NRC: News Release - 2006-041 - NRC Meeting March 29 – 30 to Discuss Worker Fatigue Rules, Applying Drug-testing Rules to Construction Personnel


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No. 06-041

March 23, 2006

NRC MEETING MARCH 29 – 30 TO DISCUSS WORKER FATIGUE RULES,
APPLYING DRUG-TESTING RULES TO CONSTRUCTION PERSONNEL
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will meet with interested stakeholders at the agency’s Rockville, Md., headquarters on March 29 and 30 to discuss alternatives to work-hour limits and concepts for applying the agency’s fitness-for-duty requirements to nuclear power plants under construction.

The meeting will be held in the Auditorium at Two White Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 29 and 9 a.m. to noon on March 30.

The meeting will include separate discussions of the proposed fatigue-management rules, the proposed resolutions for the drug and alcohol-testing provisions and implementation guidance for the fatigue-management rules. The public is encouraged to ask questions throughout the meetings. There will be a limited number of telephone lines available each day for interested members of the public to participate via a toll-free teleconference. On March 29, the phone number will be 800-638-8081 and the pass code will be 9516#. On March 30, the phone number will be 800-475-0212 and the pass code will be 48994.

The meeting agenda is available on the agency’s web site at this address: http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/idmws/ViewDocByAccession.asp?AccessionNumber=ML060650535. For more information on the meeting, contact David Diec at 301-415-2834 (via e-mail at David.Diec@nrc.gov), Dave Desaluniers at 301-415-1043 (via e-mail at Dave.Desaluniers@nrc.gov), or Tim McCune at 301-415-6474 (via e-mail at Tim.McCune@nrc.gov).

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