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###### Nuclear Regulatory Commission

          - [NRC-2014-0245]

# AGENCY:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

# ACTION:

Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget; request for comment.

# 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, “Standards for Protection Against Radiation.”

# DATES:

Submit comments by May 13, 2015.

# ADDRESSES:

                        Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Vlad Dorjets, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0014), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503; telephone: 202-395-1741, email:                         *Vladik_Dorjets@omb.eop.gov.*

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

                        Tremaine Donnell, NRC Clearance Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: (301) 415-6258; email:                         *INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov.*

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

## I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

### A. Obtaining Information

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0245 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 Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov                      and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0245.                
    - 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 “                     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.                      The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15036A316.                
    - 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, Tremaine Donnell, Office of Information Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: (301) 415-6258; email: INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV. 

### 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                     *http://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, “Standards for Protection Against Radiation.” The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not                           ( print page 19704)                        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 December 2, 2014, (79 FR 71450).                

                    1.                     *The title of the information collection:*10 CFR part 20, “Standards for Protection Against Radiation.”                

                    2.                     *OMB approval number:*                     3150-0014.                

                    3.                     *Type of submission:*                     Revision.                

                    4.                     *The form number if applicable:*                     Not applicable.                

                    5.                     *How often the collection is required or requested:*                     Annually for most reports and at license termination for reports dealing with decommissioning.                

                    6.                     *Who will be required or asked to respond:*                     NRC licensees and Agreement State licensees, including those requesting license terminations. Types of licensees include civilian commercial, industrial, academic, and medical users of nuclear materials. Licenses are issued for, among other things, the possession, use, processing, handling, and importing and exporting of nuclear materials, and for the operation of nuclear reactors.                

                    7.                     *The estimated number of annual responses:*                     43,530 (11,739 for reporting [1,677 NRC licensees and 10,062 Agreement State licensees], 21,018 for recordkeeping [3,003 NRC licensees and 18,015 Agreement State Licensees], and 10,773 for third-party disclosures [1,539 NRC licensees and 9,234 Agreement State licensees]).                

                    8.                     *The estimated number of annual respondents:*                     21,018 (3,003 NRC licensees and 18,015 Agreement State licensees).                

                    9.                     *An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to comply with the information collection requirement or request:*                     640,776 hours (91,545 hours for NRC licensees and 549,231 hours for Agreement State licensees).                

                    10.                     *Abstract:*10 CFR part 20 establishes standards for protection against ionizing radiation resulting from activities conducted under licenses issued by the NRC and by Agreement States. These standards require the establishment of radiation protection programs, maintenance of radiation protection programs, maintenance of radiation records recording of radiation received by workers, reporting of incidents which could cause exposure to radiation, submittal of an annual report to NRC and to Agreement States of the results of individual monitoring, and submittal of license termination information. These mandatory requirements are needed to protect occupationally exposed individuals from undue risks of excessive exposure to ionizing radiation and to protect the health and safety of the public.                

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of April, 2015.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Tremaine Donnell,

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.

[FR Doc. 2015-08380 Filed 4-10-15; 8:45 am]

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