ML20215H117
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| Issue date: | 06/16/1987 |
| From: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Bevill T, Breaux J, Jeanne Johnston, Sharp P, Udall M HOUSE OF REP., APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REP., ENERGY & COMMERCE, HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS, SENATE, APPROPRIATIONS, SENATE, ENVIRONMENT & PUBLIC WORKS |
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requesting approval to reprogram funds in FY 1987 as shown.in the enclosed table and associated explanation.
The enclosure also serves as the NRC's FY 1987 Base Table report through April 30, 1987.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requesting approval to reprogram funds in FY 1987 as shown in the enclosed table and associated explanation.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is requesting approval to reprogram funds in FY 1987 as shown in the enclosed table and associated explanation.- The enclosure also serves as,the NRC's FY 1987 Base Table report through April 30, 1987.
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DISTRIBUTION OF APPROPRIATION REDUCTION
- The NRC's FY 1987. appropriation of $401,000,000 is $4,000,000 less than the President's budget request. The reduction was allocated to Program Support and to Administrative Support as shown below.
(Dollars in Thousands)
Program Administrative Net Support Support Change Nuclear Reactor Regulation
$ -700
$ -220
$ -920 Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
-200
-140
-340 Inspection and Enforcement
-400
-240
-640 Nuclear Regulatory Research
-1,700
-80
-1,780 Program Technical Support
-120
-120 Program Direction and Administration
-200
-200 TOTAL
$-3,000
$-1,000
$-4,000 Program Support
$3,000 NRR
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The initiation of a follow-on program to the original two plant pilot Integrated Safety Assessment Program has been delayed about six months to about mid-FY 1987. Severe Accident Implementation Plan work towards reassessment of siting criteria has been deferred until FY 1988. Con-tractor support has been slightly reduced for implementing NRC requirements at operating reactors which will delay completion of about 40 technical evalu'ations.
$200 Review of DOE conducted generic studies for a second high level waste repository will be delayed by about one year. Contractor support providing preliminary guidance to DOE for the Monitored Retrievable Storage Facility has been reduced slightly. These reductions are consistent with Congressional guidance given to DOE in P.L.99-591.
$400' Contractor support has been reduced in the following areas:
inspections at reactors during an outage, cuality assurance initiatives related to high level waste (reduced due to delay in the Monitored Retrievable Storage Facility), and support for radiological aerial measurements.
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$1,700 Initiation of a proposed Non-Destructive Examination and Materials Technical-Integration Center and of a program to investigate the extent of structural degradations expected in nuclear power plants over their operating life have each been postponed approximately one year.
Contractor support for validating computer codes has been reduced. Current NRC methods of structural reliability analysis for selected seismic structures will not be expanded as planned.
Planned correction of known deficiencies in human reliability and analysis methods tested under the Risk Methods Integration and Evaluation Program will not be made this year.- Several minor reductions have been taken in research related to fission product and aerosol behavior uncertainties.
Administrative Support
$1,000 Minor reductions have been taken in ADP supoort services; building services
' during weekends and at night; building alterations to existing offices (excluding White Flint); guard services; and employee development and training The Administrative support reduction has been allocated back to the NRC programs consistent with the allocation procedure used in the NRC FY 1987 budget request to Congress.
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NON-REPROGRAtiMING ADJUSTMENTS Comparaoility Adjustments 1
Subsequent to the submission of the FY 1987 budget to Congress in February 1986, the_NRC implemented two organizational changes. One change was the unifying of our two legal offices into a single Office of General Counsel reporting to the Commission; the other was the elimination of the separate
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Office of Policy Evaluation. These changes resulted in a redistribution of l
staff and a corresponding redistribution of personnel related funds (Salaries and Benefits, Administrative Support, and Travel).
FY 1986 Contract Commitments j
The following FY 1986 funds were certified available for specific contracts l
to be issued during FY 1986, but the contracts were not awarded until after
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October 1, 1986 (FY 1987). The funds are a part of the NRC's FY 1986 unobligated funds carried forward into FY 1987 and have been reallotted for obligation against the same contracts for which they had been committed in FY 1986.
