[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 151 (Wednesday, August 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42269-42270]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20654]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Joint Meeting of the
ACRS Subcommittees on Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Plant Operations,
and on Fire Protection; Notice of Meeting
The ACRS Subcommittees on Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Plant
Operations, and on Fire Protection will hold a joint meeting on August
28 and 29, 1997, 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:
Thursday, August 28, 1997--8:30 a.m. until the conclusion of business
Friday, August 29, 1997--8:30 a.m. until the conclusion of business
The Subcommittees will continue their review of matters included in
the Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM) dated May 27, 1997: (1)
Acceptance criteria for plant-specific safety goals and deriving lower-
tier acceptance criteria; and (2) the use of uncertainty versus point
values in the PRA-related
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decisionmaking process. The Subcommittees will review the proposed
action plan to improve the Senior Management Meeting process and the
voluntary approach proposed by the industry for reporting reliability
and availability information for risk-significant systems and
equipment. The Subcommittees will also review the NRC program for risk-
based analysis of reactor operating experience, as well as the results
of special studies performed by the staff (e.g., auxiliary feedwater,
Westinghouse reactor protection systems, loss of offsite power,
initiating events, reactor core isolation cooling, high pressure core
injection, fire events, etc.). 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
Subcommittees, their 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 Subcommittees, along
with any of their consultants who may be present, may exchange
preliminary views regarding matters to be considered during the balance
of the meeting.
The Subcommittees 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 31, 1997.
Sam Duraiswamy,
Chief, Nuclear Reactors Branch.
[FR Doc. 97-20654 Filed 8-5-97; 8:45 am]
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