[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 180 (Tuesday, September 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43797-43798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19929]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0107]


Information Collection: Fitness-for-Duty Programs

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, ``Fitness-for-Duty Programs.''

DATES: Submit comments by October 19, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron 
Szabo, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0146), 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-2017-0107 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-2017-0107. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2017-0107 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]. The 
supporting statement and NRC Forms 890, 891, and 892 are available in 
ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML17236A379, ML17013A578, ML17013A598, and 
ML17024A436, respectively.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One

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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 that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. 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 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 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 submissions 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, 
``Fitness-for-Duty Programs.'' 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 (FR) notice with a 60-day 
comment period on this information collection on June 1, 2017, 82 FR 
25345.
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 26, 
``Fitness-for-Duty Programs.''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0146.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: NRC Form 890, ``Single Positive 
Test Form,'' NRC Form 891, ``Annual Reporting Form for Drug and Alcohol 
Tests,'' and NRC Form 892, ``Annual Fatigue Reporting Form.''
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Annually and 
on occasion. The NRC receives reports on an annual basis that detail 
fitness-for-duty (FFD) program performance. The NRC also receives, on 
occasion, reports associated with FFD policy violations or programmatic 
failures. Depending on the type of violation or programmatic failure, 
the report would be made within 24 hours of the event occurrence, or 
within 30 days of completing an investigation into the programmatic 
failure.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Nuclear power reactor 
licensees licensed under parts 50 and 52 of title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) (except those who have permanently ceased 
operations and have verified that fuel has been permanently removed 
from the reactor); all holders of nuclear power plant construction 
permits and early site permits with a limited work authorization and 
applicants for nuclear power plant construction permits that have a 
limited work authorization under the provisions of 10 CFR part 50; all 
holders of a combined license for a nuclear power plant issued under 10 
CFR part 52 and applicants for a combined license that have a limited 
work authorization; all licensees who are authorized to possess, use, 
or transport formula quantities of strategic special nuclear material 
(SSNM) under the provisions of 10 CFR part 70; all holders of a 
certificate of compliance of an approved compliance plan issued under 
10 CFR part 76, if the holder engages in activities involving formula 
quantities of SSNM; and all contractor/vendors (C/Vs) who implement FFD 
programs or program elements to the extent that the licensees and other 
entities listed in this paragraph rely on those C/V FFD programs or 
program elements to comply with 10 CFR part 26.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 441,833 responses (215 
reporting responses + 49 recordkeepers + 441,569 third-party disclosure 
responses).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 88,229 respondents 
(28 drug and alcohol testing programs + 21 fatigue management programs 
+ 88,180 third-party disclosure respondents).
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 
719,195.9 hours (6,168.0 hours reporting + 220,998.5 hours 
recordkeeping + 492,029.4 hours third-party disclosure).
    10. Abstract: The NRC's regulations in 10 CFR part 26 prescribe 
requirements to establish, implement, and maintain FFD programs at 
affected licensees and other entities. The objectives of these 
requirements are to provide reasonable assurance that persons subject 
to the rule are trustworthy, reliable, and not under the influence of 
any substance, legal or illegal, or mentally or physically impaired 
from any cause, which in any way could adversely affect their ability 
to safely and competently perform their duties. These requirements also 
provide reasonable assurance that the effects of fatigue and degraded 
alertness on individuals' abilities to safely and competently perform 
their duties are managed commensurate with maintaining public health 
and safety. The information collections required by 10 CFR part 26 are 
necessary to properly manage FFD programs and to enable effective and 
efficient regulatory oversight of affected licensees and other 
entities. These licensees and other entities must perform certain 
tasks, maintain records, and submit reports to comply with 10 CFR part 
26 drug and alcohol and fatigue management requirements. These records 
and reports are necessary to enable regulatory inspection and 
evaluation of a licensee's or other entity's compliance with NRC 
regulations, FFD performance, and significant FFD-related events to 
help maintain public health and safety, promote the common defense and 
security, and protect the environment.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of September, 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-19929 Filed 9-18-17; 8:45 am]
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