[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 236 (Monday, December 11, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58223-58224]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-26547]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0116]


Information Collection: Public Records

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, ``Public Records.'' The NRC 
updated two forms integral to the agency's Freedom of Information Act 
(FOIA) process, NRC Form 509, ``Statement of Estimated Fees for Freedom 
of Information Act (FOIA) Request'' and NRC Form 507, ``Freedom of 
Information--Privacy Act Record Request Form.''

DATES: Submit comments by January 10, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Brandon F. 
DeBruhl, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0043), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 
DC 20503; telephone: 202-395-0710, 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-2017-0116 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-2017-0116.
     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]. NRC 
Form 509 and NRC Form 507 are available in ADAMS under Accession Nos. 
ML17172A497 and ML17178A261, respectively. The supporting statement can 
be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML17324A146.
     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, 10 
CFR part 9, ``Public Records.'' 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

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period on this information collection on September 22, 2017, 82 FR 
44470.
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 9, ``Public 
Records.''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0043.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: NRC Form 509; NRC Form 507.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: On occasion.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: FOIA Requesters who 
have requests that require pre-payment or agree to pay for the 
processing of their FOIA requests.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 2,490.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 2,490.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 1,111.
    10. Abstract: The proposed information collection activity provides 
communication with FOIA requesters to have the opportunity to be 
notified about any fees to process their FOIA requests. Providing NRC 
Form 509 to a requester serves as notification of the processing fees 
as it relates to search, review, and duplication. Pursuant to NRC's 
regulations, 10 CFR 9.40, when fees exceed $ 25.00 the requester has 
the opportunity to re-scope their request. Additionally, in response to 
the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, in accordance with 10 CFR 9.39, the 
revised form notifies the requester that if the agency fails to comply 
with statutory time limits, the agency cannot charge the requester any 
fees (except in unusual circumstances). In the event that fees are 
required, the requester can verify their willingness to pay on this 
form, and must submit payment within ten working days of the receipt of 
the form. In addition, the NRC created Form 507 which allows the public 
to electronically submit FOIA requests from the FOIA Web site. Unlike 
the previous online FOIA request submission form, requesters can 
provide identification verification at the time the request is made, 
which shortens the processing time.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of December 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-26547 Filed 12-8-17; 8:45 am]
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