ML20235Q025

Submits Addl Info Re Planned NRC Reorganization,Including Creation of Ofc of Special Projects W/Licensing & Insp Authority for TVA & Comanche Peak Projects

ML20235Q025
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Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	02/11/1987
From:	Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	NRC
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ML20235P904	List: IA-87-562, Concurs w/870120 Proposal to Establish Ofc of Special Projects W/Authority & Responsiblity for Licensing & Insp for Comanche Peak & TVA Projects.Commissioners Roberts & Bernthal Believe Subj Ofc Existence Should Be Limited ML20235P902 ML20235P989 ML20235Q015 ML20235Q025 ML20235Q060
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FOIA-87-562 NUDOCS 8710070470
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3 E UNITED STATES k...'..p8 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ANNOUNCEMENT NO. 16 DATE: February 11, 1987 TO: ALL EMPLOYEES , ,

SUBJECT:

NRC REORGANIZATION I am providing additional information concerning the planned reorganization of the NRC staff. As implementation approaches, the Executive Director for Operations (E00) and I will continue to keep you informed on significant details.

The Commission has approved the final recommendations on the reorganization.

In addition to the changes previously announced, the following decisions have been made:

An Office of Special Projects will be established with licensing and inspection authority for the TVA and Comanche Peak projects. This Office will be headed by James G. Keppler.

The indemnification program pertaining to the Price-Anderson Act and functions concerning licensee financial qualification requirements, including decommissioning financial assurance, will be transferred to the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

James M. Taylor, who will be the Deputy EDO for Regional (

Operations, will also be Acting Deputy ED0 until Mr. Keppler l completes his assignment in the Office of Special Projects.

Mr. Hugh L. Thompson has been named as Director of the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. He succeeds John G. Davis, who is retiring from Federal service, as has been separately l announced.

The Commission has authorized the EDO to take necessary actions to implement i the reorganization on or about April 15. Each of you will receive a copy of l detailed organizational charts with planned managerial assignments in the next i several days. l While refinements will be necessary prior to implementation, Comission action on the reorganization proposals is esser,tially complete. I ask each of you to work as constructively as possible to help effect a smooth transition into our new organization. l 8710070470 071005 j PDR FOIA l TAYLORB7-572 PDR j

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, .. 2 The new organization realigns our Agency to conform with the changes:that have' t l taken place since NRC was formed. In 1975, when the NRC was formed,'there were' 52 plants licensed to operate, 69 plants under construction and 75 applications for construction permits under review. Today, there are 107 plants licensed to

! operate,18 plants under construction and no applications for construction  ;

permits. As the plants presently being build are completed, the NRC will have progressively less regulatory involvement with large complex construction activities and considerably more involvement with plant operations, l maintenance, life extension and similar issues. The goal of our new  !

organization is to assist us in better carrying out our responsibilities to the American people as we approach the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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