ML18304A168

M181029: Scheduling Note and Slides - Transformation at the NRC (Public Meeting)

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SCHEDULING NOTE

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• TRANSFORMATION AT THE. NRC (Publi'c)

Purpose:

The purpose of the meeting is to provide the Commission with a discussion of the NRC staff's transformation recommendations and external stakeholders' views on transformation.

Scheduled: October 29, 2018 9:00 a.m.

Duration: Approx. 3 hours3.472222e-5 days <br />8.333333e-4 hours <br />4.960317e-6 weeks <br />1.1415e-6 months <br /> Location: Commis~ioners' Conference Room, 1st fl OWFN

• NRC Staff 15 mins.*

Dan Dorman, Acting Deputy Exe~cutive Director for Materials, Waste, Research, State, Tribal, Compliance, Administration, and Human

• Capital Programs Andrea Kock, Deputy Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and Waste Programs, NMSS Topic:

Overview of transformation initiatives and recommendations Commission Q & A 5 mins.

Panel 1 30 mins.

Maria Korsnick, President and Chief Executive Officer, 5 mins.

Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)

Dale Atkinson, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nuclear Officer, NuScale 5 mins.

Power, LLC .

Geoffrey H. Fettus, Senior Attorney, Nuclear, Climate & Clean Energy 5 mins.

Program, Natural Resources Defense Council Mark MacNichol, International Representative, International Brotherhood 5 mins.

of Electrical Workers

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Danny Bost, Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, .5mins.

Southern Nuclear

• Lee Cox, Chief; North Carolina Radiation Protection Section, Department 5 mins.

of Health and Human Services Topic:

• Perspectives on NRC Staff transformation recommendations

• Stakeholder suggestions for other ideas the agency should explore Commission Q & A 50 mins.

Break 5 mins.

Panel2 30 mins.*

Bryan Hanson, Senior Vice President, Exelon Generation, and 5mins.

President and Chief Nuclear Officer, E?<elon Nuclear Dr. Todd Allen, Senior Visiting-Fellow, Third Way 5 mins.

Jeff Semancik, Director, Radiation Division, Bureau of Air Management, 5mins.

Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

• Dave Lochbaum 5 mins.

Jose Emeterio Gutierrez, President and Chief Executive Officer, 5 mins.

Westinghouse Electric Company Heather Westra, Consultant, Prairie Island Indian Community . 5mins.

Topic: .

• Perspectives on NRC Staff transformation recommendations*

• Stakeholder suggestions for other ideas the agency should explore Commission Q & A 50 mins.

Discussion - Wrap-Up 5 mins.

• For presentation only and does not include time for Commission Q & A's .

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NRC Panel will Address the Following Topics

• Overview of Transformation Initiatives and Next Steps

• Stakeholder Feedback and Recommendations

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Modern Risk Informed Regulation Cannot Wait

• Our strong regulatory framework has served us well; the NRC mission will remain unchanged

• We need to integrate our strong safety culture, organization, and principles into a culture that embraces change

• There is a strong sense of urgency and energy that modern risk informed regulation can't wait

• The key transformational change is cultural

e Ongoing Actions and Next Steps

U.S.NRC United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Protecting People and the Environment Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs Andrea Kock, Deputy Director

e Building on Previous Success through Extensive Interaction with a Broad Range of Stakeholders

• Built on previous successes

• Solicited ideas from stakeholders

• Interacted with internal and external stakeholders

Stakeholder Input Shaped Common Themes and Recommendations

- Need for systematic and expanded use of risk and safety insights in decision-making

- Need for decision making that is not bound by current processes and focusses on timeliness as well as safety

- Need for more performance based regulations

- Need to permit licensees to make more changes to their facilities without NRC approval, while maintaining safety

The Staff's Recommendations to Achieve Modern Risk Informed Regulation

• Develop an agency-wide process, organizational tools, and endorsement to expand the systematic Use of qualitative and quantitative risk and safety insights in licensing to scale the level of reviews needed to make findings of adequate protection

• Revise 10 CFR 50.59 and other similar change processes to allow additional flexibility for licensees to make changes without prior NRC approval

• Initiate an optional performance-based, technology-inclusive regulation for non-light water reactors

• Initiate rulemaking to define performance-based, technology-inclusive criteria for the licensing of l&C systems and leverage additional development standards for digital systems

Acronyms

• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

• Instrumentation and Control (l&C)

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

• Regulatory Information Conference (RIC)

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I Design Certification Review-Successes

