82 FR 3364 - Information Collection: NRC Form 327, Special Nuclear Material (SNM) and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory Summary Report, and NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical Inventory

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 7 (January 11, 2017)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public comment on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for an existing collection of information. The information collection is entitled, ``NRC Form 327, Special Nuclear Material (SNM) and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory Summary Report, and NUREG/ BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical Inventory.''

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3364-3365]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00320]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0062]


Information Collection: NRC Form 327, Special Nuclear Material 
(SNM) and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory Summary Report, and 
NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical 
Inventory

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) invites public 
comment on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval for an existing collection of information. The information 
collection is entitled, ``NRC Form 327, Special Nuclear Material (SNM) 
and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory Summary Report, and NUREG/
BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical Inventory.''

DATES: Submit comments by February 10, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Vlad 
Dorjets, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(OMB 3150-0139), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, 
Washington, DC 20503; telephone: 202-395-7315, email: 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, NRC Clearance 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-2016-0062 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-2016-0062. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2016-0062 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(s). ML082620258 
and ML17005A225. The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML16340B551.
     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, 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

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0062 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. 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

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submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of 
information to OMB for review entitled, ``NRC Form 327, Special Nuclear 
Material (SNM) and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory Summary 
Report, and NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for Completing 
Physical Inventory.'' 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 September 22, 2016 (81 FR 
65412).
    1. The title of the information collection: NRC Form 327, ``Special 
Nuclear Material (SNM) and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory 
Summary Report, and NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for 
Completing Physical Inventory''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0139.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: NRC Form 327.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Certain 
licensees possessing strategic SNM are required to report inventories 
every six months. Licensees possessing SNM of moderate strategic 
significance must report every nine months. Licensees possessing SNM of 
low strategic significance must report annually, except one licensee 
must report its dynamic inventories every two months and a static 
inventory on an annual basis.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Fuel facility 
licensees possessing SNM, i.e., enriched uranium, plutonium or U-233.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 26.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 6.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 104 
hours (4 hours per response x 26 responses).
    10. Abstract: NRC Form 327 is submitted by certain fuel facility 
licensees to account for SNM. The data is used by NRC to assess 
licensee material control and accounting programs and to confirm the 
absence of (or detect the occurrence of) SNM theft or diversion. NUREG/
BR-0096 provides guidance and instructions for completing the form in 
accordance with the requirements appropriate for a particular licensee.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of January 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-00320 Filed 1-10-17; 8:45 am]
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