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October 22, 2014; 6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. 

October 23, 2014; 8:00 a.m.–9:30 p.m. 

October 24, 2014; 8:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. 

Place: Norfolk State University, 

Norfolk, VA. 

Type of Meeting: Part-Open. 

Contact Person: Dr. Charles Bouldin, 

Program Director, Partnership for 

Research and Education in Materials 

Program, Division of Materials Research, 

Room 1065, National Science 

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, 

Arlington, VA 22230, Telephone (703) 

292–4920. 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide 

advice and recommendations 

concerning further support of the 

Partnerships for Research and Education 

in Materials (PREM). 

Agenda 

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 

6–9 p.m. Executive Session and 

Dinner for Site Visit Team— 

(Closed) 

Thursday, October 23, 2014 

8:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m. Executive 

session—(Closed) 

8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Presentations by 

PREM Director, co-PIs, Institutional 

Representatives and program 

participants (Open) 

4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Executive Session 

for Site Visit Team—(Closed) 

6:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Dinner for Panel 

and Faculty—(Open) 

Friday, October 24, 2014 

8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Executive Session 

and Director’s Response to 

Feedback, Debriefing with PREM 

Director and co-PIs—(Closed) 

Reason for Closing: The work being 

reviewed may include information of a 

proprietary or confidential nature, 

including technical information; 

financial data, such as salaries and 

personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the 

proposals. These matters are exempt 

under 5 U.S.C. 552 b(c), (4) and (6) of 

the Government in the Sunshine Act. 

Dated: October 6, 2014. 

Suzanne Plimpton, 

Acting Committee Management Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION 

SAFETY BOARD 

Plan for Generic Information Collection 

Activity: Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Transportation Safety 

Board (NTSB). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The NTSB is announcing it is 

submitting a plan for an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. 

This ICR Plan describes various 

evaluation forms the NTSB plans to use 

to obtain feedback from attendees of 

various NTSB training programs. 

Feedback from attendees is important to 

the NTSB in ensuring the NTSB’s 

training courses and programs are 

helpful to attendees in their places of 

employment; and useful to attendees 

who participate in NTSB investigations 

and other related agency matters. This 

ICR Plan is the second notice, as 

required by OMB regulations 

concerning approvals of information 

collections. This notice again describes 

the nature of the information collection 

and its expected burden and advises the 

public it may submit comments on this 

proposed information collection to the 

OMB desk officer for the NTSB. 

DATES: Submit written comments 

regarding this proposed plan for the 

collection of information by November 

10, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Interested members of the 

public may submit written comments on 

the collection of information to the 

OMB Desk Officer for the NTSB at 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503, 

or via fax: 202–395–5806, (this is not a 

toll-free number), or email: OIRAsubmission@omb.eop.gov. Commenters 

are encouraged, but not required, to 

send a courtesy copy of any comments 

to the National Transportation Safety 

Board Training Center, 45065 Riverside 

Parkway, Ashburn, Virginia 20147. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Pritchert, NTSB Training Officer, 

at (571) 223–3927. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with OMB regulations that 

require this Notice for proposed ICRs, as 

well as OMB guidance concerning 

generic approval of plans for 

information collections, the NTSB 

herein notifies the public that it may 

submit comments on this proposed ICR 

Plan to the OMB Desk Officer for the 

NTSB. 5 CFR 1320.10(a). Section 

1320.10(a) requires this ‘‘notice shall 

direct comments to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs of 

OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for 

[NTSB].’’ Pursuant to § 1320.10(a), the 

NTSB will provide a copy of this notice 

to OMB. 

On March 13, 2014, the NTSB 

published a Notice requesting 

comments for this ICR. 79 FR 14302–02. 

The NTSB did not receive any 

comments in response to the request. 

A. NTSB Training Center Evaluation 

Forms Are Appropriate for Generic 

Approval 

On May 28, 2010, Administrator, 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs (OIRA), OMB, issued a 

memorandum to the Heads of Executive 

Departments and Agencies, and 

Independent Regulatory Agencies, 

providing instructions concerning how 

agencies can obtain generic OMB 

clearances for information collections in 

certain circumstances. Paperwork 

Reduction Act—Generic Clearances, 

available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

sites/default/files/omb/assets/inforeg/

PRA_Gen_ICRs_5–28–2010.pdf. The 

memorandum states as follows 

concerning the appropriateness of 

obtaining such clearances: 

A generic ICR is a request for OMB 

approval of a plan for conducting more than 

one information collection using very similar 

methods when (1) the need for and the 

overall practical utility of the data collection 

can be evaluated in advance, as part of the 

review of the proposed plan, but (2) the 

agency cannot determine the details of the 

specific individual collections until a later 

time. 

