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Future role for NRC?
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary H. Zeman" <ghzeman@lbl.gov>
To: <navrhoret@rad.usuhs.mil>
Cc: <navrho@rad.usuhs.mil>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: navrhoret: BOOKMARKED 10CFR35 FILE
Interestng to note that last week's appropriations bill conference report
included yet another tasking on external regulation (NRC and OSHA) of some
DOE labs. See below. Unanswered questions from previous pilot studies are
(1)
who will be the licensee (DOE or contractor)?, (2) how will accelerators be
covered (NRC or OSHA)?, and (3) What (if any) will be the role of Agreement
States
(now, later, never)?
Cheers,
Gary
EXTERNAL REGULATION
The Department is directed to prepare an implementation plan for the
transition to external regulation at the Department's
non-defense science laboratories. For the purpose of preparing this plan,
the Department should assume that the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) would take over regulatory responsibility for
nuclear safety at the Department's non-defense
science laboratories, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) would take over regulatory responsibility for worker safety at these
laboratories. The conferees expect the Department to coordinate with NRC and
OSHA, and to build upon the previous external regulation pilot programs, in
developing this plan. For planning purposes, external regulation would apply
to the five multiprogram and five single-purpose laboratories under the
Office
of Science, and the Department should assume external regulation to become
effective beginning in fiscal year 2004. The implementation plan for
external regulation is not to address nuclear weapons facilities,
environmental
remediation sites, or other Department laboratories, facilities, and sites.
The implementation plan should address all details necessary to implement
external regulation, including an estimate of the additional resources
needed by the
NRC and OSHA, corresponding reductions in funding and staffing at the
Department, specific facilities or classes of facilities for which external
regulation
cannot be implemented in a timely manner, necessary changes to existing
management and operating contracts, and changes in statutory language
necessary to effect the transition to external regulation.
This plan is due to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations by May
31, 2002. Note that this provision only
requires the Department to produce an implementation plan for external
regulation for a limited set of DOE facilities; the actual transition to
external regulation for those facilities will require additional legislative
direction.
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