Subpart 2001.1 - Purpose, Authority,

Issuance

Parent topic: PART 2001 - NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ACQUISITION REGULATION

SYSTEM

2001.101 Purpose.

This subpart establishes Chapter 20, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Acquisition Regulation

(NRCAR), and provides for the codification and publication of uniform policies and procedures for

acquisitions by the NRC. The NRCAR is not, by itself, a complete document. It must be used in

conjunction with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) (48 CFR chapter 1).

2001.102 Authority.

The NRCAR and the amendments to it are issued by the Senior Procurement Executive under a

delegation from the Executive Director for Operations dated May 16, 1997, in accordance with the

authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42. U.S.C. 161), the Energy Reorganization

Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5841, 5872), the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949

(40 U.S.C. 486(c)), as amended, FAR subpart 1.3, and other applicable law.

2001.103 Applicability.

The FAR and NRCAR apply to all NRC acquisitions of supplies and services which obligate

appropriated funds, unless exempted by Sections 31 and 161 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 as

amended, and Section 205 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 as amended. For procurements

made from nonappropriated funds, the Director, Division of Contracts and Property Management,

shall determine the rules and procedures that apply.

2001.104 Issuance.

2001.104-1 Publication and code arrangement.

(a) The NRCAR and its subsequent changes are:

(1) Published in the daily issue of the Federal Register; and

(2) Codified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

(b) The NRCAR is issued as 48 CFR chapter 20.
2001.104-2 Arrangement of the regulations.

(a) General. Chapter 20 is divided into parts, subparts, sections, subsections, paragraphs, and

further subdivisions as necessary.

(b) Numbering. The numbering system and part, subpart and section titles used in this Chapter

conform with those used in the FAR as follows:

(1) Where Chapter 20 implements the FAR or supplements a parallel part, subpart, section,

subsection, or paragraph of the FAR, that implementation or supplementation is numbered and

captioned to the FAR part, subpart, section, or subsection being implemented or supplemented,

except that the implementation or supplementation is preceded with a 20 or 200 so that there will

always be four numbers to the left of the decimal. For example, NRC's implementation of FAR

1.104-1 is shown as 2001.104-1 and the NRC's implementation of FAR 24.1 is shown as 2024.1.

(2) When the NRC supplements material contained in the FAR, it is given a unique number

containing the numerals “70” or higher. The rest of the number parallels the FAR part, subpart,

section, subsection, or paragraph it is supplementing. For example, Section 170A of the Atomic

Energy Act of 1954, as amended, requires a more comprehensive organizational conflict of interest

review for NRC than is contemplated by FAR 9.5. This supplementary material is identified as

2009.570.

(3) Where material in the FAR requires no implementation or supplementation, there is no

corresponding numbering in the NRCAR. Therefore, there may be gaps in the NRCAR sequence of

numbers where the FAR requires no further implementation.

(c) Citation. The NRCAR will be cited in accordance with Office of the Federal Register standards

approved for the FAR. Thus, this section when referred to in the NRCAR is cited as 2001.104-2(c).

When this section is referred to formally in official documents, such as legal briefs, it should be cited

as “48 CFR 2001.104-2(c).” Any section of the NRCAR may be formally identified by the section

number, e.g., “NRCAR 2001.104-2.” In the NRCAR, any reference to the FAR will be indicated by

“FAR” followed by the section number, for example FAR 1-104.

2001.104-3 Copies.

Copies of the NRCAR in Federal Register and CFR form may be purchased from the Superintendent

of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

2001.105 Information collection requirements: OMB

approval.

(a) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has submitted the information collection requirements

contained in this part to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval as required by

the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a

person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid

OMB control number. OMB has approved the information collection requirements contained in this
part under control number 3150-0169.

(b) The information collection requirements contained in this part appear in 2009.570-3, 2009.570-5,

2009.570-8, 2014.201-670, 2027.305-3, 2042.570-1, 2042.803, 2045.371, 2052.204-70, 2052.204-71,

2052.209-70, 2052.209-71, 2052.209-72, 2052.211-70, 2052.211-71, 2052.211-72, 2052.211-72

Alternate 1, 2052.214-71, 2052.214-72, 2052.214-74, 2052.215-70, 2052.215-71, 2052.215-74,

2052.215-75, 2052.215-75 Alternate 1, 2052.215-75 Alternate 2, 2052.215-78, 2052.216-72,

2052.227-70, 2052.235-70, 2052.235-71, 2052.242-70, and 2052.242-71.

(c) This part contains information collection requirements in addition to those approved under the

control number specified in paragraph (a) of this section. These information collection requirements

and control numbers under which they are approved are as follows:

(1) In 2052.215-77(a) and 2052.215-78(b), NRC Form 445 is approved under control number

3150-0193.

(2) [Reserved]