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information is most needed.
Alternatively, small samples can be
selected to statistically represent at least
some aspect of the survey population.
5. Split Panel Tests. A technique for
controlled experimental testing of
alternatives. Thus, they allow one to
choose from among competing
questions, questionnaires, definitions,
error messages, surveys, or survey
improvement methodologies with
greater confidence than other methods
alone. Split panel tests conducted
during the actual fielding of the survey
are superior in that they support both
internal validity (controlled
comparisons of variables under
investigation) and external validity
(represent the population under study).
Nearly any of the previously mentioned
survey improvement methods can be
strengthened when teamed with this
method.
6. Behavior Coding. A quantitative
technique in which a standard set of
codes is systematically applied to
respondent/interviewer interactions in
interviewer-administered surveys or
respondent/questionnaire interactions
in self-administered surveys. Though
this technique can quantifiably identify
problems with the wording of questions,
it does not necessarily illuminate the
underlying causes.
Use of the Information: The
information obtained from these efforts
will be used to develop new NSF
surveys and improve current ones.
These surveys will generally be used to
monitor outputs and outcomes of NSF
funding over time (particularly data that
is not being collected in annual and
final reports), and manage and improve
programs. Data collected through survey
questionnaires can be used in program
evaluation studies and can be matched
to administrative data to understand
NSF’s portfolio of investments.
Specifically, the information from the
survey questionnaire improvement
projects will be used to reduce
respondent burden and to improve the
quality of the data collected in these
surveys. These objectives are met when
respondents are presented with plain,
coherent, and unambiguous
questionnaires asking for data
compatible with respondents’ memory
and/or current reporting and
recordkeeping practices. The purpose of
the survey improvement projects will be
to ensure that NSF surveys are
continuously attempting to meet these
standards of excellence.
Improved NSF surveys will help
policy makers make decisions on R&D
funding, STEM education, scientific and
technical workforce, innovation, as well
as contribute to increased agency
efficiency and reduced survey costs. In
addition, methodological findings have
broader implications for survey research
and may be presented in technical
papers at conferences or published in
the proceedings of conferences or in
journals.
Estimate of Burden
NSF estimates that a total reporting
burden of 171,000 hours over the three
years of the requested generic clearance
is possible from working to evaluate/
improve existing surveys and to develop
new ones. This includes both the
burden placed on respondents
participating in each activity as well as
burden imposed on potential
respondents during screening activities.
Table 1 provides a list of potential
improvement projects for which generic
clearance activities might be conducted,
along with estimates of the number of
respondents and burden hours that
might be involved in each.
TABLE 1—POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
Number of
respondents 2
Improvement project type
Hours
Cognitive Testing .....................................................................................................................................................
Focus Groups ..........................................................................................................................................................
Card Sorting .............................................................................................................................................................
Interviews .................................................................................................................................................................
Panelist Survey ........................................................................................................................................................
Past Awardee Survey ..............................................................................................................................................
Usability Testing ......................................................................................................................................................
Additional surveys not specified ..............................................................................................................................
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
7,000
9,000
5,000
35,000
15,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
12,000
14,000
10,000
100,000
Total ..................................................................................................................................................................
76,000
171,000
Respondents
The respondents are PIs, program
coordinators, or participants in NSFfunded activities.
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Estimates of Annualized Cost to
Respondents for the Hour Burdens
The cost to respondents generated by
the list of potential projects is estimated
to be $7,212,780 over the three years of
the clearance. No one year’s cost would
exceed $7,212,780. In other words, if all
work were done in one year, costs in
that one year would be $7,212,780 and
the costs in each of the other 2 years
would be zero. As in previous requests
2 Number
of respondents listed for any individual
survey may represent several methodological
improvement projects.
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for generic clearance authority, the total
cost was estimated by summing all the
hours that might be used on all projects
over the three years (171,000) wage
amount is the May 2011 national crossindustry estimate of the mean hourly
wage for a financial analyst, or Job
Category 13–2051, by the Bureau of
Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/#data.
The total hours are based on similar
NSF projects over the past few years.
There are no capital, startup,
operation or maintenance costs to the
respondents. The costs generated by
future data collections will be described
in the clearance request for each specific
data collection. NSF does not anticipate
any capital, startup, operation, or
maintenance costs for future surveys.
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Dated: June 29, 2015.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
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1520, Revision 2, ‘‘Standard Review
Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License
Applications,’’ dated June 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
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NRC about the availability of
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I. Discussion
Licenses to possess and use special
nuclear material (SNM) are governed by
Part 70 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR). The revised
Standard Review Plan (SRP) now being
made available provides NRC staff
guidance for reviewing and evaluating
the safety, health, security, and
environmental protection aspects of
applications for licenses to possess and
use SNM at fuel cycle facilities.
The SRP has been revised to ensure
consistency among the chapters,
improve clarity of the text, reduce
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redundancies, and assure that statutory,
regulatory, and guidance document
references are accurate and up to date.
Additionally, the SRP was revised to
clarify the existing SRP discussion in
several technical areas such as nuclear
criticality safety and management
measures, as summarized below.
