80 FR 51847 - Information Collection: NRC's Policy Statement on Cooperation With States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear Production and Utilization Facilities

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 165 (August 26, 2015)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public comment on this renewal of an existing information collection. The information collection is entitled, ``NRC's Policy Statement on Cooperation with States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and other Nuclear Production and Utilization Facilities.'' The NRC has a number of programs and activities that involve coordinating with States, requesting their input on proposed policies and rulemakings, and exchanging information with the States on a wide range of topics. The NRC has entered into cooperative agreements with States to conduct security inspections to verify that their materials licensees are in compliance with the NRC's orders requiring additional measures to enhance security at their facilities and to provide the NRC with information arising from their inspections.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 165 (Wednesday, August 26, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51847-51848]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21035]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0079]


Information Collection: NRC's Policy Statement on Cooperation 
With States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear 
Production and Utilization Facilities

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Renewal of existing information collection; request for 
comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public 
comment on this renewal of an existing information collection. The 
information collection is entitled, ``NRC's Policy Statement on 
Cooperation with States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and other 
Nuclear Production and Utilization Facilities.'' The NRC has a number 
of programs and activities that involve coordinating with States, 
requesting their input on proposed policies and rulemakings, and 
exchanging information with the States on a wide range of topics. The 
NRC has entered into cooperative agreements with States to conduct 
security inspections to verify that their materials licensees are in 
compliance with the NRC's orders requiring additional measures to 
enhance security at their facilities and to provide the NRC with 
information arising from their inspections.

DATES: Submit comments by October 26, 2015. 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: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0129. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tremaine Donnell, Office of 
Information Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001; telephone: (301) 415-6258; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0079 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 Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0079.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then 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 [email protected]. The 
supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML15173A222.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
     NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of 
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by 
contacting NRC's Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell, Office of 
Information Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6258; email: 
[email protected].

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0079 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make 
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
    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. The NRC will post all comment 
submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment 
submissions into ADAMS, and the NRC does not routinely edit comment 
submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, 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 the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Background

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35), the NRC is requesting public comment on its intention to 
request the OMB's approval for the information collection summarized 
below.

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    1. The title of the information collection: Cooperation With States 
at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear Production and 
Utilization Facilities, Policy Statement.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0163.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number, if applicable: N/A.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: On occasion, 
when a State or Tribe wishes to observe NRC inspection or perform 
inspections for the NRC or when a State or Tribe wishes to negotiate an 
agreement to observe or perform inspections. States with an agreement 
and State Resident Engineer have both regular reporting and occasion-
specific reporting.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: States and Tribes 
interested in observing or performing inspections.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 248.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 36.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request: 815.
    10. Abstract: States and Tribes are involved and interested in 
monitoring the safety status of nuclear power plants and radioactive 
materials. This involvement is, in part, in response to the States' and 
Tribes' public health and safety responsibilities and, in part, in 
response to their citizens' desire to become more knowledgeable about 
the safety of nuclear power plants and radioactive materials. States 
have identified NRC inspections as one possible source of knowledge for 
their personnel regarding plant and materials licensee activities, and 
the NRC, through the policy statement on Cooperation with States, has 
been amenable to accommodating the States' needs in this regard. 
Additionally, the NRC has been able to accommodate Tribal interests in 
the same way. The NRC has also entered into reimbursable Agreements 
with certain States under Section 274i of the Act, as amended, to 
employ their resources to conduct radioactive materials security 
inspections against NRC Orders.

III. Specific Requests for Comments

    The NRC is seeking comments that address the following questions:
    1. Is the proposed collection of information necessary for the NRC 
to properly perform its functions? Does the information have practical 
utility?
    2. Is the estimate of the burden of the information collection 
accurate?
    3. Is there a way to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected?
    4. How can the burden of the information collection on respondents 
be minimized, including the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology?

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of August, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tremaine Donnell,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.
[FR Doc. 2015-21035 Filed 8-25-15; 8:45 am]
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