ML23156A460
| ML23156A460 | |
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| Issue date: | 03/06/1996 |
| From: | Cool D Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
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| PR-MISC, 61FR08985 | |
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ADAMS Template: SECY-067 03/06/1996 PR-MISC - 61 FR08985 - PUBLIC WORKSHOP ON THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION'S MATERIALS LICENSING PROCESS; NOTICE OF MEETING PR-MISC 61FR08985 RULEMAKING COMMENTS Document Sensitivity: Non-sensitive - SUNSI Review Complete
DOCKET NO. PR-MISC (61FRO8985)
DATE DOCKETED DATE OF DOCUMENT In the Matter of PUBLIC WORKSHOP ON THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION'S MATERIALS LICENSING PROCESS; NOTICE OF MEETING TITLE OR DESCRIPTION OF DOCUMENT
03/19/96 06/18/96 02/29/96 06/07/96 FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE OF MEETING COMMENT OF CALIFORNIA CHAPTER - ACNP (CAROLS. MARCUS} (
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Business Process Reengineering; Materials Licensing Process. Fed. Reg. 61(45) :8985, 6 Mar. 96.
Dear Chairman Jackson; The California Chapter of the American College of Nuclear Physicians (ACNP-CA) is pleased to offer comments on NRC's initiative to redesign the licensing process. This redesign program is time-consuming and expensive, and medical, academic, and other materials licensees will have to bear the entire cost of NRC's large project.
ACNP-CA opposes this effort entirely at this time. We believe that there is no sensible purpose in changing process when the real question at hand is content.
illfilIP American College of Nuclear Physicians California Chapter Dorothy Duffy Price Executive Director Box 31 Los Altos, CA 94023 TEL (415) 949-1341 FAX (415) 949-1341 NRC's staff and management seem oblivious to the decisions of the NAS-IOM in its 14 Dec. 95 comprehensive analysis of NRC's medical program, the judgment of NRC's ACMUI, and the longstanding opinions of the leadership and membership of the knowledgeable, experienced professional community in the field of Nuclear Medicine. All these groups are in agreement. Your regulatory programs for medical use and biomedical research have been judged to be of little if any value and possibly dangerous by the NAS-IOM. The ACMUI and the regulated community have judged them to be cf no value, ue*i:.:r-imental to patient care, and terribly expensive.
All agree that your regulation of medical and biomedical research must end.
Why is NRC nevertheless going forward with a program to put regulations, licensing guides, and informational documents on the internet when none are of significant value?
Which documents do you think are of scientific or medical value for qualified Nuclear Medicine professionals?
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June 7, 1996 The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson Page A couple of months ago you asked the Presidents of ACNP and SNM and the Associate Director of Government Relations of these organizations to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of 10 CFR Part 35. It will soon be ready. But how can you expect the regulated community to respect your request and intentions if you are simultaneously billing us for producing changes in the process of issuing licenses, without first considering our opinions on the regulations and license conditions upon which these licenses are based in the first place? And how can you possibly justify giving this "business process reengineering**
task to the very staff and management who created NRC's unaccep~able recr~latory program ~o begin with? Assigning this task to existing staff who face potential loss of jobs is at least an appearance of conflict of interest, if not a real one.
For the above reasons, ACNP-CA opposes NRC's "business process reengineering" effort and asks that NRC explain its management decision to authorize the continuation of this project by the persons involved.
Thank you for your attention and consideration.
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Director, Nuclear Med. Outpt. Clinic Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Professor of Radiological Sciences, UCLA and President, American College of Nuclear Phy~lc1ans, Califorhia Chapter cc:
Duffy Price, Executive Director, ACNP-CA Secretary, USNRC Commissioner Greta Dicus Commissioner Kenneth Rodgers Hugh Thompson, Deputy EDO CSM:sfd JACUJ,,CIM
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Notice of meeting SUNNARY:
The NRC will hold a public workshop in Rockville, Maryland, to receive input from licensees and the public on its recent initiative to re-design the materials licensing process. All interested licensees, and members of the public are invited to attend this workshop.
The NRC has prepared a workshop agenda and background information on the project. They will be available for review after April 11, 1996.
Attendees, who would like a package in advance of the meeting, should call, fax, or E-mail the contact listed in this notice. Interested parties, unable to attend the workshop, are encouraged to provide written coments pertinent to the process, by May 11, 1996.
DATES:
The workshop will be held on April 25, 1996, peginning at 9 a.m.
and ending at 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES:
The public workshop will be held in the NRC auditorium at 1
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Two White Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland.
Visitor parking around the NRC building is limited; however, the workshop site is located adjacent to the White Flint Station on the Metro Red Line. Seating for the public will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Written conments may be provided at the workshop or to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission, Washington DC 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch. Written co11111ents should be submitted on or before May 11, 1996. Copies of the agenda and related documents can be obtained, after April 11, 1996, from the NRC contact listed below, or from the NRC's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW, Lower Level, Washington, DC 20555; telephone 202-634-3273; fax: 202-634-3343.
FOR FURTHER INFORJIATION, CONTACT:
Sally L. Merchant, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Mail Stop T 8-F-5, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone 301-415-7874; fax: 301-415-5369; INTERNET: SLM2@NRC.GOV.
SUPPLENENTARY INFORJIATION:
In October 1994, the NRC began to examine its materials licensing process to identify ways to improve it, while maintaining or raising the level of public safety.
An improved process would:
perfom licensing reviews and associated tasks an order of magnitude faster than the current practice; reduce the resources associated with the current licensing practice; and take full advantage 2
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of information technology.
The staff is using a technique called Business Process Redesign, a process of fundamentally changing the way that work is performed, to achieve significant improvements in speed, cost, and quality.
A detailed plan for implementing this new process was presented to the Co11111ission in May 1995.
On June 16, 1995, the Co11111ission directed the staff: (1) to proceed with the detailed design and testing of the new process; (2) to coordinate its efforts closely with the Agreement States, licensees, and the public; (3) to separate the payment of licensing fees from the process of issuing a license and continue to streamline fees; and (4) extend certain qualified licenses for an additional 5 years, on a one-time basis. A final rule to extend qualified licenses was published on January 16, 1996, and effective on February 15, 1996.
Implementation of the new licensing process is scheduled to begin early in 1997.
This workshop is one of a series of interactions with the Agreement States, licensees, and the public to gather suggestions and ideas to ensure the success of this licensing initiative. A transcript of this workshop will be available for inspection, and copying for a fee at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW, lower Level, Washington, DC 20555, on or about May 23, 1996.
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The workshop will be open to the public, and the public will be provided opportunities throughout the workshop to coment on issues under discussion.
Donald A. Cool, Director Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety, NMSS (date) 4