NRC and Agreement State licensees are required to make inventory and accounting reports on DOE/NRC Form 741 for certain source of special nuclear material inventory changes, for transfers or receipt of special nuclear material, or for transfer or receipt of 1 kilogram or more of source material.
This final rule amends the NRCs regulations related to licensee reporting requirements for source material and special nuclear material (SNM) to the Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards System (NMMSS). The amendment lowers the threshold of the quantities of SNM and certain source materials that require the submission of material reports to the NMMSS. NRC requires each licensee who is authorized to possess at any one time and location SNM in a quantity totaling 1 gram or more of contained uranium-235, uranium-233, or plutonium, or any combination thereof, to prepare and submit reports concerning SNM received, possessed, transferred, consumed, disposed of, or lost. In addition, each licensee who possesses, at one any time and location, 1 kilogram or more of foreign obligated source material, would be required to file with the NRC an annual statement of source material inventory. NRC also requires licensees to submit nuclear material transaction reports when a licensee uses 1 kilogram of source material in uranium enrichment services, down-blending material initially enriched in the isotope U-235 to 10 percent or more and mixed-oxide fuel fabrication. Licensees must complete a transaction report on NRC Form 741 when the licensee adjusts their inventory of SNM. This final rule also eliminates the requirement that requires licensees to complete the foreign recipients portion of the form when exporting SNM and source material is exported. The amendment will decrease the burden for NRC Form 741 by 1,495 hours, but will increase the burden for NRC Forms 742 and 742C, which will increase the reporting requirements because of the lower threshold of quantities are to be reported.
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Neelam Bhalla 301 415-6843 nxb@nrc.gov
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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;
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