[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 171 (Tuesday, September 4, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44922-44923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-19058]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 72-1050; NRC-2016-0231]
Interim Storage Partners LLC's Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel
Storage Facility
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Environmental impact statement; reopening of scoping comment
period.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is requesting
public comments on the scope of the NRC's Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the Interim Storage Partners LLC (ISP) proposed
consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, to be
located on the Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) site in Andrews
County, Texas. ISP requested on June 8, 2018, that the NRC resume its
review, which had been suspended on April 18, 2017, and provided a
revised license application. The NRC is reopening the public scoping
comment period that had closed on April 28, 2017, to allow more time
for members of the public to develop and submit their comments.
DATES: Submit comments by October 19, 2018. 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:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0231. 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.
Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail
Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
Email Comments to: You may email scoping comments to the
Project's email address: [email protected].
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; 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 website: 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 ``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]. 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 ISP CISF
project can be accessed on the NRC's project web page at: https://
www.nrc.gov/waste/spent-
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fuel-storage/cis/waste-control-specialist.html.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0231 in your comment submission.
Comments received during this scoping period will be considered by the
NRC, along with all comments received during the previous period, in
determining the scope of the EIS. Scoping comments submitted during the
previous period need not be resubmitted during this scoping period.
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
https://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 April 28, 2016, WCS submitted a license application to the NRC
for a proposed consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear
fuel (ADAMS Accession No. ML16132A533). The NRC accepted the WCS
application for detailed review on January 26, 2017 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML17018A168). On November 14, 2016, the NRC opened the public
scoping period for its EIS on WCS' license application for a proposed
consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel (81 FR
79531). On April 18, 2017, WCS requested that the NRC temporarily
suspend its review (ADAMS Accession No. ML17110A206). The EIS public
scoping comment period closed on April 28, 2017 (82 FR 14039).
On June 8, 2018, ISP (a joint venture between WCS and Orano CIS
LLC) requested that NRC resume its detailed review and submitted a
revised license application (ADAMS Accession No. ML18166A003). On July
19, 2018, ISP provided an update to its application (ADAMS Accession
No. ML18206A482). The NRC has decided to reopen the EIS public scoping
comment period on this application until 45 days from October 19, 2018,
to allow more time for members of the public to submit their comments.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of August 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Craig G. Erlanger,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental
Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2018-19058 Filed 8-31-18; 8:45 am]
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