Chapter 5, ‘‘Nuclear Criticality Safety,’’
contains an expanded discussion of the
double contingency principle and
double contingency protection,
including a description of what
constitutes a loss of double contingency.
Chapter 11, ‘‘Management Measures,’’
includes a discussion of graded
management measures and the selection
of items relied on for safety that relates
to the application of graded
management measures. Additionally,
the SRP contains two new chapters,
Chapter 12, ‘‘Material Control and
Accounting,’’ which includes guidance
associated with 10 CFR part 74
requirements; and Chapter 13, ‘‘Physical
Protection,’’ which includes guidance
associated with 10 CFR part 73
requirements. These new chapters were
added to address the requirements in 10
CFR paragraphs 70.22(b), (g), (h), (j), and
(k). The title of the SRP was revised
from ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the
Review of a License Application for a
Fuel Cycle Facility’’ to ‘‘Standard
Review Plan for License Applications
for Fuel Cycle Facilities.’’
On June 5, 2014 (79 FR 32579), the
NRC announced the availability of draft
NUREG–1520, Revision 2, and
requested comments on it. The
comment period originally closed on
September 3, 2014. In a second notice,
dated August 6, 2014 (79 FR 45849), the
NRC extended the comment period to
November 3, 2014. A public meeting
with the industry was held on
September 23, 2014, to discuss the
proposed changes to the SRP. A
comment resolution table listing all
comments and the NRC staff’s responses
was made publicly available in ADAMS
on March 23, 2015 (ML15065A286).
Suggestions to improve the SRP were
considered by the NRC staff in the
preparation of the final NUREG report.
After further consideration, the NRC
staff revised the title of NUREG–1520,
Revision 2, for final issuance. This
change was performed after publication
of the comments resolution. The title
was revised from ‘‘Standard Review
Plan for License Applications for Fuel
Cycle Facilities’’ to ‘‘Standard Review
Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License
Applications.’’
The final version of NUREG–1520,
Revision 2, is now available for use by
applicants, licensees, NRC license
reviewers, and other NRC staff. Revision
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published on May 2010.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day
of June, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa G. Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety,
Safeguards, and Environmental Review Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1520, Revision 2, ``Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities
License Applications,'' dated June 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0220 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0220. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
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 ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then 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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
NUREG-1520, Revision 2, ``Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle
Facilities License Applications,'' is available in ADAMS under
accession number ML15176A258.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Soly I. Soto, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7528; email:
Soly.Soto@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
Licenses to possess and use special nuclear material (SNM) are
governed by Part 70 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR). The revised Standard Review Plan (SRP) now being made available
provides NRC staff guidance for reviewing and evaluating the safety,
health, security, and environmental protection aspects of applications
for licenses to possess and use SNM at fuel cycle facilities.
The SRP has been revised to ensure consistency among the chapters,
improve clarity of the text, reduce redundancies, and assure that
statutory, regulatory, and guidance document references are accurate
and up to date. Additionally, the SRP was revised to clarify the
existing SRP discussion in several technical areas such as nuclear
criticality safety and management measures, as summarized below.
Chapter 5, ``Nuclear Criticality Safety,'' contains an expanded
discussion of the double contingency principle and double contingency
protection, including a description of what constitutes a loss of
double contingency. Chapter 11, ``Management Measures,'' includes a
discussion of graded management measures and the selection of items
relied on for safety that relates to the application of graded
management measures. Additionally, the SRP contains two new chapters,
Chapter 12, ``Material Control and Accounting,'' which includes
guidance associated with 10 CFR part 74 requirements; and Chapter 13,
``Physical Protection,'' which includes guidance associated with 10 CFR
part 73 requirements. These new chapters were added to address the
requirements in 10 CFR paragraphs 70.22(b), (g), (h), (j), and (k). The
title of the SRP was revised from ``Standard Review Plan for the Review
of a License Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility'' to ``Standard
Review Plan for License Applications for Fuel Cycle Facilities.''
On June 5, 2014 (79 FR 32579), the NRC announced the availability
of draft NUREG-1520, Revision 2, and requested comments on it. The
comment period originally closed on September 3, 2014. In a second
notice, dated August 6, 2014 (79 FR 45849), the NRC extended the
comment period to November 3, 2014. A public meeting with the industry
was held on September 23, 2014, to discuss the proposed changes to the
SRP. A comment resolution table listing all comments and the NRC
staff's responses was made publicly available in ADAMS on March 23,
2015 (ML15065A286). Suggestions to improve the SRP were considered by
the NRC staff in the preparation of the final NUREG report. After
further consideration, the NRC staff revised the title of NUREG-1520,
Revision 2, for final issuance. This change was performed after
publication of the comments resolution. The title was revised from
``Standard Review Plan for License Applications for Fuel Cycle
Facilities'' to ``Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities
License Applications.''
The final version of NUREG-1520, Revision 2, is now available for
use by applicants, licensees, NRC license reviewers, and other NRC
staff. Revision 2 supersedes the last official revision published on
May 2010.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of June, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa G. Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental
Review Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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