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Nuclear power is globally expanding and is catching on in the U.S.
WNA 11 (World Nuclear Association, The Nuclear Renaissance  , August 2011, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf104.html) JD
Since about 2001 there has …  power in places such as North America.
Nuclear power is critical to creating jobs here at home and to maintain our economy.
NAM 08 (National Association of Manufacturers, Expanding Nuclear Capacity Will Create High-Wage Jobs, Says NAM, Jun. 17, 2008, http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/545823)
The National Association of Manufacturers … good jobs here at home,” Engler concluded.
The U.S. economy is key to the world economy.
Mead 04, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, 2004 (Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Policy, 4/1/04 pg. Lexis)
Similarly, in the last 60 years … U.S. economic might is sticky power.
Economic decline causes nuclear war
O’Donnell 9 (Sean Squad Leader in the Marine Corps Reserve and is currently a graduate student at the University of Baltimore studying law and ethics, Examiner.com, Will this recession lead to World War III?, February 26, 2009, http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-baltimore/will-this-recession-lead-to-world-war-iii, MS)
One of the causes of …  However sometimes history repeats itself.

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Obama winning now: post-convention swing-state surge
Silver 9-13-11 Nate Silver, NYT, "Sept 13: After convention bounce, holding Obama’s polls to a higher standard" 9/14 com/
On Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time…. ought to quite strong for him.
Solyndra secures undecided, disillusioned voters for Romney
Restuccia et al., 9-6
Andrew Restuccia, Darren Samuelsohn, Darren Goode, staff writer, Politico.com, “Who wins Solyndra message war?” lexis
Meanwhile, evidence is scant on how much … essentially flushed down the toilet."\
 
Independent voters are the largest voting bloc —- spending kills support
Schoen 12 Douglas Schoen, pollster for President Clinton, 2-8-2012, The Forgotten Swing Voter, Politico, p. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=7ED8592F-2122-4A55-AA3B-C5460134BE4A
Neither party focuses on issues that matter …  four more years of the same gridlock.
 
A Romney victory ensures a strike against Iran
White 7-3-12 (Jeremy B., International Business Times – National Affairs Reporter, 7-3-2012, International Business Times, Romney Foreign Policy: A ‘Replay of the Bush Administration’?, http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/359154/20120703/romney-full-scale-crisis-russia-iran-syria.htm)
A President Romney would … has that capacity now.
 
Global Nuclear War
Hirsch 6 (Jorge, professor of Physics at the University of California at San Diego, 4-22-2006, Centre for Research on Globalization, Nuking Iran, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticleandcode=HIR20060422andarticleId=2317, accessed 7-5-2012, JKE)
JH: Iran is likely to respond … before anybody has prevailed.

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The United States Department of the treasury should issue a guidance document stating (insert specific incentive area of plan) including offering an Investment Tax Credit for (insert area of the plan).

The department of the treasury can issue guidance documents

Clinton Administration 93 (The President of the United States,  “Executive Order 12866” , September 30, 1993, http://www.plainlanguage.gov/populartopics/regulations/eo12866.pdf)
With this Executive order, … requires another regulatory approach.

Investment tax credits solve for wind energy production

DSIRE 11 (Database of State Incentives of Renewables and Efficiency,  the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE) is an ongoing project of the North Carolina Solar Center and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC), Inc. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency , November 18, 2011 http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/incentive.cfm?Incentive_Code=US02F)
Small Wind Turbines.* The credit … for small wind turbines.)

Regulations are established by congress – agencies can make internal modifications that avoid political blame

Schillaci 2007 William C. author of the book Most Misunderstood Regs March 27, “Reining in Guidance Documents” http://enviro.blr.com/whitepapers/ehs-management/epa-environmental-protection-agency/reining-in-guidance-documents/
"The phenomenon we see in this case is … the Code of Federal Regulations."

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency should issue a guidance stating (insert relevant deregulation from the plan).

Energy policy guidance documents are enforced

Nelson 2011 Gabriel March 23, Greenwire “Bush's Rulemaking Czar Blasts EPA's Use of 'Guidance'” New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/03/23/23greenwire-bushs-rulemaking-czar-blasts-epas-use-of-guida-47538.html?pagewanted=all
"The whole idea of … as binding," Walton wrote (EandENews PM, Jan. 18).

Guidance documents avoid politics- especially true in divided government

Raso 2010 Connor N. J.D., Yale Law School expected 2010; Ph.D., Stanford University Department of Political Science expected 2010 “Note: Strategic or Sincere? Analyzing Agency Use of Guidance Documents” The Yale Law Journal January, 119 Yale L.J. 782
Agency leaders facing a … please both of its superiors.

Guidance documents have a practical legal effect despite not being actual rules

Hunnicutt 1999 James JD – Boston College Law School “NOTE: Another Reason to Reform the Federal Regulatory System: Agencies' Treating Nonlegislative Rules as Binding Law” Boston College Law Review December, 41 B.C. L. Rev 153
Rules created without process … up on the appeals process. 156

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NRC CP

Text: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should issue a guidance document ignoring the penalty of shutting down reactors for violating license protocols and de-prioritize enforcement of the expansion of small modular nuclear reactors.  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall issue an informal business memo to alert the small modular nuclear industries aware of this change.

CP is competitive and solves the case - Guidance documents have the power of law but are not binding – agencies voluntarily comply with rules

Hunnicutt 1999 James JD – Boston College Law School “NOTE: Another Reason to Reform the Federal Regulatory System: Agencies' Treating Nonlegislative Rules as Binding Law” Boston College Law Review December, 41 B.C. L. Rev 153
Rules created without process--interpretative rules, general statements of policy, rules of
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the rule in court and have given up on the appeals process. 156
 

Lowering the shutdown penalty while maintaining regulation solves energy production – avoids the link to politics

HECC 12 -House Energy and Commerce Committee  ("The Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act (H.R. 4273)," http://energycommerce.house.gov/news/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=9750)
The Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act, introduced by Reps. Pete Olson
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be subject to penalties when working with DOE to keep the lights on.

Regulations are established by congress – agencies can make internal modifications that avoid political blame

Schillaci 2007 William C. author of the book Most Misunderstood Regs March 27, “Reining in Guidance Documents” http://enviro.blr.com/whitepapers/ehs-management/epa-environmental-protection-agency/reining-in-guidance-documents/
"The phenomenon we see in this case is familiar. Congress passes a broadly
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and without publication in the Federal Register or the Code of Federal Regulations."