[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11911-11912]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6213]
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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: Extension.
2. The title of the information collection: NRC Forms 540, 540A,
541, 541A, 542, and 542A, Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest
forms
3. The form number if applicable: NRC Forms 540, 540A, 541, 541A,
542, and 542A,
4. How often the collection is required: Forms are used by shippers
whenever radioactive waste is shipped. Quarterly reporting or less
frequent is made to NRC depending on specific license conditions.
5. Who will be required or asked to report: All NRC licensed low-
level waste facilities. All generators, collectors, and processors of
low-level waste intended for disposal at a low-level waste facility
must complete the appropriate forms.
6. An estimate of the number of responses:
NRC Form 540: 8,000
NRC Form 541: 8,000
NRC Form 542: 600
7. The estimated number of annual respondents:
NRC Form 540: 2,500
NRC Form 541: 2,500
NRC Form 542: 22
8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
complete the requirement or request:
NRC Form 540: 9,380 hours (1.17 hours per response)
NRC Form 541: 43,463 hours (5.43 hours per response)
NRC Form 542: 260 hours (0.43 hours per response)
9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13
applies: Not applicable.
10. Abstract: NRC Forms 540, 541, and 542, together with their
continuation pages, designated by the ``A'' suffix, provide a set of
standardized forms to meet Department of Transportation (DOT), NRC, and
State requirements. The forms were developed by NRC at the request of
low-level waste industry groups. The forms provide uniformity and
efficiency in the collection of information contained in manifests
which are required to control transfers of low-level radioactive waste
intended for disposal at a land disposal facility. NRC Form 540
contains information needed to satisfy DOT shipping paper requirements
in 49 CFR Part 172 and the waste tracking requirements of NRC in 10 CFR
Part 20. NRC Form 541 contains information needed by disposal site
facilities to safely dispose of low-level waste and information to meet
NRC and State requirements regulating these activities. NRC Form 542,
completed by waste collectors or processors, contains information which
facilitates tracking the identity of the waste generator. That tracking
becomes more complicated when the waste forms, dimensions, or
packagings are changed by the waste processor. Each container of waste
shipped from a waste processor may contain waste from several different
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generators. The information provided on NRC Form 542 permits the States
and Compacts to know the original generators of low-level waste, as
authorized by the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of
1985, so they can ensure that waste is disposed of in the appropriate
Compact.
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 (http://www.nrc.gov) under the FedWorld collection
link on the home page tool bar. 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 by
April 10, 1998:
Martin Offutt, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-
0164, -0165, -0166), 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 5th day of March 1998.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-6213 Filed 3-10-98; 8:45 am]
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