[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 218 (Thursday, November 10, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79061-79063]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-27125]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0282]


Information Collection: NRC Forms 542 and 542A, Uniform Low-Level 
Radioactive Waste Manifest Index and Regional Compact Tabulation, and 
Continuation Page

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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ACTION: Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget; 
request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently 
submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of 
information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. 
The information collection is entitled, ``NRC Forms 542 and 542A, 
`Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest Index and Regional 
Compact Tabulation, and Continuation Page.' ''

DATES: Submit comments by December 12, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Vlad 
Dorjets, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0165), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 
DC 20503; telephone: 202-395-7315, email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
telephone: 301-415-2084; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0282 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-2015-0282. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2015-0282 on this Web site.
     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]. A 
copy of the collection of information and related instructions may be 
obtained without charge by accessing ADAMS Accession No. ML16245A843. 
The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML16245A851.
     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 the NRC's Clearance Officer, David Cullison, Office of the 
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email: 
[email protected].

B. Submitting Comments

    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. All comment submissions are 
posted at http://www.regulations.gov and entered into ADAMS. Comment 
submissions are not routinely edited to remove identifying or contact 
information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the OMB, 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 comment submissions are not routinely edited to remove such 
information before making the comment submissions available to the 
public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Background

    Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently submitted a request for renewal of 
an existing collection of information to OMB for review entitled: ``NRC 
Forms 542 and 542A, `Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest Index 
and Regional Compact Tabulation, and Continuation Page.' '' 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.
    The NRC published a Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment 
period on this information collection on June 22, 2016 (81 FR 40725).
    1. The title of the information collection: ``NRC Forms 542 and 
542A, `Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest, Index and Regional 
Compact Tabulation, and Continuation Page.' ''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0165.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number, if applicable: NRC Forms 542 and 542A.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Forms are 
used by shippers whenever radioactive waste is shipped. Quarterly or 
less frequent reporting is made to Agreement States depending on 
specific license conditions. No reporting is made to the NRC.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: All NRC or Agreement 
State low-level waste facilities licensed pursuant to part 61 of title 
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) or equivalent Agreement 
State regulations. All generators, collectors, and processors of low-
level waste intended for disposal at a low-level waste facility must 
complete the appropriate forms.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 756.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 22.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request: 567.
    10. Abstract: NRC Forms 542 and 542A, provide a set of standardized 
forms to meet Department of Transportation (DOT), NRC, and State 
requirements. The forms were developed by NRC at the request of low-
level waste industry groups. The forms provide uniformity and 
efficiency in the collection of information contained in manifests 
which are required to control transfers of low-level radioactive waste 
intended for disposal at a land disposal facility. The NRC Form 542, 
completed by waste collectors or processors, contains information which 
facilitates tracking the identity of the waste generator. That tracking 
becomes more complicated when the waste forms, dimensions, or packaging 
are changed by the waste processor. Each container of waste shipped 
from a waste processor may contain waste from several different 
generators. The information provided on the NRC Form 542 permits the 
States and Compacts to know the original generators of low-level waste, 
as authorized by the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act 
of 1985, so they can ensure that waste is disposed of in the 
appropriate Compact.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of November, 2016.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-27125 Filed 11-9-16; 8:45 am]
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