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Enroll for your Digital ID Certificate
Before enrolling for a digital ID Certificate from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, It is recommended that you view and print the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Digital ID Certificates Guide . The steps described in Section 6 of this guide should be carefully followed to enroll for your digital ID certificate.
You must pick up your digital ID certificate
from the same PC where you enrolled. This is a security precaution imposed
by VeriSign. Therefore only enroll from a PC where you receive email for
the email address to be associated with your digital ID certificate.
You must also have an NRC provided digital ID Approval Code prior to electronic
enrollment for a certificate.
The steps to enroll for an NRC issued digital ID certificate are:
- Open the
electronic Digital ID Enrollment Form your web browser (Internet
Explorer is supported)
- Go to the NRC public website: www.nrc.gov
- Select the "Electronic Submittals (Including HLW filings)" link
located at the center left
- Select the NRC's
Digital ID Center link
- Select the "ENROLL" option
- Enter the requested data fields. Here are some tips:
- Include
your middle initial after your first name as in "John
D"
- The email address you enter will be
stored on your digital ID certificate and
has multiple uses including:
- Is used to send your certificate to you
- It must match the email address
stored in NRC access list(s) in order for you be able to submit documents
other than through the General Form
- Is used to send your annual renew
reminder messages
- The challenge phrase will allow you to revoke your certificate if
for example you change jobs and no longer need a certificate.
- The challenge
phrase rules are:
- 1 to 32 characters Long
- Only letters, numbers &/or spaces
- Case & space sensitive (avoid
trailing blanks)
- Spaces & numbers aren't required
- No punctuation is allowed
- The "Optional: Enter Comments" can
be ignored since this is not used by NRC.
- Select the "Submit" button
on the web page after you have entered your data and checked it
carefully
- Select the "OK" button
to confirm that you entered your email address correctly.
- Select the "Yes" button
to confirm to Windows XP that you want to get a digital ID certificate.
- Select the "Set Security Level" button. This will allow
you to set your certificate protection level back to HIGH.
- Select the "High" radio
button. This will activate password protection for your digital id certificate.
Click the "Next >" button
to continue.
- Enter the new password twice and then select the "Finish" button.
- Select the "OK" button this time since you have already
set your certificate's security level to high and created a password.
- Select the "Submit" button to send in your enrollment request.
Within minutes you should receive an email acknowledging receipt of your
enrollment request.
Within several hours (Eastern Standard Time business
hours) your request should be reviewed and approved or disapproved. A second
email should then
be received. The approval email's subject is: "Your
Digital ID is ready".
For detailed enrollment instructions including screen shots see the NRC's Digital IDs Guide .
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