In accordance with 5 CFR 1320, comment filed on proposed rule. Agency will address comments at the final rule stage and will make sure that all startup and capital costs are appropriately detailed and accounted for in both ROCIS and the supporting statements to this information collection.
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2013
01/31/2013
03/31/2013
894
0
894
65,418
0
65,418
0
0
0
Proposed Rule: 10 CFR Parts 40 and 150, Domestic Licensing of Source Material - Amendments/Integrated Safety Analysis
The NRC is proposing to amend its regulations to amend 10 CFR Part 40 to require current licensees and future applicants who are authorized to possess 2000 kilograms or more of uranium hexafluoride to perform an ISA. The proposed amendments would require licensees to submit several one-time reports including a plan of action and an ISA summary. Annual reporting requirements would be reduced by this proposed rulemaking by allowing the licensees to amend aspects of their licenses through the ISA process without a formal amendment request to the NRC. Record keeping burden would be increased by the requirement to perform an ISA and document changes to it as well as records of training and other necessary actions. Event reporting under this proposed rule would require licensees to report at 1 hour, 24 hours, and 60 day intervals. The information included in the applications, reports and records required by the proposed rule would be mandatory and would be reviewed by the NRC staff to assess the adequacy of the applicant's or licensee's physical plant, equipment, organization, training, experience, procedures and plans for protection of public health and safety.
This proposed rule will increase the overall burden by 295 hours from 65,418 to 65,713 hours. The proposed amendments to 10 CFR Part 40 that affect the burden and/or cost for complying with the regulations constitute the elements for a safety program NRC considers essential to provide a risk-informed, performance-based approach for increasing confidence in the margin of safety for licensees authorized to possess significant amounts of UF6. These elements include specifying radiological and non-radiological risks to be protected against and requiring licensees and applicants to perform a systematic and comprehensive ISA to evaluate their safety program against those risks, to establish a means for ensuring the reliability and availability of items relied on for safety, to control changes so as to prevent inadvertent degradation of items relied on for safety, and to report incidents of failure of items relied on for safety. The existing 10 CFR Part 40 does not provide structured risk-informed approach for evaluating the consequences of facility accidents.
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.
10CFR40 ISA PR SS Rev 090711.doc
10 CFR Part 40 - Domestic Licensing of Source Material