[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 79 (Friday, April 24, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22177-22178]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-08002]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2025-0042]


Information Collection: Safeguards on Nuclear Material, 
Implementation of US/IAEA Agreement

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, ``Safeguards on Nuclear 
Material, Implementation of US/IAEA Agreement.''

DATES: Submit comments by May 26, 2026. 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: Heather Dempsey, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0856; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2025-0042 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-2025-0042.
     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 ADAMS Public 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]. The supporting statement is available in ADAMS 
under Accession No. ML26050A039.
     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 Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Heather Dempsey, Office of 
the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0856; 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, 
``Safeguards on Nuclear Material, Implementation of US/IAEA 
Agreement.'' 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 December 12, 2025, 90 FR 
57791.
    1. The title of the information collection: Safeguards on Nuclear 
Material, Implementation of US/IAEA Agreement.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0055.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number, if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Selected 
licensees are required to provide reports of nuclear material inventory 
and flow for selected facilities under the US/IAEA Safeguards 
Agreement, permit inspections by International Atomic Energy Agency 
Agreement (IAEA) inspectors, complementary access of IAEA inspectors 
under the Additional Protocol, 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. Reporting is done when specified events occur. 
Recordkeeping for nuclear material accounting and control information 
is done in accordance with specific instructions.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Licensees required to 
report information required by the U.S. Additional Protocol. Licensed 
holders of nuclear material located outside of

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facilities in the U.S. Caribbean Territories.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 23 (12 reporting 
responses plus 11 recordkeepers).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 11.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request: 4,026.
    10. Abstract: Part 75 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, ``Safeguards on Nuclear Material--Implementation of 
Safeguards Agreements Between the United States and the International 
Atomic Energy Agency,'' requires selected licensees to provide reports 
of nuclear material inventory and flow for selected facilities under 
the US/IAEA Safeguards Agreement, permit inspections by IAEA 
inspectors, complementary access of IAEA inspectors under the 
Additional Protocol, 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. In addition, this collection is being renewed to include 
approximately six entities subject to the U.S.-IAEA Caribbean 
Territories Safeguards Agreement (INFCIRC/366). These licensees will 
provide reports of nuclear material inventory and flow for entities 
under the U.S.-IAEA Caribbean Territories Safeguards Agreement 
(INFCIRC/366), permit inspections by 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, although actual 
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 responsibilities under the US/IAEA agreement.

(Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.)

    Dated: April 21, 2026.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Heather Dempsey,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2026-08002 Filed 4-23-26; 8:45 am]
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