81 FR 75167 - Information Collections: DOE/NRC Form 740M, “Concise Note;” DOE/NRC Form 741, “Nuclear Material Transaction Report;” DOE/NRC Form 742, “Material Balance Report;” and DOE/NRC Form 742C, “Physical Inventory Listing”

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 209 (October 28, 2016)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public comment on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for four existing collections of information. The information collections are entitled, DOE/NRC Form 740M, ``Concise Note;'' DOE/NRC Form 741, ``Nuclear Material Transaction Report;'' DOE/NRC Form 742, ``Material Balance Report;'' and DOE/NRC Form 742C, ``Physical Inventory Listing.''

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 209 (Friday, October 28, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75167-75168]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-26067]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0174]


Information Collections: DOE/NRC Form 740M, ``Concise Note;'' 
DOE/NRC Form 741, ``Nuclear Material Transaction Report;'' DOE/NRC Form 
742, ``Material Balance Report;'' and DOE/NRC Form 742C, ``Physical 
Inventory Listing''

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 the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval for four existing collections of information. The information 
collections are entitled, DOE/NRC Form 740M, ``Concise Note;'' DOE/NRC 
Form 741, ``Nuclear Material Transaction Report;'' DOE/NRC Form 742, 
``Material Balance Report;'' and DOE/NRC Form 742C, ``Physical 
Inventory Listing.''

DATES: Submit comments by December 27, 2016. 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:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0174. 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: David Cullison, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Mail Stop: T-5 F53, 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: David Cullison, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0174 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-2016-0174. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2016-0174 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 No. ML16252A183. 
Guidance documents are available for the Forms, as follows: NUREG/BR-
0006, Revision 7 (ADAMS Accession No. ML111740924), and NUREG/BR-0007 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML090120288). The supporting statements for each 
DOE/NRC Form and the Forms themselves are available, as follows: DOE/
NRC Form 740M, ``Concise Note'' (ADAMS Accession No(s) ML16252A184 and 
ML16252A189); DOE/NRC Form 741, ``Nuclear Material Transaction Report'' 
(ADAMS Accession No(s) ML16252A185 and ML16252A191); DOE/NRC Form 742, 
``Material Balance Report'' (ADAMS Accession No(s) ML16252A186 and 
ML16252A192); and DOE/NRC Form 742C, ``Physical Inventory Listing'' 
(ADAMS Accession No(s) ML16252A187 and ML16252A193).
     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, 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 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

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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

    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.
    1. The title of the information collections: DOE/NRC Form 740M, 
``Concise Note;'' DOE/NRC Form 741, ``Nuclear Material Transaction 
Report;'' DOE/NRC Form 742, ``Material Balance Report;'' and DOE/NRC 
Form 742C, ``Physical Inventory Listing.''
    2. OMB approval numbers:

DOE/NRC Form 740M: 3150-0057
DOE/NRC Form 741: 3150-0003
DOE/NRC Form 742: 3150-0004
DOE/NRC Form 742C: 3150-0058

    3. Type of submission: Revision.
    4. The form number, if applicable: DOE/NRC Forms 740M, 741, 742, 
and 742C.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: DOE/NRC Form 
741, ``Nuclear Material Transaction Report,'' will be collected 
whenever source or special nuclear material is shipped or received into 
the Material Balance Area; DOE/NRC Form 742, ``Material Balance 
Report,'' will be collected on an annual basis; DOE/NRC Form 742C, 
``Physical Inventory Listing,'' will be collected on an annual basis; 
DOE/NRC Form 740M, ``Concise Note'' forms are used as needed to provide 
additional information such as qualifying statements or exceptions to 
data on any of the other data forms required under the U.S.-IAEA 
Safeguards Agreements (including DOE/NRC Forms 741, 742, and 742C).
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Persons licensed to 
possess specified quantities of special nuclear material or source 
material and entities subject to the U.S.-IAEA Caribbean Territories 
Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC/366) are required to respond as follows:
    Any licensee who ships, receives, or otherwise undergoes an 
inventory change of special nuclear material or source material is 
required to submit a DOE/NRC Form 741 to document the change. 
Additional information regarding these transactions shall be submitted 
through Form 740M, with Safeguards Information identified and handled 
in accordance with title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 
section 73.21, ``Requirements for the Protection of Safeguards 
Information.''
    Any licensee who had possessed in the previous reporting period, at 
any one time and location, special nuclear material in a quantity 
totaling one gram or more shall complete DOE/NRC Form 742. In addition, 
each licensee, Federal or State, who is authorized to possess, at any 
one time or location, one kilogram of foreign obligated source 
material, is required to file with the NRC an annual statement of 
source material inventory which is foreign obligated.
    Any licensee, who had possessed in the previous reporting period, 
at any one time and location, special nuclear material in a quantity 
totaling one gram or more shall complete DOE/NRC Form 742C.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses:

    DOE/NRC Form 740M: 175
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 10,000
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 385
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 385

    8. The estimated number of annual respondents:

    DOE/NRC Form 740M: 40
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 350
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 385
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 385

    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request:

    DOE/NRC Form 740M: 131
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 12,500
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 1,310
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 1,490

    10. Abstract: Persons licensed to possess specified quantities of 
special nuclear material or source material currently report inventory 
and transaction of material to the Nuclear Materials Management and 
Safeguards System via the DOE/NRC Forms: DOE/NRC Form 740M, ``Concise 
Note;'' DOE/NRC Form 741, ``Nuclear Material Transaction Report;'' DOE/
NRC Form 742, ``Material Balance Report;'' DOE/NRC Form 742C, 
``Physical Inventory Listing.'' This collection is being renewed to 
include approximately 25 entities subject to the U.S.-IAEA Caribbean 
Territories Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC/366). Part 75 of 10 CFR 
requires licensees to provide reports of source and special nuclear 
material inventory and flow for entities under the U.S.-IAEA Caribbean 
Territories Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC/366), permit inspections by 
IAEA inspectors, give immediate notice to the NRC in specified 
situations involving the possibility of loss of nuclear material, and 
give notice for imports and exports of specified amounts of nuclear 
material. These licensees will also follow written material accounting 
and control procedures. Reporting of transfer and material balance 
records to the IAEA will be done through Nuclear Materials Management 
and Safeguards System, collected under OMB clearance numbers 3150-0003, 
3150-0004, 3150-0057, and 3150-0058. The NRC needs this information to 
implement its international obligations under the U.S.-IAEA Caribbean 
Territories Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC/366).

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 19th day of October 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-26067 Filed 10-27-16; 8:45 am]
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