Exemptions From Materials Licensing

What it does

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending several regulations for byproduct, source, and special nuclear material by expanding how certain nuclear material can be safely used without a license. This action is responsive to the NRC's mission to enable safe, efficient, and reliable licensing and consistent with several Executive orders. These changes are deregulatory in nature, eliminating the need to obtain licenses for certain materials uses and quantities.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

4 parts of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

10 CFR 20, 10 CFR 30, 10 CFR 40, 10 CFR 70

Compared with

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published 34 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 28 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3150-AL61 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• Oct. 5, 2026 Proposed rule. Exemptions From Materials Licensing

What happens next and when

This direct final rule is effective December 21, 2026, unless significant adverse comments are received by November 4, 2026. If this direct final rule is withdrawn as a result of such comments, timely notice of the withdrawal will be published in the Federal Register. Comments received on this direct final rule will also be considered to be comments on a companion proposed rule published in the Proposed Rules section of this issue of the Federal Register.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket NRC-2025-1568 on Regulations.gov
• Title 10 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register