[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 26, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44858-44859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20538]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0153]


Draft Fiscal Years 2018-2022 Strategic Plan

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is requesting 
comment on draft NUREG-1614, Volume 7, ``Draft Strategic Plan: Fiscal 
Years 2018-2022.'' The draft Strategic Plan provides the agency's 
strategic goals and objectives and proposed strategies for achieving 
them. The NRC encourages and welcomes public comments that can help it 
respond to challenges and shape its strategic direction over the next 
four years, particularly comments on the plan's goals, objectives, and 
strategies.

DATES: Submit comments by October 26, 2017. Comments received after 
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 
is only able to ensure consideration of comments received on or before 
this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0153. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this notice.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: TWFN-08-D36M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June Cai, Office of the Executive 
Director for Operations, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1771; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0153 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this draft Strategic Plan. 
You may access publicly-available information related to this action by 
the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0153.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then select ``Begin WBA 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 [email protected]. The draft 
Strategic Plan is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML17254A104.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
     NRC's Public Web site: The NRC's draft Strategic Plan may 
be viewed online on the NRC's Public Web site on the Documents for 
Comment Web page at https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc-comment.html, under ``Draft NUREG-Series Publications.''

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2017-0153 in the subject line of your 
comment submission in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make your 
comment submission available to the public in this docket.
    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 http://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 submissions into ADAMS.

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II. Background

    In accordance with the Government Performance and Results (GPRA) 
Modernization Act of 2010, agencies are required to submit their 
strategic plans to Congress the year following the start of a 
Presidential term. The Commission has approved a draft Strategic Plan 
and is now seeking comments from the public so that the agency may 
benefit from a wide range of stakeholder input to help shape the NRC's 
strategic direction for the upcoming planning period.

III. Draft Strategic Plan

    The NRC is an independent agency established by the Energy 
Reorganization Act of 1974 that began operations in 1975 as a successor 
to 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 
and to promote the common defense and security and to protect the 
environment. The draft Strategic Plan, covering the period Fiscal Years 
2018-2022, describes how the NRC plans to achieve its two strategic 
goals: (1) Ensure the safe use of radioactive materials, and (2) ensure 
the secure use of radioactive materials. The draft Strategic Plan 
provides an overview of the NRC's responsibilities and lays out the 
objectives, strategies, and key activities that will be used to achieve 
the agency's strategic goals.
    The NRC encourages all interested parties to comment on the draft 
Strategic Plan, particularly on the plan's goals, objectives, and 
strategies. Stakeholder feedback will be valuable in helping the 
Commission develop a final 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 and may use them, as 
appropriate, in the preparation of the final Strategic Plan; however, 
the NRC does not anticipate preparing explicit responses to each 
comment.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of September 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2017-20538 Filed 9-25-17; 8:45 am]
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