The NTSB’s desire to obtain 

information immediately following a 

training course will assist the NTSB 

Training Center in developing courses 

to achieve the NTSB’s objective of 

improving investigators’ and 

transportation industry peers’ practices 

of accident investigation. The mission of 

the NTSB Training Center, in 

accordance with 49 U.S.C. 1113(b)(1)(I), 

is to promote safe transport by: 

• Ensuring and improving the quality 

of accident investigation through critical 

thought, instruction, and research; 

• Communicating lessons learned, 

fostering the exchange of new ideas and 

new experience, and advocating 

operational excellence; 

• Providing a modern platform for 

accident reconstruction and evaluation; 

and 

• Utilizing its high-quality training 

resources to facilitate family assistance 

and first responder programs, sister 

agency instruction, and other 

compatible federal activity. 

In administering training courses 

designed to achieve these objectives, the 

NTSB seeks to maintain a standard of 

excellence. The NTSB’s goal of 

providing materials, instructors, 

methods of instruction, and facility 

arrangements that are a worthy 

expenditure of Federal funds will 

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require the NTSB to obtain feedback on 

the training courses from attendees. 

This type of information collection is 

appropriate for generic approval under 

the OIRA Administrator’s guidance. The 

NTSB periodically changes the 

identification numbers and subject 

matter addressed in NTSB training 

courses. Such variance renders generic 

approval appropriate. By distributing 

evaluation forms, the NTSB will gather 

feedback concerning whether attendees 

found the instructor knowledgeable and 

helpful; whether the course materials 

were appropriate; the location and 

course facilities; the ‘‘case studies’’ 

discussed in the course; and other 

similar topics. Each course evaluation 

form will include some course-specific 

questions. Responses to such 

evaluations will assist the NTSB in 

ensuring its courses work to fulfill the 

goals listed above. 

Currently, the NTSB offers the 

following training courses, about which 

the NTSB seeks approval for evaluation 

forms: Accident Investigation 

Orientation (RPH301); Aircraft Accident 

Investigation (AS101); Aircraft Accident 

Investigation for Aviation Professionals 

(AS 301); Cognitive Interviewing Series 

(IM401S); Family Assistance (TDA301); 

Investigating Human Fatigue Factors 

(IM303); Managing Communications 

During an Aircraft Accident or Incident 

(PA302); Managing Communications 

Following a Major Transportation 

Accident (PA303); Managing 

Transportation Mass Fatality Incidents 

(TDA406); Marine Accident 

Investigation (MS101); Mass Fatality 

Incidents for Medicolegal Professionals 

(TDA403); Rotorcraft Accident 

Investigation (AS102); and Survival 

Factors in Aviation Accidents (AS302). 

In response to attendee feedback, 

requests for training in specific areas, 

and other considerations, the NTSB will 

likely add or remove classes from this 

list in the coming years. 

The NTSB will tailor each evaluation 

form to ensure it requests feedback 

specific to the particular course of 

which the NTSB seeks evaluation. 

Consistent with the OIRA 

Administrator’s guidance concerning 

generic approvals, the NTSB will not be 

able to finalize draft evaluations specific 

to each course until the NTSB offers the 

course. These types of questions are 

unique to the specific course, and 

impossible to know prior to the offering 

of the course. Overall, the types of 

information the NTSB will solicit in its 

Training Center course evaluations is 

appropriate for a generic approval for 

the information collection. 