Amount (Dollars in Program Contract Description Thousands)
NRR Allocated portion of Administrative
$ 890 Support contracts listed below.
NMSS Allochted portion of Administrative
$ 490 Support contracts listed below.
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Allocated portion of Administrative Support contracts listed below.
$1,035 Subtotal IE S1,036 DES Allocated portion of Administrative
$ 260 Support contracts listed below.
PTS Allocated portion of Administrative'
$ 480 Support contracts listed below.
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Amount (Dollars in Program Contract Description Thousands)
PDA Cost analysis of proposed changes in NRC
$ 255
' Regulatory requirements having economic consequences on licensees, NRC, and other government agencies.
NRC staff temporarily assigned to Inter-
$ 125 national Atomic Energy Agency.
Develop five-year working plan for the
$ 35 NRC Public Document Room Branch.
Allocated portion of Administrative
$ 880 Support contracts listed below.
Subtotal PDA
$1,295 Total NRC FY 1986 Contract Commitments
$451 Details of Administrative Support Contracts Allocated Back to Programs The following Administrative Support contract commitments have been allocated back to the NRC programs consistent with the allocation procedure used in the NRC FY 1987 budget request to Congress.
Amount (Dollars in Thousands)
Contract to conduct mandatory
$ 101 supervisory development training Support for microcomputers 234 Contract for demountable walls 558 Requisition for systems furniture 1,805 Relocation of telecommunication system 375 Relocation of offices and equipment 325 Purchase of telecommunication switch system 150 Contract for presentation of human skills i
training courses 72 Various reouisitions and purchase orders
$50,000 and under 415 Total
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PROGRAM CHANGES The proposed reprogramming of funds as shown in Table 1 and detailed below j
results from the need to provide for several unfunded requirements which were identified following the submission of NRC's FY 1987 budget to Congress in February 1986. The' funding for these requirements will be provided from $4.8 million unobligated carried over from FY 1986, $3.3 million in orior-year deobligations and $7.4 million from program support. The Salaries and Benefits, the Administrative Support, and the Travel funding adjustments have been allocated back to the NRC programs consistent with the allocation procedures used in the NRC FY 1987 budget request to. Congress.
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$ -7,430
$ +8,100 Salaries and Benefits The increase of $7,600,000 to salaries and benefits is necessary to fund: (1) the 3 percent pay raise for federal employees contained in P.L.99-500 (effective January 1987); (2) the additional agency contributions required under the Federal Employees Retirement System (effective January 1987); and (3) the recent pay raises for Senior Executive Service employees (effective February 1987) and for certain clerical / secretarial employees (effective April 1987).
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u Administrative Support The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has purchased an 18 story office building (White Flint I) in Rockville, Maryland as the first step in a two-part consolidation of NRC headquarters employees.
The purchase agreement includes an option for GSA to lease space in an adjacent office building scheduled for construction in the next 3 years. This would permit full NRC consolidation in Rockville.
The increase of $6,930,000 is primarily required to adequately fund NRC head-quarters consolidation in White Flint I.
The consolidation shortfall results from the Administration's decision not to submit an FY 1987 budget supplement for NRC.
These funds will be used primarily for:
facility and space preparation beyond the limited allowances prescribed in the building purchase agreement. These include reusable panel walls and support walls for the planned office layout; partitions, electrical modification, and raised flooring needed to prepare rooms for conference use, hearings, computers and word processors; automated data and word processing cabling networks; heating, ventilating and air conditioning capability above that originally planned for the building are required to support employee occupancy in accordance with GSA imrosed space allocations; and smoke / fire detection systems must be added for protection of personnel and facilities.
purchasing new systems furniture that is designed to optimize both space and staff efficiency at the White Flint complex.
Systems furniture maximizes useable work surface and personal storage areas and is essential if NRC.is to meet the space allocation per employee being imposed by GSA.
Travel Projected travel costs are exceeding prior estimates primarily because of the increase in Federal Government per diem rates authorized by GSA effective in July, 1986.
Program Support The $7,430,000 reduction in program support funds will be taken by delaying some projects (about $1.8 million) and by managing available obligational authority to reduce the amount of uncosted obligations at the end of the fiscal year (about $6.6 million).
