NRC Renews Old Reactor Event Reporting Worksheets
Published Date: 7/17/2026
Notice
Summary
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is renewing forms used by nuclear plants and facilities to report important events. This affects reactor operators and fuel cycle facilities who must keep submitting these event notifications without changes. Comments on this renewal are open until August 17, 2026, with no new costs or big changes expected.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Renewal Keeps Event Reporting Requirement
The NRC submitted a renewal of information collection for event notification worksheets that holders of NRC licenses for commercial nuclear power plants, fuel cycle facilities, non-power reactors, and NRC material licensees must use when making reportable telephonic notifications. The agency says this is a renewal (revision) with no new costs or big changes expected and has opened a comment period that ends on August 17, 2026.
Estimated Annual Compliance Burden
The NRC estimates the paperwork burden for these worksheets at 563 annual responses from 143 respondents, requiring a total of 281.5 hours annually to comply with the information collection. These numbers reflect the agency's estimate of the reporting workload tied to the forms (OMB approval number 3150-0238).
Forms Serve As Optional Phone Worksheets
The NRC Forms 361, 361A, 361N, and 361S are not required to be filled out or submitted; they are worksheets that show the order of data the NRC will request during telephonic event notifications so licensees can efficiently provide information. The worksheets are intended to reduce delays during phone reports to NRC Headquarters Operations Officers.
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