ML20009G789
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JUL 2 81981Q MEMORANDUM FOR: Steve Scott, Chief 1
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J. M. Felton, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration
SUBJECT:
TRANSMITTAL 0F QUARTERLY REPORT:
PETITIONS FOR RULEMAKING Enclosed for transmittal to the g R m is the quarterly l
report on petitions for rulemakiE as o une 1.
This report has been prepared in accordance with 10 CFR 2.802, and a notice will be published in the Federal Register soon announcing its availability in the Public Document Room for inspection a d copy'ng.
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STATUS OF NRC PETITIONS FOR RULEMAKING JUNE 30, 1981 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION:
BEGINS ON:
A.
PETITIONS COMPLETED (1 )
page 3
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C.
PETITIONS PENDING (15)
Page 7 STAFF REVIEW D.
PETITIONS WITH (8 )
page 15 ACTION DEFERRED BREAKDOWN OF PETITIONS BY PART 10 CFR Part 20 Standards for Protection Against Radiation a.
PRM-20-6 page 15 b.
PRM-20-6A page 15 c.
PRM-20-7 page 7
d.
PRM-20-10 page 7
e.
PRM-20-13 page 8
20 Rules of General Applicability to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Material a.
PRM-30-55 page 8
- b. **PRM-30-57 page 3
34 Licenses for Radiography and Radiation Safety Requir6ments for Radiographic Operations a.
PRM-34-2 page 9
35 Human Uses of Byproduct Material a.
PRM 35-1 page 9
40 Domestic Licensing of Source Material a.
PRM-40-23 page 10
10 CFR Part 50 Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities a.
PRM-50-10 page 3 b.
PRM-50-17 page 4 c.
PRM-50-20 page 16 d.
PRM-50-21 page 10 e.
PRM-50-22 page 17 f.
PRM-50-24 page 11 g.
PRM-50-25,25a page 17 h.
PRM-50-29 page 11 51 Licensing and Regulatory Policy and Procedures for Environmental Protection a.
PRM-51-1 page 18 b.
PRM-51-6 page 12 70 Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material a.
PRM-70-6 page 12 71 Packaging of Radioactive Material for Transport and Transportation of Radioactive Material under Certain Conditions a.
PRM-71-1 page 4 b.
PRM-71-2 page 4 c.
PRM-71-3 page 4 d.
PRM-71-4 page 5 e.
PRM-71-6 page 13 f.
PRM-71-8 page 14 73 Physical Protection of Plants and Materials i
a.
PRM-73-2 page 5 b.
PRM-73-3 page 6 i
100 Reactor Site Criteria i
a.
PRM-100-2 page 18 140 Financial Protection Requirements and Indemnity Agreements a.
PRM-140-1 page 14
" denotes a petition added since the last report
- denotes a petition for which all action has been completed __
A.
PETITIONS COMPLETED, APRIL - JUNE 1981 PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-30-57 General Atomic Company (45 FR 67673; 10/14/80)
Subject Action To amend NRC's regulation 10 CFR Comments by 12/15/80.
No comments Part 30 to permit persons exempt received on Notice of Receipt of from regulation to receive ionizing Petition.
Proposed rule (10 CFR radiation measuring instruments Part 30) published 2/25/81.
Com-which contain more than one source ments by 4/13/81.
Two comments of byproduct material.
received.
Final rule approved by EDO 4/30/81 and published in Task Leader:
Don Smith, FEDERAL REGISTER 5/13/81 (46 FR RES, (301) 443-5825 26471).
B.
PETITIONS INCORPORATED IN PROPOSED RULES PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-50-10 State of New Jersey--Nuclear Energy Council (39 FR 15900; 5/6/74 and 39 FR 25525; 7/11/74)
Subject Action To amend regulations in Appendix E Comments by 7/5/74.
Six comments of 10 CFR Part 50 to apply to Commis-were received.
