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           UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                   WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

                                    FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                    Expected at 10:00 a.m.
                                    Tuesday, April 29, 1980

                        STATEMENT OF
                  J. DEXTER PEACH, DIRECTOR
                ENERGY AND MINERALS DIVISION
                         BEFORE THE
          SENATE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS  5tj &b   o
                             PLAN NO. 1 OF 1


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:

     We appreciate the opportunity to be here to present our

views on the President's plan for reorganizing the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission.

     The Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, which created

NRC, required GAO to report to the Congress by January 19,

1980, on NRC's effectiveness and efficiency in regulating

commercial nuclear activities. On January 15, 1980, we is-

sued our report entitled The Nuclear Regulatory Commission;

More Aggressive Leadership Needed. Let me emphasize that

the report represents GAO's assessment of NRC's performance

in regulating a wide range of nuclear activities over its

first 5 years of existence, as contrasted to other recent

investigations of NRC, which focused primarily on circum-

stances related to the accident at the Three Mile Island

nuclear powerplant.

     We concluded that a lack of leadership by the NRC Com-

missioners has been a major factor in NRC's slow, indecisive,





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