[Federal Register: May 10, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 89)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and 
solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following 
proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby 
informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or 
sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection 
of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
    1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension.
    2. The title of the information collection: Exercise of Discretion 
for an Operating Facility, NRC Enforcement Policy (NUREG-1600).
    3. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    4. How often the collection is required: On occasion.
    5. Who will be required or asked to report: Nuclear power reactor 
licensees and gaseous diffusion plant certificate holders.
    6. An estimate of the number of responses: 38 annually.
    7. The estimated number of annual respondents: 38.
    8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
complete the requirement or request: 2,280.
    9. An indication of whether section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13 
applies: Not applicable.
    10. Abstract: The NRC's revised Enforcement Policy includes the 
circumstances in which the NRC may exercise enforcement discretion. 
This enforcement discretion is designated as a Notice of Enforcement 
Discretion (NOED) and relates to circumstances which may arise where a 
nuclear power plant licensee's compliance with a Technical 
Specification Limiting Condition for Operation or with other license 
conditions would involve an unnecessary plant transient or performance 
of testing, inspection, or system realignment that is inappropriate for 
the specific plant conditions, or unnecessary delays in plant startup 
without a corresponding health and safety benefit. Similarly, for a 
gaseous diffusion plant, circumstances may arise where compliance with 
a Technical Safety Requirement or other certificate condition would 
unnecessarily call for a total plant shutdown, or, notwithstanding that 
a safety, safeguards or security feature was degraded or inoperable, 
compliance would unnecessarily place the plant in a transient or 
condition where those features could be required.
    A licensee or certificate holder seeking the issuance of a NOED 
must provide a written justification, which documents the safety basis 
for the request and provides whatever other information the NRC staff 
deems necessary to decide whether or not to exercise discretion.
    A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of 
charge at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW (lower 
level), Washington, DC. OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC 
worldwide web site (http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/PUBLIC/OMB/index.html). The 
document will be available on the NRC home page site for 60 days after 
the signature date of this notice.
    Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer 
listed below by June 9, 1999. Comments received after this date will be 
considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration 
cannot be given to comments received after this date.

Erik Godwin, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0136), 
NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503.

    Comments can also be submitted by telephone at (202) 395-3087.
    The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton, 301-415-7233.

    Dated at Rockville, MD, this 4th day of May 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-11675 Filed 5-7-99; 8:45 am]
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