Notice2022-21165
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Federal Assistance for Offsite Radiological Emergency Preparedness and Planning
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Published
September 29, 2022
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Homeland Security DepartmentFederal Emergency Management Agency
Abstract
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will submit the information collection abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). In accordance with the PRA, this notice seeks comments concerning all information collections related to FEMA's Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program requirements.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 188 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59110-59111]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21165]
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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: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Federal Assistance for Offsite Radiological
Emergency Preparedness and Planning
AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice of revision and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will submit the
information collection abstracted below to the Office of Management and
Budget for review and clearance in accordance with the requirements of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). In accordance with the PRA,
this notice seeks comments concerning all information collections
related to FEMA's Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program
requirements.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 31, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection should be made to Director,
Information Management Division, 500 C Street SW, Washington, DC 20472,
email address <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4006050d016d092e262f322d2134292f2e6d032f2c2c252334292f2e336d0d212e2127252d252e340026252d216e2428336e272f36"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4305060e026e0a2d252c312e22372a2c2d6e002c2f2f2620372a2c2d306e0e222d2224262e262d370325262e226d272b306d242c35">[email protected]</span></a> or
Renae Connell, Emergency Management Specialist, FEMA/NPD/THD, at (202)
212-7913 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aaf8cfc4cbcf84e9c5c4c4cfc6c6eacccfc7cb84cec2d984cdc5dc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3567505b54501b765a5b5b50595975535058541b515d461b525a43">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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, 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, Public Law 96-295 Sec. 109
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 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-0654/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,
(See 84 FR 70399, December 23, 2019), and the REP Program Manual (RPM).
The RPM consolidates many of the REP Program's
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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 FEMA P-1028, December
2019.
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,
the collection instrument in 44 CFR 350.9(c) was added to collect
information and relieve requests from the exercise schedule outlined in
44 CFR 350.9. Additionally, to further reduce burden cost, the
collection in 44 CFR 352.4 has been removed as it currently does not
require approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act, with FEMA only
receiving one or no responses in a given year.
This proposed information collection previously published in the
Federal Register on June 7, 2022, at 87 FR 34699 with a 60 day public
comment period. No comments were received. The purpose of this notice
is to notify the public that FEMA will submit the information
collection abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget for
review and clearance.
Collection of Information
Title: Federal Assistance for Offsite Radiological Emergency
Preparedness and Planning.
Type of Information Collection: Revision 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, with 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. 2022-21165 Filed 9-28-22; 8:45 am]
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