[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6242-6243]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-02904]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-16; NRC-2016-0177]


Virginia Electric and Power Company, Old Dominion Electric 
Cooperative, North Anna Power Station Independent Spent Fuel Storage 
Installation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License renewal; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a 
renewed license to Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion Energy 
Virginia) and the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (together 
``licensee'') for Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) License No. SNM-2507 
for the receipt, possession, transfer, and storage of spent fuel from 
North Anna Power Station, Units 1 and 2, in the North Anna Independent 
Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI), located in Louisa County, 
Virginia. The renewed license authorizes operation of the North Anna 
ISFSI in accordance with the provisions of the renewed license and its 
technical specifications. The renewed license expires on June 30, 2058.

DATES: February 13, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0177 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 website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0177. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; 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

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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: Kristina L. Banovac, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7116, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Discussion

    Based upon the application dated May 25, 2016, as supplemented 
January 20, 2017, February 28, 2017, June 5, 2017, July 10, 2017, and 
August 16, 2017, the NRC has issued a renewed license to the licensee 
for the North Anna ISFSI, located in Louisa County, Virginia. The 
renewed license SNM-2507 authorizes and requires operation of the North 
Anna ISFSI in accordance with the provisions of the renewed license and 
its technical specifications. The renewed license will expire on June 
30, 2058.
    The licensee's application for a renewed license complies with the 
standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 
(the Act), and the NRC's rules and regulations. The NRC has made 
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the NRC's regulations 
in chapter 1 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 
and sets forth those findings in the renewed license. The agency 
afforded an opportunity for a hearing in the Notice of Opportunity for 
a Hearing published in the Federal Register on August 23, 2016 (81 FR 
57629). The NRC received no request for a hearing or petition for leave 
to intervene following the notice.
    The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal 
of the ISFSI license and concluded, based on that evaluation, the ISFSI 
will continue to meet the regulations in 10 CFR part 72. The NRC staff 
also prepared an environmental assessment and finding of no significant 
impact for the renewal of this license, which were published on 
February 2, 2018 (83 FR 4932). The NRC staff's consideration of the 
impacts of continued storage of spent nuclear fuel (as documented in 
NUREG-2157, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Continued 
Storage of Spent Fuel'') was included in the environmental assessment. 
The NRC staff concluded that renewal of this ISFSI license will not 
have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment.

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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Licensee's application, dated May 25, 2016..  ML16153A140
Response to First Request for Additional      ML17025A128
 Information, dated January 20, 2017.
Response to Request for Referenced            ML17065A248
 Information, dated February 28, 2017.
Decommissioning Cost Estimate Information,    ML17160A300
 dated June 5, 2017.
Response to Second Request for Additional     ML17198A023
 Information, dated July 10, 2017.
Response to Second Request for Additional     ML17233A170
 Information, Response to RAI 3-15, dated
 August 16, 2017.
Special Nuclear Materials License No. SNM-    ML18031A225
 2507.
SNM-2507 Technical Specifications...........  ML18031A227
NRC Safety Evaluation Report................  ML18031A228
NRC Environmental Assessment................  ML17311A450
NUREG-2157, ``Generic Environmental Impact    ML14196A105, ML14196A107
 Statement for Continued Storage of Spent
 Fuel'' Vols. 1 and 2.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of February, 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Hipolito J. Gonzalez,
Acting Chief, Renewals and Materials Branch, Division of Spent Fuel 
Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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