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Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan.

Impartiality

The standards of conduct (5 CFR 2635 subpart E) require employees to disqualify themselves, unless they receive a waiver, from participating in any "particular NRC matter involving specific parties" that the employee knows is likely to have a direct and predictable effect on the financial interests of a member of the employee's household if a reasonable person would question the employee's impartiality. This ban also includes anyone with whom the employee has a "covered relationship" if that person is or represents a party. (A covered relationship includes: anyone with whom the employee has a business, contractual, or other financial relationship; a relative with whom the employee has a close personal relationship; and anyone the employee has served during the past year as officer, director, trustee, general partner, agent attorney, consultant, contractor, or employee.)

Example: An employee's involvement in an NRC inspection where the employee's brother is an officer of the licensee would raise a question of impartiality. The question would also be raised if the employee worked for the licensee within a year prior to the proposed inspection.

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Thursday, August 08, 2024

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Thursday, August 08, 2024