Press Release-06-041, NRC Meeting March 29 - 30 to Discuss Worker Fatigue Rules, Applying Drug-Testing Rules to Construction Personnel

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Press Release-06-041: NRC Meeting March 29 - 30 to Discuss Worker Fatigue Rules, Applying Drug-Testing Rules to Construction Personnel
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Issue date: 03/23/2006
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov No.06-041 March 23, 2006 NRC MEETING MARCH 29 - 30 TO DISCUSS WORKER FATIGUE RULES, APPLYING DRUG-TESTING RULES TO CONSTRUCTION PERSONNEL Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet with interested stakeholders at the agencys Rockville, Md., headquarters on March 29 and 30 to discuss alternatives to work-hour limits and concepts for applying the agencys fitness-for-duty requirements to nuclear power plants under construction.

The meeting will be held in the Auditorium at Two White Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 29 and 9 a.m. to noon on March 30.

The meeting will include separate discussions of the proposed fatigue-management rules, the proposed resolutions for the drug and alcohol-testing provisions and implementation guidance for the fatigue-management rules. The public is encouraged to ask questions throughout the meetings. There will be a limited number of telephone lines available each day for interested members of the public to participate via a toll-free teleconference. On March 29, the phone number will be 800-638-8081 and the pass code will be 9516#. On March 30, the phone number will be 800-475-0212 and the pass code will be 48994.

The meeting agenda is available on the agencys web site at this address:

http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/idmws/ViewDocByAccession.asp?AccessionNumber=ML060650535 .

For more information on the meeting, contact David Diec at 301-415-2834 (via e-mail at dtd@nrc.gov ), Dave Desaluniers at 301-415-1043 (via e-mail at drd@nrc.gov ), or Tim McCune at 301-415-6474 (via e-mail at tsm5@nrc.gov ).