Original petition sion licensees who are not otherwise had four parts.
The first part, on subject to Appendix E and who receive, reactor personnel qualification, has store, possess, and/or distribute been withdrawn by the petitioner.
large quantities of radioactive The second part, on health physics materials; and to eliminate the personnel, was satisfied by regula-exclusion of " Class 9 accidents" from tory guides (petitioner agrees).
An consideration in licensing procedures amendment to Part 70 was published involving new or novel siting or on 6/27/75, which partially resolved design considerations.
a third part of the petition.
Peti-ticner agreed that action on the i Task Leader: Task currently fourth part, Class 9 accident,
' unassigned.
should await completion of the
'(Petition assigned to Office of liquid pathways study.
Incorporated Nuclear Regulatory Research) in proposed rules (Partr 50 and 70),
NOTE:
Vertical line indicates substantive change which has occurred since the last report was issued.
PRM-50-10 (cont'd) published 9/19/79, comments by 11/19/79.
The part of the petition involving emergency planning was incorporated into the Emergency Planning ruiemaking (FEDERAL REGISTER notice published 6/3/81; 46 FR 29712).
Target Date:
Not scheduled PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-50-17 Boston Edison Company, et al.
(41 FR 24006; 6/14/76)
Subject Action To amend Parts 2 and 50 with respect Comments by 8/13/76.
Ten comments to the issuance of amendments to received.
Incorporated in proposed operating licenses for production rule (Part 50) published 3/28/80.
and utilization facilities.
Under Comments by 5/27/80.
Ten letters of requested changes criteria would be comments were received on the proposed specified for determining when a rule.
None of these comments fully proposed amendment to an operating supported the proposed rule. Work on license involves no "significant this petition was delayed due to hazards considerations" and could commitment of staff to THI-related thus be issued without prior public work.
The Supreme Court review of notice or hearing.
the Sholly case may im act upon this action.
Task Leader:
W. E. Campbell, RES, (301) 443-5981 Target Date for Commission Action:
Decision on scheduling expected 7/81.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-71-1 Energy Research and Development Administration (40 FR 43517; 9/22/75)
PRM-71-2 American National Standards Institute Committee N14 (41 FR 15920; 4/15/76)
PRM-71-3 Diagnostics Isotopes Corporation (41 FR 50359; 11/15/76) --
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-71-4 Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc.
(42 FR 51; 1/17/77)
Subject Action To exempt " low specific activity Comments by 11/25/75.
PRMs 71-1, material" from the packaging 71-2, 71-3,and 71-4 were consolida-requirements of Part 71.
The peti-ted into a single rulemaking action tion from Diagnostics Isotopes to incorporate internationally Corporation requests that the radio-developed IAEA transportation nuclide lead-201 be included in standards into the domestic regula-Transport Group IV.
tions of both NRC and DOT.
The rulemaking action should satisfy Task Leader:
D. R. Hopkins, PRM-71-3.
Five comments were RES, (301) 443-5997.
receiveo, all in support of the petitions.
Incorporated in pro-posed rule published 8/17/79.
Comments by 10/18/79, comment period extended to 12/17/79.
Target Date for Final Rule:
9/81.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-73-2 Wisconsin Electric Power Company, et al.
(42 FR 46431; 9/15/77)
Subject Action l
To eliminate the requirement for Comments by 10/17/77.
Approximately l
" pat-down" physical search of one hundred letters were received--
individuals entering a protected about 80% from utilities, agreeing area.
with petitioner; and about 20% from others, most of whom disagreed with Task Leader:
J. Prell, petitioner.
The Commission decided RES, (301) 443-5976.
to delay implementation of certain l
complementary and alternative measures for protection against the insider threat. Letters were sent to the petitioner informing him of these delays (SECY-79-59,79-59A, and 79-59B).
