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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Intent To Renew a Current
Information Collection
National Science Foundation;
National Center for Science and
Engineering Statistics.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The National Center for
Science and Engineering Statistics
(NCSES) within the National Science
Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans
to request renewal of the Survey of
Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in
Science and Engineering (OMB Control
Number 3145–0062). In accordance with
the requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, NSF is providing
opportunity for public comment on this
action. After obtaining and considering
public comments, NSF will prepare the
submission requesting that OMB
approve clearance of this collection for
three years.
DATES: Written comments on this notice
must be received by April 18, 2023 to
be assured of consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
Send comments to the address below.
For Additional Information or
Comments: Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National
Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower
Avenue, Suite E7400, Alexandria,
Virginia 22314; telephone (703) 292–
7556; or send email to splimpto@
nsf.gov. Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–
8339, which is accessible 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
(including Federal holidays).

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title of Collection: Survey of Graduate
Students and Postdoctorates in Science
and Engineering.
OMB Control Number: 3145–0062.
Expiration Date of Current Approval:
August 31, 2023.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
approval to extend an information
collection for three years.
Abstract: Established within NSF by
the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010 § 505,
codified in the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended,
the National Center for Science and
Engineering Statistics (NCSES) serves as
a central Federal clearinghouse for the
collection, interpretation, analysis, and
dissemination of objective data on
science, engineering, technology, and
research and development for use by
practitioners, researchers, policymakers,
and the public.
The Survey of Graduate Students and
Postdoctorates in Science and
Engineering (GSS), sponsored by the
NCSES within NSF and the National
Institutes of Health, is designed to
comply with legislative mandates by
providing information on the
characteristics of academic graduate
enrollments in science, engineering, and
health fields. The GSS, which originated
in 1966 and has been conducted
annually since 1972, is a census of all
departments in science, engineering,
and health (SEH) fields within academic
institutions with graduate programs in
the United States. This request to extend
the information collection for three
years is to cover the 2023, 2024, and
2025 GSS survey cycles. The
information collected by the GSS is
solicited under the authority of the
National Science Foundation Act of
1950, as amended and the America
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of
2010. Data collection starts each fall in
October and data are obtained primarily
through a Web survey. All information
will be used for statistical purposes
only. Participation in the survey is
voluntary.
The expected frame for the 2023 GSS
includes 709 institutions comprising
797 schools with 876 total Coordinators.
The GSS is the only national survey that
collects information on the
characteristics of graduate enrollment
and postdoctoral appointees (postdocs)
for specific SEH disciplines at the
department level. It collects information
on:
(1) Master’s and doctoral students’
ethnicity and race, citizenship, gender,
source and mechanism of financial
support (e.g., fellowships, traineeships,
assistantships) and enrollment status.

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(2) Postdocs’ ethnicity and race,
citizenship, gender, source and
mechanism of financial support, type of
doctoral degree, and degree origin (U.S.
or foreign); and
(3) Other doctorate-holding nonfaculty researchers’ gender and type of
doctoral degree.
To improve coverage of postdocs, the
GSS periodically collects information
on postdocs employed in Federally
Funded Research and Development
Centers (FFRDCs) by ethnicity and race,
gender, citizenship, source and
mechanism of financial support, and
field of research. This survey of
postdocs at FFRDCs will be conducted
as part of the 2023 and 2025 GSS survey
cycles. In these years, there will be an
additional 43 coordinators contacted to
respond to GSS.
The initial GSS data request is sent to
a designated respondent, the School
Coordinator, at each academic
institution in the fall. The School
Coordinators gather the data for all of
the reporting units at the institution.
Reporting units are comprised of the
departments, programs, research
centers, and health care facilities at each
institution. The School Coordinator may
upload a file with the requested data on
the GSS website, which will
automatically aggregate the data and
populate the cells of the Web survey
instrument for each of the reporting
units. This method of data provision is
called Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
The School Coordinator also may
upload partial data (e.g., student
enrollment information) and delegate
the provision of other data (e.g.,
financial support information) to the
appropriate reporting units at their
institution (unit respondents).
Institutions that do not want to use EDI
will be able to complete the survey
through manual entry of data (i.e.,
typing the data for each response item
on every unit) in the Web survey
instrument as in the past.
Data are disseminated annually on the
NCSES website https://www.nsf.gov/
statistics/srvygradpostdoc in the form of
93 data tables, a 3 to 5 page InfoBrief,
and public use files (https://
www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/
pub_data.cfm). In addition, current and
historical data are available via the
NCSES Integrated Data Tool (https://
ncsesdata.nsf.gov/ids/?utm_
source=Main&utm_
medium=Main&utm_
campaign=Main).The Data Tool
combines GSS data with academic
sector data from both NCSES and the
National Center of Education Statistics
and allows for custom querying.

