[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 131 (Monday, July 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35732-35733]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17293]
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
Notice of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Intent To
Conduct a Strategic Review of Its Radiological Emergency Preparedness
Activities
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce FEMA's intent to
conduct a strategic review of its Radiological Emergency Preparedness
(REP) activities and to request specific suggestions for accomplishing
this review.
DATES: Comments from the public on this review of the REP Program are
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encouraged and invited on or before August 22, 1996.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the Rules Docket
Clerk, Office of the General Counsel, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, room 840, 500 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20472;
(facsimile)(202) 646-4536.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: O. Megs Hepler, III, Director,
Exercises Division, Preparedness, Training, and Exercises Directorate,
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646-
2867.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of FEMA's REP Program, which was
established in 1979, is to protect the health and safety of the public
residing in the vicinity of a commercial nuclear power plant by
ensuring that all levels of government have planned and prepared for
their response to a possible radiological incident at the plant. As the
REP Program has matured, a number of REP Program stakeholders have
recommended that the program be restructured in order to become more
streamlined and efficient. In light of stakeholders' recommendations
and the fact that the REP Program has been in existence for over 16
years, FEMA intends to initiate a comprehensive strategic review of the
way its offsite radiological emergency planning and preparedness
responsibilities are performed.
This comprehensive strategic review will examine the various
mechanisms, policies, procedures, guidance documents, and processes now
used to carry out FEMA's REP Program, with a view to improving the
efficiency and effectiveness of the program by implementing new
policies, procedures, processes and guidance, if necessary. The review
will further National Performance Review goals, will be closely
coordinated with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and will
provide for extensive input from all stakeholders in the REP
community--States, utilities, Public Interest Research Groups,
interested citizens, other Federal agencies, Congress, etc. The
strategic review will also ensure that REP activities are consistent
with the current requirements of the Government Performance Review Act.
As a first step, FEMA is publishing this Federal Register notice
announcing its intent to conduct the comprehensive strategic review and
requesting comments from any interested parties. FEMA welcomes
suggestions as to approaches to take in performing this review, as well
as specific suggestions on how to streamline the REP program and make
it more cost-effective.
When submitting recommendations, commenters should note that the
resulting REP Program must still accomplish the program's original
mission, i.e., it must continue to ensure that measures can be taken to
protect the health and safety of the public in the vicinity of
commercial nuclear power plants in the event of a radiological
incident.
Dated: June 28, 1996.
James Lee Witt,
Director.
[FR Doc. 96-17293 Filed 7-5-96; 8:45 am]
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