83 FR 63686 - Information Collection: NRC Form 748, National Source Tracking Transaction Report

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 237 (December 11, 2018)

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, ``NRC Form 748, National Source Tracking Transaction Report.''

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 237 (Tuesday, December 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63686-63687]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-26747]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0156]


Information Collection: NRC Form 748, National Source Tracking 
Transaction Report

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, ``NRC Form 748, National Source 
Tracking Transaction Report.''

DATES: Submit comments by January 10, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0202), Attn: Desk Officer 
for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, 
DC 20503; 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-2018-0156 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 Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0156. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2018-0156 on this website.
     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 ``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. ML18276A272. The supporting statement is 
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML18276A270.
     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.

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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, ``NRC 
Form 748, National Source Tracking Transaction Report.'' 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 August 1, 2018, 83 FR 37535.
    1. The title of the information collection: NRC Form 748, National 
Source Tracking Transaction Report.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0202.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: NRC Form 748.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: On occasion 
(at completion of a transaction, and at inventory reconciliation).
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Licensees that 
manufacture, receive, transfer, disassemble, or dispose of nationally 
tracked sources.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 18,927 (13,200 online 
+ 480 batch upload + 5,247 NRC Form 748).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 1,400 (260 NRC 
Licensees + 1,140 Agreement State Licensees).
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 1,963.1 
hours.
    10. Abstract: In 2006, the NRC amended its regulations to implement 
a National Source Tracking System (NSTS) for certain sealed sources. 
The amendments require licensees to report certain transactions 
involving nationally tracked sources to the NSTS. These transactions 
include manufacture, transfer, receipt, disassembly, or disposal of the 
nationally tracked source. This information collection is mandatory and 
is used to populate the NSTS. National source tracking is part of a 
comprehensive radioactive source control program for radioactive 
materials of greatest concern. The NRC and Agreement States use the 
information provided by licensees in the NSTS to track the life cycle 
of the nationally tracked source from manufacture until disposal. NSTS 
enhances the ability of NRC and Agreement States to conduct inspections 
and investigations, communicate information to other government 
agencies, and verify legitimate ownership and use of nationally tracked 
sources.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of December 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-26747 Filed 12-10-18; 8:45 am]
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