AGENCY:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION:

Regulatory issue summary; issuance.

SUMMARY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing Regulatory Issue Summary (RIS) 2019-032, “Pre-Application Communication and Scheduling for Accident Tolerant Fuel Submittals.” This RIS seeks Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) scheduling information for pre-application activities, topical report submittals, and other licensing submittals from all addressees to help inform the NRC's budget and resource planning for the eventual review of ATF-related applications.

DATES:

The RIS is available as of January 21, 2020.

ADDRESSES:

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0032 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly-available information related to this document using any of the following methods:

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0032. Address questions about NRC Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-9127; email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
• NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​adams.html. To begin the search, select “Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.” For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. Regulatory Issue Summary (RIS) 2019-032, “Pre-Application Communication and Scheduling for Accident Tolerant Fuel Submittals” is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19316B342.
• NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
• NRC's Public Website: This RIS is also available on the NRC's public website at www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​doc-collections/​gen-comm/​reg-issues/​ (select “2019” and then select “RIS-19-03”).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Phillip Sahd, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2314, email: Phillip.Sahd@nrc.gov and Marilyn Diaz, Office of Nuclear Material Safety Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-7110, email: Marilyn.Diaz@nrc.gov. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.