The History of RECALL Web(SM)

In 1990, Certrec announced its RECALL(SM) Regulatory Research Product. Certrec personnel, with their strong utility licensing backgrounds, recognized that licensing and regulatory compliance had extreme needs for documentation and information retrieval. The original licensing process combined with the post-TMI years of activities resulted in significant regulatory information. The ability to quickly and thoroughly research the NRC's regulations and guidance did not exist. To address this need, Certrec developed the RECALL(SM) Regulatory Research Product, which, for the first time, allowed a real time, full text, electronic search of NRC's regulations and generic information. Certrec gained significant experience and expertise in document storage, conversion, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), text search, and computer management through this major project. The RECALL(SM) Regulatory Research Product was used by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Pacific Northwest Laboratories as their principal means of regulatory research for their initial writing of the Standard Review Plan for the Advanced Reactors.

RECALL Web(SM), a natural extension of the RECALL(SM) Regulatory Research Product, was introduced in 1998 to address expanding Internet technology. Developed and maintained on Certrec's secure Internet web servers, RECALL Web(SM) has grown from diskettes to gigabytes of research data. In addition to NRC's generic information and regulations, RECALL Web(SM) contains all federal regulations, the daily Federal Register and, the Department of Energy Orders. RECALL Web(SM) enjoys both national and international customers and is the most comprehensive regulatory research site available. It employs both document lookup by title and the fastest, most powerful real time full text search capability available.