[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51625-51626]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-20670]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 70-7018; NRC-2013-0115]
Tennessee Valley Authority for Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant Unit
2; Special Nuclear Materials License Renewal
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License renewal; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has renewed
Materials License No. SNM-2014 held by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
to possess, inspect and store an initial core of special nuclear
material (SNM) in the form of fresh fuel assemblies at TVA's Watts Bar
site in Spring City, Tennessee. On August, 23, 2012, TVA submitted its
renewal application for their SNM license to extend their license
expiration. NRC has reviewed TVA's license renewal application and
submittals, and has renewed TVA's license to expire on September 30,
2017.
DATES: August 29, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0115 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain 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-2013-0115. 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 obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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]. For
the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided
in a table in the ``Further Information'' section of this document.
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: Marilyn Diaz, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-9068, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Pursuant to Section 2.106 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC is providing notice of the issuance of
License Renewal to Material License No. SNM-2014, to continue to
possess, inspect and store an initial core of SNM in the form of fresh
fuel assemblies at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2 site in Spring
City, Tennessee. This license is subject to the requirements of 10 CFR
Part 70, Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material. The licensee's
request for renewal of its license was previously noticed in the
Federal Register on August 22, 2013 (78 FR 52219), with a notice of an
opportunity to request a hearing. No hearing requests were received. In
accordance with 10 CFR Part 51, an environmental assessment of this
action was completed and a finding of no significant impact was
published in the Federal Register on December 17, 2013 (78 FR 76328).
This license renewal complies with the standards and requirements
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the NRC's rules and
regulations as set forth in 10 CFR Chapter 1. Accordingly, this license
renewal was issued on July 24, 2014, and is effective immediately.
II. Further Information
The NRC has prepared a Safety Evaluation Report that documents the
information that was reviewed and the NRC's conclusion In accordance
with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRC's ``Rules of Practice,'' the details with
respect to this action, including the SER and accompanying
documentation and license, 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 the
NRC's public documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for the documents
related to this notice are:
1 TVA's renewal application for Watt ML12278A337
Bar Unit 2 part 70 license, August
23, 2012.
2 Response to Request for Additional ML13189A033
Information, July 1, 2013.
3 Renewal of SNM-2014 For WBN-2 ML14050A169
Letter to J. Grimes, July 24, 2014.
4 NRC Safety Evaluation Report, July ML14050A171
24, 2014.
5 Renewed Special Materials License ML14050A170
for WBN-2, July 24, 2014.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25 day of August, 2014.
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For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marilyn Diaz,
Project Manager, Fuel Manufacturing Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle
Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2014-20670 Filed 8-28-14; 8:45 am]
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