PURPOSE:

To provide the Commission with a description and results of the staff’s strategic assessment of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) low-level radioactive waste (LLW) regulatory program. The results of this strategic assessment include a prioritized listing of ongoing and future staff actions and activities, along with associated schedules and resource estimates. This paper does not address any new commitments.

SUMMARY:

In this paper, the NRC staff provides the results of its strategic assessment of the agency’s LLW regulatory program, along with a description of the process used to perform the assessment. Twenty potential activities that the staff could undertake to improve the LLW regulatory framework were evaluated and prioritized. The staff ranked 7 of these as high priority. The enclosed report provides a detailed discussion of the strategic assessment process and results.