[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 187 (Thursday, September 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78916-78917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 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 https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s870/BILLS-118s870enr.pdf, 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 https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/advance-act/contactus.html, 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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