1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Efficient Nuclear Licensing Hearings Act . 2. Updating hearing procedures (a) Hearings and judicial review Section 189 a. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ( 42 U.S.C. 2239(a) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)(A)— (A) by striking In any proceeding under this Act and inserting the following: (i) In any proceeding under this Act ; and (B) in clause (i) (as so designated), by striking The Commission shall hold a hearing and all that follows through upon a determination by the Commission that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration. and inserting the following: (ii) The Commission may, in the absence of a request for a hearing by any person whose interest may be affected, issue a construction permit, an operating license, a combined construction permit and operating license, an amendment to a construction permit, an amendment to an operating license, or an amendment to a combined construction permit and operating license under section 103, 104 b., 104 c., or 185 b. for a facility or a testing facility, without a hearing, but upon thirty days notice and publication once in the Federal Register of its intent to do so. The Commission may dispense with such thirty days notice and publication with respect to any application for an amendment to a construction permit, an amendment to an operating license, or an amendment to a combined construction permit and operating license upon a determination by the Commission that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration. (iii) The Commission shall use informal adjudicatory procedures for any hearing held by the Commission pursuant to this subparagraph. ; (2) in paragraph (1)(B)(iv)— (A) by inserting informal before hearing procedures ; and (B) by striking , whether informal or formal adjudicatory,