W13 Backfitting and Forward Fitting

This session will provide perspectives from external stakeholders about the NRC’s backfitting and forward fitting policies. As the NRC focuses on updating its backfitting and forward fitting guidance with respect to recent policy making, this session will provide external stakeholder perspectives and challenges as they navigate through the backfit process. Topics will include backfitting, forward fitting, appeals, cost considerations, and stakeholder opportunities to provide input to various NRC decisions. This session will provide timely perspectives as the staff revises NUREG-1409, “Backfitting Guidelines.”

• Annie Caputo, Commissioner, OCM/NRC tel: 301-415-1855, e-mail: CMRCaputo@nrc.gov

   

• Introductory Remarks
  Annie Caputo, Commissioner, OCM/NRC
• Jerry Bonanno, Associate General Counsel, Nuclear Energy Institute
• Darani Reddick, Director, Regulatory Initiatives, Exelon Generation
• Backfitting: Maintaining the Momentum
  Thomas Poindexter, Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
• UCS Views on Backfitting and Forward-fitting Policy
  Edwin Lyman, Director of Nuclean Power Safety, Union of Concerned Scientists
• Timothy Reed, Senior Project Manager (ORL), Plant Licensing Branch 4, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, NRR/NRC

• Eva Brown, Senior Project Manager (ORL), Plant Licensing Branch II-2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, NRR/NRC tel: 301-415-2315, e-mail: Eva.Brown@nrc.gov