[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 182 (Thursday, September 19, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57668-57669]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-22802]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2013-0216]


U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Planned for Monitoring 
Activities for the Saltstone Disposal Facility at the Savannah River 
Site, Revision 1

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of issuance; availability.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the 
availability of ``U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Plan for 
Monitoring Disposal Actions Taken by the U.S. Department of Energy at 
the Savannah River Site Saltstone Disposal Facility in Accordance With 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005, Revision 
1,'' (NDAA) dated September 2013.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0216 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0216. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For

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technical questions, contact the individual(s) listed in the FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC 
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the 
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's 
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. The Salstone Disposal 
Facility Monitoring Plan, Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML13100A113. The letter to Mr. Mark A. Gilbertson, (DOE) 
is also in ADAMS under Accession No. ML13100A081.
     NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): You may examine and 
purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Harry Felsher, Office of Federal and 
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
6559; and email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The document describes the NRC staff's 
planned activities in carrying out its responsibilities for monitoring 
DOE's waste disposal activities at the Saltstone Disposal Facility 
(SDF) at the Savannah River Site, in accordance with the NDAA for 
Fiscal Year 2005. The NRC staff developed a Technical Evaluation Report 
(TER) for the SDF in December 2005, as part of the NRC consultation 
with DOE in its waste determination. In the 2005 TER, NRC documented 
the results of its review and concluded that there was reasonable 
assurance that the applicable criteria of NDAA could be met, provided 
certain assumptions made in the DOE analyses were verified via 
monitoring. Taking into consideration the assumptions, conclusions, and 
recommendations in the 2005 TER, DOE issued the final waste 
determination in January 2006. In 2007, NRC issued Revision 0 of the 
SDF Monitoring Plan based on the 2005 NRC TER and the DOE final waste 
determination. In 2009, DOE submitted a revised performance assessment 
to NRC. After its review, NRC issued a new TER in April 2012. In the 
2012 TER, NRC concluded that it did not have reasonable assurance that 
salt waste disposal at the SDF met the performance objectives in 10 CFR 
Part 61, specifically Sec.  61.41. In the issued document, the NRC 
staff identified specific areas that it intends to monitor in assessing 
DOE's compliance with the performance objectives. The document 
describes what the NRC staff intends to do in each of those areas, as 
well as other activities that will be performed to allow a complete 
assessment of compliance with the performance objectives. In finalizing 
the document, the NRC staff considered comments and input from the 
State of South Carolina.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of September, 2013.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Aby S. Mohseni,
Deputy Director, Environmental Protection and Performance Assessment 
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, 
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management 
Programs.
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