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Use of the Information: The GSS data
are routinely provided to Congress and
other Federal agencies. The GSS
institutions themselves are major users
of the GSS data. Professional societies
such as the American Association of
Universities, the Association of
American Medical Colleges, and the
Carnegie Foundation are also major
users. Graduate enrollment and postdoc
data are often used in reports by the
national media. With the help of the
aforementioned NCSES Data Tool, NSF
reviews changing enrollment levels to
assess the effects of NSF initiatives,
track graduate student support patterns,
and analyze participation in science and
engineering fields for targeted groups by
discipline and for selected groups of
institutions. GSS data are also used in
two congressionally mandated NCSES
publications: Women, Minorities, and
Persons with Disabilities in Science and
Engineering (https://ncses.nsf.gov/
wmpd/) and the National Science
Board’s Science and Engineering
Indicators (https://ncses.nsf.gov/
indicators). In addition, the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) publish GSS
data annually in the NIH Data Book
https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/ .
Expected Respondents: The GSS is an
annual census of all eligible academic
institutions in the U.S. with graduate

programs in science, engineering and
health fields. The response rate is
calculated based on the number of
reporting units (departments, programs,
research centers, and health care
facilities) that respond to the survey. For
reference, in 2021, the GSS population
consisted of 21,365 reporting units at
699 academic institutions. Based on
recent cycles, NCSES expects the annual
response rate to be around 99 percent.
Estimate of Burden: For each GSS
survey cycle, both School Coordinators
and reporting-unit respondents (URs)
are asked to provide an estimate of how
long it took them to complete the data
collection. Coordinators at FFRDCs are
also asked about the hours required
complete the Web instrument. In the
past three GSS cycles (2019–2021 data
collections), the average burden per
coordinator was 19.7 hours per cycle.
However, burden varies considerably
across respondents. The amount of time
it takes to complete the GSS data
depends to a large degree on the extent
to which the school’s records are
centrally stored and computerized. It
also depends on whether the institution
uses manual data entry or EDI to
provide the GSS data, the number of
SEH reporting units that need to be
reported by the institution, and the
degree to which URs within the

institution are used to collect and report
data.
To estimate burden for the next three
GSS data collection survey cycles (2023,
2024, and 2025), the GSS frame is split
by response method (EDI or manual
entry) and the number of reporting units
reported by the institution (more than
15 units are large reporters and 15 or
fewer units are small reporters). Table 1
presents burden estimates based on
observed the size of the institution and
burden estimates collected from the
2019–21 GSS survey cycles. Average
burden is weighted by year and the
proportion of institutions that utilize
URs in reporting data to GSS.
The use of URs has a large impact on
GSS burden as it requires multiple
individuals at the school to respond to
the survey. To address the variance
between schools that use URs and those
that do not, UR burden was calculated
and included with the coordinator’s
burden when applicable. This
calculation is necessary because when a
school utilizes URs, the coordinators’
burden is minimal while the response
burden falls to individual URs. Average
UR burden was applied to all units at
schools utilizing URs and was then
added to the coordinator’s burden.

TABLE 1—GSS 2019–2021 TOTAL BURDEN BY INSTITUTIONAL REPORTING SIZE, DATA PROVISION METHOD, AND UNIT
RESPONDENT STATUS
Do not use URs
Institution type

Average
coordinators
per year

Yearweighted
average
burden
(hours)

Average
coordinators
per year

All coordinators

Yearweighted
average
burden
(hours)

Average
coordinators
per year

Yearweighted
average
burden
(hours)

Average per
cycle burden
(hours)

More than 15 units, EDI ..............................................
More than 15 units, Manual data entry .......................
15 or fewer units, EDI .................................................
15 or fewer units, Manual data entry ..........................

314
24
350
149

29.9
24.7
9.9
7.4

19
8
5
14

179.2
152.8
28.8
22.1

332
32
354
164

38.3
58.1
10.1
8.7

12,716
1,859
3,575
1,427

Average Estimated Total .....................................

