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be $2,546,058 (34,565 burden hours
times $73.66 per hour). Other than the
cost of burden hours, EIA estimates that
there are no additional costs for
generating, maintaining and providing
the information.
Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974,
Pub. L. 93–275, codified as 15 U.S.C. 772 (b)
and the DOE Organization Act of 1977, Pub.
L. 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.
42 U.S.C. 7135(i) as amended by section 3101
of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1986, Pub. L. 99–509.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December
15, 2017.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Energy Information Administration
Agency Information Collection
Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

EIA has submitted an
information collection request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for extension under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. The information collection
requests a three-year extension of its
Form GC–859 ‘‘Nuclear Fuel Data
Survey,’’ OMB Control Number 1901–
0287. Form GC–859 collects data on
spent nuclear fuel from all utilities that
operate commercial nuclear reactors and
from all others that possess irradiated
fuel from commercial nuclear reactors.
DATES: Comments regarding this
proposed information collection must
be received on or before January 22,
2018. If you anticipate that you will be
submitting comments, but find it
difficult to do so within the period of
time allowed by this notice, please
advise the DOE Desk Officer at OMB of
your intention to make a submission as
soon as possible. The Desk Officer may
be telephoned at 202–395–1254 or
emailed at james.n.tyree@omb.eop.gov.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to the:
DOE Desk Officer: James Tyree, Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Room 9249,

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735 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20503.
And to: Marta Gospodarczyk, Office of
Electricity, Coal, Nuclear, and
Renewables Analysis, EI–34, Forrestal
Building, U.S. Department of Energy,
1000 Independence Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20585, or by email at
marta.gospodarczyk@eia.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Marta Gospodarczyk at the
contact information given above or
phone at, 202–586–0527. Form GC–859
and its instructions are available on the
internet at https://www.eia.gov/survey/
#gc-859.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No. 1901–0287;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Nuclear Fuel Data Survey;
(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension with changes;
(4) Purpose: The Nuclear Waste Policy
Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.)
required that DOE enter into Standard
Contracts with all generators or owners
of spent nuclear fuel and high-level
radioactive waste of domestic origin.
Form GC–859 (formerly Form RW–859)
originated from an appendix to this
Standard Contract.
Form GC–859 collects information on
nuclear fuel use and spent fuel
discharges from all utilities that operate
commercial nuclear reactors and from
all others that possess irradiated fuel
from commercial nuclear reactors. The
data collection provides stakeholders
with detailed information concerning
the spent nuclear fuel generated by the
respondents (commercial utility
generators of spent nuclear fuel and
other owners of spent nuclear fuel
within the U.S.).
Data collected from the survey are
used by personnel from DOE Office of
Nuclear Energy (NE), DOE Office of
Environmental Management (EM), and
the national laboratories to meet their
research objectives of developing a
range of options and supporting
analyses that facilitate informed choices
about how best to manage spent nuclear
fuel (SNF).
(4a) Changes to Information
Collection:
• Collection of fuel manufacturer and
lattice size used in Section C.1.1 of the
2013 GC–859 is replaced by fuel
assembly type codes for fuel discharged
from July 1, 2013—December 31, 2017.
Fuel assembly type codes were last
collected in the 2003 RW–859.
Identification of the fuel assembly type

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provides significantly more information
of the spent fuel than just manufacturer
and lattice size.
• Section C.1.3 is added to the survey
to collect fuel assembly type codes for
fuel discharged from January 1, 2003—
June 30, 2013. Selection boxes are
added to this section to reduce reporting
burden. Respondents may mark the fuel
assembly type code based on the reactor
design, previously used fuel types,
range of assembly identification
numbers, and initial cycle in core.
• ‘‘Cumulative Burnup for Each
Cycle,’’ for each assembly is added to
Section C.1.2 of the survey.
Respondents may voluntarily report this
data. Assembly burnup data by cycle is
used to calculate discharged fuel
characteristics and obtain fundamental
parameters needed for spent fuel safety
analyses.
• Section C.1.4 is added to the survey
to collect data on all discharged fuel
that is shipped or transferred to other
storage sites (since January 1, 2003).
This information was last collected in
2003 using Form RW–859 and allows
the tracking of all spent nuclear fuel
discharged by commercial reactors,
regardless of current ownership or
transit status.
• Section C.2 ‘‘Projected Assembly
Discharges’’ is deleted since this data is
no longer needed for analysis.
• Section C.3.3.1 requests information
for consolidated, reconstituted,
reconstructed fuel assemblies. A dropdown menu was created with these
three choices of fuel assemblies.
• A note is added in Section D.3.2
‘‘Multi-Assembly Canisters/Casks
Inventory’’ to capture deviations from
standard operating procedures related to
drying, backfilling, leak testing, or pad
transfer processes.
• Dry cask loading pattern maps with
orientation details are added to Section
D.3.2 of the survey. For each canister/
cask model, respondents provide or
reference a loading map that clearly
indicates identifiers for basket cell
locations relative to fixed drain and vent
port locations. For systems stored
horizontally, the map indicates which
direction is up when placed in a
horizontal storage module. The dry cask
loading pattern data facilitates detailed
as-loaded analyses and enables the
quantification of realistic safety margins
and conditions.
• Section E.2 ‘‘Non-fuel Components
Integral to an Assembly’’ is deleted and
the data on non-fuel components
integral to an assembly should be
reported in Section C.1.1. The collection
of data on non-fuel component
identifiers was also added to Section
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• Schedule G is deleted. This
schedule was used to collect comments.
It is easier for respondents to provide
comments when completing a schedule
so the new form will collect comments
after each section.
• A copy of Standard Contract (10
CFR 961.11) Appendix E General
Specifications is added to the survey for
the convenience of the respondents.
• The following terms have either
been added or updated to match the
definition prescribed by the Standard
Contract; Canister, DOE Facility, Failed
Fuel, Multi-Assembly Canister/Cask,
Non-fuel Component Identifier, Nonstandard Fuel and Reconstructed
Assembly.
• DOE is changing Form GC–859 to
collect information once every three
years on a triennial basis. Reporting
once every three years reduces
respondent burden by permitting all
new data for the multiyear period to be
reported in one report.
• In response to a public comment on
the 60-day Federal Register notice, the
due date listed in Appendix A is
changed to August 31, 2018, so it is
consistent with the due date listed on
the cover page.
(5) Annual Estimated Number of
Respondents: 125.
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 42.
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 3,747 hours.
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: Additional
costs to respondents are not anticipated
beyond costs associated with response
burden hours. The information is
maintained in the normal course of
business. The cost of the burden hours
is estimated to be $276,004 (3,747
burden hours times $73.66 per hour).
EIA estimates that there are no
additional costs to respondents
associated with the survey other than
the costs associated with the burden
hours.

