[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 247 (Thursday, December 26, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71005-71006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27693]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0158]


Information Collection: NRC Form 327, Special Nuclear Material 
and Source Material Physical Inventory Summary Reports, and NUREG/BR-
0096, Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical Inventory 
Summary Reports

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 Form 327, Special Nuclear 
Material and Source Material Physical Inventory Summary Reports, and 
NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical 
Inventory Summary Reports.''

DATES: Submit comments by January 27, 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 (3150-0139), 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-2019-0158 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 ML19161A296 and ML082620258. The supporting 
statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19318C417.
     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 request for renewal of 
an existing collection of information to OMB for review entitled, ``NRC 
Form 327, Special Nuclear Material and

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Source Material Physical Inventory Summary Reports, and NUREG/BR-0096, 
Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical Inventory Summary 
Reports.'' 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 September 4, 2019 (84 FR 
46568).
    1. The title of the information collection: NRC Form 327, ``Special 
Nuclear Material and Source Material Physical Inventory Summary 
Reports, 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 6 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 2 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. An estimate of the total 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.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of December 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-27693 Filed 12-23-19; 8:45 am]
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