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PRM-73-2 (cont'd) allow public comment on the proposed rule (published in the FEDERAL REGIS-TER 12/1/80; 45 FR 79492) that substitutes alternative measures for Pat-Down search requirements. NMSS.-
has the lead for development of the final rule.
Action on the petition will be incorporated in the final rule.
l Target Date for the Final Rule:
8/81.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-73-3 KMC, Inc., et al.
(43 FR 29635; 7/10/78)
Subject Action To amend 973.55 to include a Comments by 9/8/78.
No comments statement that meeting the specific received.
requirements for physical protec-tion of licensed activities in Target Date:
Petitioner notified nuclear power reactors against on 11/6/78 that action on the individual sabotage normally will petition will be delayed until satisfy the performance require-implementation of $73.55 is com-ment for physical protection at pleted.
Commission action extenddd nuclear power plants Pat-Down search requirements indefinitely to allow public com-Task Leader:
J. Prell ment on proposed rule (published in RES, (301) 443-5976.
the FEDERAL REGISTER 12/1/80; 45 FR 79492) that would substitute alternative measures for Pat-Down search requirements.
NMSS has the lead for development of the final rule.
Action on the petition will be incorporated in the final rule.
lTargetDateforFinalRule:
10/81.
C.
PETITIONS PENDING STAFF REVIEW PRM Petit.ioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-20-7 Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
(41 FR 41759; 9/23/76)
Subject Action To adopt interim regulations setting Notice of Partial Denial published standards for shallow land disposal in the Federal Register on 7/25/79 of low-level radioactive wastes.
(44 FR 43541). Although staff con-cluded that immediate implementation Task Leader; P. Lohaus, of interim regulations is not NMSS, (301) 427-4500.
warranted, the issue and points raised in the petition and in the petitioner's proposed GEIS outline are being considered by NRC staff as input to their waste management regulation and EIS.
Preliminary draft of regulation on disposal of low-level wastes (Part 61) sent to States, industry, and the public for review 11/9/79.
On February 28, 1980, the staff published a notice in the FEDERAL REGISlER (45 FR 13104) making the same draft widely avail-able to assure early, broad-based input and review.
Target Date:
Final Commission action on proposed rule expected by 7/81.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-20-10 Citizens United for Responsible Energy (43 FR 3448; 1/25/78)
Subject Action To require that all abnormal Comments by 3/2f/80.
Twenty-six incidents be reported immediately comments were received, six comments (within 1/2 hour) to the Director supported the petition; nineteen of the appropriate NRC Inspection were opposed; one commenter's and Enforcement Regional Office.
position was unclear. -
PRM-20-10 (cont'd)
Mike Jamgochian, lTargetDate:
l Task Leader:
7/81.
A response to RES, (301) 443-5966.
the petition had to await the final rule on emergency planning which was published 8/19/80 (45 FR 55402).
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-20-13 Victor E. Anderson (44 FR 11284; 2/28/79)
Subject Action To require that radiation safety Comments by 4/30/79, extended to personnel be certified by the 5/30/79.
Fifty-eight comments Commission.
received.
Fifty-two comments oppose the petition.
Analysis of comments Task Leader:
J. M. Bell, is being prepared.
Further action RES, (301) 427-4177.
will consider results of an NRR con '
tracted study, which became available in December 1980, of need for licens-ing nuclear power plant personnel.
Results of studies performed with respect to PRM-34-2 on licensing of radiographers being considered in relation to this petition.
Target Date:
Staff response to petition to be finalized in early 1982.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation) 4 PRM-30-55 State of New Jet-sey, Department of Environmental Protection (42 FR 40791; 8/11/77)
Action Subject To establish, for approximately Comments by 10/11/77.
Six comments 50 large facilities using byproduct received.
All oppose petition.
materials from man-made fission Staff developing final position.
reactions, (a) criteria to quantify Task Leader assigned to higher the ALARA emission reduction policy, priority task.