• Overall, review has progressed very well

- maintaining schedule for the bulk of the application

- excellent communication at all levels

• Leadership of NRO executives appreciated

- NRO August 29, 2018 memo (ML18240A410) clarifying review expectations

- open dialog on issues

• Key successes

- safety classification of electrical systems design

- control room and licensed operator staffing

- digital instrumentation and control platform PM-1018-62199 Revision: O NuScale Nonproprietary Copyright© 2018 by NuScale Power, LLC

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I Design Certification Review-Challenges

• Not consistently realizing benefit of design safety

- innovative design solutions to historic safety vulnerabilities seem to

'raise the regulatory bar' in some instances

- unreasonable level of application detail and depth of staff review, especially in areas of low safety significance

- review framework doesn't evaluate safety holistically

- inadequate/unclear consideration of risk in application and review processes

• Consequences

- innovative safety enhancements harder to get approved th~n less-safe alternatives that better fit existing regulations and guidance

- current review costs exceeding our estimate

- level of detail creates lifetime significant regulatory burden to manage licensing basis PM-1018-621 99 Revision: 0 NuScale Nonproprietary Copyright© 2018 by NuScale Power, LLC

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I Transformation Needs

• Risk-informed regulation

- NuScale experience illustrates how difficult this transformation will be

- existing framework, as currently implemented, is ill-suited for designs with significant departures from past safety concepts

- urgent need to address for new applications

• Clarify scope and level of detail required in applications/review

- both scope and content of application and review should be risk-informed

- "essentially complete" should be limited to the information necessary for safety finding

- limited review of operational programs at DCA stage

- disciplined review that considers the full regulatory framework, including downstream regulatory processes.

• NuScale provides opportunity to pilot these concepts

- some opportunities still exist in current review

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NRDC Comments on: SECY-18-0060 "ACHIEVING MODERN RISK-INFORMED REGULATION" Geoffrey Fettus Senior Attorney, Nuclear Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

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NRDC Comments on:

• "The Need for Cultural Transformation at the NRC"

• Recommended Transformation Initiative "Strategy to Transform the Agency licensing- Review Process"

• Recommended Transformation Initiative "10 CFR-50.59 and Similar Change Processes" NRDC

• Advanced Reactors

• Digital Instrumentation and Controls

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NRDC Comments on SECY-18-0060 Recommendation 1 .

uTransform the agency Hcensing review process by development of

• an agencywide process and organizational tools to expand the

• systematic use of qualitative and quantitative risk and .safety insights; thereby,* enabling staff to scale the scope of review and level of detail needed to make a finding of reasonable assurance of adequate protection, beginning w.ith the licensing reviews for NRDC

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• NRDC Comments on SECY-18-0060

.Recommendation 2 11 Revise 10 CFR 50.59 and other similar requirements to allow additional flexibility for l'icensees to make facility changes without

• . prior NRC _approval" NRDC October 29, 2018

NRDC Comments on SECY~18-0060 Recommendation 3 /

"Initiate an optional performance-based, technology-inclusive

• regulation for non-LWRsn NRDC.

October 29, 2018

NRDC Comme-nts on SECY-18-0060 Recommendation 4 "Initiate rulemaking to define high-level performance-based l&C safety design principles and develop associated regulatory guidance that docume*nts the acceptable standards that may be used to meet these principles" NRDC October 29, 2018

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• ONE TEAM. ONE VISION. ONE GOAL.

Transformation at the NRC Danny Bost Executive Vice President and CNO October 29, 2018 A Southern Nuclear A Georgia Power 1

Transformational Change (SECY-18-0060)

• Significant industry improvement in managing safety over last 30 years.

• Transformation opportunity in revising regulatory processes to be more efficient and effective both for the NRC and the industry.

• SECY-18-0060

• Step the in right direction

• Important to Part 50 and Part 52 licensees

.& Southern Nuclear .& Georgia Power Building the future of nuclear power in America

Transformational Change (SECY-18-0060)

• Applicability to Vogtle 3 and 4

• Improved understanding of safety margins

• Changes in design and process possible without impacting safety

• Vogtle 3 and 4 Regulatory Construction History

• Under construction for 6 ~ years since first safety-related rebar

• Excellent regulatory compliance record

• Site focus on assuring compliance

• Expand Vogtle 3 and 4 initiatives to formal pilot

• Spotlight on risk-informed decision-making in context of reasonable assurance of adequate protection.

