Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 23 (Thursday, February 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5680-5681]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2630]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and 
solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following 
proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 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.
    1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: NRC Form 741: 
Revision; NRC Form 740m: Extension.
    2. The title of the information collection:

--DOE/NRC Forms 741 & 741A--Nuclear Material Transaction Report;
--DOE/NRC Form 740M--Concise Note;
--NUREG/BR-0006--``Instructions for Completing Nuclear Material 
Transaction Reports and Concise Note, Forms 741, 741A, and 740M''.

    3. How often the collection is required:

--DOE/NRC Form 741/741A: As occasioned by special nuclear material or 
source material transfers, receipts, or inventory changes that meet 
certain criteria.
--DOE/NRC Form 740M: As necessary to inform the U. S. or the 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of any qualifying statement 
or exception to any of the data contained in any of the other reporting 
forms required under the US/IAEA Safeguards Agreement.

    4. Who will be required or asked to report: Persons licensed to 
possess specified quantities of special nuclear material or source 
material, and licensees of facilities on the U. S. eligible list who 
have been notified in writing by the Commission that they are subject 
to 10 CFR Part 75.
    5. An estimate of the number of responses:

--DOE/NRC Form 741/741A: 36,500
--DOE/NRC Form 740M: 1,140

    6. The estimated number of annual respondents:

--DOE/NRC Form 741/741A: 1,200
--DOE/NRC Form 740M: 38

    7. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
complete the requirement or request:

--DOE/NRC Form 741/741A: 27,375 for NRC and Agreement State licensees 
(.75 hour per response with an annual average of 22.8 hours per 
respondent for 1,200 respondents)
--DOE/NRC Form 740M: 855 for NRC and Agreement State licensees (.75 
hour per response with an annual average of 22.5 hours per respondent 
for 38 respondents)

    8. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13 
applies: Not applicable.
    9. Abstract: NRC and Agreement State licensees are required to make 
inventory and accounting reports on DOE/NRC Form 741/741A for certain 
source or special nuclear material inventory changes, for transfers or 
receipts of special nuclear material, or for transfer or receipt of 1 
kilogram or more of source material. Licensees affected by 10 CFR Part 
75 and related sections of Parts 40, 50, 70, and 150 are required to 
submit DOE/NRC Form 740M to inform the U. S. or the IAEA of any 
qualifying statement or exception to any of the data contained in any 
of the other reporting forms required under the U.S./IAEA Safeguards 
Agreement. The use of

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Forms 740M, 741, and 741A, together with NUREG/BR-0006, the 
instructions for completing the forms, enables NRC to collect, 
retrieve, analyze as necessary, and submit the data to IAEA to fulfill 
its reporting responsibilities.
    A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of 
charge at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW (lower 
level), Washington, DC. OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC 
worldwide web site (www.nrc.gov/NRC/PUBLIC/OMB/index.html). The 
document will be available on the NRC home page site for 60 days after 
the signature date of this notice.
    Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer 
listed below by March 8, 1999. Comments received after this date will 
be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of 
consideration cannot be given to comments received after this date.
    Erik Godwin, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-
0135), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 
20503.
    Comments can also be submitted by telephone at (202) 395-3084.
    The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton, 301-415-7233.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of January 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-2630 Filed 2-3-99; 8:45 am]
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