---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 76.5"
title: "10"
number: "76.5"
heading: "Communications."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/76.5"
---

# §76.5. Communications.


Except where otherwise specified, all communications and reports concerning the regulations in this part and applications filed under them should be sent as follows:

- (a) **By mail addressed to—** ATTN: Document Control Desk, Director, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001;
- (b) By hand delivery to the NRC's offices at 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland; or
- (c) Where practicable, by electronic submission, for example, Electronic Information Exchange, or CD-ROM. Electronic submissions must be made in a manner that enables the NRC to receive, read, authenticate, distribute, and archive the submission, and process and retrieve it a single page at a time. Detailed guidance on making electronic submissions can be obtained by visiting the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html; by e-mail to MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov; or by writing the Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. The guidance discusses, among other topics, the formats the NRC can accept, the use of electronic signatures, and the treatment of nonpublic information.
- (d) Classified communications shall be transmitted in accordance with [§ 95.39](/cfr/10/95.39.md) of this chapter to the NRC Headquarters' classified mailing address listed in appendix A to [part 73](/cfr/10/part73.md) of this chapter or delivered by hand in accordance with [§ 95.39](/cfr/10/95.39.md) of this chapter to the NRC Headquarters' street address listed in appendix A to [part 73](/cfr/10/part73.md) of this chapter.

## Notes

### Amendments

[68 FR 58822, Oct. 10, 2003, as amended at 74 FR 62685, Dec. 1, 2009; 80 FR 74981 Dec. 1, 2015; 83 FR 58723, Nov. 21, 2018]

### Authority

Authority: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, secs. 122, 161, 193(f), 223, 234, 1701 (42 U.S.C. 2152, 2201, 2243(f), 2273, 2282, 2297f); Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, secs. 201, 206, 211 (42 U.S.C. 5841, 5846, 5851); 44 U.S.C. 3504 note. Section 76.22 is also issued under Atomic Energy Act sec. 193(f) (42 U.S.C. 2243(f)). Section 76.35(j) also issued under Atomic Energy Act sec. 122 (42 U.S.C. 2152).

### Source

Source: 59 FR 48960, Sept. 23, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[68 FR 58822, Oct. 10, 2003, as amended at 74 FR 62685, Dec. 1, 2009; 80 FR 74981 Dec. 1, 2015; 83 FR 58723, Nov. 21, 2018]