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Transformational Change (SECY-18-0060)

Vogtle 3 and 4 Risk-Informing Opportunities

• NRC inspection consolidation

• License amendment level of effort

• Part 52 & AP1000 changes based on recognition of limited safety impact Excellent Compliance History Merits Resource Reduction A.. Southern Nuclear -4.. Georgia Power Building the future of nuclear power in America

NC Department of Health and Human Services NC Perspective on NRC Transformation Recommendations W. Lee Cox, Ill Chief, Radiation Protection Section October 29, 2018

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Reflection on Transformation

• Similarities, Comparisons, and Lessons Learned

- Reinvention

- Focused on Agency Success

- Agency Success not a Priority for the Public or the Regulated Community

- Inclusion of Value-Added Regulatory

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Transformation Recommendations

• Define high-level performa.nce-based l&C safety design principles and develop associated regulatory guidance

- Less.Prescriptive/Increased Flexibility

- Leader/Champion for Change

- Reliance on Familiar/Obsolete Technology and Processes

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Transformation Recommendations

• Licensing Review Process

• Revise 10 CFR 50.59

• • Performance-Based, Technology-Inclusive Regulation for Non-LWRs.

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• Reduce the NRC Inspection Footprint When No Major Gaps are Identified

• Use of Rigorous Self-Assessments

• Incorporate* More Remote Review

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Closing

• Hurricane Florence

- Incorporation of Value-Added Oversight by Federal, State and Local E~tities to Facilitate the Startup of a Reactor to Provide Needed Power.

- No Losers = NRC Transformation Success NCDHHS, DHSR, Radiation Protection Section! NRC Transformation! October 29, 2018 7

Perspectives on NRC Transformation Commission Meeting October 29, 2018 Bryan Hanson Chief Nuclear Officer Exelon Generation

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Risk-Informed Decision-Making Plant safety and reliability are high PRA is one Margin to safety goals must guide Many element of a opportunities to risk-informed risk-informed improve use of decision-making decision-making framework PRA models framework Challenges with timely decisions on risk-informed initiatives Risk-informed decision-making improves safety 1 Exelon Generation.

Reactor Oversight Process Enhancements Revise ROP Action matrix to reflect normal plant operations, with baseline CDF between 10-5 and 10-6/year Close White findings upon successful completion of follow-up actions

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(1) more fidelity between risk and NRG/licensee response (2) better public understanding of relationship between ROP findings and true risk Reduce baseline inspections based on performance Additional proposals are set forth in Sept. 19, 2018 NE/ letter to Director _.....,, of NRR, Ho Nieh 2 ExelonGeneration

OPENING COMMENT The conversation from and about the NRC has improved greatly over the past few years. The trajectory is positive.

• Through its transformative efforts, the NRC has become decidedly more transparent, communicative, and flexible in its approach to the regulatory process and advanced reactor developers.

• A wide array of advanced reactor industry stakeho_ lders are highly engaged with the Commission, and have acknowledged its willingness to adapt and innovate in its procedures.

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THE ADVANCED NUCLEAR INDUSTRY

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WHAT SHOULD THE REGULATOR LOOK LIKE?

We ensure your 21st Century Nuclear is safe COMSECY 17-0006, "Re-examination of the Need for a U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Leadership Model," dated February 6,2017

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GRAND THEMES TO KEEP IN MIND

• Vendors, investors, & consumers of energy products need to believe that the NRC can regulate at the pace of commerce, while maintaining the continued protection of public health and safety, promoting the common defense and security, and protecting the environment

• Initiatives need to ensure the NRC can recruit and maintain a vibrant staff that embraces the transformation at all levels of the organization

• Changes in regulatory processes require a parallel engagement strategy that provides comfort to the public that the core mission of the NRC has not changed

ADVANCED NUCLEAR CAMPAIGN Todd Allen Senior Fellow, Third Way tallen@thirdway.org

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Transformation Success:

Narrowing the Gap Between Perception Reality and

• Dave Lochbaun, Self-Unen,ployed October 29, 2018

NRC has demonstrated proficiency at responding swiftly and effectively to unanticipated safety and security challenges (e.g., PWR CRDM nozzle cracking in spring 2001 and 9/11 later that year)

NRC c ,a n successfully apply that capacity to future challenges such as those listed in SECY-18-0060 BUT, and it's a big BUT:

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Year-Plu Date Date Outage Date Date Outage Outage Outage Length Outage Outage Length Reactor Began Ended (years) Reactor Began Ended (years)

