[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 112 (Monday, June 13, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 34161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-3054]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for the
Office of Management and Budget (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: Notice of Enforcement
Discretion (NOEDs) for Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion
Plants (GDP).
3. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
4. How often the collection is required: On occasion.
5. Who will be required or asked to report: Nuclear power reactor
licensees and gaseous diffusion plant certificate holders.
6. An estimate of the number of annual responses: 26.
7. The estimated number of annual respondents: 11.
8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
complete the requirement or request: 1,991 hours (1810 reporting [121
hours per response] and 181 recordkeeping [16.45 hours per
recordkeeper]).
9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13
applies: Not applicable.
10. Abstract: The NRC's Enforcement Policy addresses circumstances
in which the NRC may exercise enforcement discretion. A specific type
of enforcement discretion is designated as a Notice of Enforcement
Discretion (NOED) and relates to circumstances which may arise where a
nuclear power plant licensee's compliance with a Technical
Specification Limiting Condition for Operation or with other license
conditions would involve an unnecessary plant transient or shutdown, or
performance of testing, inspection, or system realignment that is
inappropriate for the specific plant conditions, or unnecessary delays
in plant startup without a corresponding health and safety benefit.
Similarly, for a gaseous diffusion plant, circumstances may arise where
compliance with a Technical Safety Requirement or other condition would
unnecessarily call for a total plant shutdown, or, notwithstanding that
a safety, safeguards or security feature was degraded or inoperable,
compliance would unnecessarily place the plant in a transient or
condition where those features could be required.
A licensee or certificate holder seeking the issuance of an NOED
must provide a written justification, in accordance with guidance
provided in NRC Inspection Manual, Part 9900, which documents the
safety basis for the request and provides whatever other information
the NRC staff deems necessary to decide whether or not to exercise
discretion.
A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of
charge at the NRC Public Document Room, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Room O-1 F21, Rockville, MD 20852. OMB clearance
requests are available at the NRC Worldwide Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc-comment/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 July 13, 2005. 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.
John A. Asalone, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-
0136), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC
20503.
Comments can also be e-mailed to [email protected] or
submitted by telephone at (202) 395-4650.
The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton, 301-415-7233.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of June, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.
[FR Doc. E5-3054 Filed 6-10-05; 8:45 am]
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