Justification

JUSTIFICATION FOR CHANGE IN AN OMB CLEARANCE PACKAGE

FORM 314A SERIES OF FORMS

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) amended its regulations to include jurisdiction over discrete sources of radium-226, accelerator-produced radioactive materials, and discrete sources of naturally occurring radioactive material, as required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), which was signed into law on August 8, 2005. This provides a regulatory framework by which to license and regulate byproduct material in accordance with the new, expanded definition. The amended regulations impacted numerous existing information collections. The NRC packaged all of the impacted information collections into one new information collection which OMB approved and assigned control number 3150-0203. One of the areas of existing Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations revised was Form 314A series of forms.

NRC Form 314 is used by materials licensees who wish to terminate their license. The form provides information needed by NRC to determine whether the licensee has radioactive materials on hand that must be transferred or otherwise disposed of prior to license termination. The form takes, on average, 0.5 hours to prepare. An additional 335 licensees will be subject to the requirement in this final rule. However, we estimate only one additional NRC termination report to be submitted annually. The total annual burden is estimated to increase by 1 hour for NRC licensees.

The currently approved burden for Form 314 is as follows:

Responses: 310 responses

Respondents: 171 respondents

Burden Hours 86 hours

NRC Form 314 Reporting Burden (3150-0028)

Annual Reporting Requirements for NRC Licensees

Section	No. Of Rspndts	Rsps. Per Respndt	Total Responses	Brdn per Response	Total Annual Burden Hours	Cost @ $214/Hr
NRC licensees ccommm	1	1	1	0.5	1	214
NRC Form 314 Reporting			1		1	214

NRC Form 314 NRC Licensee Totals:

Number of Responses: 1

Number of Respondents: 1

Total Burden Hours: 1 hour

Total Burden Hour Cost: $214