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For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David C. 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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2022–
0088 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–2022–0088. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID
NRC–2022–0088 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
‘‘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
Nos. ML22167A077 and ML082620258.
The supporting statement is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML22167A076.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents,
by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR,
Room P1 B35, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please
send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov
or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–
4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 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 NRC’s
Clearance Officer, David C. Cullison,
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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 encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://
www.regulations.gov). Please include
Docket ID NRC–2022–0088 in your
comment submission.
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 Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35), the NRC is requesting
public comment on its intention to
request the OMB’s approval for the
information collection summarized
below.
1. The title of the information
collection: NRC Form 327, Special
Nuclear Material (SNM) and Source
Material (SM) Physical Inventory
Summary Report, and NUREG/BR–0096,
Instructions and Guidance for
Completing Physical Inventory
Summary Reports.
2. OMB approval number: 3150–0139.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number, if applicable:
NRC Form 327.
5. How often the collection is required
or requested: Certain licensees
possessing strategic SNM are required to
report inventories on NRC Form 327
every 6 months. Licensees possessing
SNM of moderate strategic significance
must report every 9 months. Licensees
possessing SNM of low strategic
significance must report annually,
except one licensee (enrichment facility)
that must report its dynamic inventories
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every 2 months and its static inventory
annually.
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: Fuel facility licensees
possessing SNM, i.e., enriched uranium,
plutonium, or U–233.
7. The estimated number of annual
responses: 80.
8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 9.
9. The estimated number of hours
needed annually to comply with the
information collection requirement or
request: 320.
10. Abstract: NRC Form 327 is
submitted by certain fuel cycle facility
licensees to account for SNM. The data
is used by the NRC to assess licensee
material control and accounting
programs and to confirm the absence of
(or detect the occurrence of) SNM theft
or diversion. NUREG/BR–0096 provides
guidance and instructions for
completing the form in accordance with
the requirements appropriate for a
particular licensee.
III. Specific Requests for Comments
The NRC is seeking comments that
address the following questions:
1. Is the proposed collection of
information necessary for the NRC to
properly perform its functions? Does the
information have practical utility?
Please explain your answer.
2. Is the estimate of the burden of the
information collection accurate? Please
explain your answer.
3. Is there a way to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected?
4. How can the burden of the
information collection on respondents
be minimized, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology?
Dated: November 17, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[NRC–2021–0044]
Information Collection: NRC Forms 541
and 541A, Uniform Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Manifest Container
and Waste Description and
Continuation Page
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
AGENCY:
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Notice of submission to the
Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
ACTION:
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, ‘‘NRC Forms 541
and 541A, Uniform Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Manifest Container
and Waste Description and
Continuation Page.’’
DATES: Submit comments by December
23, 2022. 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:
David C. Cullison, NRC Clearance
Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001; telephone: 301–415–2084; email:
Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021–
0044 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–2021–0044.
• 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 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
NRC Forms 541 and 541A and related
instructions may be obtained without
charge by accessing ADAMS Accession
Nos. ML22132A252, ML22132A253,
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and ML20178A433, respectively. The
supporting statement is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML22301A023.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents,
by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR,
Room P1 B35, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please
send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov
or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–
4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 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 NRC’s
Clearance Officer, David C. 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
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, ‘‘NRC Forms
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541 and 541A, Uniform Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Manifest Container
and Waste Description and
Continuation Page.’’ 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
August 10, 2022 (87 FR 48696).
1. The title of the information
collection: NRC Forms 541 and 541A,
Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Manifest Container and Waste
Description and Continuation Page.
2. OMB approval number: 3150–0166.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number, if applicable:
NRC Forms 541 and 541A.
5. How often the collection is required
or requested: NRC Form 541 and 541A,
or the Agreement State equivalent
forms, are used by low-level radioactive
waste (LLW) shippers when LLW is
shipped. NRC Form 541/541A,
combined with NRC Forms 540/540A
and 542/542A, are collectively referred
to as the Uniform Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Manifest forms. The
disposal facilities and their Agreement
State regulators, where applicable, use
the information found on the forms to
ensure waste disposal meets the
requirements in part 61 of title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
for the protection of the public and
environment. The NRC does not collect
or retain data on the forms and the
forms are not sent to or received by the
NRC. NRC Form 541/541A and NRC
Form 542/542A are (1) mailed or
electronically transferred to the
intended consignee prior to the
shipment arriving at the consignee or (2)
delivered with the waste to the
consignee. NRC Form 540 and 540A are
required to be with the shipment
regardless of which of the above
methods is chosen.
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: NRC Form 541 and
continuation Form 541A are completed
by generators, collectors, and processors
of LLW intended for ultimate disposal at
a licensed land disposal facility.
7. The estimated number of annual
responses: 4,616.
8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 712.
9. The estimated number of hours
needed annually to comply with the
information collection requirement or
request: 15,233.
10. Abstract: The completed NRC
Form 541 contains information needed
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to satisfy the waste manifesting
requirements of the NRC’s 10 CFR part
20. NUREG/BR–0204, Rev. 3, contains
instructions for completing NRC Forms
540, 540A, 541, 541A, 542, and 542A.
