Five year template letter UPDATED with changes tracked

UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001

Date
President’s Name
Name of the Tribe
Address of the Tribe
Dear Chairman/President’s Name:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has committed to contacting all
Federally-recognized Native American Tribes Tribal nations every 5 years to determine whether
they would be interested in receiving, orbeginning or continue continuing to receive,receipt of
advance notification of certain types of nuclear waste shipments and commercial irradiated
reactor fuel shipments that are transported within or across Tribal reservations.1 The advance
notification requirements for these materials are found in Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) 71.97 and 73.37, respectively.
Affected Tribes listed in the enclosure have been identified as currently having NRC-approved
transportation routes that pass within or across Tribal reservations. If you are one of the Tribes
identified in the enclosure and choose to receive advance notifications, your Tribe will be
obligated to protect the schedules and itineraries of the shipments according to the NRC’s
Safeguards Information (SGI) requirements in 10 CFR 73.21 and 10 CFR 73.22. If your nation
has already opted in to receive these notifications and you wish to continue, there is no action
required of you at this time. The NRC periodically contacts the designated representative(s)
for your nation to confirm contact information for the person(s) designated to receive these
notifications. Participating Tribal nations are listed here: https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/statetribal/tribal-advance-notification.html#tribes . Please contact Jeffrey Lynch,
Jeffrey.lynch@nrc.gov, 301 415-5041, if your information is currently not accurate.
If you currently do not receive advance notifications and want to begin receiving notifications,
the Tribal leadership would need to provide the NRC the following information:
Contacts:
The name and contact information of the designated representative(s) for the notifications that
would be made pursuant to 10 CFR Parts 71 and 73. You may designate one individual as the
designated representative to receive the advance notifications and provide contact information
for this individual or choose to designate a back-up (or alternate) designee for those instances
where the designated representative is unavailable. (1) the names and their contact
information for a primary and secondary point of contact to receive notifications;
Safeguards Information Protection:
Confirmation that each designee has taken training, understands and will implement measures to protect
Safeguards Information (SGI). Information on shipments is considered SGI, which is a special category of
sensitive unclassified information that must be protected from unauthorized disclosure and shared only on a
need-to-know basis. The NRC will supply material for this training.
(2) confirmation that the points of contact provided have completed the required SGI training;
and (3)

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cConfirmation that the NRC has accurately depicted the Tribal reservation on a map. The NRC
will provide a map developed with data from the United Stated Geological Survey. Training on
SGI-related information protection and reservation maps with approved transportation routes
are available upon request for the identified Tribes in the enclosure from the NRC project
manager listed below.
Please Nnote that Tribal nationses have the option to receive or not receive advance notifications
by informing the NRC at any time. If your Tribe chooses not to opt in to receive advance
notification of shipments, no action is necessary. The NRC also plans to continue notifying any
Tribal nation e of new route approvals that pass within or across their Tribal reservations. If you
have questions or would like to begin receiving notifications, please contact [STAFF CONTACT],
project manager at (301) 415-XXXX or by email at XXXXXX@nrc.gov.

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information request has been approved by OMB 3150-0250 expiration 3/31/2025. The estimated burden per
response to comply with this voluntary collection is approximately 5.5 hours. Comments regarding this collection may
be submitted to the FOIA, Library, and Information Collections Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by e-mail to infocollects.resource@nrc.gov, and to the OMB Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs (3150- 0029), Attn: Desk Officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20503. If a means used to impose an information collection does not display a currently valid OMB
control number, the NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, the information
collection.

Tribal Chairman

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If you have any comments that you would like to provide or questions about this letter,
please contact [INSERT STAFF CONTACT] , project manager, at (301) 415-XXXX or by email at XXXXXXX@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,

Director
Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal
and Rulemaking Programs
Office of Nuclear Material Safety
and Safeguards
Enclosure:
Tribes that have NRC-Approved
Transportation Routes that Pass
Within or Across Tribal
ReservationsBrochure on Advance
Notification
cc: Tribal Department Head for Tribes
listed in the Enclosure

Tribes that have NRC-Approved Transportation Routes that Pass Within or Across Tribal
Reservations
1. Paiute (UT) Reservation - Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
2. Onondaga Indian Nation
3. Seneca Nation of Indians
4. Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians
5. Moapa Band of Indians
6. Navajo Nation
7. Gila River Indian Community
8. Colorado River Indian Tribe
9. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians
10. Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
11. Morongo Band of Mission Indians
12. Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe
13. Battle Mountain Band (Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada)
14. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation
15. Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation