[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 172 (Thursday, September 3, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55034-55035]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-19461]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0098]
Information Collection: COVID-19 Work Hour Controls Exemption
Request Form
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently
submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of
information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review.
The information collection is entitled, ``COVID-19 Work Hour Controls
Exemption Request Form.''
DATES: Submit comments by October 5, 2020. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001;
telephone: 301-415-2084; email: INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0098 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search
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for Docket ID NRC-2020-0098. A copy of the collection of information
and related instructions may be obtained without charge by accessing
Docket ID NRC-2020-0098 on this website.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or
by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. A copy of the collection of
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by
accessing ADAMS Accession No. ML20107J348. The supporting statement is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20170A641.
NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by
contacting the NRC's Clearance Officer, David Cullison, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email:
[email protected]
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission. All comment submissions are
posted at https://www.regulations.gov and entered into ADAMS. Comment
submissions are not routinely edited to remove identifying or contact
information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the OMB, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that comment submissions are not routinely edited to remove such
information before making the comment submissions available to the
public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Background
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently submitted a request for renewal of
an existing collection of information to OMB for review entitled,
``COVID-19 Work Hour Controls Exemption Request Form.'' The NRC hereby
informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection
of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
The NRC published a Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment
period on this information collection on April 23, 2020 (85 FR 22757).
1. The title of the information collection: COVID-19 Work Hour
Controls Exemption Request Form.
2. OMB approval number: 3150-0146.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number if applicable: There is no form number for the
online submission form.
5. How often the collection is required or requested: On occasion.
6. Who will be required or asked to respond: All holders of, and
certain applicants for, nuclear power plant construction permits and
operating licenses under the provisions of 10 CFR part 50, ``Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities'' who seek
exemptions from the work hour controls specified in 10 CFR
26.205(d)(1)-(7) as allowed by 10 CFR 26.9, ``Specific exemptions.''
7. The estimated number of annual responses: 40.
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 40.
9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 80.
10. Abstract: The NRC requested an emergency review of this
information collection in order to add this form to the previously
approved information collection OMB Control Number 3150-0146 for a
period of 6 months. The purpose of this information collection is to
request an extension of the approval of online COVID-19 Work Hour
Controls Exemption Request Form. The form simplifies the filing the
exemption requests because the existing system may be burdensome for
licensees under current conditions. Under the existing collection under
OMB Control No. 3150-0146, licensees are already able to seek
exemptions from the requirements of 10 CFR part 26, Fitness-For-Duty
Programs. This information collection only addresses the incremental
burden change to this existing clearance due to the form and not the
total burden for the clearance.
10 CFR 26.205(d)(1)-(7) identifies specific work hour control
requirements for individuals subject to the requirements of 10 CFR part
26. Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE),
the NRC is prepared to grant, upon request from individual licensees,
exemptions from the work hour controls specified in 10 CFR
26.205(d)(1)-(7) as allowed by 10 CFR 26.9, ``Specific exemptions.''
The objective of using the online form to submit exemptions from 10
CFR 26.205(d)(1)-(7) is to ensure that the control of work hours and
management of worker fatigue do not unduly limit licensee flexibility
in using personnel resources to most effectively manage the impacts of
the COVID-19 PHE on maintaining the safe operation of these facilities.
Specifically, the licensee can submit an exemption request if (1) a
licensee's staffing levels are affected by the COVID-19 PHE, (2) a
licensee determines that it can no longer meet the work-hour controls
of 10 CFR 26.205(d)(1)-(d)(7), and (3) the licensee can effect site-
specific administrative controls for COVID-19 PHE fatigue-management
for personnel specified in 10 CFR 26.4(a).
Dated: August 28, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-19461 Filed 9-2-20; 8:45 am]
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