Ferm, Urn 1 10/5/66 7 1 8/70 3.8 Surry Urn 2 9/10/88 9/19/89 1.0 Pahsades 8. 11173 10/1/74 1.1 Palo Verde Urn 1 3/5/89 7/5/90 1.3 Browns Ferry Urn 2 3 22/75 9/10/76 1.5 Calver Chf s Urn 2 3/17/89 5/4/91 2.1 Browns Ferry Urn 3/22/75 9/24/76 1.5 Calvert Chffs Urnt 1 5/5/89 10/4/90 1.4 Surry Urn 2 2 14/79 8, 9/80 1.5 F1 zPa rick 11 127/91 1/23/93 1.2 Three Mile Island Unit 1 2/17/79 10/9/85 66 Brunsmck Unit 2 /21/92 5/15/93 1.1 Turkey Point Urn 3 2/11/81 4 11/82 1.2 Brunswick Urnt I /21/92 2/11/94 1.8 San Onotre Unit 1 2 26/82 11, 28/84 2.8 South Te as Proiec 2/3/93 5/22/94 1.3

,le Pom Unit I 3/20/82 7/5/83 1.3 Unit 2 Nine Indian Point Unit 3 3;25/82 6/8/83 1.2 South Te as Pro1ect Unit 1 2/4/ 93 2/25/94 1.1 52 year-plus Oyster Creek 2/12/83 1 / 1/84 .7 Indian Point Urnt 3 /27/93 7/2/95 2.3 outages to St Lucie Urn 1 2/26/83 5/16/84 .2 Sequoyah Unit 1 3/2/93 4/20/94 1.1 Browns Ferry Unit 3 9'7/83 11/28/84 .2 Ferm, Unit 2 12/25/93 1/18/95 1.1 restore safety P1lgnm 12'10/83 2/30/84 1.1 Mame Yankee 1/14/ 95 1/18,'9 1.0 levels to Peach Bottom Unit 2 128/8 7 13/85 1.2 Salem Urn 1 5/16/95 4/20/98 29 Fort St. Vram 6/13/8 /11/86 1.8 Salem Urn 2 6.'7/95 8/30/97 2.2 acceptable Browns Ferry Urn 2 9 15/8,d 5/24/91 6.7 Millstone Unit 2 2/20/96 5/11/ 99 3.2 levels, 50 on Browns Fe ry Urn 3 3/9/85 11/ 19/95 10.7 Millstone Unit 3 3/30/96 7/1/98 2.3 Bro ms Fe ry Urn 3119/85 6, 12,'07 22.2 Crys al River Urn 3 9/2/9 2/6/98 1.4 NRC's watch Davis-Besse 6/9/85 12/24/86 1.5 Clinton 9/5/96 5/27/99 2.7 Sequoyah Urn 2 8 '22/85 5 3/88 2.7 LaSalle County Urn 2 9. 20/9 4/11 '99 2.6 Sequoyah Urn 1 8 22/85 1/10/88 3.2 LaSalle County Urn I 9/22/96 8/13/98 1.9 Rancho Seco 12/26/85 4/11/88 2.3 D.C. Cook Unit 2 9/9/97 6/25/00 2.8 P11Qnm , 11/ 86 6/15/89 3.2 D.C. Coo Urn 1 9/9/97 12/21/00 3.3 Peach Bottom Unit 2 3;31/87 5, 22/89 2.1 Davis-Besse 2/16/02 3/16/04 2. 1 Peach Bottom Urnt 3 3/31/87 12/11/89 2.7 Fort Calhoun 4/9/1 12/21/13 2.7 Nine 1le Pom Unit 12119/87 8/12/90 2.6 Source: UCS report No More Fort Calhouns!, February 2015. Online at http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/03/np-ft-calhouns-full-report.pdf? ga=2.196753579.62578069.1538585309-730957765.1502383429 3

Lessons from year-plus reactor outages:

1. Owners were not knowingly operating unsafe reactors, hoping not to get caught.

2. Owners were operating what they perceived to be sufficient safe reactors, but they were not.

3. The gap between perception and reality is reflected by the time required to re-close the gap.

4. 44 year-plus outages during the SALP years (1980-1999), an average of 2.2 per year

5. 2 year-plus outages during the ROP years (2000-date), an average of less than 0.11 per year

6. ROP narrowed the gap between perception and reality, thus preventing uncorrected safety problems from growing to the point where it takes longer than a year to remedy them once detected 4

Lessons from ROP for transformations:

1. Unintended consequences and initially correct deferral decisions undermined by changing landscapes need to be detected and corrected in a timely and effective manner.

2. Baseline gap-monitoring for non-transformation areas (aka back-burner issues) to guard against undue delays and cumulative effects of non-regulation.