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PRi-30-55 (cont'd)
(b) siting criteria, and Target Date:
10/81.
(c) requirements for offsite environmental surveillance programs.
f Task Leader:
R. Grill, RES, (301) 427-4559 PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-34-2 Non-Destructive Testing Management Association (43 FR 34563; 8/4/78)
Subject Action To amend NRC regulations to provide Comments by 10/3/78.
Eleven for registratior. licensing, and comments were received, the majority control of individual radiographers.
of which opposed the petition.
How-ever, the staff is actively studying Task Lesder:
James Jones, this concept.
Work on an advance RES, (301) 443-5970.
notice of proposed rulemaking is underway, and a series of public meetings is being planned.
Target Date:
2/82.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-35-1 George V. Taplin (44 FR 26817; 5/7/79) i Subject Action To amerd NRC regulations to rescind Comments by 7/6/79.
Forty-five the requirement that physicians must letters received, all in favor of use an approved radiopharmaceutical tre petition.
Comments favor the l
strictly in accord with the manufa~ c-use of radiopharmaceuticals for turers' package insert.
non-approved purposes.
Task Leader:
E. Podolak, Taiget Date:
8/81.
RES, (301) 427-4272
i PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM 40-23 Sierra Club (46 FR 14021; 2/25/81)
Subject Action To amend the Commission's regulation, Comments by April 27, 1981.
10 CFR Part 40, to license the Comments received from American possession of uranium mill tailings Mining Congress, Kerr-McGee Nuclear at inactive storage sites.
Corp., and United Nuclear Corp. All
, comments stated that petition should be Task Leader:
Don Harmon, denied.
Staff ~ preparing response to
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RES, (301) 427-4284 petition.
Target Date for Commission Paper:
9 10/81.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-50-21 Northern States Power Company and Wisconsin Electric Power Company (42 FR 37458; 7/21/77) c bject Action u
To include plant security information Comments by 9/19/77.
Twelve comments within the definition of Restricted were received, all endorsing the Data or National Security Informa-petition.
Staff response to the tion, so as to extend the protection l petition will be sent to EDO by 8/81, of 10 CFR Part 2 to such information.
which should be consistent with publi-cation of a final rule covering the Task Leader:
K. Markulis, protection of safeguards information.
RES, (301) 443-5903.
Consideration to grant petition is under review based on P.L.96-295 NRC FY 80 Authorization Bill) which amended the Atomic Energy Act by adding Section 147 - Safeguards Infor-mation - which directs the Commission to prescribe regulations or issue orders to prohibit t ' unauthorized disclosure of saf9so information m
which specifically in;..uffies the licensees' or applicants' detailed security measures, etc.
Petitioner's requests have been incorporated into rule to be sent to Commission for
PRM 50-21 (cont'd) l action.
NMSS has lead for development of final rule.
Target Date:
8/81.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-50-24 John F. Doherty (44 FR 47997; 8/16/79)
Subject Action To establish procedures whereby the Comments by 10/1/79.
One comment Commission would inform all holders of was received.
It expressed the Class 103 licenses of any announcement view that a regulation is not re-by any Federal agency or department of quired inasmuch as the NRC already
" predicted or expected falling objects has the necessary authority to order from earth orbit of that department or shutdown, and that such events would agency's responsibility or a foreign be infrequent.
Staff preparing nation's."
response to petition.
Task Leader:
B. Grimes, Target Date:
10/81.
IE, (301) 492-4614.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-50-29 Electric Utilities (45 FR 73080; '~ 4/80)
Supplement t9 tatition published 2/3/81 (46 FR 10501)
Subject Action To request the Commission to address Coniments by 1/5/81.
Seventeen (ATWS) Anticipated Transients Without letters of comment have been Scram which has been designated a,n received.
Staff preparing response Unresolved Safety Issue by the Commis-to comments.
This petition will sion.
