Streamlining Contested Adjudications in Licensing Proceedings

What it does

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, agency, or Commission) is revising the agency's rules of practice and procedure to streamline contested adjudications in NRC licensing proceedings in response to the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy Act of 2024 (ADVANCE Act) and Executive Order 14300, Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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

What changed in the regulation

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

10 CFR 2, 10 CFR 51, 10 CFR 52, 10 CFR 53, 10 CFR 54

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

2 earlier Federal Register documents under regulation identifier 3150-AL58 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• March 11, 2026 Public meeting. Streamlining Contested Adjudications in Licensing Proceedings
• March 3, 2026 Proposed rule. Streamlining Contested Adjudications in Licensing Proceedings

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective on December 3, 2026, and applies to contested adjudicatory proceedings noticed on or after the effective date.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket NRC-2025-1501 on Regulations.gov
• Title 10 on eCFR

The record as published

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