[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 201 (Thursday, October 17, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55596-55597]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22630]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0234]


Information Collection: NRC Forms 541 and 541A, Uniform Low-Level 
Radioactive Waste Manifest (Container and Waste Description) and 
Continuation Page

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, ``NRC Forms 541 and 541A, 
Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest (Container and Waste 
Description) and Continuation Page.''

DATES: Submit comments by November 18, 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 (3150-0166), 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-2018-0234 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-2018-0234. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2018-0234 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 NRC Forms 541 and 541A and 
related instructions may be obtained without charge by accessing ADAMS 
Accession Nos. ML18313A146, ML18313A147, and ML071870172, respectively. 
The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML19240B715.
     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

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submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of 
information to OMB for review entitled, ``NRC Forms 541 and 541A, 
Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest (Container and Waste 
Description) and Continuation Page.'' 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 July 3, 2019 (84 FR 31931).
    1. The title of the information collection: ``NRC Forms 541 and 
541A, Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest (Container and Waste 
Description) and Continuation Page.''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0166.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: NRC Forms 541 and 541A.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Forms are 
used by shippers when radioactive waste is shipped. Quarterly or less 
frequent reporting is made to Agreement States depending on specific 
license conditions. No reporting is made to the NRC.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: All NRC or Agreement 
State low-level waste facilities licensed pursuant to part 61 of title 
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) or equivalent Agreement 
State regulations. All generators, collectors, and processors of low-
level waste intended for disposal at a low-level waste facility must 
complete the appropriate forms.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 5,600.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 220.
    Note that the NRC does not collect or retain data on manifest forms 
and the forms are not sent to or received by the NRC. The estimates 
provided in items seven and eight above are from the previous form 
renewal Notice. The NRC did not receive any public comment on the 
previous renewal suggesting that these estimates should be revised.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 18,480.
    10. Abstract: NRC Forms 541 and 541A provide a set of standardized 
forms to meet Department of Transportation, NRC, and State 
requirements. The forms were developed by the NRC at the request of 
low-level waste industry groups. The forms provide uniformity and 
efficiency in the collection of information contained in manifests 
which are required to control transfers of low-level radioactive waste 
intended for disposal at a land disposal facility. The NRC Form 541 
contains information needed by disposal site facilities to safely 
dispose of low-level waste and information to meet NRC and State 
requirements regulating these activities.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of October, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-22630 Filed 10-16-19; 8:45 am]
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