80 FR 79105 - Information Collection: Nuclear Material Events Database (NMED) for the Collection of Event Report, Response, Analyses, and Follow-Up Data on Events Involving the Use of Atomic Energy Act (AEA) Radioactive Byproduct Material

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 243 (December 18, 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, ``Nuclear Material Events Database (NMED for the Collection of Event Report, Response, Analyses, and Follow-up Data on Events Involving the Use of Atomic Energy Act (AEA) Radioactive Byproduct Material.''

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 243 (Friday, December 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79105-79106]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31835]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0158]


Information Collection: Nuclear Material Events Database (NMED) 
for the Collection of Event Report, Response, Analyses, and Follow-Up 
Data on Events Involving the Use of Atomic Energy Act (AEA) Radioactive 
Byproduct 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, ``Nuclear Material Events 
Database (NMED for the Collection of Event Report, Response, Analyses, 
and Follow-up Data on Events Involving the Use of Atomic Energy Act 
(AEA) Radioactive Byproduct Material.''

DATES: Submit comments by January 19, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Vlad 
Dorjets, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0178), 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-2015-0158 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-2015-0158. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2015-0158 on this Web site.
     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]. A 
copy of the collection of information and related instructions may be 
obtained without charge by accessing ADAMS Accession ML15314A655. The 
supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML15314A713.
     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 the 
Chief Information Officer, 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, 
``Nuclear Material Events Database (NMED for the Collection of Event 
Report, Response, Analyses, and Follow-up Data on Events Involving the 
Use of Atomic Energy Act (AEA) Radioactive Byproduct 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 July 27, 2015 (80 FR 44401).
    1. The title of the information collection: ``Nuclear Material 
Events Database (NMED) for the Collection of Event Report, Response, 
Analyses, and Follow-up Data on Events Involving the Use of Atomic 
Energy Act (AEA) Radioactive Byproduct Material.''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0178.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: NA.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: On occasion. 
Agreement States are requested to provide copies of licensee nuclear 
material event reports electronically or by hard copy to the NRC within 
30 days of receipt from their licensee. In addition, Agreement States 
are requested to report events that may pose a significant health and 
safety hazard to the NRC Headquarters Operations Officer within 24 
hours of notification by an Agreement State licensee.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Current Agreement 
States and any State receiving Agreement State status in the future.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 506.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 37.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 804 
hours.
    10. Abstract: NRC regulations require NRC licensees to report 
incidents and overexposures, leaking or contaminated sealed source(s), 
release of excessive contamination of radioactive material, lost or 
stolen radioactive material, equipment failures, abandoned well logging 
sources and medical events. Agreement State licenses are also required 
to report these events to their individual Agreement State regulatory 
authorities under compatible Agreement State regulations. The NRC is 
requesting that the Agreement States provide information to NRC on the 
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notification, response actions, and follow-up investigations on events 
involving the use (including suspected theft or terrorist activities) 
of nuclear materials regulated pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act. The 
event information should be provided in a uniform electronic format, 
for assessment and identification of any facilities/site-specific or 
generic safety concerns that could have the potential to impact public 
health and safety. The identification and review of safety concerns may 
result in lessons learned and may also identify generic issues for 
further study that could result in proposals for changes or revisions 
to technical or regulatory designs, processes, standards, guidance or 
requirements.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of December, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tremaine Donnell,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-31835 Filed 12-17-15; 8:45 am]
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