[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 182 (Friday, September 18, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58402-58403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-20651]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0104]
Information Collection: NRC Online Form, ``Nuclear Materials
Relief Requests''
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, NRC Online Form, ``Nuclear
Materials Relief Requests.''
DATES: Submit comments by October 19, 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-2020-0104 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0104. A copy of
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained
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without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2020-0104 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 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. ML20252A133. The supporting statement is available
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20213C548.
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, NRC
Online Form, ``Nuclear Materials Relief Requests.'' 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 May 5, 2020, 85 FR 26718.
1. The title of the information collection: NRC Online Form,
``Nuclear Materials Relief Requests''
2. OMB approval number: 3150-0243.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
5. How often the collection is required or requested: On Occasion.
6. Who will be required or asked to respond: This information
collection applies to holders of nuclear materials licenses (including
byproduct material, uranium recovery, decommissioning (both materials
and reactors), fuel facilities, and spent fuel storage licenses) who
may need to seek regulatory relief during the Coronavirus Disease 2019
(COVID-19) Public Health Emergency (PHE).
7. The estimated number of annual responses: 260.
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 260.
9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 520.
10. Abstract: The NRC requested an emergency review of this
information collection in order to obtain the approval of this
information collection for a period of 6 months. The purpose of this
information collection is to request an extension of the approval of
the online form for COVID-19 related Nuclear Materials Relief Requests.
The form simplifies the filing the relief requests described in the
following paragraphs because the existing system may be too burdensome
for licensees under current conditions.
The NRC requires licensed facilities to comply with requirements in
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as they relate to the
safe and secure use of nuclear materials; medical, industrial, and
academic applications; uranium recovery activities, low-level
radioactive waste sites; and the decommissioning of previously
operating nuclear facilities and power plants. These requirements can
be found in 10 CFR parts 20, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40,
50, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, and 150. The ability of licensed facilities to
comply with these requirements may be negatively impacted by the COVID-
19 PHE due to resulting staffing challenges, the need to protect staff
during the PHE, the availability of contracted support services, and
other unforeseen challenges to operations. Currently, licensees may
request, and the NRC will approve exemptions from the above
requirements when they are authorized by law, will not present an undue
risk to the public health and safety, and are consistent with the
common defense and security. To facilitate and streamline licensees'
requests for exemptions to these requirements, the NRC is providing an
online form to submit the required information for a specific exemption
request. This online form supplements the existing reporting mechanisms
for requests for exemption.
Dated: September 15, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kristen E. Benney,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-20651 Filed 9-17-20; 8:45 am]
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