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Title of Collection: National Science 

Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) 

Monitoring System. 

OMB Number: 3145–0263. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 

November 30, 2024. 

Type of Request: Intent to seek 

approval to renew an information 

collection. 

Proposed Project: The National 

Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Division 

of Graduate Education (DGE) in the 

Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) 

administers the NSF Research 

Traineeship (NRT) program. The NRT 

program is designed to encourage the 

development and implementation of 

bold, new, and potentially 

transformative models for STEM 

graduate education training. The NRT 

program seeks to ensure that graduate 

students in research-based master’s and 

doctoral degree programs develop the 

skills, knowledge, and competencies 

needed to pursue a range of STEM 

careers. NRT is dedicated to effective 

training of STEM graduate students in 

high-priority interdisciplinary or 

convergent research areas through the 

use of a comprehensive traineeship 

model that is innovative, evidencebased, and aligned with changing 

workforce and research needs. 

Previously, NRT awardees provided 

NSF with information on their activities 

through periodic research performance 

progress reports. The NRT monitoring 

system (also referred to as the NRT 

reporting system) has replaced these 

reports with a tailored program 

monitoring system that uses internetbased information and communication 

technologies to collect, review, and 

validate specific data on NRT awards. 

EDU is committed to ensuring the 

efficiency and effectiveness with which 

respondents provide and NSF staff can 

access and analyze data on funded 

projects within the NRT programs. 

The NRT monitoring system includes 

subsets of questions aimed at the 

different project participants (i.e., 

Principal Investigators (PIs), and 

trainees), and allows for data analysis 

and data report generation by 

authorized NSF staff. The collection 

generally includes three categories of 

descriptive data: (1) Staff and project 

participants (data that are necessary to 

determine individual-level treatment 

and control groups for future third-party 

study or for internal evaluation); (2) 

project implementation characteristics 

(also necessary for future use to identify 

well-matched comparison groups); and 

(3) project outputs (necessary to 

measure baseline for pre- and postNSF-funding-level impacts). NRT 

awardees will be required to report data 

on an annual basis for the life of their 

award. 

Use of the Information: NSF will 

primarily use the data from this 

collection for program planning, 

management, and audit purposes to 

respond to queries from the Congress, 

the public, NSF’s external merit 

reviewers, who serve as advisors, 

including Committees of Visitors 

(COVs), the NSF’s Office of the 

Inspector General, and as a basis for 

either internal or third-party evaluations 

of individual programs. This 

information is required for effective 

administration, communication, 

program and project monitoring and 

evaluation, and for measuring 

attainment of NSF’s program, project, 

and strategic goals, and as identified by 

the President’s Accountability in 

Government Initiative; GPRA, and the 

NSF’s Strategic Plan. The Foundation’s 

FY 2022–2026 Strategic Plan may be 

found at: https://www.nsf.gov/ 

publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_

key=nsf22068. 

Since this collection will primarily be 

used for accountability and evaluation 

purposes, including responding to 

queries from COVs and other scientific 

experts, a census, rather than sampling 

design, typically is necessary. At the 

individual project level, funding can be 

adjusted based on individual project’s 

responses to some of the surveys. Some 

data collected under this collection will 

serve as baseline data for separate 

research and evaluation studies. 

NSF-funded contract or grantee 

researchers and internal or external 

evaluators in part may identify control, 

comparison, or treatment groups for 

NSF’s education and training portfolio 

using some of the descriptive data 

gathered through this collection to 

conduct well-designed, rigorous 

research and portfolio evaluation 

studies. 

Burden on the Public: Estimated at 82 

hours per award for 120 awards for a 

total of 9,840 hours (per year). 

Comments: Comments are invited on 

(a) whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the Agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Dated: December 15, 2023. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28046 Filed 12–20–23; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2023–0149] 

Information Collection: Criteria and 

Procedures for Emergency Access to 

Non-Federal and Regional Low-Level 

Waste Disposal Facilities 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Renewal of existing information 

collection; request for comment. 

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, ‘‘Criteria and Procedures for 

Emergency Access to Non-Federal and 

Regional Low-Level Waste Disposal 

Facilities.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by February 

20, 2024. 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; 

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–2023–0149. 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. 


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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 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2023– 

0149 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–2023–0149. 

• 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, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The supporting 

statement is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML23284A044. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. 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 a.m. and 4 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–2023–0149, 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 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 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: 10 CFR part 62, Criteria and 

Procedures for Emergency Access to 

Non-Federal and Regional Low-Level 

Waste Disposal Facilities. 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0143. 

3. Type of submission: Extension. 

4. The form number, if applicable: 

Not applicable. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: On occasion. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Any low-level waste generator 

or governor of a State on behalf of 

generators seeking emergency access to 

an operating low-level waste disposal 

facility or an exemption from the 

requirements in part 62 of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 2. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 1. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 233. 

10. Abstract: 10 CFR part 62 sets out 

the information that must be provided 

to the NRC by any low-level waste 

generator or governor of a State on 

behalf of generators seeking emergency 

access to an operating low-level waste 

disposal facility. The information is 

required to allow the NRC to determine 

if denial of disposal constitutes a 

serious and immediate threat to public 

health and safety or common defense 

and security. 10 CFR part 62 also 

provides that the Commission may grant 

an exemption from the requirements in 

this part upon application of an 

interested person or upon its own 

initiative. 

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: December 18, 2023. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Kristen E. Benney, 

Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28144 Filed 12–20–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2023–0083] 

Information Collection: NRC Form 833, 

Form To Propose a Generic Issue 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed information 

collection; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) invites public 

comment on this proposed information 

collection. The information collection is 

entitled, NRC Form 833, ‘‘Form to 

Propose a Generic Issue (GI).’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by February 

20, 2024. 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; 

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–2023–0083. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 


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