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Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the
Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974,
Public Law 93–275, codified as 15 U.S. C.
772(b) and the DOE Organization Act of
1977, Public Law 95–91, codified at 42 U.S.C.
7101 et seq., The Nuclear Waste Policy Act
of 1982 codified at 42 U.S.C. 10222 et seq.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December
15, 2017.
Nanda Srinivasan,
Director, Office of Survey Development and
Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy
Information Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017–27597 Filed 12–21–17; 8:45 am]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL–9972–42–OARM]

Request for Nominations to the
National and Governmental Advisory
Committees to the U.S. Representative
to the Commission for Environmental
Cooperation
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of request for
nominations.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) invites
nominations from a diverse range of
qualified candidates to be considered
for appointment to the National
Advisory Committee (NAC) and the
Governmental Advisory Committee
(GAC), to advise the U.S. Representative
to the Commission for Environmental
Cooperation (CEC). Vacancies on these
two committees are expected to be
selected by the spring of 2018. Please
submit nominations by no later than
February 16, 2018. Additional sources
may be utilized in the solicitation of
nominees.

SUMMARY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background: The National Advisory
Committee and the Governmental
Advisory Committee advise the EPA
Administrator in his capacity as the U.S.
Representative to the CEC Council. The
Committees are authorized under
Articles 17 and 18 of the North
American Agreement on Environmental
Cooperation (NAAEC), and as directed
by Executive Order 12915, entitled
‘‘Federal Implementation of the North
American Agreement on Environmental
Cooperation.’’ The Committees are
responsible for providing advice to the
United States Representative on a wide
range of strategic, scientific,
technological, regulatory and economic
issues related to implementation and
further elaboration of the NAAEC. The
National Advisory Committee consists
of 15 representatives from
environmental non-profit groups,
business and industry, and educational
institutions. The Governmental
Advisory Committee consists of 14
representatives from state, local, and
tribal governments. Members are
appointed by the EPA Administrator for
a two-year term. The committees
usually meet 3 times per year and the
average workload for committee
members is approximately 10 to 15
hours per month. Members serve on the
committees in a voluntary capacity.
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your services, you may receive travel
and per diem allowances, according to
applicable federal travel regulations.
EPA is seeking nominations from
various sectors, i.e., for the NAC we are
seeking nominees from academia,
business and industry, and nongovernmental organizations; for the
GAC we are seeking nominees from
state, local and tribal government
sectors. Nominees will be considered
according to the mandates of FACA,
which requires committees to maintain
diversity across a broad range of
constituencies, sectors, and groups. EPA
values and welcomes diversity. In an
effort to obtain nominations of diverse
candidates, EPA encourages
nominations of women and men of all
racial and ethnic groups. The following
criteria will be used to evaluate
nominees:
• Professional knowledge of the
subjects examined by the committees,
including trade & environment issues,
NAFTA, the NAAEC, and the CEC.
• Represent a sector or group
involved in trilateral environmental
policy issues.
• Senior-level experience in the
sectors represented on both committees.
• A demonstrated ability to work in a
consensus building process with a wide
range of representatives from diverse
constituencies.
• Nominees may self-nominate.
If you are interested in serving on the
NAC or GAC, please submit the
following information:
• Nominations must include a brief
statement of interest, a resume or
curriculum vitae, and a short biography
describing your professional and
educational qualifications, including a
list of relevant activities and any current
or previous service on advisory
committees. The statement of interest,
resume, curriculum vitae, or short
biography should include the
candidate’s name, and name and
address of current organization, position
title, email address, and daytime
telephone number(s). In preparing your
statement of interest, please describe
how your background, knowledge, and
experience, will bring value to the work
of the NAC or GAC, and how these
qualifications will contribute to the
overall diversity of the committees.
Also, please describe any previous
involvement with EPA through
employment, grant funding, and/or
contracting sources.
• Candidates from the academic and
tribal sectors must also provide a letter
of recommendation authorizing the
nominee to represent their organization
or Tribal government.

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