[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15644-15645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-07456]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0180]


Information Collection: Voluntary Reporting of Planned New 
Reactor Applications

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, ``NRC Regulatory Issue Summary 
2017-08, ``Process for Scheduling and Allocating Resources for Fiscal 
Years 2020 through 2022 for the Review of New Licensing Applications 
for Light-Water Reactors and Non-Light Water Reactors.''

DATES: Submit comments by May 11, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Brandon De 
Bruhl, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0228), 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-2017-0180 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-2017-0180. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2017-0180 on this website.
     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/

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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]. A 
copy of the collection of information and related instructions may be 
obtained without charge by accessing ADAMS Accession No. ML17262B022. 
The supporting statement and Voluntary Reporting of Planned New Reactor 
Applications are available in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML18085A776 
and ML17262B022.
     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, ``NRC 
Regulatory Issue Summary 2017-08, ``Process for Scheduling and 
Allocating Resources for Fiscal Years 2020 through 2022 for the Review 
of New Licensing Applications for Light-Water Reactors and Non-Light 
Water Reactors.'' 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 November 27, 2017, 82 FR 
56059.
    1. The title of the information collection: Voluntary Reporting of 
Planned New Reactor Applications.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0228.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: N/A.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Annually.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Applicants for a 
design certification and/or a license to build a new nuclear power 
plant.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: Five.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: Five.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 60.
    10. Abstract: This voluntary information collection assists the NRC 
in determining resource and budget needs, as well as aligning the 
proper allocation and utilization of resources to support applicant 
submittals, future construction-related activities, and other 
anticipated part 50 and/or part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR) licensing and design certification rulemaking 
actions. In addition, information provided to the NRC staff is intended 
to promote early communications between the NRC and the respective 
addressees about potential 10 CFR part 50 and/or part 52 licensing 
actions and related activities, submission dates, and plans for 
construction and inspection activities. The overarching goal of this 
information collection is to assist the NRC staff more effectively and 
efficiently plan, schedule, and implement activities and reviews in a 
timely manner.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, on April 5, 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-07456 Filed 4-10-18; 8:45 am]
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