[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 182 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52931-52933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20542]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2020-0194]


NRC's Full Draft Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2022 Through 
2026

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is requesting 
comments on its Fiscal Years (FYs) 2022-2026 Full Draft Strategic Plan. 
The Full Draft Strategic Plan provides the agency's proposed strategic 
goals and objectives and proposed strategies for achieving them. The 
NRC encourages and welcomes stakeholder feedback that can help inform 
the continued development of the NRC's FYs 2022-2026 Strategic Plan and 
evidence building and evaluation activities.

DATES: Submit comments by October 25, 2021. Comments received after 
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the 
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received 
before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; 
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0194. Address

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questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this document.
     Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Branch.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carla Roque-Cruz, Office of the 
Executive Director for Operations, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1455, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0194, when contacting the NRC 
about the information for this action. You may obtain publicly 
available information related to this action by any of the following 
methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0194.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS 
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 ADAMS accession number for each 
document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first 
time that it is mentioned in this document.
     Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies 
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request 
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.
     NRC's Public Website: The NRC's Full Draft Strategic Plan 
for FY 2022-2026 may be viewed online on the NRC's Public website 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

    The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please 
include Docket ID NRC-2020-0194 in your comment submission.
    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 
https://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 into ADAMS.

II. Background

    The Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act of 
2010 aligns strategic planning with the beginning of each new term of 
an Administration, requiring every Federal agency to produce a new 
Strategic Plan by the first Monday in February following the year in 
which the term of the President commences. The Strategic Plan provides 
the blueprint to plan, implement and monitor the work needed to achieve 
our mission. The NRC staff started developing the FYs 2022-2026 
Strategic Plan in 2020 and published a Federal Register notice on 
September 11, 2020 (85 FR 56275) requesting external feedback on the 
agency's strategic goals, actions to realize those goals, and how to 
address key challenges and external factors as described in the current 
agency's Strategic Plan, NUREG 1614, Volume 7, ``Strategic Plan Fiscal 
Years 2018-2022'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML18032A561). The Federal 
Register notice on September 11, 2020 (85 FR 56275) also announced a 
September 22, 2020 public meeting. The feedback received from the 
notice and during the public meeting was used to develop NRC's FYs 
2022-2026 High-Level Draft Strategic Plan (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML21165A241). On June 28, 2021, the staff held a second public meeting 
to discuss the NRC's FYs 2022-2026 High-Level Draft Strategic Plan. In 
developing the Full Draft Strategic Plan, the staff considered comments 
received from the Federal Register notice and the two public meetings. 
The staff has prepared a comment resolution matrix that addresses 
stakeholder feedback. The comment resolution matrix is available in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML21250A199.

III. Discussion

    The NRC is an independent agency established by the Energy 
Reorganization Act of 1974 that began operations in 1975 as a successor 
to the licensing and regulatory activities of 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, to promote the 
common defense and security, and to protect the environment.
    The NRC's Full Draft Strategic Plan describes how the agency 
intends to achieve its three proposed strategic goals: (1) Ensure the 
safe and secure use of radioactive material, (2) continue to foster a 
healthy organization, and (3) inspire stakeholder confidence in the 
NRC. The plan provides an overview of the NRC's responsibilities and 
lays out the objectives, strategies, and key contributing programs and 
activities that will be used to achieve the agency's strategic goals. 
Moreover, with enactment of the Foundations for Evidence-Based 
Policymaking Act of 2018 (``Evidence Act'') (5 U.S.C. 312), Federal 
agencies' strategic plans are now required to include information on 
evidence-building and evaluation activities and how these activities 
impact the strategic planning and day-to-day operation of these 
agencies.

IV. Requested Information and Comments

    The NRC is requesting comments from the public so that the agency 
may benefit from a wide range of stakeholder input to help shape the 
final FYs 2022-2026 Strategic Plan.
    The focus of this request is to gather information on the 
contributing programs and activities, key external factors that may 
influence the ability of the NRC to achieve its strategic goals and the 
associated strategic objectives, and the evidence-building information 
included in the Full Draft Strategic Plan.

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The NRC welcomes comments from the public on these and any areas that 
they believe are relevant to these topics.
    The NRC encourages all interested parties to comment on the Full 
Draft Strategic Plan. Stakeholder feedback will be valuable in helping 
the Commission develop a final draft 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, as 
appropriate, in the preparation of the final draft FYs 2022-2026 
Strategic Plan. The NRC does not anticipate preparing individual 
responses to each comment received.

    Dated: September 17, 2021.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Wesley W. Held,
(Acting), Secretary of the Commission.
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