[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 239 (Thursday, December 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 86685-86686]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-27508]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2023-0055]


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: 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, ``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 January 16, 2024. 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-2023-0055 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-2023-0055.
     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, at 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 PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies 
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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 
a.m. and 4 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, 
``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.'' 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 July 28, 2023, (88 FR 48922).
    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: 3150-0057, 3150-0003, 3150-0004, and 3150-
0058.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number, if applicable: DOE/NRC Form 740M, DOE/NRC Form 
741, DOE/NRC Form 742, DOE/NRC Form 742C.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: DOE/NRC Form 
741, Nuclear Material Transaction Report, 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, 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, ``Protection of Safeguards Information: 
Performance

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requirements.'' 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 of 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: 67.
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 28,031.
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 327.
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 327.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents:
    DOE/NRC Form 740M: 17.
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 327.
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 327.
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 327.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request:
    DOE/NRC Form 740M: 50.
    DOE/NRC Form 741: 35,039.
    DOE/NRC Form 742: 1,145.
    DOE/NRC Form 742C: 1,308.
    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. These forms provide 
data that is required under domestic and international safeguards 
regulations. This collection is being renewed to allow the U.S. to 
continue fulfilling its responsibilities as a participant in the U.S.-
IAEA Safeguards Agreements and to satisfy various bilateral agreements 
for nuclear cooperation with other countries, and its domestic 
safeguards responsibilities.

III. Availability of Documents

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

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                 Document description                                     ADAMS accession No.
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Supporting statement and DOE/NRC Form 740M, ``Concise  ML23271A173 and ML23139A259.
 Note'' (3150-0057).
Supporting statement and DOE/NRC Form 741, ``Nuclear   ML23271A174 and ML23139A261.
 Material Transaction Report'' (3150-0003).
Supporting statement and DOE/NRC Form 742, ``Material  ML23271A175 and ML23139A262.
 Balance Report'' (3150-0004).
Supporting statement and DOE/NRC Form 742C,            ML23271A176 and ML23139A263.
 ``Physical Inventory Listing'' (3150-0058).
NUREG/BR-0006, Revision 9, Instructions for            ML20240A155.
 Completing Nuclear Material Transaction Reports (DOE/
 NRC Forms 741 and 740M).
NUREG/BR-0007, Revision 8, Instructions for the        ML20240A181.
 Preparation and Distribution of Material Status
 Reports, (DOE/NRC Forms 742 and 742C).
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    Dated: December 11, 2023.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-27508 Filed 12-13-23; 8:45 am]
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