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January 30, 2017

NRC Weighs Regulatory Freeze

By ExchangeMonitor

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s legal counsel and new Chairwoman Kristine Svinicki are determining the impact of President Donald Trump’s regulatory freeze on the agency.

The White House on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, issued an executive memorandum halting all proposed new or proposed federal regulations under consideration in executive departments and agencies, with exceptions to rules impacting health, safety, financial, or national security matters. The president ordered all heads of executive departments and agencies to withdraw pending regulations, as of Jan. 20, from the Office of the Federal Register. Trump also ordered that agencies postpone for 60 days the effective date for all regulations that have been published in the Federal Register but have not taken effect.

Svinicki and counsel are currently weighing the executive memo, sources said. As of Friday, several NRC regulatory actions had not been withdrawn from the Federal Register and were scheduled for publication Monday.

“The NRC continues to process regulations and guidance documents in accordance with its independent health and safety mission, including publication of regulations in the Federal Register,” NRC spokeswoman Maureen Conley said by email Friday. “This action is consistent with practice during transitions.”

Notices scheduled for publication Monday included the NRC’s fee recovery update for fiscal 2017, along with the agency’s environmental review of Waste Control Specialists’ application to build and operate a consolidated interim radioactive waste storage facility in West Texas. The fee schedule allows the NRC to recover about 90 percent of its budget through charging federally mandated fees to its licensees and customers.

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