[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71694-71696]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25486]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2021-0044]


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

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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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 December 23, 2022. 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 C. 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-2021-0044 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-2021-0044.
     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 NRC Forms 541 and 541A 
and related instructions may be obtained without charge by accessing 
ADAMS Accession Nos. ML22132A252, ML22132A253, and ML20178A433, 
respectively. The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML22301A023.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make 
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to 
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), 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 C. 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

    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.
    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 
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 August 10, 2022 (87 FR 48696).
    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: NRC Form 541 
and 541A, or the Agreement State equivalent forms, are used by low-
level radioactive waste (LLW) shippers when LLW is shipped. NRC Form 
541/541A, combined with NRC Forms 540/540A and 542/542A, are 
collectively referred to as the Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste 
Manifest forms. The disposal facilities and their Agreement State 
regulators, where applicable, use the information found on the forms to 
ensure waste disposal meets the requirements in part 61 of title 10 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) for the protection of the 
public and environment. The NRC does not collect or retain data on the 
forms and the forms are not sent to or received by the NRC. NRC Form 
541/541A and NRC Form 542/542A are (1) mailed or electronically 
transferred to the intended consignee prior to the shipment arriving at 
the consignee or (2) delivered with the waste to the consignee. NRC 
Form 540 and 540A are required to be with the shipment regardless of 
which of the above methods is chosen.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: NRC Form 541 and 
continuation Form 541A are completed by generators, collectors, and 
processors of LLW intended for ultimate disposal at a licensed land 
disposal facility.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 4,616.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 712.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request: 15,233.
    10. Abstract: The completed NRC Form 541 contains information 
needed

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to satisfy the waste manifesting requirements of the NRC's 10 CFR part 
20. NUREG/BR-0204, Rev. 3, contains instructions for completing NRC 
Forms 540, 540A, 541, 541A, 542, and 542A. The forms were originally 
developed by the NRC at the request of low-level waste industry groups. 
The forms are intended to provide uniformity and efficiency in the 
collection of information contained in manifests which are required to 
control transfers of LLW intended for disposal at a land disposal 
facility. However, as stated in 10 CFR part 20, appendix G, ``Licensees 
need not use originals of these NRC Forms as long as any substitute 
forms are equivalent to the original documentation in respect to 
content, clarity, size, and location of information . . .'' The NRC 
previously noticed the availability of revisions to the Uniform Low-
Level Radioactive Waste Manifest Forms in the Federal Register on June 
25, 2021 (86 FR 33783). The information collection contained in the 
current extension request does not include any material changes to the 
forms, except for: (1) changes to the Paperwork Reduction Act statement 
to indicate that licensees may use equivalent forms, and (2) the 
deletion of the expiration date.

    Dated: November 17, 2022.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-25486 Filed 11-22-22; 8:45 am]
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