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RIN: 3150-AC07

Publication ID: Spring 2002

Title: Availability of Official Records
Abstract: The proposed amendment would conform the Commission's regulations pertaining to the availability of official records to existing case law and agency practice. The amendment would address the circumstances under which proprietary, personal privacy or other confidential information submitted to the NRC by applicants, licensees, or others may be returned upon request. The rule would reaffirm that 10 CFR 2.790(c) provides submitters of information a qualified right to have their information returned upon request. This amendment would inform the public of four additional circumstances where information would not be returned to the applicant, that is, (1) when submitted to an advisory committee governed by the Federal Advisory Committee Act; (2) when captured by a Freedom of Information Act request; (3) when publicly relied upon or revealed by the Commission in an open Commission meeting under the Government in the Sunshine Act; and (4) when obtained during the course of an investigation conducted by the NRC Office of Investigations. The proposed amendment would also clarify requirements on submittals to the NRC for identification of confidential information sought to be withheld from public disclosure. Further, the proposed amendment would address the NRC?s procedures for handling copyrighted information, including reproduction and distribution according to normal agency practice.
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 10 CFR 2
Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201 42 USC 5841

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	12/23/1992	57 FR 61013
NPRM Comment Period End	03/08/1993
NPRM	10/17/2001	66 FR 52721
NPRM Comment Period End	12/31/2001
Final Action	To Be Determined

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
Agency Contact: Catherine M. Holzle Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel, Washington, DC 20555-0001 Phone:301 415-1560 Email: cmh@nrc.gov