[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 21 (Thursday, January 31, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 803-804]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-00380]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0063]


Information Collection: Cooperation With States at Commercial 
Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear Production and Utilization 
Facilities, Policy Statement

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Renewal of existing information collection; request for 
comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public 
comment on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval for an existing collection of information. The information 
collection is entitled, ``Cooperation with States at Commercial Nuclear 
Power Plants and Other Nuclear Production and Utilization Facilities, 
Policy Statement.''

DATES: Submit comments by March 4, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs 3150-0163, Attn: Desk Officer for 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 
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 Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0063 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-2018-0063.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Document collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS 
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, 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. ML18339A012.
     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, 
``Cooperation with States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other 
Nuclear Production and Utilization Facilities, Policy Statement.'' 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 26, 2018, 83 FR 
48658.
    1. The title of the information collection: Cooperation with States 
at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear Production and 
Utilization Facilities, Policy Statement.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0163.
    3. Type of submission: Revision.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: On occasion, 
when a State or federally recognized Indian Tribe wishes to observe NRC 
inspections or perform inspections for the NRC or when a State or 
federally recognized Indian Tribe wishes to negotiate an agreement to 
observe or perform inspections. States with an instrument of 
cooperation or a State Resident Engineer have both regular reporting 
and occasion-specific reporting.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: States and federally 
recognized Tribes interested in observing or performing inspections.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 209.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 33.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 1,309 
hours.
    10. Abstract: States and federally recognized Indian Tribes are 
involved and interested in monitoring the safety status of nuclear 
power plants and other nuclear production and utilization facilities. 
This involvement is, in part, in response to the States' and Tribes' 
public health and safety responsibilities and, in part, in response to 
their citizens' desire to become more knowledgeable about the safety of 
nuclear power plants and other nuclear production and utilization 
facilities. States and Tribes have identified NRC inspections as one 
possible source of knowledge for their personnel regarding NRC licensee 
activities, and the NRC, through the policy statement, ``Cooperation 
with States at Commercial Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear 
Production or Utilization Facilities'' (57 FR 6462; February 25, 1992), 
has been amenable to accommodating States' and Tribes' needs in this 
regard. The NRC uses the information collected under this information 
collection requirement to allow States and federally recognized Indian 
Tribes to participate in or observe inspections at NRC-licensed 
facilities. The types of information collected include written requests 
identifying specific inspections States and Tribes wish to observe; 
identification-related information required for site access to NRC-
licensed facilities; training and qualifications of State and Tribal 
personnel participating in inspections; information required to define 
inspection roles for States and Tribes; and information to coordinate 
NRC and State and Tribal inspections.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of January 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-00380 Filed 1-30-19; 8:45 am]
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