[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 32 (Friday, February 15, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4545-4546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02459]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0119]


Information Collection: NRC Form 398, ``Personal Qualification 
Statement--Licensee''

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 Form 398, ``Personal 
Qualification Statement--Licensee.''

DATES: Submit comments by March 18, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0090), 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-2018-0119 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-2018-0119. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2018-0119 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/adams.html. To begin the search, 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-

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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 Package Accession No. ML18166A095. The supporting 
statement and NRC Form 398 are available in ADAMS under ML18166A123 and 
ML18166A129.
     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 
Form 398, ``Personal Qualification Statement--Licensee.'' 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 October 10, 2018, 83 FR 50970.
    1. The title of the information collection: NRC Form 398, 
``Personal Qualification Statement--Licensee.''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0090.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: NRC Form 398.
    5.  How often the collection is required or requested: Upon 
application for an initial or upgrade operator license and every six 
years for the renewal of operator or senior operator licenses.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Facility licensees who 
are tasked with certifying that the applicants and renewal operators 
are qualified to be licensed as reactor operators and senior reactor 
operators.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 1,074.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 1,074.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 5,711.
    10. Abstract: NRC Form 398 is used to transmit detailed information 
required to be submitted to the NRC by a facility licensee on each 
applicant applying for new and upgraded licenses or license renewals to 
operate the controls at a nuclear reactor facility. This information is 
used to determine that each applicant or renewal operator seeking a 
license or renewal of a license is qualified to be issued a license and 
that the licensed operator would not be expected to cause operational 
errors and endanger public health and safety.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of February 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kristen E. Benney,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-02459 Filed 2-14-19; 8:45 am]
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