# 2025-08417: Nuclear Plant License Changes Arrive With No Significant Hazards

2025-08417, Monthly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations, is a Federal Register notice from Nuclear Regulatory Commission published 2025-05-14, effective Comments must be filed by June 13, 2025. A request for a hearing or petitions for leave to intervene must be filed by July 14, 2025. This monthly notice includes all amendments issued, or proposed to be issued, from March 28, 2025, to April 24, 2025. (as of 2026-10-19).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-08417
- Title: Monthly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 20513
- Published: 2025-05-14
- Effective: Comments must be filed by June 13, 2025. A request for a hearing or petitions for leave to intervene must be filed by July 14, 2025. This monthly notice includes all amendments issued, or proposed to be issued, from March 28, 2025, to April 24, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-19

## In one line

Nuclear Plant License Changes Arrive With No Significant Hazards

## Summary

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is sharing updates on changes to nuclear plant licenses that don’t pose safety risks. These updates affect plant operators and the public, with a chance to comment by June 13, 2025, and request hearings by July 14, 2025. The changes cover actions taken between late March and late April 2025, ensuring plants keep running safely without costly delays.

## Abstract

Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing this regular monthly notice. The Act requires the Commission to publish notice of any amendments issued, or proposed to be issued, and grants the Commission the authority to issue and make immediately effective any amendment to an operating license or combined license, as applicable, upon a determination by the Commission that such amendment involves no significant hazards consideration (NSHC), notwithstanding the pendency before the Commission of a request for a hearing from any person.

## Effects PRIA read

- Public comment and hearing deadlines: benefit, low. You can send comments about the proposed license amendments by June 13, 2025. If you want a hearing or to intervene, you must file a request or petition by July 14, 2025, and petitions generally must be filed within 60 days of the notice.
- Immediate issuance for no significant hazards changes: mixed, medium. The NRC can make license amendments immediately effective if it determines the change involves no significant hazards consideration (NSHC). Normally the Commission waits up to 60 days after publication, but it may issue amendments before the 60‑day period or before the 30‑day comment period ends if…
- Monthly coverage period for listed amendments: benefit, low. This monthly notice covers license amendment applications and issuances that were submitted or acted on from March 28, 2025, through April 24, 2025. The notice lists facility names, docket numbers, application dates, ADAMS accession numbers, and brief descriptions of each proposed or issued amendme…

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## Sources
- [2025-08417 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/14/2025-08417/monthly-notice-applications-and-amendments-to-facility-operating-licenses-and-combined-licenses)
- [2025-08417 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-14/pdf/2025-08417.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08417 (as of 2026-10-19).