[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 109 (Thursday, June 7, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31626-31627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-10945]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Availability; Draft NUREG-1574, Revision 2, ``Standard 
Review Plan on Transfer and Amendment of Antitrust License Conditions 
and Antitrust Enforcement''

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Standard Review Plan.

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SUMMARY: The NRC is seeking public comment on draft NUREG-1574, 
Revision 2, entitled ``Standard Review Plan on Transfer and Amendment 
of Antitrust License Conditions and Antitrust Enforcement.'' This 
standard review plan (SRP) documents procedures and guidance to be used 
by the staff to analyze license transfer applications and license 
amendment applications involving existing antitrust license conditions, 
to report to the Attorney General information indicating that a 
licensee's use of atomic energy appears to have violated the antitrust 
laws, and to take appropriate enforcement action for a licensee's 
violation of its antitrust license conditions. Because the SRP 
describes internal agency procedures and is based on existing 
Commission guidance in this area, the SRP is being published for 
interim use. However, the Commission is inviting public comment on the 
SRP and is interested in possible improvements to it. Public comments 
will be considered in evaluating the NRC review process in this area.

DATES: The public is invited to submit comments on the SRP by July 9, 
2007. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is 
practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given 
except as to comments received on or before this date. On the basis of 
the submitted comments, the Commission will determine whether to modify 
the SRP before issuing it in final form.

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any one of the following methods. 
Comments submitted in writing or electronic form will be made available 
for public inspection. Mail comments to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, 
and Editing Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Mail Stop T6-D59, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Hand deliver 
comments, addressed to the above, to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays.
    Publicly available documents may be viewed electronically on the 
public computers located at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Room O1-F21, Rockville, 
Maryland. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy documents for a 
fee. The public can gain entry into the NRC's Agencywide Document 
Access and Management System (ADAMS) through the agency's public Web 
site at http://www.nrc.gov. This web site provides text and image files 
of the NRC's public documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if 
there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact 
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference Staff at 1-800-397-4209, 
301-415-4737 or by email to [email protected].
    A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of 
charge at the NRC Public Document Room, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Room O-1 F21, Rockville, Maryland.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven R. Hom, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-1537, 
e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft NUREG-1574, Revision 2, entitled 
``Standard Review Plan on Transfer and Amendment of Antitrust License 
Conditions and Antitrust Enforcement'' [ML070160586] reflects the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005's removal of the NRC's antitrust review 
responsibilities for applications for licenses under sections 103 and 
104 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The SRP provides 
guidance on the appropriate disposition of antitrust license conditions 
during license transfers and for the review of applications to amend 
antitrust license conditions outside of license transfers. The SRP also 
provides guidance regarding the NRC's responsibility to refer certain 
antitrust matters to the Attorney General, and regarding the NRC's 
enforcement of antitrust license conditions. The SRP supersedes NUREG-
1574, Standard Review Plan on Antitrust Reviews, published December 
1997, in its entirety.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of May, 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael J. Case,
Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E7-10945 Filed 6-6-07; 8:45 am]
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