Each licensee authorized to posess
special nuclear material totaling more than 350 grants of contained
uranium-235, uranium- 233, or plutonium, or any combination
thereof, are requried to submit DOE/NRC Forms 742 and 742C. In
addition, any licensee authoirzed to possess 1,000 kilograms of
source material is required to submit DOE/NRC Form 742. The
information is used by NRC to fulfill its responsibilities as a
participant in US/IAEA Safeguards Agreement and various bilateral
agreements with other countries, and to satisfy its domestic
safeguards responsi- bilities.
This final rule amends the
NRCs regulations related to licensee reporting requirements for
source material and special nuclear material (SNM) to the Nuclear
Materials Management and Safeguards System (NMMSS). The amendment
lowers the threshold of the quantities of SNM and certain source
materials that require the submission of material reports to the
NMMSS. NRC requires each licensee who is authorized to possess at
any one time and location SNM in a quantity totaling 1 gram or more
of contained uranium-235, uranium-233, or plutonium, or any
combination thereof, to prepare and submit reports concerning SNM
received, possessed, transferred, consumed, disposed of, or lost.
In addition, each licensee who possesses, at one any time and
location, 1 kilogram or more of foreign obligated source material,
would be required to file with the NRC an annual statement of
source material inventory. NRC also requires licensees to submit
nuclear material transaction reports when a licensee uses 1
kilogram of source material in uranium enrichment services,
down-blending material initially enriched in the isotope U-235 to
10 percent or more and mixed-oxide fuel fabrication. Licensees must
complete a transaction report on NRC Form 741 when the licensee
adjusts their inventory of SNM. This final rule also eliminates the
requirement that requires licensees to complete the foreign
recipients portion of the form when exporting SNM and source
material is exported. The amendment will decrease the burden for
NRC Form 741 by 1,495 hours, but will increase the burden for NRC
Forms 742 and 742C, which will increase the reporting requirements
because of the lower threshold of quantities are to be
reported.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.