[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 21 (Wednesday, January 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3494-3495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1864]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Documents Containing Reporting or Recordkeeping Requirements: 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

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

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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).
    1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension.
    2. The title of the information collection:

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

    3. The form number, if applicable:

--DOE/NRC Forms 741 & 741A, ``Nuclear Material Transaction Report,'' 
and
--DOE/NRC Form 740M, ``Concise Note''

    4. 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: When specified in Facility Attachments or 
Transitional Facility Attachments, or 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

    5. 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.
    6. An estimate of the number of responses:

--DOE/NRC Form 741/741A: 20,000
--DOE/NRC Form 740M: 1,140

7. The estimated number of annual respondents:

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

    8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
complete the requirement or request:
--DOE/NRC Form 741/741A: 15,000
--DOE/NRC Form 740M: 855

    9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13 
applies: Not applicable.
    10. 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 

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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 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 submittal may be viewed free of charge at the NRC 
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW (Lower Level), Washington, DC. 
Members of the public who are in the Washington, DC, area can access 
the submittal via modem on the Public Document Room Bulletin Board 
(NRC's Advance Copy Document Library) NRC subsystem at FedWorld, 703-
321-3339. Members of the public who are located outside of the 
Washington, DC, area can dial FedWorld, 1-800-303-9672, or use the 
FedWorld Internet address: fedworld.gov (Telnet). The document will be 
available on the bulletin board for 30 days after the signature date of 
this notice. If assistance is needed in accessing the document, please 
contact the FedWorld help desk at 703-487-4608.
    Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer by 
March 1, 1996. Troy Hillier, Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs (3150-0057 & -0003), 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, MD, this 25th day of January, 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Gerald F. Cranford,
Designated Senior Official for Information Resources Management.
[FR Doc. 96-1864 Filed 1-30-96; 8:45 am]
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