---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 501.100"
title: "10"
number: "501.100"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/501.100"
---

# §501.100. Purpose and scope.

- (a) Anyone may request that OFE commence a rulemaking proceeding pursuant to [5 U.S.C. 553(e)](/usc/5/553.md?p=e); however, this subpart provides the procedures to be followed by—
  - (1) An interested person seeking the modification or rescission of a prohibition by rule applicable to a new facility;
  - (2) An owner or operator of a facility named in a prohibition by rule requesting the modification or rescission of that rule; or
  - (3) An owner or operator subject to an exemption order or a specific prohibition imposed by order requesting the modification or a rescission of that order.
- (b) OFE also may commence a modification or rescission proceeding on its own initiative.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 8701 et seq.; E.O. 12009, 42 FR 46267; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note.

### Source

Source: 46 FR 59889, Dec. 7, 1981, unless otherwise noted.