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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 

June 19, 2017, 82 FR 27879. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: Information Collection: 10 

CFR part 81, ‘‘Standard Specifications 

for Granting of Patent Licenses’’. 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0121. 

3. Type of submission: Extension. 

4. The form number if applicable: 

N/A. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: 8 Applications for licenses 

are submitted once. Other reports are 

submitted annually or as other events 

require. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Applicants for and holders of 

NRC licenses to NRC inventions. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 1. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 1. 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to comply with 

the information collection requirement 

or request: 37; however, no applications 

are anticipated during the next three 

years. 

10. Abstract: As specified in part 81 

of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC may 

grant nonexclusive licenses or limited 

exclusive licenses to its patented 

inventions to responsible applicants. 

Applicants for licenses to NRC 

inventions are required to provide 

information which may provide the 

basis for granting the requested license. 

In addition, all license holders must 

submit periodic reports on efforts to 

bring the invention to a point of 

practical application and the extent to 

which they are making the benefits of 

the invention reasonably accessible to 

the public. Exclusive license holders 

must submit additional information if 

they seek to extend their licenses, issue 

sublicenses, or transfer the licenses. In 

addition, if requested, exclusive license 

holders must promptly supply to the 

United States Government copies of all 

pleadings and other papers filed in any 

patent infringement lawsuit, as well as 

evidence from proceedings relating to 

the licensed patent. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day 

of October 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22143 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2016–0269] 

Information Collection: Licensing 

Requirements for the Independent 

Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, HighLevel Radioactive Waste and ReactorRelated Greater than Class C Waste 

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, ‘‘Licensing 

Requirements for the Independent 

Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, HighLevel Radioactive Waste and ReactorRelated Greater than Class C Waste.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by November 

13, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly 

to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron Szabo 

Desk Officer, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs (3150–0132), NEOB– 

10202, Office of Management and 

Budget, Washington, DC 20503; 

telephone: 202–395–3621, email: oira_

submission@omb.eop.gov. 

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–2016– 

0269 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable 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–2016–0269. A copy 

of the collection of information and 

related instructions may be obtained 

without charge by accessing Docket ID 

<INSERT: NRC–2016–0269> on this 

Web site. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable 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 and burden table 

are available in ADAMS under 

Accession Nos. ML17208A007 and 

ML17208A009. 

• 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, 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 

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 renewal of an existing 

collection of information to OMB for 

review entitled, ‘‘Licensing 

Requirements for the Independent 

Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, HighLevel Radioactive Waste and ReactorRelated Greater than Class C Waste.’’ 

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 


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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 

June 15, 2017 (82 FR 27536). 

1. The title of the information 

collection: Licensing Requirements for 

the Independent Storage of Spent 

Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Radioactive 

Waste and Reactor-Related Greater than 

Class C Waste. 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0132. 

3. Type of submission: Extension. 

4. The form number if applicable: Not 

applicable. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: Required reports are 

collected and evaluated on a continuing 

basis as events occur; submittal of 

reports varies from less than one per 

year under some rule sections to up to 

an average of about 80 per year under 

other rule sections. Applications for 

new licenses, certificates of compliance 

(CoCs), and amendments may be 

submitted at any time; applications for 

renewal of licenses are required every 

40 years for an Independent Spent Fuel 

Storage Installation (ISFSI) or CoC 

effective May 21, 2011, and every 40 

years for a Monitored Retrievable 

Storage (MRS) facility. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Certificate holders and 

applicants for a CoC for spent fuel 

storage casks; licensees and applicants 

for a license to possess power reactor 

spent fuel and other radioactive 

materials associated with spent fuel 

storage in an ISFSI; and the Department 

of Energy for licenses to receive, 

transfer, package and possess power 

reactor spent fuel, high-level waste, and 

other radioactive materials associated 

with spent fuel and high-level waste 

storage in an MRS. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 839 (607 reporting responses 

+ 150 third party disclosure responses + 

82 recordkeepers). 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 82. 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to comply with 

the information collection requirement 

or request: 79,040 hours (33,909 hours 

reporting + 42,319 hours recordkeeping 

+ 2,812 hours third-party disclosure). 

10. Abstract: Part 72 of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

establishes mandatory requirements, 

procedures, and criteria for the issuance 

of licenses to receive, transfer, and 

possess power reactor spent fuel and 

other radioactive materials associated 

with spent fuel storage in an ISFSI, as 

well as requirements for the issuance of 

licenses to the Department of Energy to 

receive, transfer, package, and possess 

power reactor spent fuel and high-level 

radioactive waste, and other associated 

radioactive materials in an MRS. The 

information in the applications, reports, 

and records is used by NRC to make 

licensing and other regulatory 

determinations. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day 

of October 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22144 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2017–0001] 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

DATE: Week of October 16, 2017. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public. 

Week of October 16—Tentative 

Monday, October 16, 2017 

10:30 a.m. Affirmation Session (Public 

Meeting) (Tentative) 

Final Rule: Modified Small Quantities 

Protocol (RIN 3150–AJ70; NRC– 

2015–0263) (Tentative) 

* * * * * 

Additional Information 

By a vote of 3–0 on October 10 and 

11, 2017, the Commission determined 

pursuant to U.S.C. 552b(e) and 

§ 9.107(a) of the Commission’s rules that 

the above referenced Affirmation 

Session be held with less than one week 

notice to the public. The meeting is 

scheduled on October 16, 2017 

* * * * * 

The schedule for Commission 

meetings is subject to change on short 

notice. For more information or to verify 

the status of meetings, contact Denise 

McGovern at 301–415–0981 or via email 

at Denise.McGovern@nrc.gov. 

* * * * * 

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the Internet 

at: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

public-meetings/schedule.html. 

* * * * * 

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings, or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g., 

braille, large print), please notify 

Kimberly Meyer, NRC Disability 

Program Manager, at 301–287–0739, by 

videophone at 240–428–3217, or by 

email at Kimberly.Meyer-Chambers@

nrc.gov. Determinations on requests for 

reasonable accommodation will be 

made on a case-by-case basis. 

* * * * * 

Members of the public may request to 

receive this information electronically. 

If you would like to be added to the 

distribution, please contact the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Office of the 

Secretary, Washington, DC 20555 (301– 

415–1969), or email 

Brenda.Akstulewicz@nrc.gov or 

Patricia.Jimenez@nrc.gov. 

Dated: October 11, 2017. 

Glenn Ellmers, 

Policy Coordinator, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22316 Filed 10–11–17; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. CP2017–213; MC2018–4 and 

CP2018–6; MC2018–5 and CP2018–7] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recent Postal Service filing for the 

Commission’s consideration concerning 

a negotiated service agreement. This 

notice informs the public of the filing, 

invites public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: October 17, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

I. Introduction 

The Commission gives notice that the 

Postal Service filed request(s) for the 

Commission to consider matters related 


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