Meetings: Advisory Committee On Reactor Safeguards

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Federal Register: August 22, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 164)

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards

In accordance with the purposes of Sections 29 and 182b of the

Atomic Energy Act (42 U.S.C. 2039, 2232b), the Advisory Committee on

Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) will hold a meeting on September 4-6, 2008, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The date of this meeting was previously published in the Federal Register on Monday, October 22, 2007 (72 FR 59574).

Thursday, September 4, 2008, Conference Room T-2b3, Two White Flint

North, Rockville, Maryland 8:30 a.m.-8:35 a.m.: Opening Remarks by the ACRS Chairman (Open)--

The ACRS Chairman will make opening remarks regarding the conduct of the meeting. 8:35 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: License Renewal Application and Final SER for the Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit 1 (Open)--The Committee will hear presentations by and hold discussions with representatives of the

NRC staff and Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation regarding the license renewal application for the Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit 1, and the associated NRC staff's final Safety Evaluation Report (SER). 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Draft Final Revision 1 to Regulatory Guide 1.131, ``Quantification of Safety-Related Cables and Field Splices for

Nuclear Power Plants'' (Open)--The Committee will hear presentations by and hold discussions with representatives of the NRC staff regarding the draft final revision 1 to Regulatory Guide 1.131 and the NRC staff's resolution of public comments. 1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: TRACE Computer Code Peer Review (Open)--The

Committee will hear presentations by and hold discussions with representatives of the NRC staff regarding the findings of the Peer-

Review Panel for the TRACE computer code and the staff's plans to address the Panel's findings. 3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.: Anticipated Advanced Reactor Research Needs

(Open)--The Committee will discuss the anticipated advanced reactor research needs and related matters. 4:30 p.m.-7 p.m.: Preparation of ACRS Reports (Open)--The Committee will discuss proposed ACRS reports on matters discussed during this meeting.

Friday, September 5, 2008, Conference Room T-2b3, Two White Flint

North, Rockville, Maryland 8:30 a.m.-8:35 a.m.: Opening Remarks by the ACRS Chairman (Open)--

The ACRS Chairman will make opening remarks regarding the conduct of the meeting. 8:35 a.m.-10 a.m.: Quality Assessment of Selected Research Projects

(Open)--The Committee will hear a report by and hold discussions with the ACRS Panels which performed the quality assessment of the NRC research projects on: FRAPCON/FRAPTRAN Code work at the Pacific

Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and NUREG/CR-6943, ``A Study of

Remote Visual Methods to Detect Cracking in Reactor Components.'' 10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.: Future Activities/Report of the Planning and

Procedures Subcommittee (Open/Closed)--The Committee will discuss the recommendations of the Planning and Procedures Subcommittee regarding items proposed for consideration by the full Committee during future

ACRS meetings and matters related to the conduct of ACRS business, including anticipated workload and member assignments. 11:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Reconciliation of ACRS Comments and

Recommendations (Open)--The Committee will discuss the responses from the NRC Executive Director for Operations to comments and recommendations included in recent ACRS reports and letters. 2 p.m.-7 p.m.: Preparation of ACRS Reports (Open)--The Committee will discuss proposed ACRS reports.

Saturday, September 6, 2008, Conference Room T-2b3, Two White Flint

North, Rockville, Maryland 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.: Preparation of ACRS Reports (Open)--The

Committee will continue its discussion of proposed ACRS reports. 12 p.m.-12:30 p.m.: Miscellaneous (Open)--The Committee will discuss matters related to the conduct of Committee activities and matters and specific issues that were not completed during previous meetings, as time and availability of information permit.

Procedures for the conduct of and participation in ACRS meetings were published in the Federal Register on September 26, 2007 (72 FR 54695). In accordance with those procedures, oral or written views may be presented by members of the public, including representatives of the nuclear industry. Electronic recordings will be permitted only during the open portions of the meeting. Persons desiring to make oral statements should notify the Cognizant ACRS staff named below five days before the meeting, if possible, so that appropriate arrangements can be made to allow necessary time during the meeting for such statements.

Use of still, motion picture, and television cameras during the meeting may be limited to selected portions of the meeting as determined by the

Chairman. Information regarding the time to be set aside for this purpose may be obtained by contacting the Cognizant ACRS staff prior to the meeting. In view of the possibility that the schedule for ACRS meetings may be adjusted by the Chairman as necessary to facilitate the conduct of the meeting, persons planning to attend should check with the Cognizant ACRS staff if such rescheduling would result in major inconvenience.

In accordance with Subsection 10(d) Public Law 92-463, I have determined that it may be necessary to close portions of this meeting noted above to discuss organizational and personnel matters that relate solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of the ACRS, and information the release of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(2) and (6).

Further information regarding topics to be discussed, whether the meeting has been canceled or rescheduled, as well as the Chairman's ruling on requests for the opportunity to present oral statements and the time allotted therefor can be obtained by contacting Mr. Girija

Shukla, Cognizant ACRS staff (301-415-6855), between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., (ET). ACRS meeting agenda, meeting transcripts, and letter reports are available through the NRC Public Document Room at pdr@nrc.gov, or by calling the PDR at 1-800-397-4209, or from the

Publicly Available Records System (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS) which is accessible from the NRC Web site at http:// www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html or http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc- collections/ACRS/.

Video teleconferencing service is available for observing open sessions of ACRS meetings. Those wishing to use this service for observing ACRS meetings should contact Mr. Theron Brown, ACRS Audio

Visual Technician (301-415-8066), between 7:30 a.m. and 3:45 p.m.,

(ET), at least 10 days before the meeting to ensure the availability of this service. Individuals or organizations requesting this service will be responsible for telephone line charges and for providing the

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equipment and facilities that they use to establish the video teleconferencing link. The availability of video teleconferencing services is not guaranteed.

Dated: August 18, 2008.

Annette Vietti-Cook,

Secretary of the Commission.

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