§ 2.603 Acceptance and docketing of application for early review of site suitability issues in a construction permit proceeding.
(a) Each part of an application for a construction permit submitted in accordance with § 2.101(a–1) of this part will be initially treated as a tendered application. If it is determined that any one of the parts as described in § 2.101(a–1) is incomplete and not acceptable for processing, the Director of the Office of New Reactors or the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, as appropriate, will inform the applicant of this determination and the respects in which the document is deficient. Such a determination of completeness will generally be made within a period of 30 days.
(b)(1) The Director of the Office of
New Reactors or the Director of the
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, as
appropriate, will accept for docketing
part one of an application for a
construction permit for a utilization
facility which is subject to § 51.20(b) of
this chapter and is of the type specified
in § 50.21(b)(2) or (3) or § 50.22 of this
chapter, or is a testing facility where
part one of the application as described
in § 2.101(a–1) is complete. Part one of
any application will not be considered
complete unless it contains proposed
findings as required by § 2.101(a–1)(1)(i)
and unless it describes the applicant's
site selection process, specifies the
extent to which that process involves
the consideration of alternative sites,
explains the relationship between that
process and the application for early
review of site suitability issues, and
briefly describes the applicant’s longrange
plans for ultimate development of
the site. Upon assignment of a docket
number, the procedures in § 2.101(a)(3)
and (4) relating to formal docketing and
the submission and distribution of
additional copies of the application
shall be followed.
(2) Additional parts of the application
will be docketed upon a determination
by the Director of the Office of New
Reactors or the Director of the Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, as
appropriate, that they are complete.
(c) If part one of the application is
docketed, the Director of the Office of
New Reactors or the Director of the
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, as
appropriate, will cause to be published
in the Federal Register and send to the
Governor or other appropriate official of
the State in which the site is located, a
notice of docketing of the application
which states the purpose of the
application, states the location of the
proposed site, states that a notice of
hearing will be published, requests
comments within 120 days or such
other time as may be specified on the
initiation or outcome of an early site
review from Federal, State, and local
agencies and interested persons.
[42 FR 22885, May 5, 1977, as amended at 49 FR 9401, Mar. 12, 1984; 72 FR 49478, Aug. 28, 2007]