Notice2024-22052
NRC Implementation of the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024
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Published
September 26, 2024
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Abstract
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is implementing the requirements in the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024 (the ADVANCE Act, or the Act). The NRC plans to hold public meetings periodically to support the NRC's implementation of the ADVANCE Act.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 187 (Thursday, September 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78916-78917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22052]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2024-0166]
NRC Implementation of the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile,
Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is implementing
the requirements in the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced
Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024 (the ADVANCE Act, or the Act). The
NRC plans to hold public meetings periodically to support the NRC's
implementation of the ADVANCE Act.
DATES: This document was published in the Federal Register on September
26, 2024. Public meetings will be noticed in the NRC's Public Meeting
Notice System at least 10 days in advance of the scheduled meeting. The
NRC will not issue a separate Federal Register notice each time a
public meeting is scheduled.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shilp Vasavada, Office of the
Executive Director for Operations, telephone: 301-415-1228; email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#63300b0a0f134d3502100215020702230d11004d040c15"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b2e1dadbdec29ce4d3c1d3c4d3d6d3f2dcc0d19cd5ddc4">[email protected]</span></a>; or Aaron McCraw, Office of the Executive
Director for Operations, telephone: 630-829-9650; email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e8a9899a8786c6a58bab9a899fa8869a8bc68f879e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c081a1b2afaeee8da383b2a1b780aeb2a3eea7afb6">[email protected]</span></a>. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information
You may obtain publicly available information related to the NRC's
implementation of the ADVANCE Act by any of the following methods:
<bullet> NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at <a href="https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html">https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html</a>. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#623226304c3007110d17100107220c10014c050d14"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9fcfdbcdb1cdfaecf0eaedfcfadff1edfcb1f8f0e9">[email protected]</span></a>.
<bullet> NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f7a7b3a5d9a592849882859492b7998594d9909881"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6c3c283e423e091f03191e0f092c021e0f420b031a">[email protected]</span></a>
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or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
II. Background
The ADVANCE Act was signed into law by President Biden on July 9,
2024. The Act, which can be found at <a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s870/BILLS-118s870enr.pdf">https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s870/BILLS-118s870enr.pdf</a>, contains a variety of requirements
relevant to the NRC. They address a wide range of NRC activities, such
as the NRC's budgeting process, recruitment and retention of the NRC
workforce, reduced fee rates for advanced nuclear reactor applicants
and pre-applicants, the regulatory framework for advanced reactors and
fusion technology, as well as strategies to enhance the NRC's
efficient, timely, and predictable reviews of license applications. The
Act also requires the NRC to provide reports to Congress on various
topics. The NRC has initiated implementation of the Act and will be
taking additional actions to carry out the Act's provisions, including
requirements with deadlines over the course of the next few years.
III. Discussion
The ADVANCE Act requires the NRC to take a number of actions while
maintaining the NRC's core mission to protect public health and safety
and promote the common defense and security. The NRC is undertaking
multiple actions to implement the requirements of the ADVANCE Act and
meet the Act's various deadlines. The NRC will periodically hold public
meetings on the NRC's efforts to implement the ADVANCE Act. The NRC may
make preliminary material, such as white papers, available to support
stakeholder engagement during public meetings. If preliminary material
is released to support a public meeting on ADVANCE Act implementation,
information about the preliminary material will be included in the
corresponding public meeting notice. The information discussed at the
public meetings and any preliminary material made publicly available
may be incomplete in one or more respects; however, the NRC welcomes
diverse stakeholder feedback to inform its efforts to implement the
ADVANCE Act.
Public meetings to support the NRC's implementation of the ADVANCE
Act will be noticed in the NRC's Public Meeting Notice System at least
10 days in advance of the scheduled meeting. The NRC will not issue a
Federal Register notice each time a public meeting is scheduled. Please
monitor the public web page.
Feedback on the NRC's implementation of the ADVANCE Act can also be
provided via the publicly available feedback form on the NRC's ADVANCE
Act website at <a href="https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act/contactus.html">https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act/contactus.html</a>, or via email through <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4b0a0f1d0a05080e660a283f65192e38243e39282e0b253928652c243d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="94d5d0c2d5dad7d1b9d5f7e0bac6f1e7fbe1e6f7f1d4fae6f7baf3fbe2">[email protected]</span></a>.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information
that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your submission
provided through this feedback form or email address. The NRC will
enter the submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit
comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
Submissions received will be considered as part of the NRC's
implementation of the ADVANCE Act, and whether the NRC responds to the
submission may depend on the nature of the question or comment.
Submissions may be used or modified by the NRC in the NRC's
implementation of the ADVANCE Act without attribution to the author of
the submission.
Dated: September 23, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael King,
Special Assistant to the Executive Director for Operations, Office of
the Executive Director for Operations.
[FR Doc. 2024-22052 Filed 9-25-24; 8:45 am]
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