[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 124 (Thursday, June 27, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30779-30780]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13659]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0045]


Information Collection: Survey of NRC Materials Licensees To 
Support Rulemaking for NRC's Small Entity Size Standards

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 proposed collection of information to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is 
entitled, ``Survey of NRC Materials Licensees to Support Rulemaking for 
NRC's Small Entity Size Standards.''

DATES: Submit comments by July 29, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-XXXX), 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-2019-0045 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-2019-0045. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2019-0045 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]. A 
copy of the collection of information and related instructions may be 
obtained without charge by accessing ADAMS Accession ML19058A132. The 
supporting statement and title of the document is ``Survey of NRC 
Materials Licensees to Support Rulemaking for NRC's Small Entity Size 
Standards,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19112A078.
     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

    In accordance with the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the NRC recently submitted a proposed 
collection of information to OMB for review entitled, ``Survey of NRC 
Materials Licensees to Support Rulemaking for NRC's Small Entity Size 
Standards.'' 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 20, 2019 (84 FR 54).
    1. The title of the information collection: Survey of NRC materials 
licensees to support rulemaking for NRC's small entity size standards.
    2. OMB approval number: An OMB control number has not yet been 
assigned to this proposed information collection.
    3. Type of submission: New.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Once.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Current materials 
users' licensees.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 461.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 461.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 152 
hours.

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    10. Abstract: The NRC has its own standards for categorizing small 
business size entities that are noted in section 2.810 of title 10 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations, ``NRC size standards.'' The agency's 
standards differ from those used by the Small Business Administration 
(SBA) because it is difficult to align NRC licensees with SBA size 
standards and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliations Act of 1990 
requirement for NRC to recover 90 percent of the annual budget through 
fees. Since the agency has not surveyed its materials licensees since 
1993, the staff will conduct a survey to gather financial data to 
determine if a change to the size standards is needed. Without 
conducting a survey, the NRC staff does not have the data needed to 
determine the impact of shifting from the current nuclear industry-
specific standards. The results of the analysis will be used to provide 
a recommendation to the Commission that is backed with sound empirical 
data.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of June 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-13659 Filed 6-26-19; 8:45 am]
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