An ATWS occurs at a nuclear probably be incorporated into the power plant if an abnormal operating ongoing ATWS rulemaking.
condition (" anticipated transient")
that should cause the plant's reactor Target Date:
Commission approved protection system to initiate a rapid publication of proposed rule shutdown (" scram") of the reactor (6/16/81) to obtain public comment _ - - _ _. _
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PRM 50-29 (cont'd) fails to function.
Petitioner filed on two alternative versions of ATWS a supplement to the petition, dated rule.
The staff expects that several 1/5/81, that contained a proposed elements of the petition will be Appendix to 10 CFR Part 50 which the incorporated into the final rule, petitioner requested the Commission The estimated date for Commission to consider in cornection with action on a final ATWS rule is 6/82.
PRM-50-29.
The proposed Appendix addresses the issue of Criteria for Evaluation of Scram Discharge Volume Systems for Boiling Water Reactors.
l Ta':k Leader:
D. Pyatt, I
RES, (301) 443-5921.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-51-6 Catherine Quigg (45 FR 25557; 4/15/80)
Subject Action To require preparation of a generic Comments by 6/16/80.
Fourteen EIS for high burnup nuclear fuel as comments received, the majority of used in commercial nuclear reactors, which oppose the petition.
stored in spent fuel pools or cooling racks, or potentially as processed in Target Date:
Staff response to repr6 cessing plants or disposed of in lpetitionexpectedby8/81.
Delay permanent sites.
caused by urgent response required for the Duke Power Petition on Task Leader:
Task unassigned Emergency Planning.
(Petition assigned to Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research)
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
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PRM-70-6 Eberline Instrument Corporation (42 FR'41675; 8/18/77) i. _. _.
PRM 70-6 (cont'd)
Action Subject Two comments received 4/78, both of To approve air transport or which support the petition.
Disposi-calibration or reference sources tion of this petition will proceed containing not more than 5 micro-when the Commission determines policy curies of plutonium.
by taking action on a staff-initiated Task Leader:
D. Hopkins rulemaking action to implement Pub.
L. 94-79.
This law restricts air RES, (301) 443-5997.
transport of plutonium.
The rule-making will consider, among other things, whether under Public Law 94-79 the Commission may authorize air shipment of small quantities of plu-tonium in a package other than an approved container, and if so, what regulatory requirements should apply to such shipments.
Target Date:
Action on petition. will follow action on rulemaking, currently estimated to be early 1982.
PRM Petitioner Number (FRCitation1 PRM-71-6 Critical Mass Energy Project, et al.
(42 FR 61089; 12/1/77)
Action Subject d
To impose the following conditions Comments by 1/30/78.
Forty comments were received, the majority of which on licensees:
(1) the use of special routes for transportation op,ase the petition.
Informed of radioactive materials; (2) adop-petitioner on 6/7/78 that NRC staff is delaying action on petition until tion of emergency plans for NRC/ DOT special study on Package transportation accidents; Requirement and Emergency Response (3) assumption by licensees of (requested by Congressman Wirth) is financial responsibility for ship-ping a cidents; and (4) a plan-for completed.
The final report on the informing drivers of the nature of study (NUREG-0535) was published-in their cargo and emergency actions to July 1980.
The staff is now consi-dering the petition and the public be taken in case of accidents.
comments based on the conclusions and recommendations reached by the Task Leader:
A. N. Tse' joint NRC/ DOT study group.
RES, (301) 443-5997 Target Date:
9/82. '
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-71-8 Foster Wheeler Energy Corp.
(45 FR 39519; 6/11/80)
Subject Action To exempt persons licensed pursuant Comments by 8/11/80.
Three letters to 10 CFR 34 for Industrial Radio-of comment have been received, all graphy from the requirement of favoring the proposal.
Staff paper 10 CFR 71.12(b)(1)(1) that such under development.
persons have a copy of all documents referred to in the license, certifi-Target Date:
11/81.
cate, or other approval in order to be able to deliver licensed material to a carrier for transport under the general licensing provisions of 10 CFR 71.12.
