[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59073-59074]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-23316]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-27; NRC-2011-0115]


Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Humboldt Bay Independent Spent 
Fuel Storage Installation; Amendment to Materials License No. SNM-2514

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviewed an 
application by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Company for amendment of 
Materials License No. SNM-2514 which authorizes PG&E to receive, 
possess, store, and transfer spent nuclear fuel and associated 
radioactive materials. The amendment would allow PG&E to store greater 
than Class C process waste at its Humboldt Bay (HB) independent spent 
fuel storage installation (ISFSI).

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0115 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2011-0115. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For 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

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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 ADAMS accession number 
for each document referenced in this document (if that document is 
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is 
referenced. The Humboldt Bay License Amendment Request No. 3 package is 
available electronically under ADAMS Accession No. ML12279A041.
     NRC's 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: Chris Allen, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-9225; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By application dated September 8, 2010, as 
supplemented January 28, April 1, and September 9, 2011; June 19, June 
25, and October 4, 2012; as well as January 16, March 7, and March 21, 
2013, PG&E submitted to the NRC, in accordance with part 72 of Title 10 
of the Code of Federal Register (10 CFR), a request to amend Materials 
License No. SNM-2514 for its HB ISFSI site located in Eureka, 
California. License No. SNM-2514 authorizes PG&E to receive, possess, 
store, and transfer spent nuclear fuel and associated radioactive 
materials resulting from the operation of the HB Power Plant in an 
ISFSI at the power plant site for a term of 20 years. Specifically, the 
amendment proposed modifying License Condition 7.B to add ``process 
wastes'' to the Chemical and Physical Form description of greater than 
Class C waste authorized to be received at the HB ISFSI.
    The NRC issued a letter dated April 14, 2011, notifying PG&E that 
the application was acceptable for review. In accordance with 10 CFR 
72.16, a Notice of Docketing was published in the Federal Register on 
May 27, 2011 (76 FR 30980). The Notice of Docketing included an 
opportunity to request a hearing and to petition for leave to 
intervene.
    The NRC prepared a Safety Evaluation Report (SER) that documents 
its review and evaluation of the amendment request. Also in connection 
with this action, the NRC prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) and 
a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). The Notice of Availability 
of the EA and FONSI for the HB ISFSI was published in the Federal 
Register on September 16, 2013 (78 FR 56944).
    Upon completing its review, the staff determined the request 
complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 
of 1954, as amended (the Act), as well as the NRC's rules and 
regulations. As required by the Act and the NRC's rules and regulations 
in 10 CFR Chapter I, the staff made the appropriate findings which are 
contained in the SER (ADAMS Accession No. ML13196A475). The NRC 
approved and issued Amendment No. 3 to Materials License No. SNM-2514, 
held by PG&E for the receipt, possession, transfer, and storage of 
spent fuel and associated radioactive materials at the HB ISFSI. 
Pursuant to 10 CFR 72.46(d), the NRC is providing notice of the action 
taken. Amendment No. 3 was effective as of the date of issuance, 
September 17, 2013.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of September, 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michele Sampson,
Chief, Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and 
Transportation, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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