Meeting of the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@icx.net>]

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) yesterday
published the following notice in the US Federal
Register related to "Meeting of the Interagency Steering
Committee on Radiation Standards" on June 13, 2000:

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Federal Register: May 30, 2000 (Volume 65,
Number 104).

Section: Notices
Agency: NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title: Notice of a Public Meeting of the Interagency
       Steering Committee on Radiation Standards
Action: Notice of public meeting.
Page: 34508-34509

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Notice of a Public Meeting of the Interagency Steering
Committee on Radiation Standards

AGENCIES: Nuclear Regulatory Commission and U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) will hold a meeting of the Interagency Steering
Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS) on June
13, 2000. The purpose of ISCORS is to foster early
resolution and coordination of regulatory issues
associated with radiation standards.

Agencies represented on ISCORS include the NRC;
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; the U.S.
Department of Defense; U.S. Department of Energy;
U.S. Department of Labor's, Occupational Safety and
Health Administration; U.S. Department of
Transportation; and the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Service. Representatives of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Science
Technology Policy (OSTP), and of the States are
observers at meetings.

The objectives of ISCORS include:

   (1)  Facilitating a consensus on acceptable levels of
        radiation risk to the public and workers;

   (2)  Promoting consistent risk assessment and risk
        management approaches in setting and
        implementing standards for occupational and
        public protection from ionizing radiation;

   (3)  Promoting completeness and coherence of
        Federal standards for radiation protection; and

   (4)  Identifying interagency issues and coordinating
        their resolution.

ISCORS meetings involve pre-decisional,
intra-governmental discussions and, as such, are not
normally open for observation by members of the public
or media. However, summary meeting notes are
available at the ISCORS website:

         http://www.iscors.org .

ISCORS meets approximately once each calendar
quarter.

DATES: The meeting will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on
Tuesday, June 13, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the NRC
Auditorium at Two White Flint North, 11545 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions
with respect to this action should be referred to Patricia
A. Santiago, Division of Waste Management, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission at (301) 4157269; fax
3014155398; E-mail pas2nrc.gov; or Behram Shroff,
Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency at (202) 5649707; fax 2025652065;
E-mail shroff.behramepa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Visitor parking
around the NRC building is limited; however, the
workshop site is located adjacent to the White Flint
Metro Station on the Red Line. Seating for the public
will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of May,
2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

John T. Greeves,
Director, Division of Waste Management, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

[FR Doc. 0013456 Filed 52600; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 759001P

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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director
Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee, Inc.
136 S Illinois Ave, Ste 208, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Phone (865) 483-1333; Fax (865) 482-6572; E-mail loc@icx.net 
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