Task Leader:
D. Smith RES, (301) 443-5825.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-140-1 Public Citizen Litigation Group and Critical Mass Energy Project (44 FR 50419)
Subject Action To find, pursuant to the procedures Comments by 10/29/79.
One comment and criteria in Subpart E of 10 CFR received.
Evaluation report and Part 140, that the nuclear accident proposed rule in preparation.
at the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 nuclear power plant constitutes an Target Date:
Staff paper expected
" extraordinary nuclear occurrence" to reach Commission for action 7/81.
(EN0); to amend Subpart E to make less stringent the criteria used for determining that an ENO has occurred.
Task Leader:
H. Peterson,
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RES, (301) 427-4284. -
D.
PETITIONS WITH ACTION DEFERRED PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-20-6 Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
(40 FR 50327; 10/29/75)
Subject Action To amend radiation protection Comments by 2/12/76.
Sixty comments standards as they apply to the maxi-were received, fifty-six of which mum permissible whole body dose were in opposition to the petition.
equivalent for occupational exposure.
A supplement to the petition was Petitioner requests lower occupational submitted by NRDC on 11/4/77, prior dose limits.
to Commission decision, requesting consideration of recent epidemio-l Task Leader:
R. Baker, logical studies. This issLe was RES, (301) 427-4051 included in the hearing on occupa-tional radiation protection jointly sponsored by EPA, NRC, and OSHA.
Proposed EPA guidance was published in Federal Register 1/23/81.
EPA /
NRC/0SHA hearings held in April 1581.
Target Date:
The question of occupational dose limits is being addressed by the staff in work on the revision of 10 CFR Part 20.
Response to the petition will be prepared following Commission approval of a final rule.
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PRM Petitioner l
Number (FR Citation) l PRM-20-6A Rosalie Berte11 (43 FR 37018, 8/21/78).
Subject Action To amend NRC standards for protection Comments by 10/20/78.
Four comments against radiation as they apply to received, one favoring and three the maximum whole body dose equiva-opposing the petition.
Staff met lent for occupational exposure to with Dr. Berte11 on 11/6/78 to ionizing radiation.
discuss her views.
The joint l
hearing referred to under PRM-20-6 l,
I PRM 20-6A (cont'd)
I Task Leader:
R. Baker, will include consideration of this RES, (301) 427-4051.
petition.
Advance notice of hearing published by EPA on 9/17/79 (44 FR 53785).
Proposed EPA guidance t
published in FEDERAL REGISTER 1/23/81.
EPA /NRC/ OSHA hearings held in April 1981.
Target Date:
The question of occupational dose. limits is being addressed by the staff in work on the revision of 10 CFR Part 20.
Response to the petition will be prepared following Commission approval of a final rule.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation) 1 PRM-50-20 Free Environment, Inc., et al.
(42 FR 25785; 5/19/77)
Subject Action i
To amend 10 CFR Part 50 before Comments by 7/18/77.
Three comments proceeding with any processing of were received.
Items (1) through (3) license applications for the Central were incorporated in action on Iowa Nuclear Project to require that:
PRM-50-19.
Item (3) denial published (1) nuclear reactors be located below 2/2/78 (43 FR 4466); Items (1) and ground level; (2) nuclear reactors be (2) denial published 4/19/78 housed in sealed buildings, within (43 FR 16556). Work on Item (4) will which permanent heavy vacuums are be considered in the context of the maintained; (3) a full-time Federal rulemaking on siting criteria.
Peti-employee with full authority to tioners informed of status by letter l
order the plant to be shut down in (late July 1980).
case of any operational abnormality always be present in a nuclear Target Date:
6/82.
generating station; and (4) the Central Iowa Nuclear Project and
'other reactors be sited at least_
40 miles from major population centers.
