[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 46 (Monday, March 10, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 13260-13261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05107]
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Proposed Rules
Federal Register
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in
the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.
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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 46 / Monday, March 10, 2014 /
Proposed Rules
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 72
[NRC-2013-0236]
RIN 3150-AJ28
List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Transnuclear, Inc.
Standardized NUHOMS[supreg] Cask System
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to
amend its spent fuel storage regulations by revising the Transnuclear,
Inc. Standardized NUHOMS[supreg] Cask System listing within the ``List
of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks'' to include Amendment No. 13 to
Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1004. Amendment No. 13 includes
changes to: (1) Add two new dry shielded canisters (DSCs), the -37PTH
and the -69BTH; (2) add new approved contents, including blended low
enriched uranium fuel, and control components to already approved DSCs;
and (3) extend the use of the high-seismic horizontal storage module
for storage of already approved DSCs. In addition, the amendment makes
several other changes as described in Section III of the direct final
rule published in the Rules and Regulation section of this issue of the
Federal Register.
DATES: Submit comments by April 9, 2014. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC staff
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related
to this proposed rulemaking, which the NRC possesses and is publicly
available, by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
NRC-2013-0236. You may submit comments by any one of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0236. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, telephone: 301-287-
3422, email: [email protected]. For technical questions, please
contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this document.
Email comments to: [email protected]. If you do
not receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact
us at 301-415-1677.
Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission at 301-415-1101.
Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and
Adjudications Staff.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Trussell, Office of Federal
and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-
6445, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0236 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this proposed rule. You may
access publicly-available information related to this proposed
rulemaking by the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0236.
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 ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is
referenced.
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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0236 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS, and the NRC does not edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information in their comment submissions
that they do not want to be publicly disclosed. Your request should
state that the NRC will not edit comment submissions to remove such
information before making the comment submissions available to the
public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
II. Procedural Background
This rule is limited to the changes contained in Amendment No. 13
to CoC No. 1004 and does not include other aspects of the Transnuclear,
Inc., Standardized NUHOMS[supreg] Cask System design. Because the NRC
considers this action noncontroversial and routine, the NRC is
publishing this proposed rule concurrently as a direct final rule in
the Rules and Regulations section of this issue of the Federal
Register. Adequate protection of public health and safety continues to
be ensured. The direct final rule will become effective on May 24,
2014. However, if the NRC receives significant adverse comments on this
proposed rule by April 9, 2014, then the NRC will publish a document
that withdraws the direct final rule. If the
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direct final rule is withdrawn, the NRC will address the comments
received in response to these proposed revisions in a subsequent final
rule. Absent significant modifications to the proposed revisions
requiring republication, the NRC will not initiate a second comment
period on this action in the event the direct final rule is withdrawn.
A significant adverse comment is a comment where the commenter
explains why the rule would be inappropriate, including challenges to
the rule's underlying premise or approach, or would be ineffective or
unacceptable without a change. A comment is adverse and significant if:
(1) The comment opposes the rule and provides a reason sufficient
to require a substantive response in a notice-and-comment process. For
example, a substantive response is required when:
(a) The comment causes the NRC staff to reevaluate (or reconsider)
its position or conduct additional analysis;
(b) The comment raises an issue serious enough to warrant a
substantive response to clarify or complete the record; or
(c) The comment raises a relevant issue that was not previously
addressed or considered by the NRC staff.
(2) The comment proposes a change or an addition to the rule, and
it is apparent that the rule would be ineffective or unacceptable
without incorporation of the change or addition.
(3) The comment causes the NRC staff to make a change (other than
editorial) to the rule, CoC, or Technical Specifications.
For additional procedural information and the regulatory analysis,
see the direct final rule published in the Rules and Regulations
section of this issue of the Federal Register.
III. Background
Section 218(a) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) of 1982, as
amended, requires that ``the Secretary [of the Department of Energy]
shall establish a demonstration program, in cooperation with the
private sector, for the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel at civilian
nuclear power reactor sites, with the objective of establishing one or
more technologies that the [Nuclear Regulatory] Commission may, by
rule, approve for use at the sites of civilian nuclear power reactors
without, to the maximum extent practicable, the need for additional
site-specific approvals by the Commission.'' Section 133 of the NWPA
states, in part, that ``[the Commission] shall, by rule, establish
procedures for the licensing of any technology approved by the
Commission under Section 219(a) [sic: 218(a)] for use at the site of
any civilian nuclear power reactor.''
