Renewing Nuclear Power Plant Operating Licenses-Environmental Review

Document 2024-16643 is a Final Rule published by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Federal Register on August 6, 2024, with an effective date of September 5, 2024. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its environmental protection regulations by updating the Commission's 2013 findings on the environmental effect of renewing the operating license of a nuclear power plant. This final rule redefines the number and scope of the environmental issues that must be addressed during the review of each application for license renewal. As part of this update, the NRC is issuing Revision 2 to NUREG-1437, "Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants" (LR GEIS), to account for new information and to address the impacts of initial license renewals, which the previous versions considered, as well as first subsequent license renewals. The LR GEIS, Revision 2, provides the technical basis for the final rule. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/06/2024-16643/renewing-nuclear-power-plant-operating-licenses-environmental-review.

No. Document 2024-16643 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.