Burden Calculations

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Overview

Burden
Less Than 10
Federal Government

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Sheet 1: Burden

Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Hours per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
Document Test and Engineering Evaluation or Comparative Data for Packaging - Reporting	173.411(c)	50	2	100	40	4,000	$79.69	$318,760	$0
Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Hours per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
Offeror Obtaining U.S. Competent Authority for Package Design - Reporting	173.471(d), (e), 173.472(a), (f), 173.477(b), (c)	10	4	40	2	80	$79.69	$6,375	$0
Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Hours per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
DOT Specification 7A Package Documentation - Reporting	173.415(a), (d)	50	2	100	80	8,000	$79.69	$637,520	$0
Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Minutes per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
DOT Specification 7A Package Documentation - Recordkeeping	173.415(a), (d)	50	10	500	5	41.67	$79.69	$3,321	$0
Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Hours per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
Revalidation of Foreign Competent Authority Certificate - Reporting	173.416(b), 173.417(a), (b), 173.473(a)	25	1	25	80	2,000	$79.69	$159,380	$0
Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Minutes per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
Offeror Providing Specific Written Instruction of Exclusive Use Shipment Controls to the Carrier - Reporting	173.427(a)(6)(iv), 173.441(c)	100	20	2,000	30	1,000	$79.69	$79,690	$0
Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Minutes per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
Register with U.S. Competent Authority as a User of a Package - Reporting	173.471(d), 173.472(a), 173.473(a)(2), 173.477(b)	25	2	50	30	25	$79.69	$1,992	$0
Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Hours per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
Request for a U.S. Competent Authority as Required by the IAEA Regulations for Special Form - Reporting	173.476(b), (c)	10	10	100	2	200	$79.69	$15,938	$0
Marking Cosignee on Overpack	§ 173.448	10	50	500	0.016	8	$79.69	$638	$0
	Number of Respondents	Total Responses	Total Annual Burden Hours	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
	330	3,415	15,355	$1,223,614	$0
	OES Mean Hourly Wage	Compensation Percentage	Adjusted Mean Hourly Wage
Occupation labor rates based on 2021 Occupational and Employment Statistics Survey (OES) for “Physical Scientists, All Others (19-2099).” https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes192099.htm The hourly mean wage for this occupation ($54.43) is adjusted to reflect the total costs of employee compensation based on the BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Summary, which indicates that wages for civilian workers are 68.3 percent of total compensation (total wage = wage rate/wage % of total compensation).	$54.43	68.30%	$79.69

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Sheet 2: Less Than 10

Burden with Less Than 10 Respondents:
Information Collection	Regulations	Respondents	Annual Responses per Respondent	Annual Responses	Minutes per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
Offeror Maintaining Test and Engineering Evaluation or Comparative Data for Packaging - Recordkeeping	173.411(c)	1	1	1		0		0
Marking Packages - Reporting	173.420(a)(2), (b)	3	10	30	0.016666666666667	0.5		0
Maintain Safety Analysis on File for Two Years After Shipment of more than 0.1 kg of Uranium Hexafluoride - Reporting	173.477(a)			0		0		0
Maintain Safety Analysis on File for Two Years After Shipment of more than 0.1 kg of Uranium Hexafluoride - Recordkeeping	173.477(a)			0		0		0

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Sheet 3: Federal Government

		Hours/FTE	Number of FTEs	Total Hours	Salary + Fringe and Overhead Per Hour	Total Salary Cost
		255	1	255	$70.08	$17,870.58
PHMSA used hourly wage data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to estimate wages for its staff at the 2022 General Schedule (GS) level 13, step 1, wage class for the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia metropolitan area. In accordance with the OMB Circular No. A-76 (M-07-02; 2006), PHMSA included a load factor of 36.45 percent for the Federal wage to account for fringe benefits.	$51.36	36.45%	$70.08