Information Collection: Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material, 3833-3834 [2019-02197]

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• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3833-3834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02197]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0062]


Information Collection: Physical Protection of Category 1 and 
Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material

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, ``Physical Protection of 
Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material.''

DATES: Submit comments by March 15, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0214), Attn: Desk Officer 
for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, 
DC 20503; 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-2018-0062 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-2018-0062. A copy of 
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained 
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2018-0062 on this website.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System

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(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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The supporting statement associated 
with the Part 37 information collections, burden table, and the NRC 
Form 755 are available in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML19011A456, 
ML19036A793, and ML18295A594.
     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 request for renewal of 
an existing collection of information to OMB for review entitled, 
``Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of 
Radioactive Material.'' 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 October 29, 2018 (83 FR 
54382).
    1. The title of the information collection: 10 CFR part 37, 
``Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of 
Radioactive Material.''
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0214.
    3. Type of submission: Revision.
    4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: One time for 
initial compliance notifications and fingerprints for the reviewing 
officials; and as needed for implementation notifications, event 
notifications, notifications of shipments of radioactive material, and 
fingerprinting of new employees.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Licensees that are 
authorized to possess and use category 1 or category 2 quantities of 
radioactive material.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 101,479 (4,704 
reporting responses + 95,375 third party disclosure responses + 1,400 
recordkeepers).
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 5,600.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 74,043 
hours (1,557 reporting + 48,497 third party disclosure + 23,989 
recordkeeping).
    10. Abstract: Part 37 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), contains security requirements for the use of 
category 1 and category 2 quantities of radioactive material. Licensees 
are required to: (1) Develop procedures for the implementation of the 
security provisions; (2) develop a security plan that describes how 
security is being implemented; (3) implement security measures for the 
protection of the radioactive material; (4) conduct training on the 
procedures and security plan; (5) conduct background investigations for 
those individuals permitted unescorted access to category 1 or category 
2 quantities of radioactive material; (6) coordinate with Local Law 
Enforcement Agencies (LLEAs) so the LLEAs would be better prepared to 
respond in an emergency; and (7) conduct coordination activities before 
shipping category 2 radioactive material, and preplanning and 
coordination activities before shipping category 1 radioactive 
material. Licensees are required to promptly report any attempted or 
actual theft or diversion of the radioactive material. Licensees are 
required to keep copies of the security plan, procedures, background 
investigation records, training records, and documentation associated 
with implementation of the security program. The NRC uses the 
information required by 10 CFR part 37 to fulfill its responsibilities 
to respond to, investigate, and correct situations that have the 
potential to adversely affect public health and safety or the common 
defense and security.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of February 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-02197 Filed 2-12-19; 8:45 am]
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