Sec. 7. Application reviews for nuclear energy projects
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Section 185 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ( 42 U.S.C. 2235 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: With respect to an application that is docketed seeking issuance of a construction permit, operating license, or combined construction permit and operating license for a production or utilization facility, the Commission shall include the following procedures: Undertake an expedited environmental review process and issue any draft environmental impact statement within 24 months after the application is accepted for docketing.
Complete the technical review process and issue any safety evaluation report and any final environmental impact statement within 42 months after the application is accepted for docketing. In a proceeding for a combined construction permit and operating license for a site for which an early site permit has been issued, any environmental impact statement prepared by the Commission and cooperating agencies shall be prepared as a supplement to the environmental impact statement prepared for the early site permit.
The supplemental environmental impact statement shall— incorporate by reference the analysis, findings, and conclusions from the environmental impact statement prepared for the early site permit; and include additional discussion, analyses, findings, and conclusions on matters resolved in the early site permit proceeding only to the extent necessary to address information that is new and significant in that the information would materially change the prior findings or conclusions.
In reviewing an application for an early site permit, construction permit, operating license, or combined construction permit and operating license for a production or utilization facility located at the site of a licensed production or utilization facility, the Commission shall, to the extent practicable, use information that was part of the licensing basis of the licensed production or utilization facility. The Commission shall issue and make immediately effective an early site permit or construction permit for a production or utilization facility upon finding that the application therefor satisfies the requirements of this Act, notwithstanding the pendency before the Commission of a request for a hearing.
Following completion of any required hearing, the Commission shall take any appropriate action with respect to the early site permit, construction permit, or combined construction permit and operating license to the extent necessary to account for the hearing results. The Commission shall initiate a rulemaking, to be completed 1 year after the date of enactment of the Nuclear Utilization of Keynote Energy Act , to amend the regulations of the Commission to implement this subsection.
Nothing in this subsection exempts the Commission from any requirement for full compliance with section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C) ). .
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