[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.
[FR Doc. 2019-20853 Filed 9-24-19; 8:45 am]
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