[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 182 (Friday, September 19, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 56263-56264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22250]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 51
[NRC-2012-0246]
RIN 3150-AJ20
Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Storage of
Spent Nuclear Fuel
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Generic environmental impact statement.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has published the final generic environmental impact
statement (GEIS), NUREG-2157, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement
for Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel.'' NUREG-2157 addresses the
environmental impacts of continued storage of spent nuclear fuel beyond
the licensed life for operations of a reactor and provides a regulatory
basis for the NRC's final rule on the environmental impacts of
continued storage of spent nuclear fuel beyond the licensed life for
operations of a reactor.
DATES: The generic environmental impact statement is available
September 19, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0246 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:
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Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0246. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual 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
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]. 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 two volumes of the final GEIS are
available electronically in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML14196A105 and
ML14196A107.
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.
In addition, the final GEIS may be accessed online at the NRC's Web
page at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sarah Lopas, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-0675, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In response to a ruling by the Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (New York v. NRC, 681 F.3d
471) that vacated the NRC's former Waste Confidence rule (Sec. 51.23
of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)), the NRC
developed a revised rule supported by a GEIS. NUREG-2157, ``Generic
Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear
Fuel'' provides a regulatory basis for the final rule and generically
determines the environmental impacts of continued storage of spent fuel
beyond the licensed life for operation of a reactor (continued
storage). Concurrently with this document, the NRC is publishing the
final rule, ``Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel'' (RIN 3150-AJ20;
NRC-2012-0246), in the Rules section of this issue of the Federal
Register. The final rule codifies the results of the analyses in NUREG-
2157 in 10 CFR 51.23 and makes other conforming changes to 10 CFR part
51.
The NRC prepared the GEIS to satisfy its National Environmental
Policy Act obligations regarding the environmental impacts of continued
storage. A notice of intent to prepare a draft environmental impact
statement and conduct scoping was published in the Federal Register on
October 25, 2012 (77 FR 65137). The draft GEIS notice of availability
and public meetings, and request for comment, was published on
September 13, 2013 (78 FR 56621). Additional draft GEIS public meeting
notices were published on September 19, 2013 (78 FR 57538); October 29,
2013 (78 FR 64412; 78 FR 64413); and November 4, 2013 (78 FR 65903). An
extension to the comment period was published on November 7, 2013 (78
FR 66858). The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that the
final GEIS is available for public inspection.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of September, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul Michalak,
Acting Director, Waste Confidence Directorate, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2014-22250 Filed 9-18-14; 8:45 am]
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