Mission Statement: The Vision of the NQA Committee is that: "NQA-1 to be globally recognized as the world class quality standard that organizations want to adopt because using it gives them a competitive advantage in the achievement of quality results." The Committee on Nuclear Quality Assurance is responsible for developing, managing, and/or coordinating quality assurance (QA) related codes and standards applications for siting, design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities. ASME NQA-1 covers the Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications. This standard is included by reference in the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel (BPV) Code and other national standards, such as ANS-3.2. While the NQA-1 Standard can stand alone on its own merits as the definitive Quality Assurance standard, its use is promulgated principally through endorsement and adoption by others. Recognizing that the 1997 Edition of NQA-1 was a significant change in the format and arrangement, most of the recent effort of the Committee has gone into engaging stakeholders and the major parties for endorsement. Roundtable discussions have been held on what has been added and strengthened since the last NRC endorsement (1983 with Addenda 1a) and what has been de-emphasized. The resulting list of differences is being used by the Committee as an input to planning for future addenda and will help those responsible for endorsement decide how to qualify endorsement. Another initiative underway is the endorsement of the latest edition of NQA-1 in all ASME nuclear codes and standards (NCS), such as BPVC Sec. III, so that QA requirements for all NCS can be found in a single NQA-1 edition. The target for completion of this task is Spring of 2001. The NQA Committee continues to attract new participants with four more utility members and three non-traditional/non-nuclear users joining the committees in the last year. As life-extension, decommissioning, and waste disposal projects continue to be initiated, NQA-1 is providing requirements that reflect not only lessons learned from 30 years of nuclear power experience, but also emergent technology issues such as software QA. Meetings are open to the public.