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EMD-80-118 1 (1980-09-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbai0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 ( -\. \ COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-200163 September 11, 1980 The Honorable Warren Magnuson Chairman, Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable Jamie Whitten 113307 Chairman, Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: iroposed Interim Consolidation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (EMD-80-118) This report responds to the July 2, 1980, supplemental appropriations conference report of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations. The conference report requires the General Accounting Office to review the proposed Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) interim consolidation plan, and to identify and evaluate other options which would enable presently dispersed NRC activities to be consolidated at an early date in a cost-effective manner. ____ An interim consolidation is planned pending completion of a permanent facility of sufficient size to house the entire NRC headquarters. In this regard, both the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation recently authorized the General Ser- vices Administration (GSA) to proceed with design and engineer- ing studies for a Federal building in Silver Spring, Maryland, to house all of NRC. NRC and GSA began efforts to obtain such a building several years ago. The impetus for the proposed interim consolidation derives from findings of investigations into the Three Mile Island nuclear powerplant accident. These investigations concluded that NRC's regulatory effectiveness is significantly impaired because the agency is housed in eight buildings in four geographic locations in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland. We also concluded in our recent assessment of NRC's overall performance over its first 5 years that the agency's scattered physical / 301 55 (301554)

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