[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 11, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32016-32017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-14491]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0129]


Information Collection: Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals 
for Nuclear Power Plants

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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) invites public 
comment on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval for an existing collection of information. The information 
collection is titled ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for 
Nuclear Power Plants.''

DATES: Submit comments by August 10, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron 
Szabo, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0151), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 
DC 20503; telephone: 202-395-3621, email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
telephone:

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301-415-2084; email: INFOCOLLECTS .[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0129 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-2016-0129.
     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 and burden spreadsheet are available in ADAMS 
under Accession Nos. ML17171A173 and ML17171A188.
     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: INFOCOLLECTS 
[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 titled ``10 CFR 
part 52, Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power 
Plants.'' 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 April 4, 2017 (82 FR 16435).
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 52, 
Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0151.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: On occasion. 
Applications are submitted only when licensing action is sought.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Applicants for early 
site permits (ESPs), standard design approvals (SDAs) and 
certifications, manufacturing licenses (MLs), and licenses which 
combine construction permits (CPs) and conditional operating licenses 
(OLs), e.g., COLs, for commercial nuclear power reactors.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 1,175 (1,150 reporting 
responses plus 25 recordkeepers).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 25.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 243,854 
hours (220,414 hours reporting plus 23,440 hours recordkeeping).
    10. Abstract: The licensing processes in part 52 of title 10 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) provide for issuance of ESPs, 
SDAs, MLs, CPs, and COLs for commercial nuclear power reactors. The 
applicants submit updated reports, applications for renewals, exemption 
requests and maintain records of changes to the facility and records of 
detailed design related information. These licensing procedures are 
options to the two-step licensing process in 10 CFR part 50, which 
provides for a CP and an OL. The part 52 licensing process places 
procedural requirements in part 52 and technical requirements in part 
50. Part 52 reduces the overall paperwork burden borne by applicants 
for CPs and OLs because part 52 only requires a single application and 
provides options for referencing standardized designs. The information 
in 10 CFR part 52 is needed by the agency to assess the adequacy and 
suitability of an applicant's site, plant design, construction, 
training and experience, plans and procedures for the protection of 
public health and safety.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of July 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-14491 Filed 7-10-17; 8:45 am]
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