The delayed projects as a result of the program support reductions are:
(a) $0.5 million to NMSS will be accommodated as a result of the delayed DOE effort on the second high level waste repository and delayed DOE submission of repository site charactorization plans; (b) $1.0 million to RES will delay a study on seismic impacts on containment and will delay some activities related to developing criterid for engineered enhancements / alternatives to shallow land burial for low level waste disposal; and (c) $0.3 million to PTS will delay so,7e contractor assistance to the Sequence Coding and Search System.
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y The remaining program support reduction will be accommodated by managing available obligational authority to reduce the amount of uncosted obligations at the end of the fiscal year. The flow of work products will not be delayed as a' result of this reduced funding. As such, no program impacts are expected from this reduction. The reduced obligational authority will be achieved in the following programs:
For Nuclear Reactor Regulation, obligational authority will be reduced $1.4 million in the following programs:
safety evaluations for operating reactors, assessment of operational events, license reviews, generic safety issues and support for severe accidents.
For Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, obligational authority will be reduced $1.1 million in the following pro-grams: safeguards, high-level waste management and low-level waste management.
For Nuclear Regulatory Research, obligational authority will be reduced $1.8 million in the following programs:
reactor system safety, engineering safety, and waste management.
For Inspection and Enforcement, obligational authority will be reduced $1.3 million in the following programs; vendor inspection assistance, support for quality assurance, specialized technical inspection assistance, incident response and technical training.
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NRC Reorganization The NRC's April 12, 1987 reorganization is intended to better accommodate the changed nature of the agency's mission and workload through a more effective and efficient organi'zation structure. The responsibilities of the NRC have shifted from evaluation of construction permits and operating license appli-cations to the regulation of a maturing, operational industry. As plants presently being built are completed, the NRC will have progressively less. regulatory involvement with large complex construction activities and considerably more involvement with operational safety issues such as maintenance, aging, life extension, waste management, and similar issues. The current reorganization will more properly reflect our responsibilities as we see them today and into the 1990's.
The Commission expects the reorganization to:
(1) enhance the safety of NRC licensed facilities primarily by improving our ability to analyze plant performance and assure that management attention is devoted to significant issues; (2) simplify and streamline the NRC management structure', (3) improve consistency of and accountability for agency actions; and (4) improve the quality and timeliness of communications with the Congress, Federal, State and local government entities, and the public.
In the new organization, the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation is respon-sible and accountable for licensing, inspection and safeguards programs for reactors. The Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards has parallel responsibility and accountability for non-reactor safety programs, including nuclear waste management. The responsibilities of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research are also increased. The Office is now responsible for resolution of generic safety issues, including unresolved safety issues, and for the review of full-scope probabilistic risk assessments. These assignments are intended to bring about a closer tie between research and other agency safety programs. The role of the Office for Analysis and Evaluation of Operational Data has been strengthened and expanded. The Office is now the focal point for the continuing assessment of safety of operational facilities, manages the review, analysis and evaluation of reactor plant performance, and is responsible for the incident response program. The Offices of International Programs, State Programs, Public Affairs, and Congressional Affairs have been merged and now report to the Commission through the new Office of Governmental and Public Affairs. This action reflects the importance that the Commission assigns to enhanced comunication internationally and with the States, local communities and Indian Tribes. There is a new Office of Special Projects reporting directly to the Executive Director for Operations. The new office is responsible for managing all aspects of the NRC's licensing and inspection efforts for nuclear power plants owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority and for Comanche Peak nuclear power plants. New Offices of Enforcement, Administration and Resources Management, Consolidation and Personnel have also been established.
Resources for this reorganization are distributed commensurate with the regulatory responsibilities of the new organization and the exigencies of consolidation. There are no changes in the FY 1987 activities that will be carried out by the NRC as a result of the reorganization.
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FY 1989 budget submitted to Congress in January 1987 to reflect the agency's new organizational structure. The addendum will delineate the organizational changes in the agency and describe the shifts in responsibility and resources under the reorganization. There will be no changes to the level of resources I
requested by the Commission in NRC's FY 1988 - FY 1989 budget request nor any changes in the activities that will be carried out by the NRC.
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