80 FR 65254 - Information Collection: Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 206 (October 26, 2015)

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, ``Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material.''

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 206 (Monday, October 26, 2015)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-27063]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0033]


Information Collection: Physical Protection of Category 1 and 
Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material

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, ``Physical Protection of 
Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material.''

DATES: Submit comments by November 25, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Vlad 
Dorjets, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0214) NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 
20503; telephone: 202-395-7315, email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tremaine Donnell, NRC Clearance 
Officer, 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-2015-0033 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-2015-0033.
     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 and burden estimates are available in ADAMS under 
Accession ML15266A262 and ML15266A263, respectively.
     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 the 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

    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 http://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, 
``Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of 
Radioactive Material.'' 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 June 23, 2015, 80 FR 35995.
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 37, 
Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of 
Radioactive Material.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0214.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Standard Fingerprint Form, FD-
258.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: One time for 
initial compliance notifications and fingerprints for the reviewing 
officials; and as needed for implementation notifications, event 
notifications, notifications of shipments of radioactive material, and 
fingerprinting of new employees.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Licensees that are 
authorized to possess and use category 1 or category 2 quantities of 
radioactive material.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 103,983.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 1,500 (300 NRC 
Licensees + 1,200 Agreement State Licensees).
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 
138,570.2 hours (1,932.4 hours reporting + 85,644.2 hours recordkeeping 
+ 50,993.6 hours third-party disclosure).
    10. Abstract: Part 37 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), contains security requirements for the use of 
category 1 and category 2 quantities of radioactive material. Licensees 
are required to: (1) Develop procedures for implementation of the 
security provisions; (2) develop a security plan that describes how 
security is being implemented; (3) conduct training on the procedures 
and security plan; (4) conduct background investigations for those 
individuals permitted access to category 1 or category 2 quantities of 
radioactive material; (5) coordinate with LLEAs so the LLEAs would be 
better prepared to respond in an emergency; (6) conduct preplanning and 
coordination activities before shipping radioactive material; and (7) 
implement security measures for the protection of the radioactive 
material. Licensees are required to promptly report any attempted or 
actual theft or diversion of the radioactive material. Licensees are 
required to keep copies of the security plan, procedures, background 
investigation records,

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training records, and documentation that certain activities have 
occurred. The NRC uses the information required by 10 CFR part 37 to 
fulfill its responsibilities to respond to, investigate, and correct 
situations that adversely affect public health and safety or the common 
defense and security.

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

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kristen Benney,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.
[FR Doc. 2015-27063 Filed 10-23-15; 8:45 am]
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