[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 79 (Monday, April 25, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22935-22937]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-9930]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 [Docket No. 72-8; NRC-2011-0085]


Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, LLC Independent Spent Fuel 
Storage Installation; Notice of Docketing, Notice of Proposed Action, 
and Notice of Opportunity for a Hearing for Renewal of Special Nuclear 
Materials License No.-2505

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of license renewal, and opportunity to request a 
hearing.

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DATES: A request for hearing and/or petition for leave to intervene 
must be filed by June 24, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John M. 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, D.C. 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 September 17, 2010, as supplemented 
February 10, and March 9, 2011, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant 
(CCNPP), LLC, for the renewal of its Special Nuclear Material (SNM) 
License No.-2505, under the provisions of 10 CFR Part 72, for the 
receipt, possession, storage and transfer of spent fuel, reactor-
related Greater than Class C (GTCC) waste and other radioactive 
materials associated with spent fuel storage at the CCNPP site-specific 
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI), located near 
Lusby, Maryland. If granted, the renewed license will authorize the 
applicant to continue to store spent fuel in a dry cask storage system 
at the applicant's CCNPP ISFSI. Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 
72.42, the renewal term of the license for the ISFSI would be twenty 
(20) years; however, the applicant has submitted an exemption request 
with the license renewal application, which, if granted, would allow 
the license to be renewed for 40 years. On February 16, 2011, (76 FR 
8872) the revised 10 CFR 72.230(b) rule was published changing the 
renewal term to a period not to exceed 40 years to be effective May 17, 
2011. The exemption request is no longer required. The renewal

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application was docketed under 10 CFR Part 72; the ISFSI Docket No. is 
72-8.
    An NRC acceptance review, documented in a letter to CCNPP dated 
March 11, 2011, found that the application contains sufficient 
information for the NRC staff to begin its technical review. The 
Commission will approve the license renewal application 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, including the findings required by 10 CFR 
72.40. These findings will be documented in a Safety Evaluation Report. 
The NRC will complete an environmental evaluation, in accordance with 
10 CFR Part 51, to determine if the preparation of an environmental 
impact statement is warranted or if an environmental assessment and 
finding of no significant impact are appropriate. This action will be 
the subject of a subsequent notice in the Federal Register.

II. Opportunity To Request a Hearing

    The NRC hereby provides notice that this is a proceeding on an 
application for the renewal of SNM-2505 issued to CCNPP for its ISFSI 
located at the CCNPP site near Lusby, Maryland. All documents filed in 
NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including a request for hearing, a 
petition for leave to intervene, any motion or other document filed in 
the proceeding prior to the submission of a request for hearing or 
petition to intervene, and documents filed by interested governmental 
entities participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in 
accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139, August 28, 2007). 
The E-Filing process requires participants to submit and serve all 
adjudicatory documents over the internet, or in some cases to mail 
copies on electronic storage media. Participants may not submit paper 
copies of their filings unless they seek an exemption in accordance 
with the procedures described below.
    To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least 
ten (10) days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should 
contact the Office of the Secretary by e-mail at 
[email protected], or by telephone at 301-415-1677, to request (1) 
a digital ID certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel 
or representative) to digitally sign documents and access the E-
Submittal server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and 
(2) advise the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a 
request or petition for hearing (even in instances in which the 
participant, or its counsel or representative, already holds an NRC-
issued digital ID certificate). Based upon this information, the 
Secretary will establish an electronic docket for the hearing in this 
proceeding if the Secretary has not already established an electronic 
docket.
    Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is 
available on NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/apply-certificates.html. System requirements for accessing 
the E-Submittal server are detailed in NRC's ``Guidance for Electronic 
Submission,'' which is available on the agency's public Web site at 
http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants may 
attempt to use other software not listed on the Web site, but should 
note that the NRC's E-Filing system does not support unlisted software, 
and the NRC Meta System Help Desk will not be able to offer assistance 
in using unlisted software.
    If a participant is electronically submitting a document to the NRC 
in accordance with the E-Filing rule, the participant must file the 
document using the NRC's online, Web-based submission form. In order to 
serve documents through EIE, users will be required to install a Web 
browser plug-in from the NRC Web site. Further information on the Web-
based submission form, including the installation of the Web browser 
plug-in, is available on the NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
    Once a participant has obtained a digital ID certificate and a 
docket has been created, the participant can then submit a request for 
hearing or petition for leave to intervene. Submissions should be in 
Portable Document Format (PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance 
available on the NRC public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A filing is considered complete at the time the 
documents are submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be 
timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing system 
no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Upon receipt of 
a transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends 
the submitter an e-mail notice confirming receipt of the document. The 
E-Filing system also distributes an e-mail notice that provides access 
to the document to the NRC Office of the General Counsel and any others 
who have advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to 
participate in the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the 
documents on those participants separately. Therefore, applicants and 
other participants (or their counsel or representative) must apply for 
and receive a digital ID certificate before a hearing request/petition 
to intervene is filed so that they can obtain access to the document 
via the E-Filing system.
    A person filing electronically using the agency's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC Meta System 
Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC Web site 
at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by e-mail at 
[email protected], or by a toll-free call at 866-672-7640. The NRC 
Meta System Help Desk is available between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 
Time, Monday through Friday, excluding government holidays.
    Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not 
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, in 
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing 
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper 
format. Such filings must be submitted by: (1) First class mail 
addressed to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: 
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, express mail, or 
expedited delivery service to the Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth 
Floor, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 
20852, Attention: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. Participants 
filing a document in this manner are responsible for serving the 
document on all other participants. Filing is considered complete by 
first-class mail as of the time of deposit in the mail, or by courier, 
express mail, or expedited delivery service upon depositing the 
document with the provider of the service. A presiding officer, having 
granted an exemption request from using E-Filing, may require a 
participant or party to use E-Filing if the presiding officer 
subsequently determines that the reason for granting the exemption from 
use of E-Filing no longer exists.
    Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in 
NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at 
http://ehd1.nrc.gov/EHD/, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the 
Commission, or the presiding officer. Participants are requested not to 
include personal privacy information, such as social security numbers, 
home addresses, or home phone numbers in their filings, unless an NRC 
regulation or other law

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requires submission of such information. With respect to copyrighted 
works, except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose of the 
adjudicatory filings and would constitute a Fair Use application, 
participants are requested not to include copyrighted materials in 
their submission.
    Petitions for leave to intervene must be filed no later than 60 
days from April 25, 2011. Non-timely filings will not be entertained 
absent a determination by the presiding officer that the petition or 
request should be granted or the contentions should be admitted, based 
on a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)-
(viii).

III. Further Information

    Documents related to this action, including the application for 
renewal and supporting documentation, are available online in the NRC 
Library 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 numbers for the documents related to 
this notice are: License Renewal Application dated September 17, 2010 
(ML102650247), supplements dated February 10 and March 9, 2011, 
(ML110620120 and ML110730731) and the acceptance review letter dated 
March 11, 2011 (ML110730101). 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, O 1 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 14th day of April, 2011.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John Goshen,
Project Manager, Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and 
Transportation, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2011-9930 Filed 4-22-11; 8:45 am]
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