[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 124 (Tuesday, July 1, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28819-28821]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12237]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 72-26; NRC-2022-0220]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Diablo Canyon Independent Spent
Fuel Storage Installation; License Renewal
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a
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renewed license to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E, the
licensee) for Special Nuclear Materials (SNM) License No. SNM-2511 for
the receipt, possession, transfer, and storage of spent nuclear fuel
from the Diablo Canyon Power Plant and associated radioactive material
at the Diablo Canyon Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation
(ISFSI), located in San Luis Obispo County, California. The renewed
license authorizes operation of the Diablo Canyon ISFSI in accordance
with the provisions of the renewed license and its technical
specifications. The renewed license expires on March 22, 2064.
DATES: The license referenced in this document is available as of June
20, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0220 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this action. 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 NRC-2022-0220. Address questions
about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Bridget Curran; telephone: 301-
415-1003; 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, at 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: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
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 9, 2022, as supplemented
August 10, 2023, September 21, 2023, April 30, 2024, and March 14,
2025, the NRC has issued a renewed license to the licensee for the
Diablo Canyon ISFSI, located in San Luis Obispo County, California. The
renewed license SNM-2511 authorizes and requires operation of the
Diablo Canyon ISFSI in accordance with the provisions of the renewed
license and its technical specifications. The renewed license will
expire on March 22, 2064.
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 January 10, 2023 (88 FR
1431). An adjudicatory proceeding on the application was then conducted
in response to a petition to intervene filed by San Luis Obispo Mothers
for Peace (petitioner) regarding the adequacy of the license renewal
application. An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (Board) considered
the petition and admitted one contention. The petitioner subsequently
withdrew the contention after the licensee supplemented its application
with information that the contention had noted was missing. The Board
subsequently issued LBP-23-08, terminating the adjudicatory proceeding.
The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal
of the ISFSI license and concluded, based on that evaluation, that 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 was published
on November 12, 2024 (89 FR 89056). The NRC staff's environmental
assessment included the impacts of continued storage of spent nuclear
fuel (as documented in NUREG-2157, ``Generic Environmental Impact
Statement for Continued Storage of Spent Fuel''). 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 documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through one or more of the following methods, as
indicated.
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ADAMS accession No. or
DOCUMENT description Federal Register citation
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Letter--PG&E's License Renewal Application, ML22068A189
dated March 9, 2022..
Letter--PG&E's License Renewal Application, ML23222A287
Revision 1, dated August 10, 2023.
Letter--PG&E's Response to Request for ML23264A859
Additional Information, Round 1, dated
September 21, 2023.
Letter--PG&E's Response to Request for ML24121A179
Additional Information, Round 2, dated
April 30, 2024.
Email PG&E's Supplement to License Renewal ML25076A435
Application, dated March 14, 2025.
Federal Register notice, ``Pacific Gas and 88 FR 1431
Electric Company; Diablo Canyon
Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation,'' published January 10, 2023.
Memorandum and Order (Dismissing Contention ML23258A211
and Terminating Proceeding) (LBP-23-08),
dated September 15, 2023.
Special Nuclear Materials License No. SNM- ML24310A119,
2511, dated June 20, 2025. ML24310A120
SNM-2511 Technical Specifications, dated ML24310A121
June 20, 2025..
NRC Safety Evaluation Report, dated June ML24310A125
20, 2025..
NRC Environmental Assessment, dated October ML24296A038
2024..
Federal Register notice, ``Pacific Gas and 89 FR 89056
Electric Company; Diablo Canyon
Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation; Environmental Assessment and
Finding of No Significant Impact,''
published November 12, 2024.
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NUREG-2157, ``Generic Environmental Impact ML14196A105,
Statement for Continued Storage of Spent ML14196A107
Fuel,'' dated September 2014.
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Dated: June 26, 2025.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Yoira Diaz-Sanabria,
Chief, Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch, Division of Fuel
Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2025-12237 Filed 6-30-25; 8:45 am]
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