Special Nuclear Material Inventory Reporting Requirements

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ACTION:

Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget; request for comment.

SUMMARY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of information
to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, NRC Form 327, “Special Nuclear
Material (SNM) and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory Summary Report, and NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for
Completing Physical Inventory.”

DATES:

Submit comments by May 4, 2026. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.

ADDRESSES:

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication
of this notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the
search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Heather Dempsey, Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone:
301-415-0856; email: Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2025-0049 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You
may obtain publicly available information related to this action by any of the following methods:

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2025-0049.

• NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select “Begin ADAMS Public Search.” For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document
Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at 301-415-4737, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. A copy of NRC Form 327 and related instructions may be obtained without charge by accessing ADAMS Accession No. ML25197A788.
The supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML26050A510.

• NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an appointment
to visit the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.

• NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by contacting the Acting NRC
Clearance Officer, Heather Dempsey, Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0856; email: Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov.

B. Submitting Comments

Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication
of this notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting “Currently under Review—Open for Public Comments” or by using the
search function.

The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission. All comment submissions are posted at https://www.regulations.gov and entered into ADAMS. Comment submissions are not routinely edited to remove identifying or contact information.

If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the OMB, then you should inform those persons
not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission.
Your request should state that comment submissions are not routinely edited to remove such information before making the comment
submissions available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Background

Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently submitted a request for
renewal of an existing collection of information to OMB for review entitled, NRC Form 327, “Special Nuclear Material (SNM)
and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory Summary Report, and NUREG/BR-0096, Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical
Inventory.” The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

The NRC published a
Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period on this information collection on December 11, 2025, 90 FR 57489.

1. The title of the information collection: NRC Form 327, Special Nuclear Material (SNM) and Source Material (SM) Physical Inventory Summary Report, and NUREG/BR-0096,

   Instructions and Guidance for Completing Physical Inventory.

2. OMB approval number: 3150-0139.

3. Type of submission: Extension.

4. The form number, if applicable: NRC Form 327.

5. How often the collection is required or requested: Certain licensees possessing strategic SNM are required to report inventories on NRC Form 327 every 6 months. Licensees possessing
   SNM of moderate strategic significance must report every 9 months, except one licensee (enrichment facility) reports its dynamic
   inventories every 3 months and its static inventory every 9 months. Licensees possessing SNM of low strategic significance
   must report annually, except one licensee (enrichment facility) that must report its dynamic inventories every 2 months and
   its static inventory annually.

6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Fuel facility licensees possessing SNM, i.e., enriched uranium, plutonium, or U-233.

7. The estimated number of annual responses: 77.

8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 7.

9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the information collection requirement or request: 308.

10. Abstract: NRC Form 327 is submitted by certain fuel cycle facility licensees to account for SNM. The data is used by the NRC to assess
    licensee material control and accounting programs and to confirm the absence of (or detect the occurrence of) SNM theft or
    diversion. NUREG/BR-0096 provides guidance and instructions for completing the form in accordance with the requirements appropriate
    for a particular licensee.

Dated: March 31, 2026. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Heather Dempsey, Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer. [FR Doc. 2026-06497 Filed 4-2-26; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P

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