[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 242 (Tuesday, December 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77290-77291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-31663]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-17]


Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Materials License SNM-2509; 
Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) has 
issued Amendment 3 to Materials License No. SNM-2509 held by Portland 
General Electric Company (PGE) for the receipt, possession, storage, 
and transfer of spent fuel at the Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage 
Installation (ISFSI), located in Columbia County, Oregon. The amendment 
is effective as of the date of issuance.
    By application dated October 18, 2002, PGE requested an amendment 
to its ISFSI license to increase the Technical Specification for the 
Holtec International Multi Purpose Canister (MPC) helium backfill upper 
pressure limit from 33.3 psig to 39.3 psig at a reference temperature 
of 70[deg]F.
    This amendment complies with the standards and requirements of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's 
rules and regulations. The Commission has made appropriate findings as 
required by the Act and the Commission's rules and regulations in 10 
CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendment. An 
Environmental

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Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact regarding this 
amendment has been issued (67 FR 75865; December 10, 2002).
    In accordance with 10 CFR 72.46(b)(2), a determination has been 
made that the amendment does not present a genuine issue as to whether 
public health and safety will be significantly affected. Therefore, the 
publication of a notice of proposed action and an opportunity for 
hearing or a notice of hearing is not warranted. Notice is hereby given 
of the right of interested persons to request a hearing on whether the 
action should be rescinded or modified.
    For further details with respect to this amendment, see the 
application dated October 18, 2002, which is available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, One White Flint 
North Building, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD or from the 
publicly available records component of NRC's Agencywide Documents 
Access and Management System (ADAMS) under Accession No. ML022970061. 
The NRC maintains ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's 
public documents. These documents may be accessed through the NRC's 
Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there 
are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the 
NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-
415-4737 or by email to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of December 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Christopher M. Regan,
Project Manager, Licensing Section, Spent Fuel Project Office, Office 
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 02-31663 Filed 12-16-02; 8:45 am]
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