[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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