[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR2.103]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 2--RULES OF PRACTICE FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING PROCEEDINGS AND ISSUANCE OF ORDERS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart A--Procedure for Issuance, Amendment, Transfer, or Renewal of a 
                                 License
 
Sec. 2.103  Action on applications for byproduct, source, special nuclear material, and operator licenses.

    (a) If the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or the Director of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, as appropriate, finds that an 
application for a byproduct, source, special nuclear material, or 
operator license complies with the requirements of the Act, the Energy 
Reorganization Act, and this chapter, he will issue a license. If the 
license is for a facility, or for receipt of waste radioactive material 
from other persons for the purpose of commercial disposal by the waste 
disposal licensee, or if it is to receive and possess high-level 
radioactive waste at a geologic repository operations area pursuant to 
part 60 of this chapter, the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or 
the Director of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, as appropriate, 
will inform the State, tribal and local officials specified in 
Sec. 2.104(e) of the issuance of the license. For notice of issuance 
requirements for licenses issued pursuant to part 61 of this chapter, 
see Sec. 2.106(d) of this part.
    (b) If the Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or Director of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, as appropriate, finds that an 
application does not comply with the requirements of the Act and this 
chapter he may issue a notice of proposed denial or a notice of denial 
of the application and inform the applicant in writing of:

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    (1) The nature of any deficiencies or the reason for the proposed 
denial or the denial, and
    (2) The right of the applicant to demand a hearing within twenty 
(20) days from the date of the notice or such longer period as may be 
specified in the notice.

[28 FR 10152, Sept. 17, 1963, as amended at 47 FR 57478, Dec. 27, 1982]

                  Hearing on Application--How Initiated