[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 176 (Wednesday, September 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 43050]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19432]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0264]


Information Collection: Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes 
in a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

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) 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, ``Disposal of High-Level 
Radioactive Wastes in a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, 
Nevada.''

DATES: Submit comments by October 13, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron 
Szabo, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0199), 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: 301-415-2084; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0264 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-2016-0264.
     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. 
ML17205A471.
     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, 
``Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Geologic Repository at 
Yucca Mountain, Nevada.'' 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 May 31, 2017 (82 FR 25015).
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 63, 
``Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Geologic Repository at 
Yucca Mountain, Nevada.''
    2. OMB approval number: OMB approval number 3150-0199.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: One time.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: The State of Nevada, 
local governments, or affected Indian tribes, or their representatives, 
requesting consultation with the NRC staff regarding review of the 
potential high level waste geologic repository site, or wishing to 
participate in a license application review for the potential geologic 
repository.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 12.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 12.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 1,452.
    10. Abstract: Part 63 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, requires the State of Nevada, local governments, or 
affected Indian tribes to submit information to the NRC that describes 
their request for any consultation with the NRC staff concerning review 
of the potential repository site or NRC's facilitation for their 
participation in a license application review for the potential 
repository. Representatives of the State of Nevada, local governments, 
or affected Indian tribes must submit a statement of their authority to 
act in such a representative capacity. The information submitted by the 
State of Nevada, local governments, or affected Indian tribes is used 
by the Director of the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards 
as a basis for decisions about the commitment of the NRC staff 
resources to the consultation and participation efforts.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of September 2017.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-19432 Filed 9-12-17; 8:45 am]
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