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a nuclear incident covered by the PAA, at no 

additional cost to reactor operators. (The numbers 

used in this example were selected to facilitate 

understanding of how the mechanism operates, and 

do not reflect the actual numbers that would result 

from application of the PAA.) 

Costs Allocated to Nuclear Suppliers. 

Another purpose of the statute, to ensure that 

nuclear suppliers pay the contingent costs for 

a covered incident outside the United States 

that is not a Price-Anderson incident, is met 

primarily by subsections 934(e) 

(‘‘Retrospective Risk Pooling Program’’) and 

(f) (‘‘Reporting’’). These provisions: (1) 

Require participation in a retrospective risk 

pooling program to cover contingent costs for 

which nuclear suppliers would be 

responsible; and (2) authorize the Secretary 

to collect information necessary for 

developing and implementing the formula to 

calculate the deferred payments. For such an 

incident outside the United States, 

subsection 934(e) requires that nuclear 

suppliers that supply certain nuclear 

equipment and technology and transport of 

nuclear materials contribute to a pool of 

money used to reimburse the United States 

for its contribution to the international 

supplementary fund. In an arrangement 

known as retrospective pooling, the 

obligation to pay into the pool will be 

deferred until the United States’ is called 

upon to contribute with respect to an actual 

nuclear incident that has occurred. Article 

VII.1; 934(e)(1). 

The following illustrates the combined 

operation of the Convention and section 934 

in the case of a covered incident that is not 

a Price-Anderson incident. For a covered 

incident that takes place in the territory of 

another Contracting Party, the responsible 

operator (alone or in combination with 

available public funds) would provide the 

first tier of compensation pursuant to the 

national law of the Installation State. If 

nuclear damage exceeds the first tier, all 

Contracting Parties, including the Installation 

State, would contribute to the international 

supplementary fund according to the Article 

IV formula. 

As a Contracting Party, the United States 

would contribute an amount determined by 

application of the formula in Article IV. 

Under section 934, the amount of the 

contribution required of the United States 

would be funded through payments of 

United States nuclear suppliers under the 

retrospective risk pooling program. As 

previously noted, the formula depends upon 

the installed capacity of the Contracting 

Parties at the time of the incident and the UN 

assessment rate assigned to each State. The 

exact amount owed by the United States 

would depend upon the number and 

generating capacity of the States that 

participate in the Convention at the time of 

a nuclear incident. For additional 

information, the IAEA Web site for the Office 

of Legal Affairs contains a calculator that can 

be used to run scenarios and estimate the 

contribution amount from various States. 

(http://ola.iaea.org/CSCND/calculate.asp). 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Energy Information Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: U.S. Energy Information 

Administration (EIA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission For OMB 

Review; Comment Request. 

SUMMARY: The EIA has submitted the 

‘‘Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse 

Gases,’’ form EIA–1605 to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and a three-year extension under 

section 3507(h)(1) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104– 

13)(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

August 26, 2010. If you anticipate that 

you will be submitting comments but 

find it difficult to do so within that 

period, you should contact the OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE listed below as 

soon as possible. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to OMB 

Desk Officer for DOE, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget. To 

ensure receipt of the comments by the 

due date, submission by FAX (202–395– 

7285) or e-mail to 

Christine_J._Kymn@omb.eop.gov. is 

recommended. The mailing address is 

725 17th St., NW., Washington, DC, 

20503. The OMB Desk Officer may be 

telephoned at (202) 395–4638. (A copy 

of your comments should also be 

provided to EIA’s Statistics and 

Methods Group at the address below.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

should be directed to Alethea Jennings. 

To ensure receipt of the comments by 

the due date, submission by FAX (202– 

586–5271) or e-mail 

(alethea.jennings@eia.doe.gov) is also 

recommended. The mailing address is 

Statistics and Methods Group (EI–70), 

Forrestal Building, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Ave., SW., 

Washington, DC, 20585–0670. Ms. 

Jennings may be contacted by telephone 

at (202) 586–5879. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

section contains the following 

information about the energy 

information collection submitted to 

OMB for review: (1) The collection 

numbers and title; (2) the sponsor (i.e., 

the Department of Energy component); 

(3) the current OMB docket number (if 

applicable); (4) the type of request (i.e., 

new, revision, extension or 

reinstatement); (5) response obligation 

(i.e., mandatory, voluntary, or required 

to obtain or retain benefits); (6) a 

description of the need for and 

proposed use of the information; (7) a 

categorical description of the likely 

respondents; (8) estimate number of 

respondents and (9) an estimate of the 

total annual reporting burden (i.e., the 

estimated number of likely respondents 

times the proposed frequency of 

response per year times the average 

hours per response). 

1. Forms EIA–1605, ‘‘Voluntary 

Reporting of Greenhouse Gases’’. 

2. Energy Information Administration. 

3. OMB Number 1905–0194. 

4. Three-year extension to an existing 

approved request. 

5. Voluntary. 

6. EIA–1605 form is designed to 

collect voluntarily reported data on 

greenhouse gas emissions, achieved 

reductions of these emissions, and 

carbon fixation. Data are used to 

establish a publicly available database. 

Respondents are participants in a 

domestic or foreign activity that either 

reduces greenhouse gas emissions or 

increases sequestration. 

7. Individuals or households; business 

or other for-profit institutions; farms; 

Federal government; State, local or 

tribal government. 

8. Estimate number of respondents. 

9. 6000 hours. 

Please refer to the supporting 

statement as well as the proposed forms 

and instructions for more information 

about the purpose, who must report, 

when to report, where to submit, the 

elements to be reported, detailed 

instructions, provisions for 

confidentiality, and uses (including 

possible nonstatistical uses) of the 

information. For instructions on 

obtaining materials, see the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the 

Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, 

Public Law 93–275, codified at 15 U.S.C. 

772(b). 

Issued in Washington, D.C., July 20, 2010. 

Stephanie Brown, 

Director, Statistics and Methods Group, 

Energy Information Administration. 

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