[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 182 (Thursday, September 21, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44218-44220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20156]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 72-16; NRC-2015-0237]
Virginia Electric and Power Company; North Anna Power Station
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License amendment application; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reviewed an
application by Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion) for an
amendment to License No. SNM-2507 in the form of changes to the
Technical Specifications (TS). Under this license, Dominion is
authorized to receive, possess, store, and transfer spent nuclear fuel
and associated radioactive materials at the North Anna Power Station
(NAPS) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). Dominion
requested approval of the TS changes to allow storage of spent fuel in
a modified TN-32B bolted lid cask as part of the High Burn-up Dry
Storage Cask Research and Development Project sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Energy and the Electric Power Research Institute. Data
gathered from the cask will be used to confirm the effects of long-term
dry storage on high burn-up assemblies.
DATES: September 21, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0237 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
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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-2015-0237. Address
questions about NRC dockets to 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.
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]. The
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this
document. In addition, for the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS
accession numbers are provided in a table in the ``Availability of
Documents'' 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: Chris Allen, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6877; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
By letter dated August 24, 2015, as supplemented October 8,
November 18, November 19, December 1, and December 28, 2015; January
14, March 22, March 23, April 21, June 21, July 26, September 23,
November 22, 2016, and April 10, 2017, Dominion submitted to the NRC,
in accordance with part 72 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Register
(10 CFR), a request to amend License No. SNM-2507 for its NAPS ISFSI
located in Louisa County, Virginia. This ISFSI contains spent fuel that
was generated at the NAPS Unit 1 and 2 reactors. License No. SNM-2507
authorizes Dominion to receive, possess, store, and transfer spent
nuclear fuel and associated radioactive materials at the NAPS ISFSI.
Specifically, Dominion requested approval to revise the NAPS ISFSI TS
to allow storage of spent fuel in a modified TN-32B bolted lid cask as
part of the High Burn-up Dry Storage Cask Research and Development
Project sponsored by the Department of Energy and the Electric Power
Research Institute.
The NRC issued a letter dated September 25, 2015, notifying
Dominion that the application was acceptable for review. In accordance
with 10 CFR 72.46(a), a notice of proposed action and opportunity for
hearing was published in the Federal Register on October 13, 2015 (80
FR 61500). No requests for a hearing or for leave to intervene were
submitted. Accordingly, pursuant to 10 CFR 72.46(d), the NRC is
publishing this notice that the action proposed by Dominion in its
license amendment request has been taken.
The NRC prepared a safety evaluation report that documents its
review and evaluation of the amendment request. Also in connection with
this action, the NRC prepared an Environmental Assessment containing a
Finding of No Significant Impact. The Notice of Availability of the
Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the
NAPS ISFSI was published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2016 (81
FR 42743).
Upon completing its review, the staff determined that the amendment
request complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), as well as the NRC's
applicable regulations. As required by the Act and such regulations,
the staff made the appropriate findings which are contained in the
safety evaluation report and the Environmental Assessment. Based on
these findings, the NRC approved Dominion's amendment request and
accordingly issued Amendment No. 5 to License No. SNM-2507. Amendment
No. 5 was effective as of its date of issuance.
II. Availability of Documents
The following table includes the ADAMS accession numbers for the
documents referenced in this notice. For additional information on
accessing ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of this document.
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Document ADAMS accession No.
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Dominion application, dated August 24, ML15239B260
2015.
Acceptance Letter Issued, dated ML15271A044
September 25, 2015.
Supplemental Information Submittal, ML15289A189
dated October 8, 2015.
Supplemental Information Submittal, ML15328A483
dated November 18, 2015.
Supplemental Information Submittal, ML16022A073
dated November 19, 2015.
Re-Submittal of Clean and Marked-Up ML15342A065
Technical Specifications, dated
December 1, 2015.
Supplemental Structural Information ML16004A108
Submittal, dated December 28, 2015.
Supplemental Information Submittal, ML16019A335
dated January 14, 2016.
Request for Additional Information ML16089A091
Responses, dated March 22, 2016.
Responses to Environmental Review ML16083A527
Questions for North Anna HBU Amendment,
dated March 23, 2016.
Supplemental Information for Request for ML16118A205
Additional Information Responses, dated
April 21, 2016.
Supplemental Information for Request for ML16176A239
Additional Information Responses, dated
June 21, 2016.
Final Environmental Assessment, dated ML16168A104
June 24, 2016.
Supplemental Information Submittal, ML16211A077
dated July 26, 2016.
Second Request for Additional ML16272A388
Information Responses, dated September
23, 2016.
Supplemental Information for Second ML16330A654
Request for Additional Information
Responses, dated November 22, 2016.
Supplemental Information for Second ML17109A469
Request for Additional Information
Responses, dated April 10, 2017.
Revised Technical Specifications and ML17165A454
Transmittal E-Mail.
Amended License, dated September 13, ML17234A534
2017.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13 day of September, 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.
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