A docket is the information collection that constitutes the formal record of a case in a court or administrative agency, from its inception to its conclusion. The NRC’s electronic docket is the electronic information system that receives, distributes, stores, and retrieves the Commission's docket materials. The Electronic Hearing Docket (EHD) for the high-level waste repository licensing proceedings resides in the NRC’s Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS).

The docket of the proceeding on the application for a license to receive and possess waste at a geologic repository operations area contains the official record materials in searchable full text or, for material that is not suitable for entry in searchable full text, by header and image, as appropriate.

Items in the EHD for the high-level waste repository licensing proceedings include:

• the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) license application;
• list and copies of all exhibits;
• transcripts (official copy of the record of proceeding during the hearing);
• party pleadings (documents in which parties or their lawyers “plead” their case/viewpoints/arguments on anything in dispute);
• presiding officer issuances (rulings on procedural matters (setting deadlines for the filing of various motions, etc.) or substantive matters (summary disposition rulings or initial decisions));
• issuances in response to pleadings (such as discovery-related motions and motions to limit or exclude certain evidence that is expected to be presented at the hearing).

All filings in the adjudicatory proceeding on the DOE license application to receive and possess high-level radioactive waste at a geologic repository must be transmitted electronically via an electronic motion.

Click here to access the Electronic Hearing Docket.