[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 19 (Monday, January 29, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4076-4077]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-01543]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0174]


Information Collection: 10 CFR Part 100 ``Reactor Site Criteria''

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 10 CFR part 100, ``Reactor Site 
Criteria.''

DATES: Submit comments by February 28, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Brandon De 
Bruhl, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0093), 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-2017-0174 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 website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0174.
     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. 
ML17298A191.
     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, 
``Reactor Site Criteria.'' 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 August 9, 2017, (82 FR 37241).

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    1. The title of the information collection: ``10 CFR part 100, 
Reactor Site Criteria.''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0093.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: As necessary 
in order for the NRC to assess the adequacy of proposed seismic design 
bases and the design bases for other site hazards for nuclear power and 
test reactors constructed and licensed in accordance with parts 50 and 
52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations and the Atomic Energy 
Act of 1954, as amended.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Applicants who apply 
for an early site permit (ESP), combined license (COL) or a 
construction permit (CP) or operating license (OL) on or after January 
10, 1997.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 1.3.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 1.3.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 94,900 
hours (73,000 hours per application x 1.3 applications).
    10. Abstract: Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 
100, ``Reactor Site Criteria,'' establish approval requirements for 
proposed sites for the purpose of constructing and operating stationary 
power and testing reactors. Subpart B, ``Evaluation Factors for 
Stationary Power Reactor Site Applications on or After January 10, 
1997,'' requirements apply to applicants who apply for an early site 
permit (ESP), combined license (COL) or a construction permit (CP) or 
operating license (OL) on or after January 10, 1997. This clearance is 
necessary since the NRC is expecting approximately two COL, one CP, and 
one OL application over the next 3 years. The applicants must provide 
information regarding the physical characteristics of the site in 
addition to the potential for natural phenomena and man-made hazards. 
This includes information on meteorological hazards (such as 
hurricanes, tornadoes, snowfall, and extreme temperatures), hydrologic 
hazards (such as floods, tsunami, and seiches) geologic hazards (such 
as faulting, seismic hazards, and the maximum credible earthquake) and 
factors such as population density, the proximity of man-related 
hazards, and site hydrological and atmospheric dispersion 
characteristics. The NRC staff reviews the submitted information and, 
if necessary, generates a request for additional information. The staff 
meets with the applicant and conducts a site visit to resolve any open 
issues. When the open issues have been resolved, the staff writes the 
final safety evaluation report, which is published and used as a basis 
for the remainder of the NRC licensing process.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of January 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-01543 Filed 1-26-18; 8:45 am]
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