82 FR 34556 - Information Collection: Safeguards on Nuclear Material-Implementation of United States/International Atomic Energy Agency Agreement

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 141 (July 25, 2017)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently submitted a renewal of an existing collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, Information Collection: Safeguards on Nuclear Material--Implementation of United States/International Atomic Energy Agency Agreement.''

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 141 (Tuesday, July 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34556-34557]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15540]


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 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0249]


Information Collection: Safeguards on Nuclear Material--
Implementation of United States/International Atomic Energy Agency 
Agreement

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) recently 
submitted a renewal of an existing collection of information to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information 
collection is entitled, Information Collection: Safeguards on Nuclear 
Material--Implementation of United States/International Atomic Energy 
Agency Agreement.''

DATES: Submit comments by August 24, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron 
Szabo, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0055), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 
DC 20503; telephone: 202-395-3621, 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-2016-0249 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-2016-0249.
     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

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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. ML17173A062.
     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.

    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, 
``Information Collection: Safeguards on Nuclear Material--
Implementation of United States/International Atomic Energy Agency 
Agreement.'' 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 April 6, 2017 (82 FR 16862).
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 75, 
``Information Collection: Safeguards on Nuclear Material--
Implementation of United States/International Atomic Energy Agency 
Agreement''.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0055.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Selected 
licensees are required to provide reports of nuclear material inventory 
and flow for selected facilities under the US/IAEA Safeguards 
Agreement, permit inspections by International Atomic Energy Agency 
Agreement (IAEA) inspectors, complementary access of IAEA inspectors 
under the Additional Protocol, 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. Reporting is done when specified events occur. 
Recordkeeping for nuclear material accounting and control information 
is done in accordance with specific instructions.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Licensees of 
facilities on the U.S. eligible list who have been selected by the IAEA 
for reporting or recordkeeping activities.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 7 (2 reporting 
responses + 5 recordkeepers).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 5.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 3,960.
    10. Abstract: Part 75 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, requires selected licensees to provide reports of nuclear 
material inventory and flow for selected facilities under the US/IAEA 
Safeguards Agreement, permit inspections by IAEA inspectors, 
complementary access of IAEA inspectors under the Additional Protocol, 
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. Licensees will 
also follow written material accounting and control procedures, 
although actual reporting of transfer and material balance records to 
the IAEA will be done through the U.S. State system of accounting for 
and control of nuclear material (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 responsibilities under the US/IAEA agreement. The NRC is 
not submitting the information collections associated with the modified 
Small Quantities Protocol to OMB at this time. A separate 30-day notice 
will be published prior to submitting the information collections 
associated with the final rule.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of July 2017.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
Clearance Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of the 
Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-15540 Filed 7-24-17; 8:45 am]
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