Press Release-14-015, NRC Seeks Public Comment on Draft Strategic Plan
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No: 14-015 March 6, 2014 CONTACT: Ivonne Couret, 301-415-8200 NRC Seeks Public Comment on Draft Strategic Plan The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking public comments on its draft Strategic Plan, covering Fiscal Year 2014-2018. The draft provides a blueprint for the agency to plan, implement and monitor work needed to achieve the NRCs mission for the next four years.
The draft plan describes the agencys mission and its two strategic goals, which although slightly reworded for clarity and readability, remain fundamentally unchanged from the current plan.
The NRCs mission is to license and regulate the Nations civilian use of radioactive materials to protect the public health and safety, promote the common defense and security, and protect the environment. The two strategic goals are: to ensure the safe use of radioactive materials and to ensure the secure use of radioactive materials.
The draft plan includes a new vision statement that reflects how the agency operates using the principles of a good regulator. The NRCs new vision is: A trusted, independent, transparent, and effective nuclear regulator. The draft also includes new strategic objectives that describe, more specifically, the results needed to achieve the agencys strategic goals.
Strategies to meet each of these objectives are described in the draft plan and reflect how the agency will respond to meet new challenges affecting nuclear regulations, such as processing license applications involving new technologies such as small modular reactors and continuing implementation of enhancements to improve reactor safety based on insight from the 2011 nuclear accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi.
The NRC issued its first Strategic Plan in September 1997 and is now required to update it every four years. The final Strategic Plan will replace the agencys existing plan (FY 2008-2013). All interested individuals may submit comments on the draft Strategic Plan within 30 days of publication of the Federal Register Notice. The draft Strategic Plan is available on the NRCs website.
Public comments may be submitted in two ways: Online through the federal governments rulemaking website, http://www.regulations.gov using Docket ID NRC-2013-0230; and by mail to Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.