[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 124 (Thursday, June 28, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35520-35521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-12563]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Electronic Distribution Initiative Pilot Program

    The Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) at the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC) is implementing a pilot program to test the 
feasibility of its electronic distribution initiative (EDI). The EDI 
seeks to provide a more effective and efficient method of communication 
with internal and external stakeholders. The EDI is an alternative to 
paper copy (hardcopy) distribution of correspondence and is replacing 
hardcopy distribution with distribution via electronic mail (e-mail).
    Currently, the NRR staff provides paper copies for reactor 
licensing activities to the addressee and each entity on the carbon 
copy list, otherwise known as the Service List. In the future, the NRR 
staff intends to provide those on the Service List via e-mail an 
electronic link to licensing documents which are available publicly in 
the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System. The 
addressees will continue to receive the official NRC hardcopy. The 
distribution of documents containing safeguards, proprietary or 
security-related information, or other information that is withheld 
from public disclosure will not be affected by this initiative at the 
present time.
    The EDI pilot program will begin July 1 and end September 30, 2007. 
Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon), one of the NRC's licensees, 
has agreed to participate in this pilot program. The Exelon plants 
included are: Byron Station, Units 1 and 2; Braidwood Station, Units 1 
and 2; Clinton Power Station, Unit 1; Dresden Nuclear Power Station, 
Units 2 and 3; LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2; and Quad Cities 
Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2.
    The NRR staff plan to expand the EDI to include all the operating 
reactor licensees, with the goal for implementation to begin in January 
2008.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of June 2007.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Russell A. Gibbs,
Chief, Plant Licensing Branch III-2, Division of Operating Reactor 
Licensing. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E7-12563 Filed 6-27-07; 8:45 am]
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