Employee Meeting - NRC
Employee Meeting - NRC
Employee Meeting - NRC
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when I disagree with something that the staff is proposing because I<br />
believe I owe it to you to explain the reasons why I disagree. So, that<br />
takes a little longer. I want to discuss it with my staff, with the staff that<br />
wrote the SECY, and my colleagues. So, that is sometimes a delaying<br />
factor.<br />
COMMISSIONER MAGWOOD: Well, I guess I'll bat<br />
cleanup. See, I'm still in baseball mode.<br />
(Laughter.)<br />
Oh, by the way, congratulations to the Red Sox fans.<br />
I hope you choke on it.<br />
(Laughter and applause.)<br />
One thing I would add is I agree with all the comments<br />
you have heard, but let me give you a couple of perspectives.<br />
First, my observation is the Commission actually works<br />
pretty efficiently through most votes. I think that when votes come to<br />
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us, we work through them.<br />
And some happen more quickly than<br />
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others; there is no question of that.<br />
As Commissioner Ostendorff pointed out, filtered<br />
vents, for example, was one that was extremely complicated and one<br />
that we spent a lot of time dialoguing with each other, talking to outside<br />
experts, talking to staff. I can't even count how many meetings I had<br />
with people on filtered vents. So, that was the good example of one<br />
that took a while, but these things take as long as they take sometimes.<br />
There is, however, the occasional paper that<br />
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languishes.<br />
thought to.<br />
And I think that is something we ought to give some<br />
There are these occasional papers that come to the
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