To implement this mandate, the Commission approved dry storage of
spent nuclear fuel in NRC-approved casks under a general license by
publishing a final rule, which added a new Subpart K within Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 72, entitled ``General
License for Storage of Spent Fuel at Power Reactor Sites'' (55 FR
29181; July 18, 1990). This rule also established a new Subpart L
within 10 CFR part 72, entitled ``Approval of Spent Fuel Storage
Casks,'' which contains procedures and criteria for obtaining NRC
approval of spent fuel storage cask designs. The NRC subsequently
issued a final rule on December 22, 1994 (59 FR 65898), that approved
the Standardized NUHOMS[supreg] Cask System design and added it to the
list of NRC-approved cask designs in 10 CFR 72.214 as CoC No. 1004.
List of Subjects in 10 CFR Part 72
Administrative practice and procedure, Criminal penalties, Manpower
training programs, Nuclear materials, Occupational safety and health,
Penalties, Radiation protection, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Security measures, Spent fuel, Whistleblowing.
For the reasons set out in the preamble and under the authority of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; the Energy Reorganization
Act of 1974, as amended; the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as
amended, and 5 U.S.C. 553; the NRC is proposing to adopt the following
amendments to 10 CFR part 72.
PART 72--LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE INDEPENDENT STORAGE OF
SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL, HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE, AND REACTOR-
RELATED GREATER THAN CLASS C WASTE
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1. The authority citation for part 72 continues to read as follows:
Authority: Atomic Energy Act secs. 51, 53, 57, 62, 63, 65, 69,
81, 161, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 189, 223, 234, 274 (42 U.S.C.
2071, 2073, 2077, 2092, 2093, 2095, 2099, 2111, 2201, 2232, 2233,
2234, 2236, 2237, 2238, 2273, 2282, 2021); Energy Reorganization Act
secs. 201, 202, 206, 211 (42 U.S.C. 5841, 5842, 5846, 5851);
National Environmental Policy Act sec. 102 (42 U.S.C. 4332); Nuclear
Waste Policy Act secs. 131, 132, 133, 135, 137, 141, 148 (42 U.S.C.
10151, 10152, 10153, 10155, 10157, 10161, 10168); sec. 1704, 112
Stat. 2750 (44 U.S.C. 3504 note); Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L.
109-58, 119 Stat. 549 (2005).
Section 72.44(g) also issued under secs. Nuclear Waste Policy
Act 142(b) and 148(c), (d) (42 U.S.C. 10162(b), 10168(c), (d)).
Section 72.46 also issued under Atomic Energy Act sec. 189 (42
U.S.C. 2239); Nuclear Waste Policy Act sec. 134 (42 U.S.C. 10154).
Section 72.96(d) also issued under Nuclear Waste Policy Act sec.
145(g) (42 U.S.C. 10165(g)). Subpart J also issued under Nuclear
Waste Policy Act secs. 117(a), 141(h) (42 U.S.C. 10137(a),
10161(h)). Subpart K is also issued under sec. 218(a) (42 U.S.C.
10198).
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2. In Sec. 72.214, Certificate of Compliance 1004 is revised to read
as follows:
Sec. 72.214 List of approved spent fuel storage casks.
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Certificate Number: 1004.
Initial Certificate Effective Date: January 23, 1995.
Amendment Number 1 Effective Date: April 27, 2000.
Amendment Number 2 Effective Date: September 5, 2000.
Amendment Number 3 Effective Date: September 12, 2001.
Amendment Number 4 Effective Date: February 12, 2002.
Amendment Number 5 Effective Date: January 7, 2004.
Amendment Number 6 Effective Date: December 22, 2003.
Amendment Number 7 Effective Date: March 2, 2004.
Amendment Number 8 Effective Date: December 5, 2005.
Amendment Number 9 Effective Date: April 17, 2007.
Amendment Number 10 Effective Date: August 24, 2009.
Amendment Number 11 Effective Date: January 7, 2014.
Amendment Number 12 Effective Date: Amendment not issued by the
NRC.
Amendment Number 13 Effective Date: May 24, 2014.
SAR Submitted by: Transnuclear, Inc.
SAR Title: Final Safety Analysis Report for the Standardized
NUHOMS[supreg] Horizontal Modular Storage System for Irradiated Nuclear
Fuel.
Docket Number: 72-1004.
Certificate Expiration Date: January 23, 2015.
Model Number: NUHOMS[supreg]-24P, -24PHB, -24PTH, -32PT, -32PTH1, -
37PTH, -52B, -61BT, -61BTH, and -69BTH.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of December, 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael F. Weber,
Acting Executive Director for Operations.
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