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Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2006 -- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will hold a joint meeting in January 2007 at the headquarters of the NRC.
The NRC and FERC signed a memorandum of agreement on September 1, 2004 to facilitate interactions between the two agencies on matters of mutual interest pertaining to the nation's bulk power system reliability.
Earlier, on April 24, 2006, the two agencies held a joint meeting at the headquarters of FERC to begin dialogue in furtherance of the goals set forth in the September 1, 2004 FERC-NRC memorandum of agreement. That meeting included presentations by staff of both agencies and initiated a series of questions to be answered by the respective agencies that addressed grid reliability issues and the roles of the agencies in addressing those issues.
The format for the joint meeting will be discussions between the two sets of commissioners following presentations by their respective staffs. In addition, representatives of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) may attend and participate in the meeting.
A free webcast of this event will be made available through the NRC web site, at www.nrc.gov. In addition, the event will be transcribed and the transcription will be made available through the NRC web site approximately three business days after the meeting.
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