[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 50 (Thursday, March 16, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 14039]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-05294]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket 72-1050; NRC-2016-0231]
Waste Control Specialists LLC's Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel
Storage Facility
AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Environmental impact statement; extension of scoping comment
period; additional public scoping comment meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requested public
comments on the scope of NRC's environmental impact statement (EIS) for
the Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) proposed consolidated interim
storage facility (CISF) for spent nuclear fuel, to be located on WCS'
site in Andrews County, Texas. The public scoping period closed on
March 13, 2017. The NRC has decided to re-open the public scoping
period to allow more time for members of the public to develop and
submit their comments. The NRC also has scheduled an additional meeting
where members of the public may present comments to the NRC.
DATES: Comments should be filed no later than April 28, 2017. Comments
received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do
so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before that date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0231. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Ms. Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Ms. 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: James Park, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington
DC, 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6954; or email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0231 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-2016-0231.
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 via email to: [email protected].
Documents related to WCS' license application can be found under Docket
Number 72-1050.
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.
Project Web page: Information related to the WCS CISF
project, including the WCS license application, can be accessed on the
NRC's WCS CISF Web page at: http://www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-fuel-storage/cis/waste-control-specialist.html.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0231 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
On November 14, 2016, the NRC published in the Federal Register (81
FR 79531), a notice of its intent to prepare an EIS on WCS' proposed
CISF for spent nuclear fuel and requested public comments on the scope
of the EIS. The NRC published a second notice on January 30, 2017 (82
FR 8771), that set March 13, 2017, as the closing date for the scoping
period. The NRC has received scoping comments that requested an
extension of time. While the NRC is still in the process of reviewing
comments received, it appears that most of these extension requests
seek a 90-day extension to the scoping period. After considering these
requests, the NRC has decided to re-open the scoping period to allow
more time for members of the public to develop and submit their
comments. Comments should be submitted by April 28, 2017, to ensure
consideration.
The NRC also will hold an additional public scoping meeting at the
NRC headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, on Thursday, April 6, 2017.
Persons interested in attending this meeting should check the NRC's
Public Meeting Schedule Web page at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg for
the time and agenda for the meeting. The NRC is planning to transmit
the public meeting via webcast and to provide a telephone bridge line
for members of the public who cannot attend the meeting in person.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of March 2017.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian W. Smith,
Deputy Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and
Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2017-05294 Filed 3-15-17; 8:45 am]
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