[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 83 (Wednesday, April 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23870-23872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-09041]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2020-0040]


Information Collection: DOE/NRC Form 740M, Concise Note; DOE/NRC 
Form 741, Nuclear Material Transaction Report; DOE/NRC Form 742, 
Material Balance Report; and DOE/NRC Form 742C, Physical Inventory 
Listing

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 
collections are entitled, ``DOE/NRC Form 740M, Concise Note; DOE/NRC 
Form 741, Nuclear Material Transaction Report; DOE/NRC Form 742, 
Material Balance Report; and DOE/NRC Form 742C, Physical Inventory 
Listing.''

DATES: Submit comments by June 29, 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: 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-2020-0040. For 
technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.

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     Mail comments to: David Cullison, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Mail Stop: T-6 A10M, 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-2020-0040 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-2020-0040. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2020-0040 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]. For the convenience of the reader, 
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are 
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
     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-2020-0040 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order 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: DOE/NRC Form 740M, 
Concise Note; DOE/NRC Form 741, Nuclear Material Transaction Report; 
DOE/NRC Form 742, Material Balance Report; and DOE/NRC Form 742C, 
Physical Inventory Listing.
    2. OMB approval number: DOE/NRC Form 740M: 3150-0057. DOE/NRC Form 
741: 3150-0003. DOE/NRC Form 742: 3150-0004. DOE/NRC Form 742C: 3150-
0058.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number, if applicable: DOE/NRC Forms 740M, 741, 742, 
and 742C.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: DOE/NRC Form 
741, Nuclear Material Transaction Reports will be collected whenever 
nuclear material is shipped or received into the Material Balance Area; 
DOE/NRC Form 742, Material Balance Report will be collected on an 
annual basis; DOE/NRC Form 742C, Physical Inventory Listing will be 
collected on an annual basis; DOE/NRC Form 740M, Concise Note Forms are 
used when needed.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Persons licensed to 
possess specified quantities of nuclear material and entities subject 
to the U.S.-IAEA Caribbean Territories Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC/
366) are required to respond as follows:
    Any licensee who ships, receives, or otherwise undergoes an 
inventory change of nuclear material is required to submit a DOE/NRC 
Form 741 to document the change. Additional information regarding these 
transactions shall be submitted through Form 740M, with Safeguards 
Information identified and handled in accordance with section 73.21 of 
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Requirements 
for the Protection of Safeguards Information.''
    Any licensee who had possessed in the previous reporting period, at 
any one time and location, nuclear material in a quantity totaling one 
gram or more shall complete DOE/NRC Form 742. In addition, each 
licensee, Federal or State, who is authorized to possess, at any one 
time or location, one kilogram of foreign obligated source material, is 
required to file with the NRC an annual statement of source material 
inventory which is foreign obligated.
    Any licensee, who had possessed in the previous reporting period, 
at any one time and location, special nuclear material in a quantity 
totaling one gram or more shall complete DOE/NRC Form 742C.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses:
    DOE/NRC Form 740M: 175.
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 11,143.
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 344.
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 385.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents:
    DOE/NRC Form 740M: 40.
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 344.
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 344.
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 385.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request:
    DOE/NRC Form 740M: 131.
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 13,928.
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 1,204.
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 1,490.
    10. Abstract: Persons licensed to possess specified quantities of 
nuclear material currently report inventory and transaction of material 
to the Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards System via the DOE/
NRC Forms: DOE/NRC Form 740M, Concise Note; DOE/NRC Form 741, Nuclear 
Material Transaction Report; DOE/NRC Form 742, Material Balance Report; 
and DOE/NRC Form 742C, Physical Inventory Listing. This collection is 
being revised to include approximately 25 entities subject to the U.S.-
IAEA Caribbean Territories Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC/366). Part 75 
requires

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licensees to provide reports of nuclear material inventory and flow for 
entities under the U.S.-IAEA Caribbean Territories Safeguards Agreement 
(INFCIRC/366), permit inspections by Agreement (INFCIRC/366). The IAEA 
inspectors, give immediate notice to the NRC in specified situations 
involving the possibility of loss of nuclear material, and give notice 
for imports and exports of specified amounts of nuclear material. These 
licensees will also follow written material accounting and control 
procedures. Reporting of transfer and material balance records to the 
IAEA will be done through the U.S. State system (Nuclear Materials 
Management and Safeguards System, collected under OMB clearance numbers 
3150-0003, 3150-0004, 3150-0057, and 3150-0058.) The NRC needs this 
information to implement its international obligations under the U.S.-
IAEA Caribbean Territories Safeguards.

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?

IV. Availability of Documents

    The supplemental documents related to each information collections 
are identified in the following table and are available to interested 
persons in ADAMS.

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               Documents                       ADAMS Accession No.
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Supporting statement and DOE/NRC Form    ML20106F197 and ML20021A120.
 740M, ``Concise Note'' (3150-0057).
Supporting statement and DOE/NRC Form    ML20021A123 and ML20021A121.
 741, ``Nuclear Material Transaction
 Report'' (3150-0003).
Supporting statement and DOE/NRC Form    ML20024D131 and ML20024D128.
 742, ``Material Balance Report'' (3150-
 0004).
Supporting statement and DOE/NRC Form    ML20106F177 and ML20024D129.
 742C, ``Physical Inventory Listing''.
(3150-0058)............................
NUREG/BR-0006, Revision 8 (3150-0003;    ML18123A473.
 3150-0057).
NUREG/BR-0007, Revision 7 (3150-0004;    ML18123A462.
 3150-0058).
D-24 Personal Computer Data Input for    ML20092K107.
 Nuclear Regulatory Commission
 Licensees.
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    Dated: April 23, 2020.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-09041 Filed 4-28-20; 8:45 am]
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