{"data":{"id":"us/10-cfr-51.72","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"10 CFR 51.72","heading":"Supplement to draft environmental impact statement.","body":"(a) The NRC staff will prepare a supplement to a draft environmental impact statement for which a notice of availability has been published in the Federal Register as provided in § 51.117, if:\n(1) There are substantial changes in the proposed action that are relevant to environmental concerns; or\n(2) There are significant new circumstances or information relevant to environmental concerns and bearing on the proposed action or its impacts.\n(b) The NRC staff may prepare a supplement to a draft environmental impact statement when, in its opinion, preparation of a supplement will further the purposes of NEPA.\n(c) The supplement to a draft environmental impact statement will be prepared and noticed in the same manner as the draft environmental impact statement except that a scoping process need not be used.","path":["Title 10—Energy","CHAPTER I—NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION","PART 51—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION REGULATIONS FOR DOMESTIC LICENSING AND RELATED REGULATORY FUNCTIONS","Subpart A—National Environmental Policy Act—Regulations Implementing Section 102(2)"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-10.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:09Z","sha256":"43dad3d11043643490d11d9e9af1d856322f029bdb1d441e525c669657b5760f","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/10-cfr-51.71","next":"us/10-cfr-51.73"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}