[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 138 (Thursday, July 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33521-33523]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15239]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 72-1050; NRC-2016-0231]
Waste Control Specialists LLC's Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel
Storage Facility Project
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License application; withdrawal of notice of opportunity to
request a hearing.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing
the notice of opportunity to request a hearing for Waste Control
Specialists LLC's application to construct and operate a Consolidated
Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for spent nuclear fuel at WCS's
facility in Andrews County, Texas.
DATES: July 20, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0231 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-2016-0231. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463;
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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 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 ``Availability of Documents'' Section II 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: John-Chau Nguyen, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0262; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
By letter dated April 28, 2016, as supplemented on July 20, August
19, August 31, September 27, October 7, November 16, December 16,
December 22, 2016, and March 16, 2017, WCS submitted an application for
a specific license pursuant to part 72 of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Licensing Requirements for the
Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Radioactive
Waste, and Reactor-Related Greater Than Class C Waste.'' In its letter,
WCS requested authorization to store up to 5,000 metric tons of uranium
for a period of 40 years in a CISF.
In addition, by letter dated July 21, 2016, WCS requested that the
NRC initiate its environmental impact statement (EIS) process for the
WCS CISF license application as soon as practicable. By letter dated
October 7, 2016, the NRC informed WCS of its decision to start the EIS
process in advance of making a decision on docketing the application.
On November 14, 2016 (81 FR 79531), the NRC published a notice in the
Federal Register announcing its intent to prepare an EIS and to open
the scoping period for the EIS.
By letter dated January 26, 2017, the NRC informed WCS of its
decision to accept the application and proceed with the technical
review. Subsequently, on January 30, 2017 (82 FR 8773), the NRC
published a notice in the Federal Register announcing the acceptance
for docketing and opportunity to request a hearing and to petition for
leave to intervene of the WCS application.
By letter dated March 16, 2017, WCS submitted Revision 1 to its
license application. By letter dated April 18, 2017, WCS requested that
the NRC temporarily suspend all safety and environmental review
activities as well as public participation activities associated with
WCS' license application. On April 19, 2017, WCS and the NRC staff
jointly requested that the Commission withdraw the hearing notice,
explaining that a new Federal Register notice to provide a fresh
opportunity for interested persons to request a hearing would be issued
if review of the application resumes. On May 10, 2017, the NRC staff
granted WCS' request to temporarily suspend all safety and
environmental review activities as well as public participation
activities associated with its license application. On June 22, 2017,
the Commission granted WCS's and the NRC staff's request and further
directed that the NRC staff to publish a Federal Register notice
withdrawing the opportunity to request a hearing on this license
application and directed the NRC staff to publish a new notice of
opportunity to request a hearing in the Federal Register if WCS
requests that the NRC staff resume its review of WCS's application.
II. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through one or more of the following methods, as
indicated.
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Document ADAMS Accession No.
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WCS submittal of CISF license ML16132A533
application, with Environmental Report.
WCS letter with schedule for response to ML16193A314
NRC request for supplemental
information.
WCS initial submittal in response to NRC ML16229A537
request for supplemental information.
WCS submittal of supplemental security ML16235A467
information.
WCS request for NRC to begin EIS process ML16229A340
as soon as practicable.
WCS second submittal in response to NRC ML16265A454
request for supplemental information.
WCS submittal of additional supplemental ML16280A300
security information.
NRC response to WCS request to begin EIS ML16285A317
process as soon as practicable.
WCS third submittal in response to NRC ML16287A527
request for supplemental information.
WCS fourth submittal in response to NRC ML16330A116
request for supplemental information.
WCS fifth submittal in response to NRC ML16356A346
request for supplemental information.
WCS sixth submittal in response to NRC ML17018A292
request for supplemental information.
NRC letter accepting application for ML17018A168
review.
WCS license application Revision 1 ML17082A007
submittal.
WCS request NRC to temporarily suspend ML17110A206
all safety and environmental review
activities.
NRC granting WCS request to temporarily ML17129A314
suspend all safety and environmental
review activities.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of July 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John McKirgan,
Chief, Spent Fuel Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Management,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2017-15239 Filed 7-19-17; 8:45 am]
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