97-17994. Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 132 (Thursday, July 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 37078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17994]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and 
solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: The 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.
    1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension.
    2. The title of the information collection: DOE/NRC Form 742, 
``Material Balance Report;'' NUREG/BR-0007, ``Instructions for 
Completing Material Balance Report and Physical Inventory Listing;'' 
and DOE/NRC Form 742C, ``Physical Inventory Listing.''
    3. The form number if applicable: DOE/NRC Form 742 and DOE/NRC Form 
742C.
    4. How often the collection is required: DOE/NRC Forms 742 and 742C 
are submitted semiannually following a physical inventory of nuclear 
materials.
    5. Who will be required or asked to report: Persons licensed to 
possess specified quantities of special nuclear or source material.
    6. An estimate of the number of responses:
      DOE/NRC Form 742: 600 responses
      DOE/NRC Form 742C: 240 responses
    7. The estimated number of annual respondents:
      DOE/NRC Form 742: 300 licensees
      DOE/NRC Form 742C: 120 licensees
    8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
complete the requirement or request:
      DOE/NRC Form 742: 450 hours
      DOE/NRC Form 742C: 1,440 hours
    9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13 
applies: Not applicable.
    10. Abstract: Each licensee authorized to possess special nuclear 
material totalling more than 350 grams of contained uranium-235, 
uranium-233, or plutonium, or any combination thereof, and any licensee 
authorized to possess 1,000 kilograms of source material is required to 
submit DOE/NRC Form 742. Reactor licensees required to submit DOE/NRC 
Form 742, and facilities subject to 10 CFR Part 75, are required to 
submit DOE/NRC Form 742C. The information is used by NRC to fulfill its 
responsibilities as a participant in US/IAEA Safeguards Agreement and 
bilateral agreements with Australia and Canada, and to satisfy its 
domestic safeguards responsibilities.
    A copy of the submittal may be viewed free of charge at the NRC 
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW (Lower Level), Washington, DC. 
Members of the public who are in the Washington, DC, area can access 
the submittal via modem on the Public Document Room Bulletin Board 
(NRC's Advance Copy Document Library) NRC subsystem at FedWorld, 703-
321-3339. Members of the public who are located outside of the 
Washington, DC, area can dial FedWorld, 1-800-303-9672, or use the 
FedWorld Internet address: fedworld.gov (Telnet). The document will be 
available on the bulletin board for 30 days after the signature date of 
this notice. If assistance is needed in accessing the document, please 
contact the FedWorld help desk at 703-487-4608. Additional assistance 
in locating the document is available from the NRC Public Document 
Room, nationally at 1-800-397-4209, or within the Washington, DC, area 
at 202-634-3273.
    Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer by 
August 11, 1997: Edward Michlovich, Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs (3150-0004 and -0058), NEOB-10202, Office of 
Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.
    Comments can also be submitted by telephone at [phone].
    The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton, [phone].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of July 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Arnold E. Levin,
Acting Designated Senior Official for Information Resources Management.
[FR Doc. 97-17994 Filed 7-9-97; 8:45 am]
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