Task Leader:
W. Ott, RES, (301) 427-4585.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation _),
PRM-50-22 Public Interest Research Group, et al.
(42 FR 40063; 8/8/77)
Subject Action To require plant operators to post Comments by 10/7/77, extended to bonds, to be held in escrow, prior to 1/3/78.
Sixty-two comments received, each plant's operation, to insure that a majority of which oppose the funds will be available for proper petition.
Notice of Partial Denial and adequate isolation of radioactive published 6/22/79 (44 FR 36523).
material upon each plant's decommis-Remaining portion incorporated into sioning.
Advance Notice of proposed Rulemaking on Decommissioning Criteria for Task Leader:
W. Pearson, Nuclear Facilities, published RES, (301) 443-5910.
3/13/78 (43 FR 10370).
Draft EIS on Decommissioning issued in January 1981.
Target Dates:
Proposed Rule scheduled l missioning rule pertaining to reactors for 4/82.
Policy statement on decom-and other aspects of fuel cycle lscheduledfor8/81.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-50-25 State of Illinois and the Porter County Chapter of PRM-25a the Izaak Walton League of America, Inc., et al.
(45 FR 7653; 2/4/80)
Subject Action To amend 10 CFR 50.55(b) to require Comments by 4/4/80.
No comments a " good cause" proceeding prior to received.
granting a request for extension of a construction completion date to Target Date:
ASLB and Commission determine whether the permittee has have now ruled on " good cause" issue shown good cause for the continued with respect to extension of CP for construction of the plant.
completion of construction.
The matter is now pending, as one of Task Leader:
T. Oorian, several issues, in the Bailly case ELD, (301) 492-8690.
before the U.S. Court of Appea.s.
It will be handled as an expedi:ed rulemaking as soon as the court has made its decision.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
PRM-51-1 New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution (41 FR 2448; 1/16/76)
Subject Action To amend Table S-3, " Summary of Partial denial of NECNP petition Environmental Considerations for published 4/14/78 (48 FR 15613)
Uranium Fuel Cycle." Petitioner's after reviewing public comments, position is that Table S-3 seriously the majority of which opposed the understates the impact of fuel cycle petition.
Remaining action deferred activities on human health and safety pending a future rulemaking proceed-by disregarding the long-term effects ing to amend the value for radon in of certain long-lived radionuclides.
Table S.
The radon value was vacated from Table S-3 and made Task Leader:
W. E. Thompson, subject to litigation in individual NMSS, (301) 427-4211.
LWR licensing proceedings; 17 cases in process before the Appeal Board were combined for a hearing of the radon issues.
Partial decision (ALAB-640) on radon' issues published by Appeal Board on May 13, 1981, OELD recommands that radon rulemaking be held in abeyance until Appeal Board completes its proceeding and publishes the balance of the decision.
Until then the radon issues remain open for litiga-tion in individual LWR licensing proceedings.
Target Date:
Indeterminate for NMSS proposed rulemaking on radon is ready to go to Commission within 30 days after the Appeal Board publishes the balance of the ALAB-640 decision.
PRM Petitioner Number (FR Citation)
E PRM-100-2 Public Interest Research Group, et al.
(41 FR 27141; 7/1/76) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - - _ - - _ - - - - - - -. - - -
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PRM 100-2 (cont'd)
Subject Action To set numerical limits on allowable Comments by 8/30/76.
Twelve comments population density around nuclear received.
A staff paper (SECY-78-624) reactor sites, was submitted to the Commission 12/4/78.
The Commission, by memo to Task Leader:
W. Ott EDO dated 2/15/79, deferred action RES, (301) A27,4585, pending submission of Siting Policy Task Force report.
Petitioner was notified of deferral by memo dated 3/9/79.
Petitioner notified by letter (July 1980) that petition would be considered in the context of rulemaking on siting r.riteria.
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Final Rule scheduled fors 9/82.
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