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3Requestors should note that the filing 

requirements of the NRC’s E-Filing Rule (72 FR 

49139; August 28, 2007, as amended at 77 FR 

46562; August 3, 2012) apply to appeals of NRC 

staff determinations (because they must be served 

on a presiding officer or the Commission, as 

applicable), but not to the initial SUNSI request 

submitted to the NRC staff under these procedures. 

unavailable, another administrative 

judge, or an Administrative Law Judge 

with jurisdiction pursuant to 10 CFR 

2.318(a); or (c) if another officer has 

been designated to rule on information 

access issues, with that officer. 

If challenges to the NRC staff 

determinations are filed, these 

procedures give way to the normal 

process for litigating disputes 

concerning access to information. The 

availability of interlocutory review by 

the Commission of orders ruling on 

such NRC staff determinations (whether 

granting or denying access) is governed 

by 10 CFR 2.311.3

I. The Commission expects that the 

NRC staff and presiding officers (and 

any other reviewing officers) will 

consider and resolve requests for access 

to SUNSI, and motions for protective 

orders, in a timely fashion in order to 

minimize any unnecessary delays in 

identifying those petitioners who have 

standing and who have propounded 

contentions meeting the specificity and 

basis requirements in 10 CFR part 2. 

The attachment to this Order 

summarizes the general target schedule 

for processing and resolving requests 

under these procedures. 

It is so ordered. 

Dated: September 20, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Annette L. Vietti-Cook, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

ATTACHMENT 1—GENERAL TARGET SCHEDULE FOR PROCESSING AND RESOLVING REQUESTS FOR ACCESS TO SENSITIVE

UNCLASSIFIED NON-SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION IN THIS PROCEEDING

Day Event/activity 

0 ........................ Publication of Federal Register notice of hearing and opportunity to petition for leave to intervene, including order with instructions for access requests. 

10 ...................... Deadline for submitting requests for access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information (SUNSI) with information: 

Supporting the standing of a potential party identified by name and address; describing the need for the information in order 

for the potential party to participate meaningfully in an adjudicatory proceeding. 

60 ...................... Deadline for submitting petition for intervention containing: (i) Demonstration of standing; and (ii) all contentions whose formulation does not require access to SUNSI (+25 Answers to petition for intervention; +7 petitioner/requestor reply). 

20 ...................... U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff informs the requestor of the staff’s determination whether the request for 

access provides a reasonable basis to believe standing can be established and shows need for SUNSI. (NRC staff also informs any party to the proceeding whose interest independent of the proceeding would be harmed by the release of the information.) If NRC staff makes the finding of need for SUNSI and likelihood of standing, NRC staff begins document processing (preparation of redactions or review of redacted documents). 

25 ...................... If NRC staff finds no ‘‘need’’ or no likelihood of standing, the deadline for petitioner/requestor to file a motion seeking a ruling 

to reverse the NRC staff’s denial of access; NRC staff files copy of access determination with the presiding officer (or Chief 

Administrative Judge or other designated officer, as appropriate). If NRC staff finds ‘‘need’’ for SUNSI, the deadline for any 

party to the proceeding whose interest independent of the proceeding would be harmed by the release of the information to 

file a motion seeking a ruling to reverse the NRC staff’s grant of access. 

30 ...................... Deadline for NRC staff reply to motions to reverse NRC staff determination(s). 

40 ...................... (Receipt +30) If NRC staff finds standing and need for SUNSI, deadline for NRC staff to complete information processing and 

file motion for Protective Order and draft Non-Disclosure Affidavit. Deadline for applicant/licensee to file Non-Disclosure 

Agreement for SUNSI. 

A ....................... If access granted: Issuance of presiding officer or other designated officer decision on motion for protective order for access 

to sensitive information (including schedule for providing access and submission of contentions) or decision reversing a 

final adverse determination by the NRC staff. 

A + 3 ................. Deadline for filing executed Non-Disclosure Affidavits. Access provided to SUNSI consistent with decision issuing the protective order. 

A + 28 ............... Deadline for submission of contentions whose development depends upon access to SUNSI. However, if more than 25 days 

remain between the petitioner’s receipt of (or access to) the information and the deadline for filing all other contentions (as

established in the notice of opportunity to request a hearing and petition for leave to intervene), the petitioner may file its

SUNSI contentions by that later deadline. 

A + 53 ............... (Contention receipt +25) Answers to contentions whose development depends upon access to SUNSI. 

A + 60 ............... (Answer receipt +7) Petitioner/Intervenor reply to answers. 

