[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 68 (Friday, April 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20828-20829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-07547]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Agency Information Collection Extension

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy.

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ACTION: Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) review; 
comment request.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) has submitted an information 
collection request to the OMB for extension under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The information collection requests a 
three-year extension of its collection, titled ``Assistance to Foreign 
Atomic Energy Activities'', OMB Control Number 1901-0263.

DATES: Comments regarding this proposed information collection must be 
received on or before May 9, 2022. If you anticipate that you will be 
submitting comments but find it difficult to do so within the period 
allowed by this notice, please advise the OMB Desk Officer of your 
intention to make a submission as soon as possible. The Desk Officer 
may be telephoned at (202) 881-8585.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Additional information on DOE's 
regulation of assistance to foreign atomic energy activities pursuant 
to 10 CFR part 810 is available at www.energy.gov/nnsa/10-cfr-part-810. 
For other questions, contact Katie Strangis, Deputy Director, Office of 
Nonproliferation and Arms Control, NA-24, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Room 
7F-075, Washington, DC 20585, telephone (202) 586-8623.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request 
contains:
    (1) OMB No.: 1901-0263;
    (2) Information Collection Request Title: Assistance to Foreign 
Atomic Energy Activities;
    (3) Type of Request: Extension;
    (4) Purpose: This collection of information is necessary in order 
to provide the Secretary of Energy with the appropriate information 
needed to make informed determinations regarding requests to directly 
or indirectly engage or participate in the development or production of 
special nuclear material outside the United States;
    (5) Annual Estimated Number of Respondents: 105;
    (6) Annual Estimated Number of Total Responses: 869;
    (7) Annual Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 1872;
    (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: 
$183,540.
    Statutory Authority: Section 57 b.(2) of the Atomic Energy Act 
(AEA) of 1954 and Section 161(c) of the AEA.

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on April 4, 
2022, by Corey Hinderstein, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, pursuant to 
delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with 
the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For 
administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of 
the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 
Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the 
document in electronic format for publication, as an official document 
of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way 
alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the 
Federal Register.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on April 5, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2022-07547 Filed 4-7-22; 8:45 am]
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