[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 38475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18780]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Subcommittee Meeting on
Probabilistic Risk Assessment; Notice of Meeting
The ACRS Subcommittee on Probabilistic Risk Assessment will hold a
meeting on August 7, 1996, Room T-2B3, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland.
The entire meeting will be open to public attendance.
The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows:
Wednesday, August 7, 1996--8:30 a.m. until the conclusion of
business.
The Subcommittee will discuss risk-based inservice testing and
inservice inspection requirements, pilot applications for risk-informed
and performance-based regulations, and related matters. The
Subcommittee will also continue its discussion of issues identified in
the Staff Requirements Memoranda dated May 15 and June 11, 1996,
including: the role of performance-based regulation in the PRA
Implementation Plan; plant-specific application of safety goals; and
requirements for risk neutrality versus the allowance for acceptable
increases in risk. The purpose of this meeting is to gather
information, analyze relevant issues and facts, and to formulate
proposed positions and actions, as appropriate, for deliberation by the
full Committee.
Oral statements may be presented by members of the public with the
concurrence of the Subcommittee Chairman; written statements will be
accepted and made available to the Committee. Electronic recordings
will be permitted only during those portions of the meeting that are
open to the public, and questions may be asked only by members of the
Subcommittee, its consultants, and staff. Persons desiring to make oral
statements should notify the cognizant ACRS staff engineer named below
five days prior to the meeting, if possible, so that appropriate
arrangements can be made.
During the initial portion of the meeting, the Subcommittee, along
with any of its consultants who may be present, may exchange
preliminary views regarding matters to be considered during the balance
of the meeting.
The Subcommittee will then hear presentations by and hold
discussions with representatives of the NRC staff, its consultants, and
other interested persons regarding this review.
Further information regarding topics to be discussed, whether the
meeting has been cancelled or rescheduled, the Chairman's ruling on
requests for the opportunity to present oral statements and the time
allotted therefor can be obtained by contacting the cognizant ACRS
staff engineer, Mr. Michael T. Markley (telephone 301/415-6885) between
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (EDT). Persons planning to attend this meeting
are urged to contact the above named individual one or two working days
prior to the meeting to be advised of any potential changes to the
agenda, etc., that may have occurred.
Dated: July 18, 1996.
Sam Duraiswamy,
Chief, Nuclear Reactors Branch.
[FR Doc. 96-18780 Filed 7-23-96; 8:45 am]
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