[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 30, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36973-36974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16181]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0088]


Information Collection: Collection of Research Code Non-
Disclosure Agreement Information

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, ``Collection of Research Code Non-Disclosure Agreement 
Information.''

DATES: Submit comments by August 29, 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 (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-2019-0088 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-2019-0088. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2019-0088 on this website.

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     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. ML19099A416. 
The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML19182A300.
     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, ``Collection of Research Code 
Non-Disclosure Agreement Information.'' 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 16, 2019, 84 FR 15640.
    1. The title of the information collection: Collection of Research 
Code Non-Disclosure Agreement Information.
    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: As needed.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Domestic and foreign 
users of NRC's nuclear safety analytical computer codes.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 640.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 640.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 640 
hours.
    10. Abstract: This information collection request is an NDA used 
for domestic and foreign entities to obtain and use the NRC's nuclear 
safety analytical computer codes. NRC develops and uses computer codes 
to independently model and evaluate safety issues associated with the 
licensed use of radioactive materials. As a global leader in nuclear 
regulatory research and safety assessment, NRC is frequently approached 
by domestic and international organizations requesting copies of NRC 
computer codes. In general, to obtain an NRC code an individual or 
organization first agrees to not redistribute the code (i.e., non-
disclosure) through an NDA. The NDA also imposes terms and conditions 
for code use, and requires notification to NRC of code errors, code 
modifications, and updated user information. An officially signed and 
executed NDA of users agreeing to the terms and conditions is current 
NRC practice for access to NRC-developed computer codes. Once the NDA 
has been signed, received, reviewed, and accepted, the requesting 
individual or organization is given access to the requested code. The 
information collection enables the NRC to ensure that proper procedures 
and agreements are in place to guide the distribution and use of these 
codes according to NRC and U.S. Government policies and international 
agreements such as import-export restrictions and intellectual property 
rights. Further information collection on code errors and modifications 
by code users permits NRC to maintain control and quality of its codes 
in a timely and efficient manner.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of July 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-16181 Filed 7-29-19; 8:45 am]
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