[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 23877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11115]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-17]


Portland General Electric Company; Notice of Issuance of 
Materials License SNM-2509; Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage 
Installation

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) has 
issued a Materials License under the provisions of title 10 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations, part 72 (10 CFR part 72), to Portland General 
Electric Company (PGE), authorizing receipt and storage of spent fuel 
into an independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) located on 
site at its Trojan Nuclear Plant in Columbia County, Oregon.
    The function of the ISFSI is to provide interim storage, in dry 
storage casks, for up to 344.5 metric tons of uranium contained in fuel 
assemblies, damaged fuel assemblies and fuel debris from the Trojan 
Nuclear Plant. The cask that is authorized for use is a Trojan site-
specific model of the TranStor Storage Cask designed by BNFL Fuel 
Solutions Corporation. The license for an ISFSI under 10 CFR part 72 is 
issued for 20 years, but the licensee may seek to renew the license, if 
necessary, prior to its expiration.
    The Commission's Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards 
(NMSS) has completed its environmental, safeguards, and safety reviews 
in support of issuance of this license.
    Following receipt of the application filed March 26, 1996, a 
``Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Materials License for the 
Storage of Spent Fuel and Opportunity for Hearing'' was published in 
the Federal Register on April 25, 1996 (61 FR 18448). The 
``Environmental Assessment (EA) Related to the Construction and 
Operation of the Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation and 
Finding of No Significant Impact,'' was issued and noticed in the 
Federal Register (61 FR 64378, December 4, 1996) in accordance with 10 
CFR part 51. The scope of the EA included the construction and 
operation of an ISFSI on the Trojan Nuclear Plant site including 
impacts derived from use of the TranStor cask.
    The staff has completed its safety review of the Trojan ISFSI site 
application and safety analysis report. The NRC staff's ``Safety 
Evaluation Report for the Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage 
Installation'' was issued on March 31, 1999. Materials License SNM-
2509, the staff's Environmental Assessment, Safety Evaluation Report, 
and other documents related to this action are available for public 
inspection and for copying for a fee at the NRC Public Document Room, 
the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20555, and the 
Local Public Document Room at the Portland State University, Branford 
Price Millar Library, 934 SW Harrison, Portland, Oregon 97207.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of March 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
E. William Brach,
Director, Spent Fuel Project Office, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 99-11115 Filed 5-3-99; 8:45 am]
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