[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 12 (Thursday, January 21, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6376-6377]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-01203]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2020-0064]


Information Collection: Collection of Operator Simulator Training 
Data

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 renewal of an existing collection of information to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information 
collection is entitled, ``Collection of Operator Simulator Training 
Data.''

DATES: Submit comments by February 22, 2021. 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: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this 
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

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-2020-0064 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-2020-0064.
     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].
     Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies 
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request 
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.
     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 encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please 
include Docket ID NRC-2020-0064 in your comment submission.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission.

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The NRC will post all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. 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 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 the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, 
``Collection of Operator Simulator Training Data.'' 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 11, 2020, (85 FR 
56277).
    1. The title of the information collection: Collection of Operator 
Simulator Training Data.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0234.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Six per year.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: All holders of, or 
applicants for, a power reactor operating license under part 50 of 
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Domestic 
Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,'' except those that 
have certified that they have permanently ceased operations and have 
permanently removed all fuel from the reactor vessel. All holders of, 
or applicants for, a power reactor combined license under 10 CFR part 
52, ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power 
Plants.''
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 32.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 5.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 148.
    10. Abstract: This information collection request is to the holders 
of, or applicants for, a power reactor operating license under 10 CFR 
part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization 
Facilities,'' except those that have certified that they have 
permanently ceased operations and have permanently removed all fuel 
from the reactor vessel, and the holders of, or applicants for, a power 
reactor combined license under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, 
Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.''
    This information collection is for the specified licensees to use 
the NRC developed Scenario Authoring, Characterization and Debriefing 
Application (SACADA) software for their operator simulator training. 
The SACADA system was developed to collect licensed operator simulator 
training data to inform human reliability analysis (HRA) and to 
facilitate operator simulator training. The SACADA software can be used 
to author the simulation scenarios, facilitate the post simulation 
debriefing on crew performance, guide performance analysis, and 
generate various types of reports. The information entered into the 
SACADA database can be used to improve simulator training effectiveness 
and HRA.
    The South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company has used the 
software for its operator simulator training since 2012 and highly 
regards the software. The NRC welcomes more licensees to partner with 
the NRC to use the software. The licensees' participation in the 
information collection is voluntary. In the partnership, the NRC 
provides the SACADA software license, training, and technical support 
to the participating licensees, and the participating licensees grant 
NRC access to analyze the data to improve the NRC's HRA techniques. An 
agreement will be developed to specify the details. To participate in 
the information collection, the licensee will notify the NRC contact 
that it is interested in evaluating the software. Then the NRC will 
provide additional information including an onsite briefing. If the 
licensee thinks the SACADA software could be beneficial, the NRC will 
provide a training session, the software license, and technical support 
for the licensee to pilot the use of the software in its simulator 
training. After the pilot study, the licensee will decide whether or 
not to partner with the NRC on the information collection. Either party 
can terminate the agreement at any time.

    Dated: January 14, 2021.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-01203 Filed 1-19-21; 8:45 am]
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