Federal brief
NRC Modernization: Rulemaking Procedure, Federal Advisory Committee Act Alignment, Access, and Security; Correction and Confirmation of E…
Publisher-desk brief on Nuclear Regulatory Commission FR 2026-19963 (2026-09-30). Use the filing for dates and comment paths.
NRC proposed modernization changes covering rulemaking procedure, FACA practice, and related governance — nuclear-license counsel will treat it as process reform, not reactor news.
How the Commission makes rules and runs advisory committees shapes every later licensing docket, even when no plant name appears in the title.
Filing abstract (agency text): The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is correcting a notice that was published in the Federal Register on August 11, 2026. The NRC published a direct final rule amending its regulations by streamlining procedural provisions related to information withholding and post-promulgation comment periods; aligning the NRC's regulations with Committee Management Secretariat Federal Advisory Committee Act standards; an…
Nuclear utility counsel and intervenor groups: pull the procedure sections and comment deadlines from the NRC filing before you calendar a response.
Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/30/2026-19963/nrc-modernization-rulemaking-procedure-federal-advisory-committee-act-alignment-access-and-security
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Source: the official public federal record 2026-19963 · Federal Register · 2026-19963 · 2026-19963.
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.