Information Collection: Survey of NRC Materials Licensees To Support Rulemaking for NRC's Small Entity Size Standards, 30779-30780 [2019-13659]
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
Robert F. Kuntz, Office of Nuclear
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Regulatory Commission, Washington DC
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email: Robert.Kuntz@nrc.gov.
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(83 FR 45981), in FR Doc. 2018–19419,
on page 45986, in the first column,
second paragraph, the language is
corrected as follows:
Date of amendment request: July 20,
2018. A publicly-available version is in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML18204A393.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day
of June 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Lisa M. Regner,
Acting Chief, Plant Licensing Branch III,
Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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[NRC–2019–0045]
Information Collection: Survey of NRC
Materials Licensees To Support
Rulemaking for NRC’s Small Entity
Size Standards
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of submission to the
Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has recently
submitted a proposed collection of
information to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review. The information collection is
entitled, ‘‘Survey of NRC Materials
Licensees to Support Rulemaking for
NRC’s Small Entity Size Standards.’’
DATES: Submit comments by July 29,
2019.
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A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2019–
0045 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publiclyavailable 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–2019–0045. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID
NRC–2019–0045 on this website.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable 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. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing ADAMS
Accession ML19058A132. The
supporting statement and title of the
document is ‘‘Survey of NRC Materials
Licensees to Support Rulemaking for
NRC’s Small Entity Size Standards,’’ is
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML19112A078.
• 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.
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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
In accordance with the provisions of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the NRC recently
submitted a proposed collection of
information to OMB for review entitled,
‘‘Survey of NRC Materials Licensees to
Support Rulemaking for NRC’s Small
Entity Size Standards.’’ 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
March 20, 2019 (84 FR 54).
1. The title of the information
collection: Survey of NRC materials
licensees to support rulemaking for
NRC’s small entity size standards.
2. OMB approval number: An OMB
control number has not yet been
assigned to this proposed information
collection.
3. Type of submission: New.
4. The form number if applicable: Not
applicable.
5. How often the collection is required
or requested: Once.
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: Current materials users’
licensees.
7. The estimated number of annual
responses: 461.
8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 461.
9. An estimate of the total number of
hours needed annually to comply with
the information collection requirement
or request: 152 hours.
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10. Abstract: The NRC has its own
standards for categorizing small
business size entities that are noted in
section 2.810 of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, ‘‘NRC size
standards.’’ The agency’s standards
differ from those used by the Small
Business Administration (SBA) because
it is difficult to align NRC licensees with
SBA size standards and the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliations Act of 1990
requirement for NRC to recover 90
percent of the annual budget through
fees. Since the agency has not surveyed
its materials licensees since 1993, the
staff will conduct a survey to gather
financial data to determine if a change
to the size standards is needed. Without
conducting a survey, the NRC staff does
not have the data needed to determine
the impact of shifting from the current
nuclear industry-specific standards. The
results of the analysis will be used to
provide a recommendation to the
Commission that is backed with sound
empirical data.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day
of June 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019–13659 Filed 6–26–19; 8:45 am]
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[Docket No. 40–8838; NRC–2019–0027]
U.S. Department of the Army;
Jefferson Proving Ground
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Environmental assessment and
finding of no significant impact;
issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing an
environmental assessment (EA) and
finding of no significant impact (FONSI)
for a proposed amendment of NRC
source materials license SUB–1435 held
by the U.S. Department of the Army
(Army) for the Jefferson Proving Ground
from ‘‘possession only for
decommissioning’’ to ‘‘possession
only.’’ The proposed amendment of the
Army’s license would also include an
exemption from the NRC’s
decommissioning timeliness
requirements in the regulations. The EA,
‘‘Final Environmental Assessment for
the Proposed Amendment of Materials
License SUB–1435, Jefferson Proving
Ground, Southeastern Indiana
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(Jefferson, Ripley, and Jennings
Counties),’’ documents the NRC staff’s
environmental review of the license
amendment application.
DATES: The final EA is available on June
27, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2019–0027 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 Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2019–0027. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Jennifer BorgesRoman; telephone: 301–287–9127;
email: Jennifer.Borges@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 publiclyavailable 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 final EA is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML19169A022.
• 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:
Christine Pineda, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards;
telephone: 301–415–6789; email:
Christine.Pineda@nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
Jefferson Proving Ground (JPG) was
established in 1940 on 224 square
kilometers (km2) [55,265 acres (ac)] in
parts of Jefferson, Ripley, and Jennings
counties in southeastern Indiana for the
production and specification testing of
conventional ammunition components.
