[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 122 (Friday, June 26, 2026)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 38564-38566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-12887]
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Proposed Rules
Federal Register
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in
the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.
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Federal Register / Vol. 91, No. 122 / Friday, June 26, 2026 /
Proposed Rules
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Chapter I
[NRC-2026-2278]
Sunset Provisions
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public
input to inform its implementation of Executive Order (E.O.) 14270,
``Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy.'' The
E.O. directs the NRC to offer the public opportunity to comment on the
costs and benefits of certain regulations that the NRC has identified
to be sunset.
DATES: Comments must be submitted electronically using https://www.regulations.gov by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on July 27, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID NRC-2026-2278,
at https://www.regulations.gov. If your material cannot be submitted
using https://www.regulations.gov, call or email the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document for
alternate instructions.
Do not include any personally identifiable information (such as
name, address, or other contact information) or confidential business
information that you do not want publicly disclosed. All comments are
public records; they are publicly displayed exactly as received, and
will not be deleted, modified, or redacted. Comments may be submitted
anonymously.
Follow the search instructions on https://www.regulations.gov to
view public comments.
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: Cindy Bladey, Office of Nuclear
Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC, 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3280, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2026-2278 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of 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-2026-2278.
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 ADAMS Public Search.''
For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room
(PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at 301-415-4737, or by email
to [email protected].
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time, Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
Comments must be submitted electronically using https://www.regulations.gov no later than 11:59 a.m. eastern time on July 27,
2026. Please include Docket NRC-2026-2278 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
Executive Order (E.O.) 14270, ``Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to
Unleash American Energy'' (90 FR 15643; April 9, 2025), directed the
NRC to issue a rule inserting a conditional sunset date into each of
its regulations that were in effect as of the date of the E.O. and were
issued in whole or in part pursuant to the following statutes, as
amended: the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Energy Reorganization Act
of 1974, and the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. The E.O. stated that
sunsetting provisions must include a conditional sunset date that is
one year after the effective date of the rule and that the agency could
extend the cessation deadline to a date not more than 5 years in the
future after offering the public an opportunity to comment on the costs
and benefits of the regulations to be conditionally sunset prior to
each provision's sunset date.
On December 3, 2025, the NRC published ``The Sunset Rule'' (90 FR
55621), which amended regulations throughout chapter I of title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) to insert a sunset provision
requiring the NRC to offer the public an opportunity to comment on the
costs and benefits of the regulation and adding a conditional sunset
date of January 8, 2027. This document provides opportunity for the
public to comment on the costs and benefits of all 10 CFR chapter I
regulations that are scheduled to sunset on January 8, 2027, with the
exception of subpart F, ``Licensee Testing Facilities,'' to 10 CFR part
26, ``Fitness for Duty Programs.'' The public may provide comment on
the costs and benefits of sunset provisions in subpart F to part 26 in
the docket for the NRC's proposed rule, ``Modernizing Security
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Requirements'' (Docket ID NRC-2025-1303), which the NRC anticipates
will publish on or about June 25, 2026.
This request is for information-gathering purposes and does not
propose new regulations, requirements, or policies.
III. Request for Information
The NRC is requesting information on the costs and benefits of the
regulations shown in Table 1. Please provide, to the extent possible,
economic data to demonstrate the cost of complying with the existing
regulations, as well as any savings that eliminating the regulation
might provide. If there are benefits that are difficult to calculate,
include a qualitative discussion in any justification offered for not
sunsetting a particular regulation in Table 1.
Table 1--Sunset Regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I
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Regulatory unit in 10 CFR chapter I Title
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2.600 through 2.629................................. Subpart F--Additional Procedures Applicable to Early
Partial Decisions on Site Suitability Issues in
Connection With an Application for a Construction Permit
or Combined License To Construct Certain Utilization
Facilities; and Advance Issuance of Limited Work
Authorizations.
2.1400 through 2.1407............................... Subpart N--Expedited Proceedings with Oral Hearings
2.1500 through 2.1509............................... Subpart O--Legislative Hearing
19.4................................................ Interpretations.
20.1006............................................. Interpretations.
21.4................................................ Interpretations.
25.7................................................ Interpretations.
26.7................................................ Interpretations.
30.5................................................ Interpretations.
31.21............................................... Maintenance of records.
32.3................................................ Maintenance of records.
34.5................................................ Interpretations.
34.87............................................... Form of records.
34.111.............................................. Applications for exemptions.
35.5................................................ Maintenance of records.
35.19............................................... Specific exemptions.
36.5................................................ Interpretations.
36.17............................................... Applications for exemptions.
37.9................................................ Interpretations.
39.5................................................ Interpretations.
39.91............................................... Applications for exemptions.
40.6................................................ Interpretations.
50.3................................................ Interpretations.
Appendix Q to Part 50............................... Pre-Application Early Review of Site Suitability Issues.
51.5................................................ Interpretations.
51.124.............................................. Commission duty to comment.
52.2................................................ Interpretations.
54.5................................................ Interpretations.
55.6................................................ Interpretations.
60.5................................................ Interpretations.
61.5................................................ Interpretations.
62.4................................................ Interpretations.
63.5................................................ Interpretations.
70.6................................................ Interpretations.
71.2................................................ Interpretations.
72.5................................................ Interpretations.
73.3................................................ Interpretations.
74.5................................................ Interpretations.
75.5................................................ Interpretations.
76.................................................. Certification of Gaseous Diffusion Plants.
81.4................................................ Interpretations.
95.7................................................ Interpretations.
110.3............................................... Interpretations.
140.4............................................... Interpretations.
150.5............................................... Interpretations.
160................................................. Trespassing on Commission Property.
170.4............................................... Interpretations.
171.7............................................... Interpretations.
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V. Collection of Information Requirements
This document serves solely as a request for information. In
accordance with the implementing regulations of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA), specifically paragraph (h)(4) of 5 CFR 1320.3, this
general solicitation is exempt from the PRA. Facts or opinions
submitted in response to general solicitations of comments from the
public, published in the Federal Register or other publications,
regardless of the form or format, provided that no person is required
to supply specific information pertaining to the commenter, other than
information necessary for self-identification, as a condition of the
agency's full consideration, are not generally considered information
collections and therefore not subject to the PRA.
Dated June 22, 2026.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Araceli Billoch Colon,
Acting Director, Division of Guidance, Rulemaking, Economic Analysis,
and Technical Editing, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2026-12887 Filed 6-25-26; 8:45 am]
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