ML033290467

Status of Licensing Support Network Expansion Activities and Request to Provide Information Regarding Any Material Document Collection Changes

ML033290467
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Issue date:	11/21/2003
From:	Graser D Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
To:	Adams M, Bates A, Berlien C, Bollwerk G, Elizabeth Bowlin, Bradshaw L, Briggs W, Cain T, Cameron F, Ciocco J, Clark R, Culverwell E, Egan J, Ezra E, Fiorenzi L, Gandi J, Garcia K, Hellstrom G, Irish R, Margie Janney, Andrea Johnson, Kalt A, Kolkman D, Kraft S, Leake H, Linehan J, Little C, Steven Lynch, Massey R, Scott(Ois) Morris, Murphy M, Nartker T, O'Mealia M, Pegues J, Pitchford L, Pitts J, Raynolds C, Reamer C, Reich V, Remus A, Robertson L, Schmit M, Schrecongost J, Serepca B, Taghva K, Tiesenhausen E, Treichel J, Joseph Turner, Underhill R, Vanderpuy M, Annette Vietti-Cook, Jay Wallace, Warriner D, Weiser J, Wells B, Whetstine J, Wooley J, Matt Young City of Las Vegas, NV, Clark County, NV, Eureka County, NV, Inyo County, CA, Lincoln County, NV, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, NRC/OGC, NRC/OIG, NRC/SECY, Nuclear Energy Institute, Nye County, NV, State of NV, US Dept of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency, White Pine County, NV
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November 21, 2003TO:LSNARP Members(See Attached List)FROM: Daniel J. Graser /RA/Licensing Support Network Administrator

SUBJECT:

Status of Licensing Support Network Expansion Activities and Request toProvide Information Regarding Any Material Document Collection ChangesIn light of the planned December 9, 2003, Licensing Support Network Advisory Review Panel(LSNARP), I wanted to provide you with current status information regarding Licensing Support Network (LSN) operations and reiterate again the need for the parties and potential parties to the possible adjudicatory proceeding relating to the Yucca Mountain high-level waste repository construction authorization to keep us apprised of any material changes in their document

collections.1. Status of LSN Resizing Effort. As reported at the June 2003 LSNARP meeting, the LSNstaff began work last summer to expand LSN system capacity to hold up to 40 million pages of text information. That expansion (which includes an increase in the speed with which the system spiders or creates document collection indices) was based on planning information provided by the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff. In that update, the DOE forecast included a ten-fold increase in the number of documents and NRC reported an approximately 10% increase in the volume estimates originally submitted in 1999. Together, the increased number of documents vastly exceeded the original 15 million page high end estimates for LSN capacity. Subsequent canvassing of other parties and potential parties indicated no other significant variation in the estimated number of documents and pages in their document collections that could not be accommodated within the 40 million page upper boundary of the resized LSN configuration. Based on that information, the LSNA was able to obtain the agency funding needed for system expansion. Work on LSN expansion is now actively under way. Complete re-architecting of the LSN serverconfiguration and database structures, the installation of an updated version of the AutonomyŽ text search engine, and an enhancement in the speed of the system's spidering capabilities are planned and should be concluded in January 2004. Of note, it is expected that there will be a two-to-three week period during installation of the new system when the LSN will not be available for search and retrieval or for the addition of any new documentary materials.

Accordingly, parties and potential parties thus are advised to plan their document loading and case preparation activities around a late January 2004 interruption in LSN availability. 2. Need to Keep LSNA Apprised of Material Changes Regarding Party/Potential PartyDocument Collections. As our current resizing effort illustrates, close, ongoing coordination by HLW proceeding parties and potential parties with the LSN staff about the size of party/potentialparty document collection is essential. The NRC relies on the parties/potential parties to provide official notification of any anticipated material changes in load schedules, document/page volumes, or document collection server configuration. Given the lead times involved in federal government budget/procurement processes and the complexities of technology insertion, failure by any of the LSN program entities promptly to communicate, update, or routinely validate key planning assumptions could be detrimental to the overall success of the LSN. Therefore, party/potential party LSNARP representatives are urged tonotify the LSNA immediately if there have been any material changes to their organization

'splanned document collection since June 2003 (e.g., size increase of more than 5 percent).As you may be aware, the proposed revisions to 10 C.F.R. Part 2, Subpart J, that will be amajor topic of the December 2003 LSNARP meeting include discussions of relevancy categorization, opportunities for eliminating duplication of entry by multiple parties, ongoing addition of materials to the LSN, and a new category of excluded material. If the proposed revisions are adopted by NRC, any combination of these factors could affect the number of documents each organization plans to make available via the LSN. As a consequence, we anticipate a discussion during the December 2003 LSNARP meeting in Las Vegas regarding each party

's planned volume of documents, and the confidence each has in its currentestimates in light of the proposed revisions to Subpart J.The LSNA has an obvious interest in understanding as soon as possible how those revisionswill affect party/potential party current document collection estimates. The LSNA

's semiannualreport to the Commission will be compiled in January 2004 and will include an assessment of the progress of the agency and the parties/potential parties toward the milestone certification dates that will occur within the next year under the current DOE schedule for application submission. Should sufficient and reliable planning information not be available at that time, the

LSNA's semiannual report will identify that as an item that enhances the risk to successful LSNoperation. Moreover, after the planned December 2003 LSNARP meeting, the LSNA will continue to canvass the parties/potential parties seeking confirmation of the size, loading schedule, and server configuration for the document collection each plans to make available. Parties and potential parties wishing to update information about size or other aspects of theirdocument collection should contact the LSNA via e-mail at djg2@nrc.gov or via phone at (301)415-7401.

Memorandum to LSNARP Members dated November 21, 2003Ray Clark, EPAMarta Adams, State of NevadaDavid Warriner, DOEChris BerlienElaine EzraAndrew Remus, Inyo County Karrie L. GarciaJudy Treichel Tony CainRex Massey Eve CulverwellAlan Kalt, Churchill County Jimmie Pegues, City of Las VegasMalachy Murphy, Nye County Engelbrecht vonTiesenhausen, Clark County C. Little, Nye CountyLes Bradshaw, Nye County Kazem Taghva, UNLVLoreen Pitchford Leonard Fiorenzi, Eureka CountyAbby Johnson Steve Frishman, State of NevadaSusan Lynch, State of Nevada Mike O'Mealia, State of NevadaBob Wells, DOEJason Pitts, Lincoln & White PineTom Nartker, UNLV Debra KolkmanSteven Kraft, NEI Jake Wooley, DOEJerome Weiser, DOE Jill Schrecongost, DOEAnnette Vietti-Cook, SECY Francis Cameron, OGCMitzi Young, OGC Paul Bollwerk, ASLBPJack Whetstine, ASLBP Beth Serepca, OIGElizabeth Bowlin, OIG Joseph Turner, ASLBPMargie Janney, ASLBP Matthew Schmit, ASLBPRebecca Underhill, OIG R. Irish III, OIGAndrew Bates, SECY C.W. (Bill) Reamer, NMSSJeff Ciocco, NMSS John Linehan, NMSSJRS1 Joseph Egan, State of NevadaVictoria Reich, NWTRB William Briggs, State of NevadaJohn Gandi, DOE Jackie WallaceCathy Reynolds, DOE George Hellstrom, DOEHarry Leake, DOE Jake Wooley, DOELew Robertson, DOE Mark Vanderpuy, DOESheryl Morris, DOE