[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 129 (Tuesday, July 7, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38780-38782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-16540]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2015-0106]
Standard Review Plan for Renewal of Specific Licenses and
Certificates of Compliance for Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public
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comment draft NUREG-1927, Revision 1, ``Standard Review Plan for
Renewal of Specific Licenses and Certificates of Compliance for Dry
Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel.'' The draft NUREG provides guidance to
the NRC staff for the safety review of renewal applications for
specific licenses of independent spent fuel storage installations
(ISFSIs) and certificates of compliance (CoCs) of spent fuel storage
casks. The NRC is soliciting public comments on this draft NUREG and
will consider received comments as it finalizes the guidance.
DATES: Submit comments by August 21, 2015. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received before this
date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0106. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristina Banovac, telephone: 301-415-
7116; email: [email protected]; or Ricardo Torres, telephone:
301-415-7508; email: [email protected]. Both are staff of the
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0106 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0106.
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].
Draft NUREG-1927, Revision 1, ``Standard Review Plan for Renewal of
Specific Licenses and Certificates of Compliance for Dry Storage of
Spent Nuclear Fuel'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML15180A011.
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-2015-0106 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely 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 that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
NUREG-1927, Revision 0, ``Standard Review Plan for Renewal of Spent
Fuel Dry Cask Storage System Licenses and Certificates of Compliance''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML111020115) was published in March 2011 to
provide guidance to the staff for the safety review of renewal
applications for specific licenses of ISFSIs and CoCs of spent fuel
storage casks. Since that time, staff's experience with spent fuel
storage renewal reviews has indicated a need for augmented and
clarified guidance. In 2014, the staff engaged with stakeholders in
public meetings to obtain input on potential changes to the guidance.
The staff developed the revised guidance in draft NUREG-1927, Revision
1, which addresses staff's recent review experience and valuable input
received from stakeholders.
Proposed changes and clarifications have been made throughout draft
NUREG-1927, Revision 1.
The staff expanded guidance in the following areas:
Application content;
Scoping evaluation;
Aging management review;
Time-limited aging analyses; and
Elements of an aging management program (AMP).
The staff developed new guidance in the following areas:
Timely renewal;
Amendment applications submitted during renewal reviews
and after the renewal is issued;
Use of conditions for ensuring AMPs remain adequate during
the period of extended operation;
Commencement of AMPs for CoC renewals;
Implementation of AMPs; and
Learning AMPs that consider and respond to operating
experience.
The staff expanded guidance on scoping and aging management of fuel
internals, which consolidated the discussion on retrievability in
Revision 0. The staff deleted appendices that added minimal value to
the review process and developed new appendices on the following
topics:
Example AMPs;
Lead system inspections;
Use of a demonstration program as a surveillance tool for
high burnup fuel performance;
Considerations for CoC renewals; and
Storage terms (and calculation of length of time that a
dry cask storage system can remain loaded).
The staff will review and consider public comments received on
draft NUREG-1927, Revision 1, as it finalizes the guidance. Although
comments are invited on any areas of the draft guidance, the staff is
specifically seeking input on the following areas: AMP discussion in
Section 3.6; example AMPs in Appendix B; lead system inspections in
Appendix C; and the aging management review consideration of the
duration of time between the fabrication of a component and its
deployment in the ISFSI, in Chapter 3. In addition, the staff invites
comments on options for an operating experience
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sharing program to be used to obtain, aggregate, and enter site-
specific and industry-wide operating experience, as discussed in
Section 3.6.1.10.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of June 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anthony H. Hsia,
Deputy Director, Division of Spent Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-16540 Filed 7-6-15; 8:45 am]
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