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 Part 32.
In August of 2007, 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 provided a regulatory framework by which to license and
regulate byproduct material in accordance with the new, expanded
definition. The amended regulations impacted numerous existing NRC
information collections. The NRC packaged all the impacted
information collections under the amended regulations and submitted
it to OMB as a new information collection, which OMB approved and
assigned control number 3150-0203. NRC submitted an 83-C, no
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection to move the approved information collection burden
covered under part 32 in this collection to the NRC existing
approved collection for 10 CFR Part 32, 3150-0001. The initial 83-C
submission was submitted on 5/14/08 and approved on 11/9/08, but
contained a few errors, which are discussed below. The May
submission had incorrectly split the total burden for the package
of 179,188 hours into two separate information collections within
the package (136,191 hours and 42,997 hours). When the renewal
package submitted on 11/18/09 was opened for processing, it
contained two separate ICs split into beginning balances of 136,191
hours and 42,997 hours. In the 83-C submitted on 5/14/08, the
analyst had inadvertently created an additional IC for the burden
transferred instead of incorporating the burden into the existing
IC with a beginning balance of 136,191 hours. This error created
problems for the renewal package which was submitted on 11/18/08.
This 83-C will correct the second IC burden for 3150-0001, and
transfer burden to one IC and remove the second IC. The corrected
burden for the remaining IC (3150-0001) should be 179,188 hours.
This 83-C is being resubmitted because of procedural errors, per
discussion with OMB and NRC on June 4, 2009.
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.
10CFR32Justification 83-C [3].doc
10 CFR Part 32, Specific Domestic Licenses to Manufacture or Transfer Certain Items Containing Byproduct Material