[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 84 (Wednesday, May 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18588-18589]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08820]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0240]


Information Collection: Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes 
in Geologic Repositories

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, ``Disposal of High-

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Level Radioactive Wastes in Geologic Repositories.''

DATES: Submit comments by May 31, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0127), 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-2018-0240 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-2018-0240. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2018-0240 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 ``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. 
ML19077A010.
     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, 
``Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in Geologic Repositories.'' 
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 January 31, 2019 (84 FR 821).
    1. The title of the information collection: Disposal of High-Level 
Radioactive Wastes in Geologic Repositories.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0127.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: The 
information need only be submitted one time.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: State or Indian 
Tribes, or their representatives, requesting consultation with the NRC 
staff regarding review of a potential high-level radioactive waste 
geologic repository site, or wishing to participate in a license 
application review for a potential geologic repository (other than a 
potential geologic repository site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, which is 
regulated under 10 CFR part 63).
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 6; however, none are 
expected in the next three years.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 6; however, none are 
expected in the next three years.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 726, 
however, none are expected in the next three years.
    10. Abstract: Part 60 of 10 CFR requires States and Indian Tribes 
to submit certain information to the NRC if they request consultation 
with the NRC staff concerning the review of a potential repository 
site, or wish to participate in a license application review for a 
potential repository (other than the Yucca Mountain, Nevada site, which 
is regulated under 10 CFR part 63). States and Indian Tribes are 
required to submit information regarding requests for consultation with 
the NRC and participation in the review of a site characterization plan 
and/or license application, but only if they wish to obtain NRC 
consultation services and/or participate in the reviews. The 
information submitted by the States and Indian Tribes is used by the 
Director of the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards as a 
basis for decisions about the commitment of NRC staff resources to the 
consultation and participation efforts. The NRC anticipates conducting 
a public rulemaking to revise portions of 10 CFR part 60 in the future. 
If, as part of this rulemaking, revisions are made affecting the 
information collection requirements, the NRC will follow OMB 
requirements for obtaining approval for any revised information 
collection requirements. Note: All of the information collection 
requirements pertaining to Yucca Mountain were included in 10 CFR part 
63, and were approved by OMB under control number 3150-0199. The Yucca 
Mountain site is regulated under 10 CFR part 63 (66 FR 55792; November 
2, 2001).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of Abril, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-08820 Filed 4-30-19; 8:45 am]
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