209B193 (2) | |
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COMMISSIONER DICUS
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SECY-99-024 - RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE SAFEGUARDS PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT TASK FORCE (WITS 199800188)
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See attached comments.
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Commissioner Dicus' Comments on SECY-99-024 4
1 disapprove the SPA Task Force recommendations as stated SECY-99-024. Although I commend the staff for attempting to identify more effective and more efficient methods -
for testing licensees contingency response capabilities, I am not convinced that the SPA Task Force recommendations achieve this goal. They may, arguably, be more efficient. However, I am concemed about their effectiveness. At a time when concems about terrorist threats in the United States' are growing, I believe it imperative that we assure the effectiveness of our methods for testing licensees' contingency response capabilities.
The Differing Professional Views (DPVs) in Attachment 2 of SECY-99-024 and in the Differing Professional Opinion (DPO) provided to the Commission in a memorandum
- from William D. Travers dated February 12,1999, made several good points in favor of continuing the OSRE program. After careful consideration of the information in the
. DPVs and DPO, I believe that I have insufficient information to make a fully informed decision regarding the fate of the OSRE program. Therefore, I request that the staff complete the formal review process for the DPO as described in Management Directive 10.159 (Differing Professional Views or Opinions) and consider the results of this review
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in the context of recommendations made in SECY-99-024. Upon completion of its
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review, the staff should forward its recommendations to the Commission for further consideration.
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