B. Supporting Statement 

The OIRA Administrator’s 

memorandum instructs agencies to 

provide specific information in the 

supporting statements describing the 

information collections. In particular, 

the supporting statements should 

include the following: 

• The method of collection and, if 

statistical methods will be used, a discussion 

of the statistical methodology; 

• The category (or categories) of 

respondents; 

• The estimated ‘‘burden cap,’’ i.e., the 

maximum number of burden hours (per year) 

for the specific information collections, and 

against which burden will be charged for 

each collection actually used; 

• The agency’s plans for how it will use 

the information collected; 

• The agency’s plans to obtain public 

input regarding the specific information 

collections (i.e., consultation); and 

• The agency’s internal procedures to 

ensure that the specific collections comply 

with the PRA, applicable regulations, and the 

terms of the generic clearance. 

Id. at 2. 

1. Method of Collection 

The NTSB will collect the information 

by transmitting the evaluation form to 

attendees of each Training Center 

course. Depending on the 

circumstances, such transmission may 

occur via hand delivery, electronic mail, 

postal mail, or express mail, or a 

combination of these methods. 

Respondents will be provided 

instructions concerning how to return 

questionnaires to the Training Center. 

The NTSB will not use statistical 

methodology in reaching any 

conclusions based on the evaluations. 

Instead, the NTSB merely will note the 

total number of respondents in any 

documents in which it discusses the 

evaluations. 

Respondents’ completion of the 

evaluations is voluntary, and the NTSB 

generally will not contact them more 

than once to request completion of the 

evaluation. 

2. Category of Respondents 

In its evaluation forms, the NTSB will 

generally seek information only from 

attendees of each course. The NTSB will 

have the contact information for each 

attendee, because such information is 

required when registering for Training 

Center courses. 

3. Maximum Burden Hours 

The NTSB plans to distribute the 

evaluations to attendees of each 

Training Center course. The NTSB offers 

12 different courses per year and 

provides a repeated program for those 

courses with the highest attendance 

levels. Among all courses, the NTSB 

estimates a total of 600 non-Government 

attendees complete courses in any given 

year. As a result, the NTSB estimates it 

will distribute approximately 600 

Training Center evaluation forms each 

year. Each evaluation form will take 

approximately 11 minutes to complete. 

The NTSB seeks to emphasize these 

estimations are approximate, as they are 

depend on the number of courses the 

NTSB offers in the Training Center. 

Some courses may be cancelled due to 

low registration. In addition, only 

Government employees may choose to 

attend other courses. As a result, the 

NTSB can only provide an approximate 

estimate of the number of attendees per 

year. 

4. Use of the Information Collected 

Feedback from attendees of NTSB 

Training Center courses is extremely 

important to the NTSB. The NTSB plans 

its course offerings based on the level of 

interest from potential attendees and on 

the degree to which attendees have 

found useful the information they 

learned during such courses. As a result, 

evaluations of NTSB Training Center 

courses will influence future course 

offerings. The NTSB will rely upon the 

provision of completed course 

evaluations to assist with the planning 

of course offerings. 

5. Public Input Regarding the 

Information Collected 

The NTSB does not generally obtain 

public input concerning the scope of, or 

specific questions on, NTSB Training 

Center evaluation forms. 

6. Internal Procedures 

Lastly, the OIRA Administrator’s 

memorandum describing generic 

clearances recommends agencies 

describe the procedures it will 

undertake to ensure information 

collections to which the generic 

clearance applies will comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, applicable 

regulations, and the terms provided in 

the generic clearance. The NTSB Office 

of General Counsel plans to provide 

internal guidance to agency personnel 

who offer courses and distribute course 

evaluations at the NTSB Training 

Center. Such guidance will include this 

publication, as well as the OIRA 

Administrator’s memorandum 

discussing generic clearances, upon 

OMB approval of the clearance. The 

internal guidance will include specific 

instructions concerning use of 

evaluation forms, and explain the 

applicable provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act and its implementing 

regulations. 

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C. Description of Burden 

The NTSB has carefully reviewed 

previous questionnaires it has used to 

obtain information from attendees of 

courses the NTSB Training Center 

offers. The NTSB assures the public that 

these questionnaires have used plain, 

coherent, and unambiguous terminology 

in its requests for feedback. In addition, 

the questionnaires are not duplicative of 

other agencies’ collections of 

information, because the NTSB 

maintains unique authority to offer such 

courses concerning investigations of 

transportation events. 49 U.S.C. 

1113(b)(1)(I). 