>A + 60 ............. Decision on contention admission. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2020–0194] 

NRC’s Full Draft Strategic Plan for 

Fiscal Years 2022 Through 2026 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is requesting 

comments on its Fiscal Years (FYs) 

2022–2026 Full Draft Strategic Plan. The 

Full Draft Strategic Plan provides the 

agency’s proposed strategic goals and 

objectives and proposed strategies for 

achieving them. The NRC encourages 

and welcomes stakeholder feedback that 

can help inform the continued 

development of the NRC’s FYs 2022– 

2026 Strategic Plan and evidence 

building and evaluation activities. 

DATES: Submit comments by October 25, 

2021. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the Commission is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking website: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2020–0194. Address 


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questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: Stacy.

Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, ATTN: Program Management, 

Announcements and Editing Branch. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carla Roque-Cruz, Office of the 

Executive Director for Operations, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–1455, email: Carla.RoqueCruz@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020– 

0194, when contacting the NRC about 

the information for this action. You may 

obtain publicly available information 

related to this action by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2020–0194. 

• 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, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number 

for each document referenced (if it is 

available in ADAMS) is provided the 

first time that it is mentioned in this 

document. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents, is currently closed. You 

may submit your request to the PDR via 

email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 

800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

• NRC’s Public Website: The NRC’s 

Full Draft Strategic Plan for FY 2022– 

2026 may be viewed online on the 

NRC’s Public website on the Documents 

for Comment web page at https://

www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doccomment.html, under ‘‘Draft NUREGSeries Publications.’’ 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2020–0194 in your 

comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC will post all comment 

submissions at https://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 

comment 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. 

II. Background 

The Government Performance and 

Results Act Modernization Act of 2010 

aligns strategic planning with the 

beginning of each new term of an 

Administration, requiring every Federal 

agency to produce a new Strategic Plan 

by the first Monday in February 

following the year in which the term of 

the President commences. The Strategic 

Plan provides the blueprint to plan, 

implement and monitor the work 

needed to achieve our mission. The 

NRC staff started developing the FYs 

2022–2026 Strategic Plan in 2020 and 

published a Federal Register notice on 

September 11, 2020 (85 FR 56275) 

requesting external feedback on the 

agency’s strategic goals, actions to 

realize those goals, and how to address 

key challenges and external factors as 

described in the current agency’s 

Strategic Plan, NUREG 1614, Volume 7, 

‘‘Strategic Plan Fiscal Years 2018–2022’’ 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML18032A561). 

The Federal Register notice on 

September 11, 2020 (85 FR 56275) also 

announced a September 22, 2020 public 

meeting. The feedback received from the 

notice and during the public meeting 

was used to develop NRC’s FYs 2022– 

2026 High-Level Draft Strategic Plan 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML21165A241). 

On June 28, 2021, the staff held a 

second public meeting to discuss the 

NRC’s FYs 2022–2026 High-Level Draft 

Strategic Plan. In developing the Full 

Draft Strategic Plan, the staff considered 

comments received from the Federal 

Register notice and the two public 

meetings. The staff has prepared a 

comment resolution matrix that 

addresses stakeholder feedback. The 

comment resolution matrix is available 

in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML21250A199. 

III. Discussion 

The NRC is an independent agency 

established by the Energy 

Reorganization Act of 1974 that began 

operations in 1975 as a successor to the 

licensing and regulatory activities of the 

Atomic Energy Commission. The NRC’s 

mission is to license and regulate the 

Nation’s civilian use of radioactive 

materials to provide reasonable 

assurance of adequate protection of 

public health and safety, to promote the 

common defense and security, and to 

protect the environment. 

The NRC’s Full Draft Strategic Plan 

describes how the agency intends to 

achieve its three proposed strategic 

goals: (1) Ensure the safe and secure use 

of radioactive material, (2) continue to 

foster a healthy organization, and (3) 

inspire stakeholder confidence in the 

NRC. The plan provides an overview of 

the NRC’s responsibilities and lays out 

the objectives, strategies, and key 

contributing programs and activities 

that will be used to achieve the agency’s 

strategic goals. Moreover, with 

enactment of the Foundations for 

Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 

2018 (‘‘Evidence Act’’) (5 U.S.C. 312), 

Federal agencies’ strategic plans are 

now required to include information on 

evidence-building and evaluation 

activities and how these activities 

impact the strategic planning and dayto-day operation of these agencies. 

