[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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