Notice2022-12117
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Federal Assistance for Offsite Radiological Emergency Preparedness and Planning
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Published
June 7, 2022
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Homeland Security DepartmentFederal Emergency Management Agency
Abstract
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public to take this opportunity to comment on a revision of a currently approved information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning all information collections related to FEMA Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program requirements.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 109 (Tuesday, June 7, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34699-34700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-12117]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Federal Emergency Management Agency
[Docket ID: FEMA-2022-0018; OMB No. 1660-0024]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Federal Assistance for Offsite Radiological Emergency
Preparedness and Planning
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 60-Day notice of revision and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites
the general public to take this opportunity to comment on a revision of
a currently approved information collection. In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning
all information collections related to FEMA Radiological Emergency
Preparedness Program requirements.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 8, 2022.
ADDRESSES: To avoid duplicate submissions to the docket, please submit
comments at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> under Docket ID FEMA-2022-0018. Follow
the instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket
ID. Regardless of the method used for submitting comments or material,
all submissions will be posted, without change, to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>, and will include any
personal information you provide. Therefore, submitting this
information makes it public. You may wish to read the Privacy and
Security Notice that is available via a link on the homepage of
<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Renae Connell, Emergency Management
Specialist, FEMA/NPD/THD, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#96e4f3f8f7f3b8f5f9f8f8f3fafad6f0f3fbf7b8f2fee5b8f1f9e0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0674636867632865696868636a6a4660636b6728626e7528616970">[email protected]</span></a>. You may contact
the Information Management Division for copies of the proposed
collection of information at email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a5e3e0e8e488eccbc3cad7c8c4d1cccacb88e6cac9c9c0c6d1cccacbd688e8c4cbc4c2c0c8c0cbd1e5c3c0c8c48bc1cdd68bc2cad3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="90d6d5ddd1bdd9fef6ffe2fdf1e4f9fffebdd3fffcfcf5f3e4f9fffee3bdddf1fef1f7f5fdf5fee4d0f6f5fdf1bef4f8e3bef7ffe6">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Emergency Management Agency's
(FEMA')s Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Program coordinates
the National effort to provide State, Tribal and local governments with
relevant and executable planning, training, technical assistance, and
exercise guidance and policies necessary to ensure that adequate
capabilities exist to prepare for, respond to, and recover from
incidents involving commercial nuclear power plants (NPPs). The REP
Program assists State, Tribal and local governments in the development
and conduct of off-site emergency planning and preparedness activities
within the emergency planning zones (EPZs) of Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC)-licensed commercial nuclear power facilities.
Sec. 109 of the NRC Authorization Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-295)
directed the NRC to establish emergency preparedness as a criterion for
licensing commercial NPPs. Specifically, section 109 of Public Law 96-
295 directed the NRC to establish through rulemaking, (a) standards,
developed with FEMA, for the evaluation of State and local government
radiological emergency planning and preparedness; and (b) a requirement
that the NRC will issue operating licenses. Before issuing a license,
the NRC must determine that there is (i) a State or local emergency
response plan compliant with the standards developed with FEMA or (ii)
in the absence of such a plan, a State, local, or utility emergency
response plan that provides reasonable assurance that public health and
safety is not endangered by the NPP's operation. See Public Law 96-295,
109 (b)(1)(A)-(B)). The NRC revised its regulations in part 50 of title
10 of the CFR to incorporate additional emergency preparedness
requirements, including 16 planning standards for onsite and offsite
emergency plans as required by Public Law 96-295. FEMA mirrors these 16
planning standards in Part 350, specifically at 44 CFR 350.5.
In the communities surrounding commercial NPP, 44 CFR 350.5(b)
directs FEMA's REP Program to review offsite radiological emergency
plans and preparedness. In addition, 44 CFR 350.9 describes the
exercise process and
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requirements that States, together with all appropriate local
governments, must conduct a joint exercise of that State plan,
involving full participation of appropriate local government entities,
the State and the appropriate licensee of the NRC. Approved plans and
preparedness ``must be determined to adequately protect the public
health and safety by providing reasonable assurance that appropriate
protective measures can be taken offsite in the event of a radiological
emergency.''
FEMA defines reasonable assurance as a determination that State,
Tribal, local, and utility offsite plans and preparedness are adequate
to protect public health and safety in the EPZ of commercial NPP. FEMA
will consider plans, procedures, personnel, training, facilities,
equipment, drills, and exercises, which in its professional judgment
are critical for effective implementation of protective measures
offsite in the event of any incident at a commercial NPP. FEMA will
make its adequacy determination, supported by other Federal agencies,
as necessary, by conducting inspections, providing Staff Assistance
Visits (SAVs), organizing, conducting and reviewing training,
participating in, observing and evaluating drills and exercises, and by
being an engaged partner with Federal, State, Tribal, and local
government officials and industry stakeholders.
State, Tribal, or local government participation in offsite
radiological emergency planning and preparedness is voluntary. However,
participation in the REP planning and preparedness process necessitates
adherence to the program requirements as set forth in 44 CFR part 350,
the joint NRC/FEMA document NUREG-0645/FEMA-REP-1, Rev. 2, ``Criteria
for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans
and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants'' (and
supplements), and the REP Program Manual (RPM). The RPM consolidates
many of the REP Program's operative guidance and policy documents into
one location and provides guidance that interprets the planning
standards and evaluation criteria contained in NUREG-0654 and 44 CFR
part 350. See 76 FR 72431, November 23, 2011.
As part of our collection to fulfill one of FEMA's missions, each
instrument is required for the performance of duties related to the
mission. Therefore, due to the maturity of the program and the
opportunity to reduce burden cost, there is an opportunity to
consolidate, improve, or remove collection instruments. Consequently,
collection instrument 44 CFR 350.9 (c) was added to collect information
and relief requests from exercise schedule outlined in 44 CFR 350.9.
Additionally, to further reduce burden cost, 44 CFR 352.4 has been
removed as it currently does not require approval under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) with FEMA only receiving one or no responses in a
given year.
Collection of Information
Title: Federal Assistance for Offsite Radiological Emergency
Preparedness and Planning.
Type of Information Collection: Extension, without change, of a
currently approved information collection].
OMB Number: 1660-0024.
FEMA Forms: There are no forms for this collection; rather the
regulatory text details the content in which information is transmitted
to FEMA.
Abstract: The intent of this request is the collection of comments
on an extension, without change, of a currently approved information
collection an OMB control number representing all information
collections related to FEMA REP Program requirements described in 44
CFR parts 350 and 352.
Affected Public: State, local or Tribal government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 104.
Estimated Number of Responses: 104.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,400.
Estimated Total Annual Respondent Cost: $223,176.
Estimated Respondents' Operation and Maintenance Costs: $0.
Estimated Respondents' Capital and Start-Up Costs: $0.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to the Federal Government: $652,598.
Comments
Comments may be submitted as indicated in the ADDRESSES caption
above. Comments are solicited to (a) evaluate whether the proposed data
collection is necessary for the proper performance of the agency,
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b)
evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
Millicent Brown Wilson,
Records Management Branch Chief, Office of the Chief Administrative
Officer, Mission Support, Federal Emergency Management Agency,
Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2022-12117 Filed 6-6-22; 8:45 am]
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