[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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