Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 5810150e-ee20-4cd1-b72f-6e918a603f73
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Applications for Nuclear Power Plants (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1523/ML15233A056.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.206
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ogies. In addition, consistent with the agency’s mission, the NRC staff is precluded from performing, or being perceived as performing, the role of advisor or consultant to any prospective applicant or stakeholder. To this end, the staff will ensure that as many preapplication interactions as practicable are carried out in the public domain. The NRC staff recognizes that certain information (e.g., applicable to innovative technologies) provided by prospective applicants includes proprietary information, pending patents, and other information not appropriate for release to the public. For this reason, nonpublic (i.e., closed) meetings may be appropriate for addressing such information. However, the NRC intends to minimize closed meetings and, where feasible, arrange meeting agendas such that meetings can be divided into open and closed portions to allow public participation. DG-1325, Page-31 GUIDANCE The following sections provide guidance to prospective applicants on (1) familiarity with the NRC’s regulatory requirements and processes, (2) application-related plan and schedule information of interest to the NRC, (3) preapplication meetings with the NRC staff (public and nonpublic meetings), (4) application-related documents that may be submitted for the NRC staff’s review, (5) application-related safety and environmental regulatory issues, (6) information requested by the NRC in regulatory issue summaries, and (7) the NRC staff’s preapplication readiness assessment. Regulatory Familiarity Prospective applicants may initiate communications (e.g., by telephone, written correspondence, or e-mail) with the NRC staff at their discretion. However, early in the application planning process, a prospective applicant should become familiar with the NRC’s regulatory structure, policies, requirements, and processes. The NRC public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/) is a resource for such information and the site http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new- reactors.html is the