In general, the NTSB believes the 

evaluation forms will impose a minimal 

burden on respondents: As indicated 

above, the NTSB estimates that each 

respondent will spend approximately 11 

minutes in completing the evaluation. 

The NTSB estimates that a maximum of 

240 respondents per year would 

complete an evaluation. Although the 

NTSB may distribute evaluations to 

perhaps as many as 600 people, historic 

response rates indicate only 40 percent 

of the evaluations will be returned 

completed. However, the NTSB again 

notes this number will vary, given the 

changes in course offerings at the NTSB 

Training Center. 

D. Request for Comments 

In accordance with 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A), the NTSB seeks feedback 

from the public concerning this 

proposed plan for information 

collection. In particular, the NTSB asks 

the public to evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary; to assess the accuracy of the 

NTSB’s burden estimate; to comment on 

how to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and to comment on how the 

NTSB might minimize the burden of the 

collection of information. 

The NTSB will carefully consider all 

feedback it receives in response to this 

notice. As described above, obtaining 

the information the NTSB seeks on 

these evaluations in a timely manner is 

important to course offerings at the 

NTSB Training Center; therefore, 

obtaining approval from OIRA for these 

collections of information on a generic 

basis is a priority for the NTSB. 

Dated: October 6, 2014. 

Christopher A. Hart, 

Acting Chairman. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24234 Filed 10–9–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7533–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. NRC–2014–0134] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of 

information collection and solicitation 

of public comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has recently 

submitted to OMB for review the 

following proposal for the collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). 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 

July 2, 2014. 

1. Type of submission, new, revision, 

or extension: Extension. 

2. The title of the information 

collection: 10 CFR part 36, ‘‘Licenses 

and Radiation Safety Requirements for 

Irradiators.’’ 

3. Current OMB approval number: 

3150–0158. 

4. How often the collection is 

required: Annually. 

5. Who will be required or asked to 

report: Irradiator licensees licensed by 

NRC or an Agreement State. 

6. An estimate of the number of 

annual responses: 1,911.28 (7.28 for 

reporting [1.04 NRC licensee and 6.24 

Agreement State licensees], 56 for 

recordkeepers [8 NRC licensees and 48 

Agreement State Licensees], and 1,848 

for third-party disclosures [264 NRC 

licensees and 1,584 Agreement State 

licensees]). 

7. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 56 (8 NRC licensees and 48 

Agreement State licensees). 

8. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to complete the 

requirement or request: 34,048 hours 

(4,864 NRC licensee hours + 29,184 

Agreement State licensee hours). 

9. Abstract: Part 36 of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

contains requirements for the issuance 

of a license authorizing the use of sealed 

sources containing radioactive materials 

in irradiators used to irradiate objects or 

materials for a variety of purposes in 

research, industry, and other fields. The 

subparts cover specific requirements for 

obtaining a license or license 

exemption, design and performance 

criteria for irradiators; and radiation 

safety requirements for operating 

irradiators, including requirements for 

operating irradiators, including 

requirements for operator training, 

written operating and emergency 

procedures, personnel monitoring, 

radiation surveys, inspection, and 

maintenance. Part 36 also contains the 

recordkeeping and reporting 

requirements that are necessary to 

ensure that the irradiator is being safely 

operated so that it does not pose any 

danger to the health and safety of the 

general public and the irradiator 

employees. 

The public may examine and have 

copied for a fee publicly-available 

documents, including the final 

supporting statement, at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room, Room O–1F21, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The 

OMB clearance requests are available at 

the NRC’s Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/ 

public-involve/doc-comment/omb/. The 

document will be available on the 

NRC’s home page site for 60 days after 

the signature date of this notice. 

Comments and questions should be 

directed to the OMB reviewer listed 

below by November 10, 2014. 

Comments received after this date will 

be considered if it is practical to do so, 

but assurance of consideration cannot 

be given to comments received after this 

date. 

Vlad Dorjets, Desk Officer, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(3150–0158), NEOB–10202, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC 20503. 

Comments can also be emailed to 

Vlad_Dorjets@omb.eop.gov or submitted 

by telephone at 202–395–7315. 

The NRC Clearance Officer is 

Tremaine Donnell, telephone: 301–415– 

6258. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day 

of October, 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Tremaine Donnell, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information 

Services. 

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