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carries out its statutory responsibility for insurngtha nuclear
power reactors are constructed and op-erated in a manner consistent
witLpblic health and safety.
Our survey concerned how AEC Headquarters was managing the reactor
inspection program and how two AEC regional compliance offices,
Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and Berkeley, California, were implementing it.
As of June 30, 1972, 26 reactors were in operation, 51 were under
construction, and 66 were on order.
Electric utility companies authorized by AEC to construct or
operate nuclear power plants are commonly referred to as reactor
licensees. AEC's Division of Compliance was responsible for regulating
these licensees, but on April 25, 1972, while our survey was in process,
major organizational changes were made in AEC's regulatory organization,
and the functions of the Division of Compliance were transferred to the
newly cst ablished Directorate of Regulatory Operations.
Because of the many changes being made in the regulatory organiza-
tion, including the designation of new management officials, we decided
at the end of our survey not to proceed with a detailed review of those
areas which we thought needed further management attention but, instead,
to present our survey findings and recommendations to AEC officials so
they could take early corrective action.
On September 15, 1972, we orally presented our findings and
recommendations to the Director of Regulation and three of his top
management officials in the Directorate of Regulatory Operations. In
a letter dated November 22, 1972, the Director of Regulatory Operations
recognized the need for increased effort in each area of our findings
and stated that plans responsive to our recommendations had been developed.
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