The site was used by the Army between
1941 and 1994 for munitions testing
and, during that time, the Army also
test-fired depleted uranium (DU)
projectiles into the 8.4-square km2
[2,080-ac] DU Impact Area, which is
located within the JPG installation. The
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DU test firings began on March 18, 1984
and concluded on May 2, 1994. The
Army estimates that a high density of
high-explosive unexploded ordnance is
present in the DU Impact Area.
The NRC is considering a request for
an amendment to the Army’s source
materials license SUB–1435. The license
authorizes possession only by the Army
of up to 80,000 kilograms (kg) [176,370
pounds (lb)] of DU metal, alloy, and/or
other forms, kept onsite, for the purpose
of decommissioning, in the restricted
area known as the ‘‘Depleted Uranium
Impact Area’’ (DU Impact Area) at the
JPG site in southeastern Indiana. The
NRC is considering a license
amendment that would modify the
license from ‘‘possession only for
decommissioning’’ to ‘‘possession only’’
and an exemption from the NRC’s
decommissioning timeliness
requirements in title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 40.42(d).
The need for this NRC licensing action
is to ensure the safe possession of
radioactive materials (in the form of
DU). The Army needs to delay
remediation of the DU Impact Area
because remediation is prohibitively
expensive and poses a risk of potential
explosions due to the presence of a large
amount of unexploded ordnance.
In accordance with NRC’s regulations
in 10 CFR part 51, ‘‘Environmental
Protection Regulations for Domestic
Licensing and Related Regulatory
Functions,’’ that implement the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA) (42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq.), the NRC staff prepared a
draft EA documenting its environmental
review of the license amendment
application (ADAMS Accession No.
ML19008A310). On February 4, 2019,
the NRC published a Notice of
Availability of the EA for public review
and comment (84 FR 1522), and the
public comment period closed on March
6, 2019. Public comments are addressed
in Appendix D in the final EA. The final
EA is available for public inspection as
indicated in the ADDRESSES section of
this notice. This notice is being
published in accordance with the NEPA
and the NRC’s regulations in 10 CFR
part 51.
II. Summary of Environmental
Assessment
Description of the Proposed Action
The proposed action is for the NRC to
(1) amend Condition 9 of materials
license SUB–1435 to change the
authorized use of licensed material from
‘‘possession only for decommissioning’’
to ‘‘possession only’’ for a 20-year term
and (2) grant an exemption from the
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2019-0045]
Information Collection: Survey of NRC Materials Licensees To
Support Rulemaking for NRC's Small Entity Size Standards
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 proposed collection of information to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is
entitled, ``Survey of NRC Materials Licensees to Support Rulemaking for
NRC's Small Entity Size Standards.''
DATES: Submit comments by July 29, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-XXXX), Attn: Desk Officer
for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street NW, Washington,
DC 20503; email: [email protected].
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-2019-0045 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-2019-0045. A copy of
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2019-0045 on this website.
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 [email protected]. A
copy of the collection of information and related instructions may be
obtained without charge by accessing ADAMS Accession ML19058A132. The
supporting statement and title of the document is ``Survey of NRC
Materials Licensees to Support Rulemaking for NRC's Small Entity Size
Standards,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19112A078.
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:
[email protected].
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
In accordance with the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the NRC recently submitted a proposed
collection of information to OMB for review entitled, ``Survey of NRC
Materials Licensees to Support Rulemaking for NRC's Small Entity Size
Standards.'' 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 March 20, 2019 (84 FR 54).
1. The title of the information collection: Survey of NRC materials
licensees to support rulemaking for NRC's small entity size standards.
2. OMB approval number: An OMB control number has not yet been
assigned to this proposed information collection.
3. Type of submission: New.
4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
5. How often the collection is required or requested: Once.
6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Current materials
users' licensees.
7. The estimated number of annual responses: 461.
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 461.
9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 152
hours.
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10. Abstract: The NRC has its own standards for categorizing small
business size entities that are noted in section 2.810 of title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations, ``NRC size standards.'' The agency's
standards differ from those used by the Small Business Administration
(SBA) because it is difficult to align NRC licensees with SBA size
standards and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliations Act of 1990
requirement for NRC to recover 90 percent of the annual budget through
fees. Since the agency has not surveyed its materials licensees since
1993, the staff will conduct a survey to gather financial data to
determine if a change to the size standards is needed. Without
conducting a survey, the NRC staff does not have the data needed to
determine the impact of shifting from the current nuclear industry-
specific standards. The results of the analysis will be used to provide
a recommendation to the Commission that is backed with sound empirical
data.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of June 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-13659 Filed 6-26-19; 8:45 am]
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