[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 247 (Monday, December 28, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68638-68639]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-30618]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-26; NRC-2009-0569]


Notice of Docketing of Amendment Request for Material License 
SNM-2511; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Diablo Canyon Independent 
Spent Fuel Storage Installation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Docketing of Amendment Request for Materials License 
SNM-2511.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Goshen, Project Manager, 
Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Telephone: (301) 492-
3325; fax number: (301) 492-3348; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is 
considering an application dated April 7, 2008, from Pacific Gas and 
Electric Company (PG&E) to amend its Special Nuclear Material License 
No. SNM-2511, under the provisions of 10 CFR Part 72, for the receipt, 
possession, storage and transfer of spent fuel, reactor-related Greater 
than Class C waste and other radioactive materials associated with 
spent fuel storage at the Diablo Canyon Independent Spent Fuel Storage 
Installation (ISFSI), located at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, 
Unit Nos. 1 and 2 site in San Luis Obispo County, California. If 
granted, the amendment will revise the technical specifications (TS) as 
follows:

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    1. Revise TS 3.1.1, ``Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC),'' to clarify 
the required helium leak rate condition and the leak rate testing 
requirements;
    2. Delete TS 3.1.4, ``Spent Fuel Storage Cask (SFSC) Time 
Limitation in Cask Transfer Facility (CTF),'' based on analysis of the 
thermal performance of the Holtec HI-STORM 100 system which shows there 
is no need for a required time limitation in the CTF;
    3. Revise TS 3.2.1, ``Dissolved Boron Concentration,'' to modify 
the dissolved boron concentrations required for MPC-32 canisters and, 
to allow linear interpolation for some enrichments consistent with the 
Holtec International (Holtec) Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1014, 
Amendment 3, for the HI-STORM 100 system;
    4. Add a note to both surveillance requirements of TS 3.2.1 to 
limit the monitoring requirement consistent with the Holtec CoC No. 
1014, Amendment 1, for the HI-STORM 100 system;
    5. Revise TS 4.1.1.a, b, and c, ``Design Features Significant to 
Safety,'' to allow use of Metamic Boron-10 as a neutron absorber for 
each of the specified MPC consistent with Holtec CoC No.1014, Amendment 
2, for the HI-STORM 100 system, and add TS 4.1.2, ``Design Features 
Important to Criticality Control,'' to define the material and testing 
requirements for the use of Metamic;
    6. Change the title of TS 4.3.4.a, ``Permanent Load Handling 
Equipment,'' to ``Weldment and Reinforced Concrete,'' which more 
correctly reflect the subject of the TS subparagraphs;
    7. Revise TS 4.3.4.b, ``Mobile Load Handling Equipment,'' to 
replace the term ``permanent load handling equipment'' with the term 
``the cask transporter,'' as the transporter is not considered a mobile 
load handling equipment within the context of TS 4.3.4.b; and
    8. Revise item b of TS 5.1.3, ``MPC and SFSC Loading, Unloading, 
and Preparation Program,'' to clarify the maintenance of the required 
conditions in the annular gap between the MPC and the transfer cask 
depending on which drying process is used and fuel heat load during MPC 
loading or unloading operations.
    This application was docketed under 10 CFR 72.16; the ISFSI Docket 
No. is 72-26 and will remain the same for this action. The NRC 
inadvertently failed to promptly publish this notice of docketing in 
the Federal Register after the NRC's receipt of the PG&E April 7, 2008, 
license amendment request. All other procedural requirements in Part 72 
will be met as the NRC continues to process this license amendment 
request (see section II of this notice, ``Opportunity to Request a 
Hearing'').
    The Commission will approve the license amendment if it determines 
that the application meets the standards and requirements of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Commission's 
regulations, and pursuant to 10 CFR 72.58, the findings required by 10 
CFR 72.40. These findings will be documented in a Safety Evaluation 
Report.

II. Opportunity To Request a Hearing

    The Commission may issue either a notice of hearing or a notice of 
proposed action and opportunity for hearing in accordance with 10 CFR 
72.46(b)(1) or, if a determination is made that the amendment does not 
present a genuine issue as to whether public health and safety will be 
significantly affected, take immediate action on the amendment in 
accordance with 10 CFR 72.46(b)(2) and provide notice of the action 
taken and an opportunity for interested persons to request a hearing on 
whether the action should be rescinded or modified.

III. Further Information

    Documents related to this action, including the application for 
amendment and supporting documentation, are available electronically at 
the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC's Agencywide 
Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and 
image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS accession number for 
the document related to this notice is ML081070073. 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 e-mail to 
[email protected].
    These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public 
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O1 F21, One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction 
contractor will copy documents for a fee.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of December 2009.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John Goshen, P.E.,
Project Manager, Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and 
Transportation, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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