PUBLIC COMMENTS NEEDED ON NUCLEAR WORKER DISCRIMINATION

[Susan Gawarecki <loc@ICX.NET>]

PUBLIC COMMENTS NEEDED ON NUCLEAR WORKER DISCRIMINATION

Environment News Service

http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jun2001/2001L-06-13-09.html



WASHINGTON, DC, June 13, 2001 (ENS) - The Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) Discrimination Task Group is holding a series of

public meetings nationwide this summer to solicit comments on draft

recommendations contained in its Discrimination Task Group Report. 



Designed to improve the agency's handling of complaints by nuclear

industry workers who allege that they have been discriminated

against by their employers after raising safety concerns, the draft

report contains some 40 preliminary recommendations. 



The NRC formed the Task Group last April to review the way the

agency handles discrimination complaints filed by nuclear industry

workers and to recommend possible changes to the agency's

regulations, enforcement policy, or other agency guidelines. After the

series of public meetings is held, the Task Group will develop final

recommendations for the Commission to consider. 



The public meetings will be held as follows: 



June 25 at the NRC's Technical Training Center, Chattanooga,

Tennessee (7 pm - 9 pm) 

July 11 at the agency's Region III offices, Lisle, Illinois (7 pm -

9 pm) 

July 12 at the Paducah Community College in Paducah, Kentucky (7 pm - 9

pm) 

August 9 at the San Luis Obispo Public Library, San Luis Obispo,

California (7 pm - 9 pm) 

August 14 at the Waterford Town Hall, Waterford, Connecticut

(7 pm - 9 pm) 

August 16 at the NRC's Two White Flint North building,

Rockville, Maryland, starting at 9:30 am



More information regarding the draft report and schedule changes is

available at: http://www.nrc.gov/OE. For those unable to attend one

of the public meetings, comments on the draft may be submitted by

August 17 at the same website. 



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Susan L. Gawarecki, Ph.D., Executive Director

Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee

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A schedule of meetings on DOE issues is posted on our Web site

http://www.local-oversight.org/meetings.html - E-mail loc@icx.net

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