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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 15 Jan 2025 environmental protection, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, nuclear energy, penalties, claims, nuclear regulatory commission, hazardous waste, fraud, civil penalties, freedom of information, confidential business information, organization and functions (government agencies), antitrust, classified information, waste treatment and disposal, nuclear materials, sex discrimination, atomic energy act, program fraud, nuclear power plants and reactors

⚖️NRC Adjusts Civil Penalties for Inflation in FY2025

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalties it can assess under statutes enforced by the agency. These changes are mandated by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. The NRC is amending its regulations to adjust the maximum civil monetary penalty for a violation of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, or any regulation or order issued under the Atomic Energy Act from $362,814 to $372,240 per violation, per day. Additionally, the NRC is amending provisions concerning program fraud civil penalties by adjusting the maximum civil monetary penalty under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act from $13,946 to $14,308 for each false claim or statement.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 3 Jan 2025 radiation protection, indians, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, whistleblowing, compliance, security measures, spent fuel, nrc, magnastor, regulations, hazardous waste, penalties, nuclear energy, intergovernmental relations

⚛️NRC Issues Updates on Spent Fuel Storage Regulations and Compliance

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its spent fuel storage regulations by revising the NAC International, Inc. MAGNASTOR[supreg] Storage System listing within the "List of approved spent fuel storage casks" to include Amendment No. 14 and revisions to Amendment Nos. 0 through 13 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1031. Amendment No. 14 and revisions to Amendment Nos. 0 through 13 revise the certificate of compliance to add a revised method of evaluation for the non-mechanistic tipover accident, clarify in the technical specifications that damaged missing grid spacers only apply to pressurized-water reactor fuel assembles, clarify inlet and outlet vent blockage and surveillance requirements in limiting condition for operation 3.1.2 in Appendix A to the certificate of compliance and associated technical specification bases, and remove the reference to Type II Portland cement in the description of the certificate of compliance. The NRC is also correcting typographical errors in Revision 1 to Amendment Nos. 11 to 13 and Amendment No. 14 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1031.

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