Internal Commission Procedures
Complete Procedures
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Chapter I — Commission Responsibilities
- Collegial Functions
- Chairman Duties
- Individual Commissioner Responsibilities
- Commission Administrative Procedures
- Changes to or Waiver of Commission Procedures
Chapter II — Decision Documents
- SECY Papers
- Format for Staff Papers and Action Memoranda to the Commission
- Action Memoranda (COMs and COMSECYs)
- Staff Requirements Memoranda
- Release of Documents Under FOIA
- Management and Disposition of Commissioner Records
Chapter III — Voting
- Votes on SECY Papers
- Comments on Draft Congressional Letters and Press Releases Associated with Decision Documents
- Votes on Action Memoranda (COMs and COMSECYs)
- Votes at Commission Meetings
- Continuances and Extensions of Time
- Closure Process
- Tracking of Requirements and Tasks
- Motions for Reconsideration of a Decision
- Return or Withdrawal of Papers Submitted to the Commission
Chapter IV — Commission Meetings/Hearings
- Government in the Sunshine Act
- Development of Commission Schedule
- Format for Commission Meetings
- Conduct of Commission Meetings
- Meeting-Related Documents
- Staff Requirements Memoranda (SRM)
- Briefings of the Commission Assistants
- Conduct of Mandatory Hearings on Applications for Combined Licenses and Construction Permits for
Medical Isotope Production and Utilization Facilities
Chapter V — Institutional Correspondence
- Incoming Correspondence
- Guidelines for Commission Response
- Commission Daily Reading File
- Outgoing Correspondence
Chapter VI — Transmittal of Sensitive Documents to Congress
Chapter VII — Congressional Hearings
Appendices
- Procedures for Obtaining Nominations for NRC's Advisory Committees
- Procedures for Handling Withheld Documents in Commissioners' Offices Under FOIA
- Notation Vote Response Sheet
- Basis for Determining Voting Results
- Resolution of 2-2 Vote
- Specialized Procedures when Commission Review Time for Adjudicatory Actions is Limited
- Staff Requirements Memorandum and Commission Voting Record
- Procedures for Staff Presentations at Commission Meetings
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances
- Security Procedures for Conducting Classified Meetings/Hearings
- Record of Non-Sunshine Act Discussion
- Correspondence Response Sheets
- Commission Office and Staff Instructions for Processing Congressional Requests for Documents
- The Budget Process
- List of Positions for Which the Commission is the Awarding Authority for Performance Awards
Page Last Reviewed/Updated Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Page Last Reviewed/Updated Tuesday, December 15, 2020