[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 164 (Thursday, August 23, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42712-42713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18146]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0013]


Information Collection: Requests to Agreement States for 
Information

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Renewal of existing information collection; request for 
comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public 
comment on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval for an existing collection of information. The information 
collection is entitled, ``Requests to Agreement States for 
Information.''

DATES: Submit comments by October 22, 2018. 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: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
    <bullet> Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0013. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1c56797272757a796e325e736e7b796f5c726e7f327b736a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="84cee1eaeaede2e1f6aac6ebf6e3e1f7c4eaf6e7aae3ebf2">[email protected]</span></a>. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
    <bullet> Mail comments to: David Cullison, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Mail Stop: T-2 F43, 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 Cullison, Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email: 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#723b1c141d111d1e1e171106015c2017011d07001117321c00115c151d04"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d79eb9b1b8b4b8bbbbb2b4a3a4f985b2a4b8a2a5b4b297b9a5b4f9b0b8a1">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0013 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:
    <bullet> Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0013.
    <bullet> NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select

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``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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d9a9bdabf7abbcaab6acabbabc99b7abbaf7beb6af"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4e3e2a3c603c2b3d213b3c2d2b0e203c2d60292138">[email protected]</span></a>. The 
supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML18107A720.
    <bullet> 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.
    <bullet> NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of 
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by 
contacting 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: 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#337a5d555c505c5f5f565047401d6156405c46415056735d41501d545c45"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="60290e060f030f0c0c050314134e3205130f15120305200e12034e070f16">[email protected]</span></a>.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2018-0013 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make 
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
    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. The NRC will post all comment 
submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment 
submissions into ADAMS, and the NRC does not routinely edit comment 
submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, 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 the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions 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: Requests to Agreement 
States for Information.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0029.
    3. Type of submission: Revision.
    4. The form number, if applicable: NA.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: One-time or 
as-needed.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Thirty-seven Agreement 
States who have signed Section 274(b) Agreements with the NRC and two 
additional States expected to have Section 274(b) Agreement's in fiscal 
year 2019.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 351.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 39.
    9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the 
information collection requirement or request: 2,808.
    10. Abstract: The Agreement States will be asked on a one-time or 
as-needed basis to respond to a specific incident, to gather 
information on licensing and inspection practices or other technical 
information. The results of such information requests, which are 
authorized under Section 274(b) of the Atomic Energy Act, will be 
utilized in part by the NRC in preparing responses to Congressional 
inquiries.

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?
    2. Is the estimate of the burden of the information collection 
accurate?
    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 at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of August 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-18146 Filed 8-22-18; 8:45 am]
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