81 FR 9227 - Information Collection: Operators' Licenses

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 36 (February 24, 2016)

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, ``Operators' Licenses.''

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 24, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9227-9228]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-03815]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0218]


Information Collection: Operators' Licenses

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, ``Operators' Licenses.''

DATES: Submit comments by March 25, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Vlad 
Dorjets, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0018), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 
DC 20503; telephone: 202-395-7315, email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brenda Miles, Acting NRC Clearance 
Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
telephone: 301-415-7884; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0218 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-2015-0218.
     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. 
ML15343A087.
     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 Acting Clearance Officer, Brenda Miles, Office of 
the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7884; 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, ``10 
CFR part 55, Operators' Licenses.'' 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 October 1, 2015 (80 FR 59200).
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 55, 
Operators' Licenses.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0018.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: As necessary 
for the NRC to meet its responsibilities to determine the eligibility 
for applicants and operators.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Holders of, and 
applicants for, facility (i.e., nuclear power and non-power research 
and test reactor) operating licenses and individual operator licensees.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 452 responses (354 
reporting responses + 98 recordkeepers).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 98 respondents.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with

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the information collection requirement or request: 212,052 hours 
(188,647 hours reporting + 23,405 hours recordkeeping).
    10. Abstract: Part 55 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), ``Operators' Licenses,'' specifies information 
and data to be provided by applicants and facility licensees so that 
the NRC may make determinations concerning the licensing and 
requalification of operators for nuclear reactors, as necessary to 
promote public health and safety. The reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements contained in 10 CFR part 55 are mandatory for the facility 
licensees and the applicants affected.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of February 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Miles,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-03815 Filed 2-23-16; 8:45 am]
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