The Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee
Notice of Plant Tour and Public Meeting
Notice Is Hereby Given that on June 21, 2006, at 8:00 A.M., the members of the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee (“DCISC”) will conduct an inspection tour of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant (“DCPP”). This tour, which will take approximately three hours, will be open to the public on a limited basis. Because the plant is an operating nuclear power plant the number of participants was limited and space was assigned on the basis of prior reservation taken on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to those persons who were not accommodated on previous DCISC inspection tours. Prior clearance of all public attendees was required in compliance with rules of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”).
Following the tour, or in the alternative if security considerations preclude the public tour on June 21st, the DCISC will convene an informal question and answer session at the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (“PG&E”) Community Center, 6588 Ontario Road, San Luis Obispo.
Notice is hereby further given that on June 20-21, 2006, at the Cliffs Resort conference facility, 2757 Shell Beach Road, Shell Beach, California, a public meeting will be held by the DCISC in four separate sessions, at the times indicated, to consider the following matters:
- Morning Session - (06/20/2006) - 8:30 A.M.
- Opening comments and remarks; receive Public Comments and Communications to the Committee; approve minutes of February 15-16, 2006 public meeting; discussion of administrative matters, including review of PG&E’s Revised Response to Recommendation R05-5 of the DCISC 15th Annual Report on the Safety of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Operations for the period July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005; update on financial matters and activities during 2006; review of the Open Items and Guidelines Lists; nomination and election of a Chair and Vice-Chair for a term July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2007; reports by Committee members, consultants and legal counsel; receive, approve and authorize transmittal of Fact-finding Reports to PG&E; and review of Committee Correspondence and documents received.
- Afternoon Session - (06/20/2006) - 1:30 P.M.
- Comments by Committee members; receive Public Comments and Communications to the Committee; receive informational presentations requested by the Committee from PG&E on topics relating to plant safety and operations, including a presentation on the results of the thirteenth Refueling Outage for Unit-2 (2R13); a report on the reactor head, bottom and internals inspection during 2R13 and the status of reactor head replacements; results of the inspection of the steam generators during 2R13 and status of replacements for both units; and the 2R13 “As Low As Reasonably Achievably” (ALARA) Program and radiation exposure results.
- Evening Session - (06/20/2006) - 5:30 P.M.
- Committee Member Comments; receive Public Comments and Communications to the Committee; consideration of further informational presentations from PG&E on topics relating to DCPP safety and operations, including recent NRC Notices of Violation, Licensee Event Reports, Non-cited Violation trends, and NRC performance indicators; an update on Security improvements; review of the remaining schedule for the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) and temporary spent fuel storage racks; Plant events, operational status and performance indicators; and review of the recent activities of PG&E’s Nuclear Safety Oversight and President’s Nuclear Advisory Committees.
- Public Tour of Diablo Canyon - (06/21/2006) - 8:00 A.M.
- See above
- Afternoon Session - (06/21/2006) - 1:30 P.M.
- Comments by Committee members; receive Public Comments and Communications to the Committee; consider further informational presentations from PG&E on topics relating to plant safety and operations, including the status of the NEXIS plant information system project; an overview of the Engineering Department including organizational structure, staffing, work load and work load management and Department challenges; a review of DCPP organization changes; wrap-up discussion by Committee members, and the scheduling of future site visits, study sessions and meetings.
The specific meeting agenda and the staff reports and materials regarding the above meeting agenda items will be available for public review commencing Friday, June 16, 2006, at the Reference Department of the Cal Poly Library in San Luis Obispo. For further information regarding the public meeting, please contact Robert Wellington, Committee Legal Counsel, 857 Cass Street, Suite D, Monterey, California, 93940; telephone: 1-800-439-4688 or read the agenda on line by visiting the Committee’s website at www.dcisc.org.
Dated: June 10, 2006