In accordance
with 5 CFR 1320, this information collection is approved for three
years. To request approval of information collections under this
generic approval, the agency must do the following: 1) Unless an
agency is using multiple modes of collection (e.g., paper forms and
electronic submissions), provide a Generic Clearance Submission
Template for each Instrument; 2) If the agency is using
multiple modes of collection (e.g., paper forms and electronic
submissions), the same Generic Clearance Submission Template may be
used for both instruments; 3) each Generic Clearance Submission
Template must be uploaded as a Supplementary document using a
naming convention that allows the public to identify the associated
instrument; 4) submit no more than five Generic Submission
Templates with each request. In addition, NRC is reminded that this
generic should only be used for collections that are voluntary,
low-burden, and uncontroversial. All other collects of information
should be submitted either as separate ICRs or, if appropriate, as
emergency requests.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
01/31/2019
36 Months From Approved
10/31/2018
1,265
0
738
10,123
0
3,690
0
0
0
In order to maintain an effective
national radioactive materials program, the NRC needs to coordinate
in sharing information with the Agreement States. The Agreement
States are asked on a one-time or as-needed basis to respond to a
specific incident, to gather information on licensing and
inspection practices or other technical information. The Agreement
State comments are also solicited in the areas of proposed
procedures, implementing guidance, and in the development of new
and revised regulations and policies. The results of such
information requests, which are authorized under Section 274(b) of
the Atomic Energy Act, are utilized in part by the NRC in preparing
responses to Congressional inquiries. This generic information
collection would allow the NRC to meet its obligations under the
Paperwork Reduction Act while eliminating unnecessary burden and
delays. Obtaining a separate OMB clearance for each RCPD letter
would not allow the agency to efficiently coordinate and share
information with the Agreement States in maintaining a national
radioactive materials program.
The annual burden decreased by
315.6 hours, from 3,690 hours to 3,374.4 hours. This change is due
to the fact that exchange of information required for Agreement
State participation in NRC-sponsored training courses was included
in the last submission. At that time, OMB determined that the
correspondence associated with NRC training did not represent an
information collection. For that reason, training correspondence is
no longer included in the burden totals. Correspondence associated
with training was generally low burden but of high frequency,
meaning that the burden decreased slightly but the number of annual
responses decreased more dramatically. The number of annual
responses has decreased from 738 to 421.8 due to the removal of the
training responses associated with training activities. The last
submission included 540 responses associated with training
activities, whereas the current submission includes 0 responses
associated with training activities. In this submission, the NRC
has used a burden estimate of 8 hours per response for all
Agreement State responses. The previous estimate was 5 hours, based
on the average response time to respond to training correspondence
and other information requests. The NRC staff feels that 8 hours
better reflects Agreement State effort in responding to information
requests, because the training correspondence was generally of
lower burden than other requests. Finally, the NRC is seeking to
revise this information collection to be a plan for a generic
collection of information. The need and practicality of the
collection can be evaluated, but the details of the specific
individual collections will not be known until a later time. To
account for all Agreement State burden over the three-year
clearance period, NRC has tripled the annual burden to 10,123.2
hours and 1265.4 responses (an increase of 6,433.2 hours and 527.4
responses). Note that this increase of 6,433 hours of burden is
mostly due to a change from accounting for the annual burden
associated with the collection to accounting for three years of
burden as a generic collection.
$244,125
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Stephen Poy 301
415-7135
No
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.
Requests to AS for information 3150-0029 supporting statement REVISED.doc
2018 Annual Count of Active Radioactive Materials Licensees in the National Materials Program