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RIN: 3150-AI40

Publication ID: Spring 2021

Title: Groundwater Protection at Uranium in Situ Uranium Recovery Facilities [NRC-2008-0421]
Abstract: This rulemaking would amend the NRC’s regulations to ensure groundwater protection at in situ leach uranium recovery facilities. The rule would create a more efficient licensing process by codifying requirements currently imposed through license conditions. The rule would affect in situ leach uranium recovery facility licensees and applicants.
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC)	Priority: Other Significant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 10 CFR 40
Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201 42 U.S.C. 5841

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
Notice	01/31/2019	84 FR 574
Notice Comment Period End	03/04/2019
Notice Comment Period Extended	03/01/2019	84 FR 6979
Second Comment Period Extended End	05/03/2019
NPRM	01/00/2022

Additional Information: On October 18, 2018, the EPA published a withdrawal of its proposed rule in the Federal Register (83 FR 54543). On January 31, 2019 (84 FR 574), NRC published a request for comment soliciting views from interested stakeholders on whether the NRC should resume rulemaking to amend its regulations governing the domestic licensing of source material by codifying general requirements to address ground water protection at uranium in situ recovery facilities. A document was published in the Federal Register on March 1, 2019 (84 FR 6979), extending the comment period for this action. The comment period closed on May 3, 2019. Staff provided recommendations for next steps on this rulemaking to the Commission as part of SECY-19-1023, "Regulatory Options for Uranium In Situ Recovery Facilities," dated December 16, 2019.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: No	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: George M. Tartal Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, DC 20555-0001 Phone:301 415-0016 Email: george.tartal@nrc.gov