Information Collection: Licensing Requirements for the Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Radioactive Waste and Reactor-Related Greater than Class C Waste, 47778-47779 [2017-22144]

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• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 197 (Friday, October 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47778-47779]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22144]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0269]


Information Collection: Licensing Requirements for the 
Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Radioactive Waste 
and Reactor-Related Greater than Class C Waste

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, ``Licensing Requirements for 
the Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Radioactive 
Waste and Reactor-Related Greater than Class C Waste.''

DATES: Submit comments by November 13, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron Szabo 
Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0132), 
NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503; 
telephone: 202-395-3621, email: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
telephone: 301-415-2084; email: INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0269 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 Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0269. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID  on this 
Web site.
     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. The 
supporting statement and burden table are available in ADAMS under 
Accession Nos. ML17208A007 and ML17208A009.
     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.
     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: 
INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV.

B. Submitting Comments

    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 renewal of an existing 
collection of information to OMB for review entitled, ``Licensing 
Requirements for the Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-
Level Radioactive Waste and Reactor-Related Greater than Class C 
Waste.'' 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

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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 June 15, 2017 (82 FR 27536).
    1. The title of the information collection: Licensing Requirements 
for the Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level 
Radioactive Waste and Reactor-Related Greater than Class C Waste.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0132.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: Required 
reports are collected and evaluated on a continuing basis as events 
occur; submittal of reports varies from less than one per year under 
some rule sections to up to an average of about 80 per year under other 
rule sections. Applications for new licenses, certificates of 
compliance (CoCs), and amendments may be submitted at any time; 
applications for renewal of licenses are required every 40 years for an 
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) or CoC effective 
May 21, 2011, and every 40 years for a Monitored Retrievable Storage 
(MRS) facility.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Certificate holders 
and applicants for a CoC for spent fuel storage casks; licensees and 
applicants for a license to possess power reactor spent fuel and other 
radioactive materials associated with spent fuel storage in an ISFSI; 
and the Department of Energy for licenses to receive, transfer, package 
and possess power reactor spent fuel, high-level waste, and other 
radioactive materials associated with spent fuel and high-level waste 
storage in an MRS.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 839 (607 reporting 
responses + 150 third party disclosure responses + 82 recordkeepers).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 82.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 79,040 
hours (33,909 hours reporting + 42,319 hours recordkeeping + 2,812 
hours third-party disclosure).
    10. Abstract: Part 72 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), establishes mandatory requirements, procedures, 
and criteria for the issuance of licenses to receive, transfer, and 
possess power reactor spent fuel and other radioactive materials 
associated with spent fuel storage in an ISFSI, as well as requirements 
for the issuance of licenses to the Department of Energy to receive, 
transfer, package, and possess power reactor spent fuel and high-level 
radioactive waste, and other associated radioactive materials in an 
MRS. The information in the applications, reports, and records is used 
by NRC to make licensing and other regulatory determinations.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of October 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-22144 Filed 10-12-17; 8:45 am]
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