ML101590344

Letter Federal Register Notice Publishing an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a Request for Exemptions from 10 CFR 72.212 and 72.214 (TAC No. L24420)

ML101590344
Person / Time
Site:	Maine Yankee
Issue date:	06/04/2010
From:	Goshen J NRC/NMSS/SFST/LID/LB
To:	Connell J Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co
Goshen, JM, NNSS/SFST, 492-3325
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ML101590340	List: ML101590344 ML101590461
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TAC L24420
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June 4, 2010 Mr. James Connell ISFSI Manager Maine Yankee 321 Old Ferry Road Wiscasset, Maine 04578-4922

SUBJECT:

FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE PUBLISHING AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT FOR A REQUEST FOR EXEMPTIONS FROM 10 CFR 72.212 AND 72.214 (TAC NO. L24420)

Dear Mr. Connell:

In accordance with Maine Yankees (MY) request for exemptions dated January 15, 2010, and pursuant to 10 CFR 51.35, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), is forwarding an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for noticing in the Federal Register. The requested exemptions would allow MY to adopt the provisions of NAC-UMS Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1015, Amendment No. 5. This would allow a visual alternative to Technical Specification Surveillance Requirement 3.1.6.1 to verify the operability of the concrete cask heat removal system to maintain safe storage conditions and will also remove a specification in the CoC for tamper indicating devices. MY also requested continuation of previously granted exemptions to relieve MY from the requirements to: (1) develop training modules under its systematic approach to training that include comprehensive instructions for the operation and maintenance of the independent spent fuel storage installation, except for the NAC-UMS System; (2) submit an annual report pursuant to 10 CFR 72.44(d)(3) or 10 CFR 50.36(a), and (3) exemption from the requirement to maintain a coefficient of friction on the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation pad surface of at least 0.5.

The NRC will notify you in a timely manner of our decision on these exemption requests.

Enclosed is a copy of the Federal Register Notice.

Sincerely,

/RA/

John Goshen, P. E., Project Manager Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket Nos.: 50-309, 72-30

Enclosure:

Federal Register Notice cc: Service List

Mr. James Connell ISFSI Manager Maine Yankee 321 Old Ferry Road Wiscasset, Maine 04578-4922

SUBJECT:

FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE PUBLISHING AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT FOR A REQUEST FOR EXEMPTIONS FROM 10 CFR 72.212 AND 72.214 (TAC NO. L24420)

Dear Mr. Connell:

In accordance with Maine Yankees (MY) request for exemptions dated January 15, 2010, and pursuant to 10 CFR 51.35, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), is forwarding an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for noticing in the Federal Register. The requested exemptions would allow MY to adopt the provisions of NAC-UMS Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1015, Amendment No. 5. This would allow a visual alternative to Technical Specification Surveillance Requirement 3.1.6.1 to verify the operability of the concrete cask heat removal system to maintain safe storage conditions and will also remove a specification in the CoC for tamper indicating devices. MY also requested continuation of previously granted exemptions to relieve MY from the requirements to: (1) develop training modules under its systematic approach to training that include comprehensive instructions for the operation and maintenance of the independent spent fuel storage installation, except for the NAC-UMS System; (2) submit an annual report pursuant to 10 CFR 72.44(d)(3) or 10 CFR 50.36(a), and (3) exemption from the requirement to maintain a coefficient of friction on the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation pad surface of at least 0.5.

The NRC will notify you in a timely manner of our decision on these exemption requests.

Enclosed is a copy of the Federal Register Notice.

Sincerely,

/RA/

John Goshen, P. E., Project Manager Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket Nos.: 50-309, 72-30

Enclosure:

Federal Register Notice cc: Service List ADAMS Package No: ML101590340 (Memo #ML101590344)

File location: G:\SFST\Maine Yankee\1 15 10 exemption request\ Maine Yankee EA and FONSI ltr.doc SFST SFST SFST OFC SFST JGoshen WWheatley PSaverot for NAME EBenner 06/04/2010 06/04/2010 06/04 /2010 DATE OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

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Maine Yankee Atomic Power Plant Service Mr. Patrick J. Dostie List State of Maine Nuclear Safety Inspector Department of Health and Human Services cc: Maine Public Health Division of Environmental Health Senator Charles Pray 286 Water St., Key Plaza - 8th Floor State Nuclear Safety Advisor State House Station 11 State Planning Office Augusta, ME 04333 State House Station #38 Augusta, ME 04333 Mr. Jay Hyland State of Maine First Selectman of Wiscasset 286 Water St., Key Plaza - 8th Floor Municipal Building State House Station 11 U.S. Route 1 Augusta, ME 04333 Wiscasset, ME 04578 Mr. Mark Roberts Friends of the Coast U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O. Box 98 475 Allendale Road Edgecomb, ME 04556 King of Prussia, PA 19406 Mr. Jonathan M. Block Mr. Sam Collins Attorney at Law Regional Administrator, Region 1 P.O. Box 566 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Putney, VT 05346-0566 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, PA 19406 Joseph Fay, Esquire Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company Mr. Eugene Cobey 321 Old Ferry Road Decommissioning Branch Chief, Region 1 Wiscasset, ME 04578-4922 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 475 Allendale Road Mr. Wayne Norton, Vice President King of Prussia, PA 19406 and Chief Nuclear Officer Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company David Lewis, Esquire 321 Old Ferry Road Shaw Pittman Wiscasset, ME 04578-4922 2300 North Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Mr. Gerald Poulin, Chairman and President Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company 321 Old Ferry Road Wiscasset, ME 04578-4922 W. Clough Toppan, P.E., Director Division of Health Engineering Department of Human Services

1. 10 State House Station Augusta, ME 04333