[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 159 (Friday, August 16, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42023-42024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17581]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-17; NRC-2019-0165]


Portland General Electric Company; Eugene Water and Electric 
Board, and PacifiCorp; Trojan 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 Portland General Electric (PGE), Eugene Water and 
Electric Board, and PacifiCorp (together ``licensee'') for Special 
Nuclear Materials (SNM) License No. SNM-2509 for the receipt, 
possession, transfer, and storage of spent fuel from the Trojan Nuclear 
Plant in the Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation 
(ISFSI), located in Columbia County, Oregon. The renewed license 
authorizes operation of the Trojan ISFSI in accordance with the 
provisions of the renewed license and its technical specifications. The 
renewed license expires on March 31, 2059.

DATES: The license referenced in this document is available on August 
9, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0165 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0165. Address 
questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov 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 https://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]. 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: Christopher T. Markley, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6293, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Discussion

    Based upon the application dated March 23, 2017, as supplemented 
January 29, 2019, February 21, 2019, and June 10, 2019, the NRC has 
issued a renewed license to the licensee for the Trojan ISFSI, located 
in Columbia County, Oregon. The renewed license SNM-2509 authorizes and 
requires operation of the Trojan ISFSI in accordance with the 
provisions of the renewed license and its technical specifications. The 
renewed license will expire on March 31, 2059.
    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 18, 2017 (82 FR 
39463). 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 July 8, 
2019 (84 FR 32478). 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  ML17086A039.
 March 23, 2017.
Response to First Request for  ML19028A411.
 Additional Information,
 dated January 23, 2019.
Response to Request for        ML19057A148.
 Referenced Information,
 dated February 21, 2019.
Response to Request for        ML19164A182.
 Referenced Information,
 dated June 10, 2019.
Special Nuclear Materials      ML19221B649.
 License No. SNM-2509.
SNM-2507 2509 Technical        ML19221B650.
 Specifications.
NRC Safety Evaluation Report.  ML19221B651.
NRC Environmental Assessment.  ML19058A264.
NUREG-2157, ``Generic          ML14196A105, ML14196A107.
 Environmental Impact
 Statement for Continued
 Storage of Spent Fuel''.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of August, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Renewals and Materials Branch, Division of Spent Fuel 
Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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