[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 14, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40358-40359]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17459]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0218]


Information Collection: Physical Protection of Plants and 
Materials

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 titled, ``Physical Protection of Plants 
and Materials.''

DATES: Submit comments by September 13, 2018.

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ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0002), Attn: Desk Officer 
for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street, NW Washington, 
D.C. 20503; 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 Comment

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0218 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-2017-0218.
     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 burden spreadsheet are available in ADAMS 
under Accession Nos. ML158A157 and ML18158A159.
     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, D.C. 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, part 
73 tile 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Physical 
Protection of Plants and Materials.'' 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 March 30, 2018, 83 FR 13801.
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 73, 
``Physical Protection of Plants and Materials.''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0002.
    3. Type of submission: Revision.
    4. The form number, if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Once for the 
initial submittal of Cyber Security Plans, Physical Security Plans, 
Safeguards Contingency Plans, and Security Training and Qualification 
Plans and then on occasion when changes are made. Required reports are 
submitted and evaluated as events occur.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Nuclear power reactor 
licensees licensed under 10 CFR parts 50 or 52 who possess, use, 
import, export, transport, or deliver to a carrier for transport, 
special nuclear material; actively decommissioning reactor licensees; 
Category I, Category II and Category III fuel facilities; nonpower 
reactors (research and test reactors); and other entities who mark and 
handle Safeguards Information.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 177,986 (40,819 
reporting responses + 136,957 third party disclosure responses + 210 
record keepers.)
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 210 (60 power 
reactors; 10 decommissioning reactor facilities; 3 Category I fuel 
facilities; 4 Category II and III fuel facilities; 31 nonpower 
reactors; and 102 other entities who mark and handle Safeguards 
Information.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request: 541,406 hours (22,591 
reporting + 475,852 recordkeeping + 42,963 third party disclosure).
    10. Abstract: The NRC regulations in 10 CFR part 73 prescribe 
requirements to establish and maintain a physical protection system and 
security organization with capabilities for protection of: (1) Special 
nuclear material (SNM) at fixed sites, (2) SNM in transit, and (3) 
plants in which SNM is used. Part 73 of 10 CFR contains reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements which are necessary to help ensure that an 
adequate level of protection is provided for nuclear facilities and 
nuclear material, such as: Development and maintenance of security 
documents including a physical security plan, a training and 
qualification plan, a safeguards contingency plan, a cyber security 
plan, and security implementing procedures; notifications to the NRC 
regarding safeguards and cyber security events; notifications to state 
governors and tribes of shipments of irradiated reactor fuel; and 
requirements for conducting criminal history records checks of 
individuals granted unescorted access to a nuclear power facility, a 
non-power reactor, or access to Safeguards Information. The objective 
is to ensure that activities involving special nuclear material are 
consistent with interests of common defense and security and that these 
activities do not constitute an unreasonable risk to public health and 
safety. The information in the reports and records submitted by 
licensees is used by the NRC staff to ensure that the health and safety 
of the public and the environment are protected, and licensee 
possession and use of special nuclear material is in compliance with 
license and regulatory requirements.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of August, 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-17459 Filed 8-13-18; 8:45 am]
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