[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 34 (Friday, February 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9393-9394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-03590]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-32; NRC-2022-0024]


NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC; Duane Arnold Energy Center 
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Exemption; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued an 
exemption to NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC (NEDA), for the Duane 
Arnold Energy Center (DAEC) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation 
(ISFSI). The exemption allows a failed fuel can (FFC) and its contents 
at DAEC to exceed the limits specified in Table 1-1t in Appendix B, 
Technical Specifications, of NRC Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 
1004, Renewed Amendment No. 17.

DATES: The exemption was issued on February 11, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0024 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-2022-0024. 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)

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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. ML22007A271) to NEDA for the DAEC ISFSI. By letter dated 
October 21, 2021 (ADAMS Accession No. ML21294A280), as supplemented by 
letters dated December 10, 2021 (ADAMS Accession No. ML21344A186), and 
January 6, 2022 (ADAMS Accession No. ML22006A105), NEDA submitted a 
one-time exemption request to the NRC for the DAEC ISFSI, in accordance 
with section 72.7 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 
CFR), ``Specific exemptions,'' from the requirements of 10 CFR 72.212 
(a)(2), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4), (b)(5)(i), (b)(11), and 72.214. 
Specifically, the one-time exemption request sought the NRC approval 
for a failed fuel can (FFC) and its contents at DAEC to exceed the 
limits specified in Table 1-1t in Appendix B, Technical Specifications, 
of NRC Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1004, Renewed Amendment No. 
17 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML21109A325).
    The granted exemption permits the DAEC ISFSI to deviate from a 
specific requirement contained in Table 1-1t in Appendix B of NRC CoC 
No. 1004, Renewed Amendment No. 17, by allowing NEDA to load a failed 
fuel assembly in an FCC, within a DAEC dry shielded canister (DSC) No. 
30 fuel cell, where the combined weight of the failed fuel assembly 
plus the FCC exceeds the 705 lb limit. Under the exemption, the FCC and 
its contents may weigh a maximum of 800 lb. As a condition of this 
exemption, however, NEDA is required to leave at least two adjacent DSC 
fuel cells empty in its spent fuel pool off-load campaign to increase 
the available margin for weight. The NRC staff also prepared an 
environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact regarding 
the renewal of the facility operating license, published in the Federal 
Register on February 2, 2022 (87 FR 5847), and concluded that renewal 
of the facility operating license will not have a significant impact on 
the quality of the human environment. An analysis of this exemption can 
be found at the previously cited ADAMS package accession number 
(ML22007A271).

    Dated: February 15, 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. 2022-03590 Filed 2-17-22; 8:45 am]
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