[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 239 (Thursday, December 12, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67970-67971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-26749]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0057]


Information Collection: NRC Policy Statement, ``Criteria for 
Guidance of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory 
Authority and Assumption Thereof by States Through Agreement,'' 
Maintenance of Existing Agreement State Programs, Requests for 
Information Through the Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation 
Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement State Participation in 
IMPEP

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, ``Policy Statement for the 
`Criteria for Guidance of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC 
Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by States Through 
Agreement,' Maintenance of Existing Agreement State Programs, Request 
for Information Through the Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation 
Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement State Participation in 
IMPEP.''

DATES: Submit comments by January 13, 2020. 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 (3150-0183), Attn: Desk Officer 
for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street, NW, Washington, 
DC 20503; email: [email protected].
    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, 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-2019-0057 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-2019-0057. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2019-0057 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]. The supporting statement is available 
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19302F711.
     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

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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 request for renewal of 
an existing collection of information to OMB for review entitled, NRC 
Policy Statement, ``Criteria for Guidance of States and NRC in 
Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by 
States Through Agreement,'' Maintenance of Existing Agreement State 
Programs, Requests for Information Through the Integrated Materials 
Performance Evaluation Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement 
State Participation in IMPEP.'' 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 August 8, 2019 (84 FR 39023).
    1. The title of the information collection: Policy Statement for 
the ``Criteria for Guidance of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC 
Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by States Through 
Agreement,'' Maintenance of Existing Agreement State Programs, Request 
for Information Through the Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation 
Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement State Participation in 
IMPEP.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0183.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Every four 
years for completion of the IMPEP questionnaire in preparation for an 
IMPEP review. One time for new Agreement State applications. Annually 
for participation by Agreement States in the IMPEP reviews and 
fulfilling requirements for Agreement States to maintain their 
programs.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: All Agreement States 
(39 Agreement States who have signed Agreements with NRC under Section 
274b. of the Atomic Energy Act (Act)) and any non-Agreement State 
seeking to sign an Agreement with the Commission.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 65.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 40 (39 existing 
Agreement States and one anticipated new application).
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 298,194 
hours (an average of 7,455 hours per respondent). This includes 636 
hours to complete the IMPEP questionnaires; 2,250 hours to prepare one 
new Agreement State application, 468 hours for participation in IMPEP 
reviews; and 294,840 hours for maintaining Existing Agreement State 
programs.
    10. Abstract: The States wishing to become Agreement States are 
requested to provide certain information to the NRC as specified by the 
Commission's Policy Statement, ``Criteria for Guidance of States and 
NRC in Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory Authority and Assumption 
Thereof by States Through Agreement.'' The Agreement States need to 
ensure that the radiation control program under the Agreement remains 
adequate and compatible with the requirements of Section 274 of the Act 
and must maintain certain information. The NRC conducts periodic 
evaluations through IMPEP to ensure that these programs are compatible 
with the NRC's program, meet the applicable parts of the Act, and 
adequate to protect public health and safety.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of December 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-26749 Filed 12-11-19; 8:45 am]
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