(Dollars in Thousands, except whole dollars in narrative material) 1/Includes $5,350,000 for proposed FY 1978 pay raise supplemental. (Dollars in Thousands, except whole dollars in narrative material) 1/Includes $5,350,000 for proposed FY 1978 pay raise supplemental. (Dollars in Thousands, except whole dollars in narrative material) .$2,650 The supplemental request provides the resources to institute The major objectives of the program are: to perform effective (715) enhance confidence in licensee performance and reactor safety by: a. b. C. establishing greater NRC presence onsite at licensee facilities, increasing direct verification and independent measurement d. improving NRC review, evaluation and follow-up of licensee Under full program implementation, the NRC will assign inspectors Inspection and Enforcement (Dollars in Thousands, except whole dollars in narrative material) continued each operating site by FY 1980 with full implementation achieved in FY 1981. NRC will continue to conduct a balanced program of inspection involving not only onsite inspectors, but also regional office-based inspectors providing specialized technical support,and performance appraisal inspectors providing periodic independent appraisals of the resident inspector program performance. The implementation schedule recognizes the need to maintain a technically sound program during implementation, and is based on the ability of the organization to effectively and efficiently accommodate growth, while providing a two-year training pipeline for newly hired personnel. To begin implementation of this program in FY 1978, the Office of Inspection and Enforcement requires an additional 61 positions and $2,650,000 for personnel compensation and benefits, travel, administrative support, and program support. Upon approval, implementation will begin promptly with the reassignment of currently available inspectors to twenty selected reactor sites that warrant full-time coverage by virtue of performance history, the level of activity at the site, or because of proximity to clusters of 3 or more reactors. Fifty-five positions and $300,000 program support funding appraisal assignments. Program support funds will be used to contract for an independent evaluation of program implementation. The existing technical training program will be augmented with a rigorous, carefully planned and balanced program of alternating classroom, programmed self-instruction and on-the-job training lasting two years. To accomplish this, six positions and $200,000 program support funding are required. This training program will improve and refine basic technical and scientific skills and will facilitate assignment of the most qualified inspectors to reactor sites. Administrative support funding is required to provide for office The Resident Inspection Program combined with the additional 29-226 (Pt. 1) O 783 (Dollars in Thousands, except whole dollars in narrative material) NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION - continued Summary of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Estimates by Function Additional FY 1978 funding of $2,000,000 for contractual effort is essential for the NRC to a) meet the schedule necessary for the licensing reviews prerequisite to meeting the goal of having at least one operational high-level waste (HLW) repository by 1985 and b) develop a consistent national regulatory framework for all other radioactive wastes. With respect to the goal of having one HLW repository on line by 1985, the approved FY 1978 budget does not contain sufficient resources to meet an accelerated schedule for licensing this repository as requested by the President in October 1976. The supplemental funding will enable NRC to develop licensing tools (methodologies and procedures) for evaluating repository site development and facility design to allow NRC review of DOE applications for HLW repositories and of DOE repository licenses on a schedule which would satisfy the national goal of having a repository in operation by 1985. With regard to the NRC effort on other radioactive wastes, these added resources will be used to accelerate development of waste management regulations governing high-level wastes and also on Transuranic Wastes (TRU), Low-Level Wastes (LLW), and Uranium Mill Tailings. Included will be efforts on assessment methodology, licensing of the Department of Energy (DOE) high-level waste and transuranic waste repositories, and licensing of low level waste disposal sites. With the exception of repository operating and decommissioning criteria, draft performance standards for all phases of HLW/TRU management will be published and regulations governing |