[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 249 (Friday, December 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79016-79017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31028]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. NRC-2013-0270]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of pending NRC action to submit an information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and
solicitation of public comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public
comment about our intention to request the OMB's approval for renewal
of an existing information collection that is summarized below. We are
required to publish this notice in the Federal Register under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter
35).
Information pertaining to the requirement to be submitted:
1. The title of the information collection: Comprehensive
Decommissioning Program, Including Annual Data Collection.
2. Current OMB approval number: 3150-0206.
3. How often the collection is required: Annually.
4. Who is required or asked to report: All Agreement States who
have signed Section 274(b) Agreements with the NRC.
5. The number of annual respondents: 37 (14 Agreement States
respondents with sites of interest + 23 Agreement States respondents
with no sites of interest).
6. The number of hours needed annually to complete the requirement
or request: 469 (400 hours from Agreement States with sites of interest
+ 69 hours from Agreement States with no sites of interest).
7. 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 knowledge of the national
decommissioning program. This does not apply to information, such as
trade secrets and commercial or financial information provided by the
Agreement States, that is considered 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.
Submit, by February 25, 2014, comments that address the following
questions:
1. Is the proposed collection of information necessary for the NRC
to properly perform its functions? Does the information have practical
utility?
2. Is the burden estimate accurate?
3. Is there a way to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected?
4. How can the burden of the information collection be minimized,
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology?
The public may examine and have copied for a fee publicly available
documents, including the draft supporting statement, at the NRC's
Public Document Room, Room O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The OMB clearance requests
are available at
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the NRC's Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc-comment/omb/.
The document will be available on the NRC's home page site for 60 days
after the signature date of this notice.
Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be made
available for public inspection. Because your comments will not be
edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC
cautions you against including any information in your submission that
you do not want to be publicly disclosed. Comments submitted should
reference Docket No. NRC-2013-0270. You may submit your comments by any
of the following methods: Electronic comments go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket No. NRC-2013-0270. Mail
comments to the NRC Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell (T-5 F53), U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Questions about the information collection requirements may be
directed to the NRC Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell (T-5 F53), U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone at
301-415-6258, or by email to [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of December, 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tremaine Donnell,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.
[FR Doc. 2013-31028 Filed 12-26-13; 8:45 am]
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