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  • Adjustment of Civil Penalties for Inflation for Fiscal Year 2021

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 01/15/2021.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum Civil Monetary Penalties it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements...

  • Non-Substantive Amendments to Adjudicatory Proceeding Requirements

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 11/05/2020.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to revise and clarify the agency's rules of practice and procedure to reflect current Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel practice, Commission case law, and a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and to enhance consistency within the NRC's regulations.

  • Adjustment of Civil Penalties for Inflation for Fiscal Year 2020; Correction

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 02/20/2020.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on January 15, 2020, that amended its regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalties it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of...

  • Adjustment of Civil Penalties for Inflation for Fiscal Year 2020

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 01/15/2020.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalties it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements...

  • Organizational Changes and Conforming Amendments

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 11/29/2019.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to reflect internal organizational changes and make conforming amendments. These changes include removing all references to the Office of New Reactors because that office has merged with the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, changing the names of divisions that are...

  • Miscellaneous Corrections

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 11/18/2019.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to make miscellaneous corrections. These changes include removing obsolete language and correcting references, a typographical error, mailing, email, and web page addresses, grammatical errors, a division title, and a division address and title. This document is necessary...

  • Adjustment of Civil Penalties for Inflation for Fiscal Year 2019

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 02/07/2019.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalties it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (FCPIAA), as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act...

  • Miscellaneous Corrections

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 06/28/2018.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to make miscellaneous administrative updates and corrections. The amendments update descriptions of agency organization and functions, correct cross-reference, typographical, and grammatical errors, and add a certification recipient and clarifying language. This document is...

  • Adjustment of Civil Penalties for Inflation for Fiscal Year 2018

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 01/12/2018.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (FCPIAA), as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act...

  • Miscellaneous Corrections

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 11/15/2017.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to make miscellaneous corrections. The amendments include correcting references, an address and a misspelling. The amendments will also make references to persons in one part of the NRC's regulations gender neutral. This document is necessary to inform the public of these...

  • Adjustment of Civil Penalties for Inflation for FY 2017

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 01/24/2017.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalties (CMPs) it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (FCPIAA), as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act...

  • Update To Incorporate FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 Requirements

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 12/30/2016.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to reflect changes to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 requires the NRC to amend its FOIA regulations to update procedures for requesting information from the NRC and procedures that the NRC must follow in responding to FOIA requests.

  • Miscellaneous Corrections

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 12/02/2016.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to make miscellaneous corrections. The amendments include correcting a senior NRC management position title; correcting terminology for consistency in NRC regulations; and correcting contact information, references, typographical errors, and misspellings. This document is...

  • Update to Transcript Correction Procedures

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 07/20/2016.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulation that governs the correction of official transcripts for agency adjudicatory proceedings. The current regulation has not been substantively updated since it was adopted in 1962 and the NRC's internal procedures have evolved since that time to incorporate technological...

  • Adjustment of Civil Penalties for Inflation

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 07/01/2016.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum Civil Monetary Penalties (CMPs) it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (FCPIAA), as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act...

  • Miscellaneous Corrections

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 12/01/2015.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to make miscellaneous corrections. These changes include renaming the Office of Information Services, renaming the Computer Security Office and removing it as a standalone office, capitalizing the words Tribe, Tribes, and Tribal, correcting a Web site address, correcting a...

  • Hearings on Challenges to the Immediate Effectiveness of Orders

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 10/20/2015.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations regarding challenges to the immediate effectiveness of NRC enforcement orders to clarify the burden of proof and to clarify the authority of the presiding officer to order live testimony in resolving these challenges.

  • Revisions to the Petition for Rulemaking Process

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 10/07/2015.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to clarify and streamline its process for addressing petitions for rulemaking (PRMs). These amendments are intended to improve transparency and to make the PRM process more efficient and effective.

  • Formatting and Non-Substantive Corrections to Authority Citations; Corrections

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 09/30/2015.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published a final rule in the Federal Register on September 9, 2015, that amended its regulations to better adhere to the Office of Federal Register's (OFR) guidance for formatting authority citations. In addition, the final rule corrected typographical errors and made other non-substantive...

  • Organizational Changes and Conforming Amendments

    by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on 12/19/2014.

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to reflect internal organizational changes and conforming amendments. These changes include adding the address for a new NRC building at headquarters, removing references to several committees that no longer exist, adding the Computer Security Office, removing all...