[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 189 (Monday, October 2, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45906-45907]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20999]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0039]


Information Collection: Collection of Operator Simulator Training 
Data

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, ``Collection of Operator 
Simulator Training Data.''

DATES: Submit comments by November 1, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron 
Szabo, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-XXXX), 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-2017-0039 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-2017-0039.
     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 statements are available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML17248A445 and ML17248A446, respectively.
     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 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, 
``Collection of Operator Simulator Training Data.'' 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 27, 2017 (82 FR 29119).
    1. The title of the information collection: ``Collection of 
Operator Simulator Training Data.''
    2. OMB approval number: xxxx-xxxx.
    3. Type of submission: Voluntary.
    4. The form number if applicable: N/A.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Six per year.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: All holders of, or 
applicants for, a power reactor operating license under part 50 of 
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Domestic 
Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,'' except those that 
have certified that they have permanently ceased operations and have 
permanently removed all fuel from the reactor vessel.
    All holders of, or applicants for, a power reactor combined license 
under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for 
Nuclear Power Plants.''
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 95.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 15.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 411 
hours.
    10. Abstract: This information collection request is to the holders 
of, or applicants for, a power reactor operating license under 10 CFR 
part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization 
Facilities,'' except those that have certified that they have 
permanently ceased operations and have permanently removed all fuel 
from the reactor vessel, and the holders of, or applicants for, a power 
reactor combined license under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, 
Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.''
    This information collection is for the specified licensees to use 
the NRC-developed Scenario Authoring, Characterization and Debriefing 
Application (SACADA) software for their operator simulator training. 
The SACADA system was developed to collect licensed operator simulator 
training data to inform human reliability analysis (HRA) and to 
facilitate operator simulator training. The SACADA software can be used 
to author the simulation scenarios, facilitate the post simulation 
debriefing on crew performance, guide performance analysis, and 
generate various types of reports. The information entered into the 
SACADA database can be used to improve simulator training effectiveness 
and HRA. The South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC) has 
used the software for its operator

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simulator training since 2012 and has high regard on the software. The 
NRC welcomes more licensees to partner with the NRC to use the 
software. The licensees' participation in the information collection is 
voluntary. In the partnership, the NRC provides the SACADA software 
license, training, and technical support to the participating 
licensees, and the participating licensees grant NRC access to analyze 
the data to improve the NRC's HRA techniques. An agreement will be 
developed to specify the details.
    To participate in the information collection, the licensee will 
notify the NRC contact that it is interested in evaluating the 
software. Then the NRC will provide additional information including an 
onsite briefing. If the licensee thinks the SACADA software could be 
beneficial, the NRC will provide a training session, the software 
license, and technical support for the licensee to pilot the use of the 
software in its simulator training. After the pilot study, the licensee 
will decide on whether or not to partner with the NRC on the 
information collection. Either party can terminate the agreement at any 
time.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of September 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-20999 Filed 9-29-17; 8:45 am]
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