[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 217 (Friday, November 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63631-63632]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-22034]


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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 the following proposal for the 
collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) to OMB for review. 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

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displays a currently valid OMB control number.
    1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: New collection.
    2. The title of the information collection: Comprehensive 
Decommissioning Program, Including Annual Data Collection, OMB 3150-
xxxx.
    3. The form number if applicable: N/A.
    4. How often the collection is required: Annually (to keep site 
information current).
    5. Who will be required or asked to report: Agreement States who 
have signed Section 274(b) Agreements with NRC and are regulating 
uranium recovery and/or complex sites undergoing decommissioning.
    6. An estimate of the number of annual responses: 68. (2 responses 
for each respondent.)
    7. The estimated number of annual respondents: 34.
    8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
complete the requirement or request: 677 hours (approximately 20 hours 
per respondent).
    9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13 
applies: N/A.
    10. Abstract: Agreement States will be asked to provide information 
about uranium recovery and complex sites undergoing decommissioning 
regulated by the Agreement States on an annual basis. The information 
request will allow the NRC to compile, in a centralized location, more 
complete information on the status of decommissioning and 
decontamination in the United States in order to provide a national 
perspective on decommissioning. The information will be made available 
to the public by the NRC in order to ensure openness and promote 
communication to enhance public confidence in the national 
decommissioning program. This does not apply to information, such as 
trade secrets and commercial or financial information provided by the 
Agreement States as privileged or confidential. Information such as 
financial assurance and the status of decommissioning funding would 
need to be identified by the Agreement State as privileged or 
confidential, whereupon the NRC would withhold such information from 
public access and treat it as sensitive or non-sensitive, per the 
considerations in 10 CFR 2.390 and 9.17. This does not apply to 
financial assurance or decommissioning funding information that is 
already available to the public. Although specific details of the 
funding mechanisms are treated as confidential, beneficial lessons 
learned regarding the improvement of decommissioning-related funding 
will be shared with the Agreement States.
    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 December 10, 2007. 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: 
Nathan J. Frey, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-
xxxx), 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) 395-7345.
    The NRC Clearance Officer is Margaret A. Janney, 301-415-7245.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of November, 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Margaret A. Janney,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.
[FR Doc. E7-22034 Filed 11-8-07; 8:45 am]
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