[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 127 (Wednesday, July 2, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39600-39601]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16701]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Workshop on the Industry Initiating Events Performance Indicator 
for the Industry Trends Program

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of workshop.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is holding a workshop 
on issues related to the Industry Initiating Events Performance 
Indicator (IIEPI) for the NRC's Industry Trends Program (ITP). The 
public workshop is being held to discuss the technical approach and 
characteristics of the IIEPI.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Thomas H. Boyce, Inspection Program 
Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. 
Mr. Boyce may be reached at (301) 415-1130 or by e-mail at [email protected].

DATES: The workshop will be held on July 30, 2003, from 8:30 a.m. to 
2:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held in Room O-7B4 at the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission in the One White Flint North Building, 11545 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland.
    The workshop will focus on the technical approach and 
characteristics discussed in the draft report ``Development of an 
Integrated Industry Initiating Events Indicator.'' The draft report is 
available for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room located 
at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Public File Area O1 
F21, Rockville, Maryland, or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) 
component of NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System 
(ADAMS), (ADAMS  ML031750752). ADAMS is accessible from the 
NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html html (the Public 
Electronic Reading Room). For more information, contact the NRC Public 
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or 
by email to [email protected].
    Those who are unable to attend in person may send written comments 
on the draft report to: Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division of 
Administrative Services, Office of Administration, Mail Stop T6-D59, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Comments 
may be hand-delivered to the NRC at 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland, between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. Comments 
may be submitted by Email at [email protected]. All comments received by 
the Commission, including comments made by Federal, State, and local 
agencies, Indian tribes, or other interested persons, will be made 
available electronically at the Commission's PDR in Rockville, 
Maryland, or from the PARS component of ADAMS.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    The IIEPI is being developed as part of the NRC's Industry Trends 
Program (ITP) to provide a more risk-informed indicator of the industry 
safety performance of operating power reactors for initiating events. 
The indicators in the ITP are used by the NRC to report to Congress on 
industry safety performance as part of NRC's annual Performance and 
Accountability Report. Information on the ITP may be found in

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SECY-03-0057, ``FY 2002 Results of the Industry Trends Program for 
Operating Power Reactors and Status of Ongoing Development,'' which is 
available electronically on the NRC's Web page at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/secys/2003/.
    The draft technical report describes the technical approach and 
characteristics of the IIEPI, as well as an approach to establishing 
thresholds for the indicator. The following topics in the draft report 
will be discussed during the workshop:
    [sbull] Industry Trends Program and Framework for IIEPI
    [sbull] Technical Approach to IIEPI
    [sbull] IIEPI Characteristics
    [sbull] Technical Discussion
    [sbull] Implementation Discussion

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of June 2003.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stuart A. Richards,
Chief, Inspection Program Branch, Division of Inspection Program 
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-16701 Filed 7-1-03; 8:45 am]
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