ML20237B048

Forwards Draft Notice of Meeting Announcement Re Recent Revs to 10CFR73.71, Changes to Safeguards Reporting Requirements

ML20237B048
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Site:	07000824
Issue date:	09/01/1987
From:	Brach E NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Olsen A BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.
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Requircrents." Inasmuch as the requirements of 73.71 pertain to your facility, you nr.y wish to attend the subject meeting / workshop.

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION NRC Reporting Requirements for Safeguards Events; Meeting AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

l ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY

The NRC staff will conduct a meeting to assist affected licensees in their implementation of recently issued revisions to 10 CFR 73.71, " Changes to Safeguards Reporting Requirements," which become effective on October 8, l

1987.

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l DATE:

September 14, 1987.

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ADDRESS: Holiday Inn of Bethesda, 8120 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20014.

l FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For reactor licensees: Nancy Ervin, Office

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of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, l

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DC 20555, telephone (301) 492-7855; or, for all other affected licensees:

I Priscilla A. Dwyer, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 427-4773.

1 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The primary purpose of this workshop is to further affected licensees' understanding of the NRC requirements regarding the reporting of safeguards events as described in the recently revised 10 CFR 73.71 (June 9,1987; 52 FR 21651) and supporting guidance. Licensees most affected by the revision to 10 CFR 73.71 are those subject to $573.20, 73.37, 73.50, 73.55, 73.60 or those J

possessing strategic special nuclear material and subject to 573.67. The workshop will serve as a mechanism to address industry concerns and questions on the subject.

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i In order to allow niore efficient use of question sessions, licensees are requested to submit questions of general interest in advance of the workshop to the appropriate contact noted above. The tentative agenda is shown below-l Morning Session 9:30 am Introductory Remarks 10:00 - 11:00 Revised Reporting Requirements:

History, Purpose, and Comparison with Previous Requirements 11:00 - 11:15 Break 11:15 - 11:45 Generic Trend Analysis 11:45 - 1:00 Lunch Afternoon Session 1:00 -

2:15 Determining Deportability - One Hour Events (Panel Discussion) 2:15 -

2:30 Break 2:30 -

4:00 Determining Deportability - Log Items (Panel Discussion) 4:00 -

4:15 Closing Remarks Persons other than NRC Staff and Licensee Representatives may observe the proceedings but will be permitted to participate in the discussions only as time will allow.

Registration will be conducted prior to the meeting.

It is anticipated the proceedings of the workshop will be published some time in the future as a guidance document for licensees. Copies of the supporting regulatory guide for this revised rule, Regulatory Guide 5.62, " Reporting.of Safeguards

i Events," are being~ placed in NRC's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, NW, Washington, DC, and each Local Public Document Room throughout the United States for review by interested persons.

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this day of August,1987.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Comission.

i James G. Partlow, Director Division of Reactor Inspection and Safeguards Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 9

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