ML21208A431

NRC Lapse Plan Summary July 27, 2021

ML21208A431
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Issue date:	07/27/2021
From:	Joel Dorfman, Susan Kenney NRC/EDO/AO, NRC/OCFO/DB
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Lapse Plan Summary Overview Estimated time (to nearest half day) required to complete shutdown activities: 1/2 day Total number of agency employees expected to be on board before implementation of 2,743 the plan:

Total number of agency employees expected to be furloughed under the plan 2,480 (unduplicated count):

Total number of employees to be retained under the plan after funds are exhausted for each of the following categories:

Compensation is financed by a resource other than annual appropriations: None Necessary to perform activities expressly authorized by law: None Necessary to perform activities necessarily implied by law: 85 Necessary to the discharge of the President's constitutional duties and powers: None Necessary to protect life and property: 178 Brief summary of significant agency activities that will continue during a lapse:

See Directive Handbook 4.5, Contingency Plan for Periods of Lapsed Appropriations,Section II. B. Continuation of Excepted Functions Brief summary of significant agency activities that will cease during a lapse:

As a result of the lapse in appropriations and the NRC's exhaustion of available funding, the following NRC activities will be adversely affected. The extent of the impacts will depend on the duration of the shutdown.

The following activities will be delayed or discontinued, except as necessary to support excepted functions to ensure public health and safety:

• Licensing, certification, and permit activitiesincluding prelicensing activities and environmental reviews.

• Inspections.

• Inspections, tests, analyses, and acceptance criteria (ITAAC) closure verification reviews.

• Routine enforcement actions--including Federal Register Notices, notices of violations, enforcement notifications, confirmatory order letters, guidance memos, acknowledgement letters to licensees, alternative dispute resolution case work.

• Processing and management of allegations.

• Emergency preparedness exercises.

• Reactor operator licensing, training, and requalification.

• Financial analysis for operating and decommissioning plants.

• Rulemaking and regulatory guidance development, including inspection guidance.

• Responses and public outreach to routine, non-emergency public health and safety related requests (e.g., Commission correspondence and responses to the Office of the Inspector General, Congressional, Government Accountability Office audits and investigations) and questions (e.g.,

policy, regulations, guidance, etc.).

• Agreement State training and coordination--including Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation Program activities.

• Integrated Source Management Portfolio routine support.

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• Decommissioning related activities for power reactors, test and research reactors, uranium mills, UMTRCA sites, Department of Defense sites, and non-military radium sites.

• Routine oversight of Waste Incidental to Reprocessing.

• Development of infrastructure for advanced nuclear reactor technologiesincluding research, rulemaking, and guidance.

• Development of infrastructure for advanced medical technologies and new fuels (accident tolerant fuel and high-assay low-enriched uranium)including research, rulemaking, and guidance.

• Assistance and cooperation for foreign non-emergency safety and security activities.

• Processing requests for exchanges of classified or safeguards information with other countries.

• Support for international travel including processing passports, visas, country clearance requests.

• Maintaining and tracking technical cooperation arrangementsincluding coordinating responses to IAEA/NEA requests for NRC support.

• Providing daily international news updates or other knowledge management services.

• Supporting new or pending foreign assignee requests.

• Training activities.

• Differing Professional Opinion/Non-Concurrence program and case activitiesincluding external and internal safety culture.

• Award and administration of non-excepted contracts.

• Recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and labor relations activities for non-emergency/excepted staff.

• Document processing and Web site administration activities.

• Adjudicatory activities (e.g., pre-hearing, hearing, and hearing-related activities).

• Routine financial management, administrative, and information technology support services.

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