[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 235 (Wednesday, December 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71081-71082]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26903]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-25]


Notice of Issuance of Materials License SNM-2512 for the Idaho 
Spent Fuel Facility

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Issuance of Materials License.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James R. Hall, Senior Project Manager, 
Spent Fuel Project Office, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. 
Telephone: (301) 415-1336; fax number: (301) 415-8555; e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC 
or the Commission) has issued Materials License No. SNM-2512 to the 
Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation (FWENC) for the receipt, 
possession, storage, and transfer of spent fuel at the Idaho Spent Fuel 
(ISF) Facility, an independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) 
to be located at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental 
Laboratory (INEEL), located in Butte County, Idaho. This Materials 
License is issued under the provisions of Title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations, Part 72 (10 CFR Part 72), and is effective as of 
the date of issuance. A license for an ISFSI under 10 CFR Part 72 is 
issued for 20 years, but the licensee may seek to renew the license 
prior to its expiration.
    The ISF Facility is licensed to provide interim dry storage for 
approximately 22 metric tons of heavy metal contained in unique fuel 
elements and associated radioactive materials resulting from the

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operation of the Peach Bottom Unit 1 high-temperature gas reactor, the 
Shippingport light water breeder reactor, and various Training, 
Research, and Isotope reactors built by General Atomics (TRIGA 
reactors). The ISF Facility is designed for the repackaging of specific 
quantities of this spent nuclear fuel, currently stored by the U.S. 
Department of Energy (DOE) at the INEEL, into new storage canisters, 
followed by its placement into an interim dry storage vault, in 
preparation for eventual shipment to a high-level waste geologic 
repository. The ISF Facility represents one element of a Settlement 
Agreement, dated October 17, 1995, among the DOE, the U.S. Navy, and 
the State of Idaho, regarding waste removal and environmental cleanup 
at the INEEL.
    Following receipt of FWENC's application dated November 19, 2001, 
the NRC staff published a ``Notice of Docketing, Notice of 
Consideration of Issuance, and Notice of Opportunity for a Hearing for 
a Materials License for the Idaho Spent Fuel Facility'' in the Federal 
Register on June 27, 2002 (67 FR 43358). In conjunction with the 
issuance of this license, the staff published a final environmental 
impact statement (FEIS), ``Environmental Impact Statement for the 
Proposed Idaho Spent Fuel Facility at the Idaho National Engineering 
and Environmental Laboratory in Butte County, Idaho,'' (NUREG-1773, 
Final Report, January 2004). A Notice of Availability of the FEIS was 
published in the Federal Register on February 27, 2004 (69 FR 9387). 
The staff has determined that no significant environmental impacts will 
be generated as a result of construction and operation of the proposed 
ISF Facility.
    The NRC staff has completed its environmental safeguards, and 
safety reviews of the Idaho Spent Fuel Facility license application and 
safety analysis report, as amended. The NRC staff issued Materials 
License No. SNM-2512 and its Safety Evaluation Report (SER) for the 
Idaho Spent Fuel Facility on November 30, 2004.
    Further details with respect to this action are provided in the 
application dated November 19, 2001, as amended November 8, 2002, and 
March 28 and November 14, 2003; the staff's FEIS dated January 2004; 
Materials License SNM-2512 and the staff's SER, dated November 30, 
2004; and other related documents, which are normally available in the 
records component of NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS). The NRC maintains ADAMS, which provides text and image 
files of NRC's public documents. However, as of October 25, 2004, the 
NRC initiated an additional security review of publicly available 
documents to ensure that potentially sensitive information is removed 
from the ADAMS database accessible through the NRC's Web site. 
Interested members of the public should check the NRC's web pages for 
updates on the availability of documents through the ADAMS system. When 
public availability is restored, 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. After resumption of public 
access to ADAMS, copies of the referenced documents will also be 
available for review at the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), located at 
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD, 20852. PDR reference staff can be 
contacted at 1-800-397-4209, (301) 415-4737 or by e-mail to 
[email protected]. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy documents for a 
fee.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of November, 2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James R. Hall,
Senior Project Manager, Licensing Section, Spent Fuel Project Office, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 04-26903 Filed 12-7-04; 8:45 am]
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