[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 9, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32785-32786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14483]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0097]


Information Collection: Nuclear Energy Innovation and 
Modernization Act Local Community Advisory Board Questionnaire

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, ``Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act Local 
Community Advisory Board Questionnaire.''

DATES: Submit comments by August 8, 2019. Comments received after this 
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission 
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before 
this date.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs

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(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-2019-0097 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 https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0097. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2019-0097 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 https://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 No. ML19177A082. 
The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML19177A084.
     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 https://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 proposed collection of 
information to OMB for review entitled, ``Nuclear Energy Innovation and 
Modernization Act Local Community Advisory Board Questionnaire.'' 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 April 19, 2019 (84 FR 16547).
    1. The title of the information collection: Nuclear Energy 
Innovation and Modernization Act Local Community Advisory Board 
Questionnaire.
    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: Respondents will be 
the existing local community advisory boards in the vicinity of power 
reactors undergoing decommissioning, similar established stakeholder 
groups, or local government organizations.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 15 (7 responses from 
sites with established local community advisory boards + 8 responses 
from sites where local community advisory boards have not been 
established).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 15 (7 sites with 
established local community advisory boards + 8 sites where local 
community advisory boards have not been established).
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 54 
hours.
    10. Abstract: The NRC is planning to coordinate activities in 
accordance with Section 108 of the Nuclear Energy Innovation and 
Modernization Act to collect information on the use of local community 
advisory boards during decommissioning activities and issue a best 
practices report. In order to ensure appropriate best practices are 
identified, the NRC has developed a questionnaire that will seek 
feedback in a number of areas related to the formation and operation of 
local community advisory boards. The questionnaire will address the 
following areas: The type of topics that might be brought before a 
community advisory board; how the board's input could inform the 
decision-making process for various decommissioning stakeholders; how 
the board might interact with other State and Federal agencies to 
promote dialogue between the licensee and impacted stakeholders; and 
how the board could offer opportunities for public engagement 
throughout the decommissioning process. The NRC will issue a report to 
Congress in June 2020 identifying best practices for establishment and 
operation of local community advisory boards.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of July, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kristen E. Benney,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-14483 Filed 7-8-19; 8:45 am]
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