IV. Requested Information and 

Comments 

The NRC is requesting comments 

from the public so that the agency may 

benefit from a wide range of stakeholder 

input to help shape the final FYs 2022– 

2026 Strategic Plan. 

The focus of this request is to gather 

information on the contributing 

programs and activities, key external 

factors that may influence the ability of 

the NRC to achieve its strategic goals 

and the associated strategic objectives, 

and the evidence-building information 

included in the Full Draft Strategic Plan. 


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The NRC welcomes comments from the 

public on these and any areas that they 

believe are relevant to these topics. 

The NRC encourages all interested 

parties to comment on the Full Draft 

Strategic Plan. Stakeholder feedback 

will be valuable in helping the 

Commission develop a final draft 

Strategic Plan that has the benefit of the 

many views of the public and the 

regulated civilian nuclear industry. The 

NRC will consider the comments 

submitted, as appropriate, in the 

preparation of the final draft FYs 2022– 

2026 Strategic Plan. The NRC does not 

anticipate preparing individual 

responses to each comment received. 

Dated: September 17, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Wesley W. Held, 

(Acting), Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–20542 Filed 9–22–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2020–0278] 

Measuring, Evaluating, and Reporting 

Radioactive Material in Liquid and 

Gaseous Effluents and Solid Waste 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing revision 3 

of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.21, 

‘‘Measuring, Evaluating, and Reporting 

Radioactive Material in Liquid and 

Gaseous Effluents and Solid Waste.’’ 

The revision of RG describes an 

approach that is acceptable to the staff 

of the NRC to meet regulatory 

requirements for; (1) measuring, 

evaluating, and reporting plant related 

radioactivity in effluents and solid 

radioactive waste shipments from NRC 

licensed facilities, and (2) assessing and 

reporting the public dose to demonstrate 

compliance with NRC regulations. 

DATES: Revision 3 of RG 1.21 is available 

on September 23, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2020–0278 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2020–0278. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: Stacy.

Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual(s) 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• 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, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number 

for each document referenced (if it is 

available in ADAMS) is provided the 

first time that it is mentioned in this 

document. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents is currently closed. You may 

submit your request to the PDR via 

email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 

800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Revision 3 of RG 1.21 and the 

regulatory analysis may be found in 

ADAMS under Accession Nos. 

ML21139A224 and ML20287A434, 

respectively. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven Garry, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, telephone: 301–415–2766, 

email: Steven.Garry@nrc.gov, and Kyle 

Song, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research, telephone: 301–415–3637, 

email: Kyle.Song@nrc.gov. Both are staff 

of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

The NRC is issuing a new guide in the 

NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This 

series was developed to describe and 

make available to the public information 

regarding methods that are acceptable to 

the NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the agency’s regulations, 

techniques that the NRC staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and data that the NRC staff 

needs in its review of applications for 

permits and licenses. 

II. Additional Information 

Revision 3 of RG 1.21 was issued with 

a temporary identification of Draft 

Regulatory Guide (DG) 1377. The NRC 

published a notice of the availability of 

DG–1377 in the Federal Register on 

January 5, 2021, (86 FR 326) for a 45- 

day public comment period. The public 

comment period closed on February 19, 

2021. Public comments on DG–1377 and 

the staff responses to the public 

comments are available under ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML21132A226. 

III. Congressional Review Act 

This RG is a rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 

801–808). However, the Office of 

Management and Budget has not found 

it to be a major rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act. 

IV. Backfitting, Forward Fitting and 

Issue Finality 

Revision 3 of RG 1.21 does not 

constitute backfitting as defined in 10 

CFR 50.109, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as 

described in NRC Management Directive 

(MD) 8.4, ‘‘Management of Backfitting, 

Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and 

Information Requests’’; constitute 

forward fitting as that term is defined 

and described in MD 8.4; or affect the 

issue finality of any approval issued 

under 10 CFR part 52. As explained in 

Revision 3 of RG 1.21, applicants and 

licensees would not be required to 

comply with the positions set forth in 

the RG. 

Dated: September 17, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[File No. 4–757; Release No. 93051/ 

September 17, 2021] 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

In the Matter of: Joint Industry Plan; Order 

Approving, as Modified, a National Market 

System Plan Regarding Consolidated Equity 

Market Data. 

Order Denying Stay 

On August 6, 2021, the Commission 

issued Joint Industry Plan; Order 

Approving, as Modified, a National 

Market System Plan Regarding 

Consolidated Equity Market Data, 

Release, No. 34–92586 (the ‘‘CT Plan 

Order’’). It was published five days later 

in the Federal Register. See 86 FR 

44,142 (Aug. 11, 2021). Later that 

month, The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, 

Nasdaq BX, Inc., Nasdaq PHLX LLC, 


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