[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 18 (Thursday, January 27, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4293-4294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01572]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No.72-71; NRC-2021-0212]


DTE Electric Company; Fermi-2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Exemption; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued an 
exemption to DTE Electric Company (DTE), for Fermi-2 (Fermi 2), 
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). The exemption 
allows Fermi 2 to deviate from the timing requirements in Certificate 
of Compliance (CoC) No. 1014, Appendix A, ``Technical Specifications 
(TS) for the HI-STORM 100 Cask System,'' Section 5.4, ``Radioactive 
Effluent Control Program,'' Subsection C related to submission of an 
annual effluent report.

DATES: The exemption was issued on January 20, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0212 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-2021-0212. Address 
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 
telephone: 301-415-0624; 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.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make 
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to 
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tilda Liu, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 404-997-4730, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC issued an exemption (ADAMS Package 
Accession No. ML21308A168) to DTE for the Fermi-2 (Fermi 2) ISFSI. By 
letter dated July 27, 2021 (ADAMS Accession No. ML21208A259) DTE 
submitted a request to the NRC for an exemption from requirements in 
Part 72 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). More 
specifically, DTE requested an exemption from the timing requirement in 
10 CFR 72.44(d)(3) which specifies that an annual report be submitted 
to the NRC regarding effluent

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releases within 60 days after the end of the 12-month monitoring period 
for the Fermi 2 ISFSI. The exemption as requested would have permitted 
DTE to delay submission of the relevant report from on or before March 
1, the current deadline, to prior to May 1 of each year. Delaying this 
submission deadline would allow DTE to align the submittals of the 
relevant report and the Annual Radioactive Effluent Release Report.
    The NRC staff could not grant DTE the exemption as requested 
because, under 10 CFR 72.13, ``Applicability,'' 10 CFR 72.44(d)(3) does 
not apply to general licensees such as DTE. That said, under 10 CFR 
72.212, DTE must follow the technical specifications (TS) for the spent 
fuel casks it uses, and the relevant cask's TS require DTE to submit 
the 10 CFR 72.44(d)(3) effluent monitoring report. Thus, DTE must make 
the 10 CFR 72.44(d)(3) report. Consequently, the NRC, on its own 
initiative, granted DTE an exemption from the applicable requirements 
such that DTE would receive relief equivalent to the relief it 
requested. In practice, this means the NRC exempted DTE from 10 CFR 
72.212(a)(2), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(5)(i), (b)(11), and 72.214 
pursuant to 10 CFR 72.7, ``Specific exemptions'' for the ISFSI.
    The exemption granted upon the NRC's own initiative only provides 
relief from the 60-day requirement so that the annual effluent release 
report for the Fermi 2 ISFSI may be submitted prior to May 1, rather 
than on or before March 1, of each year. The granted exemption only 
changes the due date and not the content of the information that the 
licensee would provide in the annual report. An analysis of this 
exemption can be found at the previously cited ADAMS accession number.

    Dated: January 24, 2022.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Yoira K. Diaz-Sanabria,
Chief, Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch, Division of Fuel 
Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2022-01572 Filed 1-26-22; 8:45 am]
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