[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 4, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46568-46570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-19047]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0158]


Information Collection: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Form 
327, Special Nuclear Material and Source Material Physical Inventory 
Summary Report, and NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for 
Completing Physical Inventory Summary Reports

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Renewal of existing information collection; request for 
comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public 
comment on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval for an existing collection of information. The information 
collection is entitled, ``NRC Form 327, Special

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Nuclear Material (SNM) and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory 
Summary Report, and NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for 
Completing Physical Inventory Summary Reports.''

DATES: Submit comments by November 4, 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: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0158. Address 
questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 
telephone: 301-287-9127; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this document.
     Mail comments to: David Cullison, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Mail Stop: O-1 F21, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. For additional direction on 
obtaining information and submitting comments, see ``Obtaining 
Information and Submitting Comments'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, Office of the Chief 
Information 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-2019-0158 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-2019-0158. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2019-0158 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 ``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. ML19161A296. The supporting statement is 
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19161A295.
     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 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

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2019-0158 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, to ensure that the NRC is able to make your comment 
submission available to the public in this docket.
    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. The NRC will post all comment 
submissions at https://www.regulations.gov/ as well as enter the 
comment submissions into ADAMS, and the NRC does not routinely edit 
comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, 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 the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions 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 Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35), the NRC is requesting public comment on its intention to 
request the OMB's approval for the information collection summarized 
below.
    1. The title of the information collection: NRC Form 327, SNM and 
SM Physical Inventory Summary Report, and NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions 
and Guidance for Completing Physical Inventory Summary Reports.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0139.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number, if applicable: NRC Form 327.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Certain 
licensees possessing strategic SNM are required to report inventories 
on NRC Form 327 every six months. Licensees possessing SNM of moderate 
strategic significance must report every nine months. Licensees 
possessing SNM of low strategic significance must report annually, 
except one licensee (enrichment facility) that must report its dynamic 
inventories every two months and its static inventory annually.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Fuel facility 
licensees possessing SNM, i.e., enriched uranium, plutonium, or U-233.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 68.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 6.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request: 272 hours (4 hours per 
response x 68 responses).
    10. Abstract: NRC Form 327 is submitted by certain fuel cycle 
facility licensees to account for SNM. The data is used by the NRC to 
assess licensee material control and accounting programs and to confirm 
the absence of (or detect the occurrence of) SNM theft or diversion. 
NUREG/BR-0096 provides guidance and instructions for completing the 
form in accordance with the requirements appropriate for a particular 
licensee.

III. Specific Requests for Comments

    The NRC is seeking comments that address the following questions:
    1. Is the proposed collection of information necessary for the NRC 
to properly perform its functions? Does the information have practical 
utility?
    2. Is the estimate of the burden of the information collection 
accurate?
    3. Is there a way to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected?
    4. How can the burden of the information collection on respondents 
be minimized, including the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology?

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of August, 2019.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-19047 Filed 9-3-19; 8:45 am]
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