[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 25, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50481-50483]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-20853]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 72-20; NRC-2017-0136]
U.S. Department of Energy Idaho Operations Office; Three Mile
Island Unit 2; 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 the U.S. Department of Energy Idaho Operations
Office for Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) License No. SNM-2508 for the
receipt, possession, transfer, and storage of radioactive material from
the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor core in the TMI-2
independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). The TMI-2 ISFSI is
located at the Idaho National Laboratory within the perimeter of the
Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center site in Scoville, Butte
County,
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Idaho. The renewed license authorizes operation of the TMI-2 ISFSI in
accordance with the provisions of the renewed license and its technical
specifications. The renewed license expires on March 19, 2039.
DATES: The license referenced in this document is available as of
September 16, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0136 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-2017-0136. 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]. For the convenience of the reader,
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
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 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 March 6, 2017, as supplemented
August 9, 2017, October 3, 2017, October 18, 2017, November 16, 2017,
September 26, 2018, October 2, 2018, November 15, 2018, November 21,
2018, April 1, 2019, and May 21, 2019, the NRC has issued a renewed
license to the licensee for the TMI-2 ISFSI, located in Scoville, Butte
County, Idaho. The renewed license SNM-2508 authorizes and requires
operation of the TMI-2 ISFSI in accordance with the provisions of the
renewed license and its technical specifications. The renewed license
will expire on March 19, 2039.
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 June 9, 2017 (82 FR
26815). 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 in the
Federal Register on September 16, 2019 (84 FR 48651). 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 ML19053A310
March 6, 2017.
Submittal of Requested ML17248A347
References, dated August 9,
2017.
Response to Request for ML17305A060
Additional Information for
the Environmental Review,
dated October 3, 2017.
Submittal of Additional ML17298A771
Requested Reference, dated
October 18, 2017.
Submittal of Supplemental ML17345A156
Information for the
Environmental Review, dated
November 16, 2017.
Response to Request for ML18283A222
Additional Information for
the Technical Review, dated
September 26, 2018.
Submittal of Final Safety ML18303A125
Analysis Report Information
and Design Drawings, dated
October 2, 2018.
Submittal of Additional ML18331A337
Requested Reference, dated
November 15, 2018.
Submittal of Additional TMI-2 ML18331A262
Canister Drawings, dated
November 21, 2018.
Response to Request for ML19093B118
Clarification of Response to
Technical Request for
Additional Information, dated
April 1, 2019.
Response to Request for ML19143A217
Additional Clarification,
dated May 21, 2019.
Special Nuclear Materials ML19259A014, ML19259A016
License No. SNM-2508.
SNM-2508 Technical ML19259A017
Specifications.
NRC Safety Evaluation Report.. ML19259A013
NRC Environmental Assessment.. ML19122A285
NUREG-2157, ``Generic ML14196A105
Environmental Impact
Statement for Continued
Storage of Spent Fuel'' Vol.
1.
NUREG-2157, ``Generic ML14196A107
Environmental Impact
Statement for Continued
Storage of Spent Fuel'' Vol.
2.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of September, 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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