ML19219A666

Forwards marked-up Pages of SECY-80-474 Reflecting Gilinsky/ Hendrie Compromise Language on Proposed Mod Items for Draft Rule 10CFR60.Proposals Will Be Discussed at Forthcoming Meeting

ML19219A666
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Issue date:	01/09/1981
From:	Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Ahearne J, Bradford P, Gilinsky V NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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REF-10CFR9.7 SECY-80-474, SECY-81-048, SECY-81-48, NUDOCS 8102260360
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SECY-80-474 - PART 60 CHANGES: BRADFORD ITEv.5 2 AND 3 Herewith the Gilinsky-Hendrie compromise language on +x of Comissioner Bradford's modification items for draft Part 60. They are:

Item 2 - Minimum number of sites and media for characterization:

The position is three sites representing two geologic media, with at least one cf the media being non-salt.

Item 3 - Mandatory at-depth testing:

The position is to recuire at-depth testing, with recognition

. that an exemption is appropriate if new techniques make it pessible to get the necessary data without sinking shafts, etc.

Pertinent marked-up pages from SECY-80-474 are enciesed. The s+2ff helped with language to implement the Item 3 pcsiticn.

I presume we can discuss these propcsals at our next Part 60 meeting.

Staff should c:me prepared to coment and to present any changes they want.

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Tites that are a=cng the be.st that can reasenably be found.

The Cc=cis-sien considers three sites in two geciegic cedia to be the minicuc nucber needed to satisfy NEPA.

That is, the Comission can foresee no ci cd: stance that wculd cermit it to eenclude, en the basis of a mere limited investice-t tien that alternatives have been censidered in accordance with the " rule of re ason. " Mcwever, because the " rule of reason" is intrinsically

' flerfble the Comission does act believe that it would be acpropriate for

[t.%.. :e3 these reculations to specify [the] in =andaterv ter=s, the creeis_e nucher of geologic media and sites that DOE eust characterize during multiple site characterization.

What is impcrtant is that there be sufficient infor-cation for NRC to be able to evaluate real alternatives, in a ticely manner, in accordance with REPA.

(Infer =ation en plans for considering alternative sites is to be ir:cluded in the Site Characteritation Report.

This previ-sien was questiened by sc=e ec=centeE. This infer =atien is needed so' "

that any deficiency cay be the subject of a " specific reccc:cendation" by the Directgr.cf the NRC's Office cf Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, -

(Directer) as provided.in 560.11(e), with respect to additional infomatien that =fght needed by the Cc=issien in review'ing a license appifcation in accordance with NEPA.

The NRC also continues to believe that waste fem research is an appropriate tcpic for treatcent in the-site characterizatien report, as the discussien may lead to specific recc=cendations by the Directo:

and, as well, centribute to early-examinatien and broader understanding of ;>cssible waste for= hest rock interactions.) Further, wording of 550.11(a) has been changed frem " waste fore" to "wa.ste fer= anc packaging" to better convey that the NRC was seeking inferratien relating to' the interacticn of the waste as e=placed (hence including packaging) with the host rock.

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s There were also suggestiens that the distinction between sit'e charac-teri:atien and screening activities be drawn cre sharply.

Hewever, because the activities needed prior to characterizatien =ay depend en a Yariety

,0f facters peculiar to the site and geologic medium, the NRC has concluded

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that. greater precis _ien might be unduly restrictive.

i-The DOE req 0ested clar'ification of the ter= " site".

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of the term site will be set forth in the technical criteria.

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In Situ Testine at DectN Several cementers supported the Cc= mission view on in situ testing at depth.

Some ce=menters, noting the importance of in situ testing at depth, suggested that the rule require the DOE to include in situ testing at depth in its. site charac-terizatien program.

Several other concenters objected to the Cc==ission suggestica that in situ testing at depth =ay be necessary.

The possibil-ity of in situ testing at depth after a preferred repcsitory site has h.

--b-been selected wac also suggested. ( The Cc==ission continues to believe

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that in situ testing at depth 3 is pr bably an essential technique for DOE to ebtain sufficient data to deter =ine whether and to what extent E

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alternatives to DOE's preferred site are in fact reasonable alternatives for the intended purpose; in situ testing at depth is prebably essential to characterizing alternative sites as well. The NP.C will then be able to deter =ine, after considering all relevant enviren: ental facters as eine Conmission interprets the phrase "in situ testing at depth" to mean the cenduct of these ge physical, gecchemical,. hydrologic, and/cr rock mechanics tests performed frem a test area at the base of a shaft excavated to the-preposed depth of a potential repository in order to

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Independent support of this figure has been cbtained frc= the ecs su=ary of 515 millien for a pregram analogcus to site characterizatien conducted by the Sureau of Mines at its Enviren= ental Research Facility in Colcrado during 1975-1979.

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[2.103 uterial, r.nd cperator licenses.

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O as to aid the Cc:=issien in making a c:. parat.iye evaluation as a basis for ardving at a reasened decision under NEPA.I33 The Cc:=issien c:n-l siders tha characteri::stien of three shes reeresentine two ceclecic c Eu.; e% t., um.A a, net.t.d:- ) 2 f'

medi(a',tc ce tne =1nteu:n necessary to satisfv the re:uirerents of N n

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10 CFR 51.41 is a= ended to read as fc11cws:

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