836

17.4

46

110.2

882

22.2

19,603

The expected frame for the 2022 GSS
includes 704 institutions comprising
792 schools with 871 total School
Coordinators (some institutions utilize
multiple School Coordinators based on
how they are organized). To estimate the
burden for the 2023–2025 GSS survey
cycles, we assume a steady state in
terms of the use of EDI but based on
recent cycles we expect the number of
School Coordinators to increase by five
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each cycle. New schools tend to have
small numbers of eligible units and
students, so the five coordinators are
added to the small school manual data
entry category. Thus, we expect to have
876 coordinators in 2023, 881 in 2024
and 886 in 2025. The estimated burden
per respondent is approximately 22
hours per School Coordinator; the exact
number is based on the distributions
shown in Table 1, adjusted for the

additional coordinators. Given the
historically high levels of participation,
a 100 percent school response rate is
used in these estimates. Since the
FFRDC postdoc data collection will take
place in 2023 and 2025, the estimated
burden for those years will increase by
90 hours from 43 FFRDCs (based on 100
percent response rate in 2021 survey
with the average burden of 2.1 hours per
FFRDC).

TABLE 2—GSS ESTIMATED RESPONSE BURDEN
Respondents
(number of school
coordinators)

Category
Total burden for 2023 ..................................................................................................................................

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TABLE 2—GSS ESTIMATED RESPONSE BURDEN—Continued
Category

Respondents
(number of school
coordinators)

GSS institutions ....................................................................................................................................
FFRDCs ................................................................................................................................................
Total burden for 2024 ..................................................................................................................................
Total burden for 2025 ..................................................................................................................................
GSS institutions ....................................................................................................................................
FFRDCs ................................................................................................................................................
Potential future methodological studies (across all 3 survey cycles) .........................................................

876
43
881
929
886
43
..............................

19,352
90
19,396
19,529
19,439
90
2,000

Total estimated burden .................................................................................................................

2,729

60,367

Estimated average annual burden ................................................................................................

910

20,123

The total estimated respondent
burden of the GSS, including 2,000
hours for potential methodological
studies to improve the survey
procedures, will be 60,367 hours over
the three-cycle survey clearance period.
NCSES may review and revise this
burden estimate based on completion
time data collected during the 2022 GSS
survey cycle, which is ongoing.
Comments: Comments are invited on:
(a) whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of NSF,
including whether the information shall
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
NSF’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, use, and
clarity of the information on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (d) ways to 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.
Dated: February 13, 2023.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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Report on Waste Burial Charges:
Changes in Decommissioning Waste
Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste
Burial Facilities
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: NUREG; issuance.
AGENCY:

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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG–
1307, Revision 19, ‘‘Report on Waste
Burial Charges: Changes in
Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs
at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities.’’
This report, which is revised
periodically, explains the formula
acceptable to the NRC for determining
the minimum decommissioning fund
requirements for nuclear power reactor
licensees, as required by NRC
regulations. Specifically, this report
provides the adjustment factor and
updates the values for the labor, energy,
and waste burial escalation factors of
the minimum formula.
DATES: NUREG–1307, Revision 19, is
available on February 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to NRC–2022–
0190 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding
this document. You may obtain publicly
available information related to this
document using any of the following
methods:
• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2022–0190. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
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‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For
problems with ADAMS, please contact
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reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
415–4737, or by email to
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Charges: Changes in Decommissioning
SUMMARY:

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Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level
Waste Burial Facilities’’ is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML23044A207.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
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6814, email: Emil.Tabakov@nrc.gov.
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I. Discussion
Pursuant to section 50.75 of title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), ‘‘Reporting and Recordkeeping for
Decommissioning Planning,’’ the NRC
requires nuclear power reactor licensees
to adjust annually, in current year
dollars, their estimate of the cost to
decommission their plants. The annual
updates are part of the process for
providing reasonable assurance that
adequate funds for decommissioning
will be available when needed.
Revision 19 of NUREG–1307, ‘‘Report
on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in
Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs
at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities,’’
modifies Revision 18 to this report
issued in January 2021 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML21027A302) and
incorporates updates to the adjustment
factor and to the labor, energy, and
waste burial escalation factors of the
NRC minimum decommissioning fund
formula. The minimum
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