3. To maximum extend practical, objective metrics needed to ensure desired outcomes are achieved without unintended consequences.

4. ROP is superior to SALP, but not infallible.

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Davis-Besse Perception (SALP)

PLANT NAME: DAV1S-BESSE REGION: 3 UNIT RPT ASSESSMENT PERIOD OPS MAINT ENG 03/95 . 07/01/93 - 01/21/95 I f~it~ l 1 *'" l:

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Davis-Besse Reality Reactor Radiation Safeguarr.

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NRC and industry are on the same page

( often the same sentence on the same page) for many risk calculations, such as:

1. Peak cladding temperatures during postulated loss of coolant accidents

2. Peak containment pressures during postulated steam line break accidents

3. Steam generator tube wall crack growth rates

4. Pipe wall thinning rates due to erosion/corrosion

5. Safety-related component failures to start and failures to run Unless both are wrong, tiny gap between perceptionandreality 9

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.My prime concern with transformations: .

Changes are not occurring in isolation, enabling progress towards desired outcome to be effectively monitored and mid-course corrections implemented, if necessary.

Instead, transformations are proposed concurrent with extensive changes to the ROP and other regulatory constructs.

Can performance shortfalls be readily and reliably detected when the yardsticks are all new without proven track* records?

I know the perception is yes, of course." But is that also the real answer?

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Gap management straw-pers-ons:

1. Annual self-evaluations by two NRC teams.

a) One team looking for evidence that desired outcomes have been achieved or are on-target to do so.

b) One team looking for evidence of unintended consequences from transformation initiatives and adverse consequences in non-transformation areas.

2. *Commission briefing and/or ACRS meeting with presentations by both teams 12

List of Acronyms ACRS - Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards *

. CDF - Core damage frequency CFR - Code of Federal Regulations CRDM - Control Rod Drive Mechanism ENG - Engineering MAINT - Maintenance NRC - ~uclear Regulatory Commission OPS - Operations PS - Plant Support (e.g., training, security, etc.-C...

PWR - Pressurized Water Reactor ROP - Reactor Oversight Process SALP - Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance 13

• @ Westinghouse 1

• Apply SECY-18-0600 recommendat_ions across all NRC business lines

- Use of risk information

- Embrace the Staff's sense .of urgency

• Westinghouse's current journey provides_ lessons learned

- External help is essential

- Operational tran_?parency leads to efficiency in execution

@ Westinghouse 2

• Change process (10 CFR 50.59) needs a risk-informed

'alternative

• License renewals and amendments

- Greater predictability in the scope and depth of review

• Reviews should be commensurate with safety significance

• Use the reasonable assurance standard .

• Commission policy on "forward fitting" new guidance

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• Predictable advanced reactor licensing

• @Westinghouse 3

• Sharing and evaluating budget execution data will promote efficiency gains

- Confirm staff time is spent on safety significant activities

- Analyze inspection data to drive program enhancements

- Improve understanding with external stakeholders The cultural discomfort that comes with change gives way to a healthier process

@Westinghouse 4

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@ Westinghouse 5

Transformation at the NRC Heather Westra Prairie Island Indian Community Welch, Minnesota October 29, 2018

Location Prairie Island Indian Community Minnesota Prairie Island Dakota Goodhue Wabasha Dodge Olmsted 'Mnona 2

3 Indian Reservations in the Continental United States Data Sources:

This map was compiled from unknown sources by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) at 1:2,000,000 scale.

Map Information:

Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area ; Scale 1:5645860 The numbers on the map represent the locations of Indian reservations. Please reference these numbers with the accompanying sheets entitled

" Indian Reservations- BIA/CAST 5/96 ".

The NRC and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes Encourage and facilitate Tribal involvement in the areas that the NRC has

• jurisdiction. Tribal Policy Statement~ 2017.

• _ NRC Tribal Policy Statement-fully integrated within NRC

• Trust Responsibility

• Government-to-Government Consultation

• *outreach to Tribes

• Understanding Tribal Counterparts 5

Recommendations NRC Tribal Policy Integrated Across all Program Areas.

• NRC staff familiar with Tribal Policy and Protocol Manu,;11

• Agency guidance documents includes tribes Recognition that Tribal Interests and Rights Extend Past Reservation Boundaries

• Consultation

• Ceded lands, aboriginal lands Include Cultural Risks in Analyses

• Recognize traditional cost-benefit models don't include potential impacts to tribal culture/traditions NRC Encourage Licensee Outreach to Indian Tribes

• Develop working relationship 6