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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, ‘‘Nuclear 

Material Events Database (NMED) for 

the Collection of Event Report, 

Response, Analyses, and Follow-Up 

Data on Events Involving the Use of 

Atomic Energy Act (AEA) Radioactive 

Byproduct Material.’’ 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 

November 19, 2021, 86 FR 64964. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: ‘‘Nuclear Material Events 

Database (NMED) for the Collection of 

Event Report, Response, Analyses, and 

Follow-Up Data on Events Involving the 

Use of Atomic Energy Act (AEA) 

Radioactive Byproduct Material.’’ 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0178. 

3. Type of submission: Extension. 

4. The form number, if applicable: 

Not applicable. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: Agreement States are 

requested to provide copies of licensee 

nuclear material event reports 

electronically or by hard copy to the 

NRC within 30 days of receipt from 

their licensee. In addition, Agreement 

States are requested to report events that 

may pose a significant health and safety 

hazard to the NRC Headquarters 

Operations Officer within 24 hours of 

notification by an Agreement State 

licensee. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Current Agreement States and 

any State receiving Agreement State 

status in the future. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 452. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 40. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 723 hours. 

10. Abstract: NRC regulations require 

NRC licensees to report incidents and 

overexposures, leaking or contaminated 

sealed source(s), release of excessive 

contamination of radioactive material, 

lost or stolen radioactive material, 

equipment failures, abandoned well 

logging sources and medical events. 

Agreement State licensees are also 

required to report these events to their 

individual Agreement State regulatory 

authorities under compatible Agreement 

State regulations. The NRC is requesting 

that the Agreement States provide 

information to NRC on the initial 

notification, response actions, and 

follow-up investigations on events 

involving the use (including suspected 

theft or terrorist activities) of nuclear 

materials regulated pursuant to the 

Atomic Energy Act. The event 

information should be provided in a 

uniform electronic format, for 

assessment and identification of any 

facilities/site specific or generic safety 

concerns that could have the potential 

to impact public health and safety. The 

identification and review of safety 

concerns may result in lessons learned, 

and may also identify generic issues for 

further study which could result in 

proposals for changes or revisions to 

technical or regulatory designs, 

processes, standards, guidance or 

requirements. 

Dated: March 23, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David C. Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06484 Filed 3–25–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2021–0215] 

Information Collection: NRC Form 798, 

‘‘Request for a Medical Exception to 

the COVID–19 Vaccination 

Requirement’’ 

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, NRC Form 798, 

‘‘Request for a Medical Exception to the 

COVID–19 Vaccination Requirement.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by April 27, 

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 Cullison, NRC Clearance 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–2021– 

0215 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–2021–0215. 

• 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 

No. ML21340A125. The supporting 

statement is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML22075A311. 

• 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 


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or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. 

(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 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 Form 

798, ‘‘Request for a Medical Exception 

to the COVID–19 Vaccination 

Requirement.’’ 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 

December 28, 2021, 86 FR 73808. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: NRC Form 798, ‘‘Request for 

a Medical Exception to the COVID–19 

Vaccination Requirement.’’ 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0249. 

3. Type of submission: Extension. 

4. The form number, if applicable: 

NRC Form 798. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: Once. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Medical providers will 

complete section B of the form for NRC 

employees seeking a medical exemption 

to the Federal employee vaccine 

mandate. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 10. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 10. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 5. 

10. Abstract: Executive Order (E.O.) 

14043, titled, ‘‘Requiring Coronavirus 

Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal 

Employees,’’ requires all Federal 

employees, as defined in 5 U.S.C. 2105, 

to be vaccinated against COVID–19, 

with exceptions only as required by law. 

Requests for ‘‘medical accommodation’’ 

or ‘‘medical exceptions’’ will be treated 

as requests for a disability 

accommodation and evaluated and 

decided under applicable Rehabilitation 

Act standards for reasonable 

accommodation absent undue hardship 

to the agency. An employee may also 

request a delay for complying with the 

vaccination requirement based on 

certain medical considerations that may 

not justify an exception under the 

Rehabilitation Act. The agency will be 

required to keep confidential any 

medical information provided, subject 

to the applicable Rehabilitation Act 

standards. Employees who receive an 

exception or a delay from the 

vaccination requirement would instead 

comply with alternative health and 

safety protocols. NRC Form 798, 

‘‘Request for a Medical Exception to the 

COVID–19 Vaccine Requirement’’ will 

be completed by employees who seek a 

medical exception and by their personal 

medical providers. 

The vaccination requirement issued 

pursuant to E.O. 14043, is currently the 

subject of a nationwide injunction. 

While that injunction remains in place, 

the NRC will not process requests for a 

medical exception from the COVID–19 

vaccination requirement pursuant to 

E.O. 14043. The NRC will also not 

request the submission of any medical 

information related to a request for an 

exception from the vaccination 

requirement pursuant to E.O. 14043 

while the injunction remains in place, 

but the NRC may nevertheless receive 

information regarding a medical 

exception. That is because, if the NRC 

were to receive a request for an 

exception from the COVID–19 

vaccination requirement pursuant to 

E.O. 14043 during the pendency of the 

injunction, the NRC will accept the 

request, hold it in abeyance, and notify 

the employee who submitted the request 

that implementation and enforcement of 

the COVID–19 vaccination requirement 

pursuant to E.O. 14043 is currently 

enjoined and that an exception therefore 

is not necessary so long as the 

injunction is in place. In other words, 

during the pendency of the injunction, 

any information collection related to 

requests for medical exception from the 

COVID–19 vaccination requirement 

pursuant to E.O. 14043 is not 

undertaken to implement or enforce the 

COVID–19 vaccination requirement. 

Dated: March 23, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David C. Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06483 Filed 3–25–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2022–0001] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Weeks of March 28, 

April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, 2022. All 

listed meeting times are local to the 

meeting location. 

PLACE: Multiple (See Additional 

Information Below). 

STATUS: Public. 

Week of March 28, 2022 

Thursday, March 31, 2022 

9:00 a.m.—Joint Meeting of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(FERC) and the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) (Public Meeting) 

(Contact: Sergiu Basturescu: 301– 

415–1237) 

Additional Information: The public is 

invited to attend the Commission’s 

meeting live by webcast at the Web 

address—https://video.nrc.gov/. 

Week of April 4, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of April 4, 2022. 


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