Agenda for the 2017 National State Liaison Officers Conference

Tuesday, September 26, 2017
7:45 – 8:00	Registration
8:00 – 8:05	National Anthem
8:05 – 8:10	Welcome and Opening Remarks, Daniel S. Collins, Director of the Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal, and Rulemaking Programs
8:10 – 8:15	Agenda and Logistics
8:15 – 8:30	NRC and State Introductions
8:30 – 9:15	Update from the Director of the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Marc Dapas
9:15 – 9:35	BREAK
9:35 – 11:15	Panel: Current Radioactive Materials Topics The National Materials Program – Angela Leek Non-Military Radium – Richard Chang NORM/TENORM – David Allard Source Security – Ernesto Quinones
11:15 – 11:45	Address: Frederick J. Brown, Deputy Executive Director for Materials, Waste, Research, State, Tribal, Compliance, Administration, and Human Capital Programs
11:45 – 1:00	LUNCH
1:00 – 2:40	Panel: Cybersecurity and Grid Stability NRC Cyber Security Regulatory Overview – James Beardsley Framework for Improving Critical Infrastucture Cybersecurity – Jeffrey Marron
2:40 – 3:00	BREAK
3:00 – 3:30	Address: Commissioner Jeff Baran
3:30 – 5:00	Panel: Radiological Emergency Preparedness Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Preparedness – Robert Kahler Potassium Iodide and Thyroid Cancer – What We've Learned, and EPA PAGs 2017 – Patricia Milligan

Wednesday, September 27, 2017
7:15 – 7:45	Optional Tour of the NRC's Headquarters Operations Center
8:00 – 8:05	Welcome Back and Agenda – Daniel S. Collins, Director of the Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal, and Rulemaking Programs
8:05 – 9:30	Panel: High Level Waste Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations – Rhex Edwards Overview of NRC's Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Program – Tony Hsia Tribal Perspective on Spent Fuel Management – Heather Westra
9:30 – 9:55	Presentation: Demystifying the Adjudicatory Process, the Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication – Brooke Clark
9:55 – 10:15	BREAK
10:15 – 11:35	Panel: Transportation of Radioactive Material & the NRC's Advance Notification Regulations Introduction to Transportation of Radioactive Material in Type B Packages – David Pstrak NRC Transportation Security Requirements for Spent Nuclear Fuel – Gerard Jackson Handling of Advanced Notifications in South Carolina – Crispulo Isiminger Handling Advanced Notifications in South Carolina and Beyond – Captain Monty Coats RAM and SNF Transport in Pennsylvania – David Allard
11:35 – 12:50	LUNCH
12:50 – 2:10	Panel: Reactor Decommissioning Overview of the Reactor Decommissioning Program – John Hickman Regional Perspective on Decommissioning – Jack Giessner Transitioning to Decommissioning Rulemaking – Alysia Bone
2:10 – 2:40	Address: David A. Castelveter, Director of the NRC's Office of Public Affairs
2:40 – 3:00	BREAK
3:00 – 4:00	The NRC’s Intelligence Activities and the Protected Web Server, NRC Intelligence Liaison and Threat Assessment Team
4:00 – 4:45	E-mailing and Transmitting Sensitive Information – Michael Mangefrida
4:45	Questions and Discussion
5:00	Closing Remarks and Adjourn

Thursday, September 28, 2017
Two optional training offerings:
8:00 a.m – 11:30 a.m.	Workshop: Small Modular Reactors, Advanced Reactors, and Other Nuclear Technology; and the Emergency Preparedness Rulemaking U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Activities Related to the Establishment of Domestic Molybdenum-99 Production – Steven Lynch Small Modular and Advanced Non-Light Water Reactors – Nishka Devaser and Arlon Costa Emergency Preparedness Rulemaking on Decommissioning and Small Modular Reactors and Other New Technologies – Edward Roach
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.	Response Technical Tools for Core Damage Assessment

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