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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 87 / Friday, May 7, 2021 / Proposed Rules Washington, DC 205550001, ATTN:
Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff.
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:
Gregory Trussell, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 205550001; telephone:
3014156244, email: Gregory.Trussell@
nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
Categorical Exclusions From Environmental Review Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking; request for comment.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC is publishing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to obtain input from stakeholders on its plan to amend NRC regulations on categorical exclusions for licensing, regulatory, and administrative actions that individually or cumulatively do not have a significant effect on the human environment. The NRC will consider public comments received on its potential changes and on questions related to categorical exclusions to inform a rulemaking that is planned for publication in fiscal year 2022. The NRC
will hold a public meeting during the comment period to facilitate public participation.

SUMMARY:

Submit comments by July 21, 2021. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments received before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC20180300. Address questions about NRC dockets to Dawn Forder; telephone: 3014153407;
email: Dawn.Forder@nrc.gov. For technical questions contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
Email comments to:
Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov. If you do not receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact us at 3014151677.
Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, DATES:

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A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC2018
0300 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publiclyavailable 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 NRC20180300.
NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System ADAMS: You may obtain publiclyavailable 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 NRCs Public Document Room PDR
reference staff at 18003974209, 301
4154737, or by email to pdr.resource@
nrc.gov.
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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1
8003974209 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC2018
0300 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
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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 National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 NEPA requires Federal agencies to undertake an assessment of the environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to deciding whether to approve or disapprove the proposed action. There are three types of NEPA analyses: An environmental impact statement EIS, an environmental assessment EA, or a categorical exclusion. An EA is a concise document that provides sufficient evidence and analysis for determining whether to prepare an EIS
or make a finding of no significant impact FONSI. If an EA supports a FONSI, the environmental review process is complete. If the EA reveals that the proposed action may have a significant effect on the human environment, the Federal agency then prepares an EIS. An EIS documents an agencys evaluation of the environmental impacts of a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.
A categorical exclusion, by contrast, falls into the category of actions that do not have a significant effect on the human environment, as defined by a Federal agency in its procedures implementing NEPA. If the Federal agency finds that actions in a given category have repeatedly been shown to have no significant effect on the human environment, either individually or cumulatively, then the agency may establish a categorical exclusion for that category of action. Once it has established a categorical exclusion, the agency is not required to prepare an EA
or EIS for any action that falls within the scope of the categorical exclusion, unless the agency finds, for any particular action, that there are special e.g., unique, unusual, or controversial circumstances that would preclude use of the categorical exclusion.
The regulations in 51.22 of title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations 10
CFR, Criterion for categorical exclusion; identification of licensing and regulatory actions eligible for categorical exclusion or otherwise not requiring environmental review, specify actions that the NRC has determined not to have significant
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