[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 165 (Wednesday, August 26, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51847-51848]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-21035]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2015-0079]
Information Collection: NRC's Policy Statement on Cooperation
With States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear
Production and Utilization Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Renewal of existing information collection; request for
comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public
comment on this renewal of an existing information collection. The
information collection is entitled, ``NRC's Policy Statement on
Cooperation with States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and other
Nuclear Production and Utilization Facilities.'' The NRC has a number
of programs and activities that involve coordinating with States,
requesting their input on proposed policies and rulemakings, and
exchanging information with the States on a wide range of topics. The
NRC has entered into cooperative agreements with States to conduct
security inspections to verify that their materials licensees are in
compliance with the NRC's orders requiring additional measures to
enhance security at their facilities and to provide the NRC with
information arising from their inspections.
DATES: Submit comments by October 26, 2015. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0129. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tremaine Donnell, Office of
Information Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001; telephone: (301) 415-6258; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0079 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0079.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The
supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML15173A222.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by
contacting NRC's Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell, Office of
Information Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6258; email:
[email protected].
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0079 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment
submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment
submissions into ADAMS, and the NRC does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Background
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35), the NRC is requesting public comment on its intention to
request the OMB's approval for the information collection summarized
below.
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1. The title of the information collection: Cooperation With States
at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear Production and
Utilization Facilities, Policy Statement.
2. OMB approval number: 3150-0163.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number, if applicable: N/A.
5. How often the collection is required or requested: On occasion,
when a State or Tribe wishes to observe NRC inspection or perform
inspections for the NRC or when a State or Tribe wishes to negotiate an
agreement to observe or perform inspections. States with an agreement
and State Resident Engineer have both regular reporting and occasion-
specific reporting.
6. Who will be required or asked to respond: States and Tribes
interested in observing or performing inspections.
7. The estimated number of annual responses: 248.
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 36.
9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the
information collection requirement or request: 815.
10. Abstract: States and Tribes are involved and interested in
monitoring the safety status of nuclear power plants and radioactive
materials. This involvement is, in part, in response to the States' and
Tribes' public health and safety responsibilities and, in part, in
response to their citizens' desire to become more knowledgeable about
the safety of nuclear power plants and radioactive materials. States
have identified NRC inspections as one possible source of knowledge for
their personnel regarding plant and materials licensee activities, and
the NRC, through the policy statement on Cooperation with States, has
been amenable to accommodating the States' needs in this regard.
Additionally, the NRC has been able to accommodate Tribal interests in
the same way. The NRC has also entered into reimbursable Agreements
with certain States under Section 274i of the Act, as amended, to
employ their resources to conduct radioactive materials security
inspections against NRC Orders.
III. Specific Requests for Comments
The NRC is seeking 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 estimate of the burden of the information collection
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 on respondents
be minimized, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology?
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of August, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tremaine Donnell,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.
[FR Doc. 2015-21035 Filed 8-25-15; 8:45 am]
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