The forms were originally developed by
the NRC at the request of low-level
waste industry groups. The forms are
intended to provide uniformity and
efficiency in the collection of
information contained in manifests
which are required to control transfers
of LLW intended for disposal at a land
disposal facility. However, as stated in
10 CFR part 20, appendix G, ‘‘Licensees
need not use originals of these NRC
Forms as long as any substitute forms
are equivalent to the original
documentation in respect to content,
clarity, size, and location of information
. . .’’ The NRC previously noticed the
availability of revisions to the Uniform
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest
Forms in the Federal Register on June
25, 2021 (86 FR 33783). The information
collection contained in the current
extension request does not include any
material changes to the forms, except
for: (1) changes to the Paperwork
Reduction Act statement to indicate that
licensees may use equivalent forms, and
(2) the deletion of the expiration date.
Dated: November 17, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2022–0051. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• Mail comments to: David C.
Cullison, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Mail Stop: T–6 A10M, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David C. 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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
A. Obtaining Information
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[NRC–2022–0051]
Information Collection: Regulatory
Issue Summary 2009–06, Revision 1,
Importance of Giving the NRC Advance
Notice of Intent To Pursue License
Renewal
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Proposed information
collection; request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) invites public
comment on this proposed information
collection. The information collection is
entitled, ‘‘Regulatory Issue Summary
2009–06, Revision 1, Importance of
Giving the NRC Advance Notice of
Intent to Pursue License Renewal.’’
DATES: Submit comments by January 23,
2023. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the Commission is able to ensure
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Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2022–
0051 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–2022–0051. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID
NRC–2022–0051 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
‘‘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
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instructions may be obtained without
charge by accessing ADAMS Accession
No. ML21272A267. The supporting
statement is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML22116A159.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents,
by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR,
Room P1 B35, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please
send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov
or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–
4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 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 NRC’s
Clearance Officer, David C. 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 encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://
www.regulations.gov). Please include
Docket ID NRC–2022–0051 in your
comment submission.
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 Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35), the NRC is requesting
public comment on its intention to
request the OMB’s approval for the
information collection summarized
below.
1. The title of the information
collection: Regulatory Issue Summary
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Information Collection: NRC Forms 541 and 541A, Uniform Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Manifest Container and Waste Description and
Continuation Page
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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ACTION: Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget;
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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, ``NRC Forms 541 and 541A,
Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest Container and Waste
Description and Continuation Page.''
DATES: Submit comments by December 23, 2022. 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: David C. 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-2021-0044 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-2021-0044.
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 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 NRC Forms 541 and 541A
and related instructions may be obtained without charge by accessing
ADAMS Accession Nos. ML22132A252, ML22132A253, and ML20178A433,
respectively. The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML22301A023.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 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
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 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 NRC's Clearance Officer, David C. 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
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, ``NRC
Forms 541 and 541A, Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest
Container and Waste Description and Continuation Page.'' 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 August 10, 2022 (87 FR 48696).
1. The title of the information collection: NRC Forms 541 and 541A,
Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste Manifest Container and Waste
Description and Continuation Page.
2. OMB approval number: 3150-0166.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number, if applicable: NRC Forms 541 and 541A.
5. How often the collection is required or requested: NRC Form 541
and 541A, or the Agreement State equivalent forms, are used by low-
level radioactive waste (LLW) shippers when LLW is shipped. NRC Form
541/541A, combined with NRC Forms 540/540A and 542/542A, are
collectively referred to as the Uniform Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Manifest forms. The disposal facilities and their Agreement State
regulators, where applicable, use the information found on the forms to
ensure waste disposal meets the requirements in part 61 of title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) for the protection of the
public and environment. The NRC does not collect or retain data on the
forms and the forms are not sent to or received by the NRC. NRC Form
541/541A and NRC Form 542/542A are (1) mailed or electronically
transferred to the intended consignee prior to the shipment arriving at
the consignee or (2) delivered with the waste to the consignee. NRC
Form 540 and 540A are required to be with the shipment regardless of
which of the above methods is chosen.
6. Who will be required or asked to respond: NRC Form 541 and
continuation Form 541A are completed by generators, collectors, and
processors of LLW intended for ultimate disposal at a licensed land
disposal facility.
7. The estimated number of annual responses: 4,616.
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 712.
9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the
information collection requirement or request: 15,233.
10. Abstract: The completed NRC Form 541 contains information
needed
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to satisfy the waste manifesting requirements of the NRC's 10 CFR part
20. NUREG/BR-0204, Rev. 3, contains instructions for completing NRC
Forms 540, 540A, 541, 541A, 542, and 542A. The forms were originally
developed by the NRC at the request of low-level waste industry groups.
The forms are intended to provide uniformity and efficiency in the
collection of information contained in manifests which are required to
control transfers of LLW intended for disposal at a land disposal
facility. However, as stated in 10 CFR part 20, appendix G, ``Licensees
need not use originals of these NRC Forms as long as any substitute
forms are equivalent to the original documentation in respect to
content, clarity, size, and location of information . . .'' The NRC
previously noticed the availability of revisions to the Uniform Low-
Level Radioactive Waste Manifest Forms in the Federal Register on June
25, 2021 (86 FR 33783). The information collection contained in the
current extension request does not include any material changes to the
forms, except for: (1) changes to the Paperwork Reduction Act statement
to indicate that licensees may use equivalent forms, and (2) the
deletion of the expiration date.
Dated: November 17, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-25486 Filed 11-22-22; 8:45 am]
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