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Responds to 901003 Request for Approval of Route Used for Transport of Spent Fuel from Portsmouth,Va to Aiken,Sc. Route Meets Regulatory Requirements for Shipment of Spent Reactor Fuel in 10CFR73.37
ML20029B059
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Site: 07003051
Issue date: 02/26/1991
From: Macdonald C
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To: Mclaughlin J
TRANSNUCLEAR, INC.
References
NUDOCS 9103050308
Download: ML20029B059 (3)


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Traffic Coordinator Two Skyline Drive Hawthorne, New York 10532-2120 Dear Ms. McLaughlin This is in regard to your October 3, 1990 request for approval of a route to be used for transport of spent fuel from the Portsmouth Marine Terminal, Portsmouth, Virginia to the Depart-ment of Energy Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina.

The route, as set forth in Enclosure 1, is judged to meet the regulatory requirements for shipment of spent reactor fuel in 10 CPR 73.37. constitutes approval for this route.

In the event your carrier is required to deviate from the approved route, please call the contact listed on page two of this letter as soon as possible providing the details.

Please note that armed escort is required for Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Suffolk, Virginia and Columbia, South Carolina.

This route approval will be deemed to have expired two years from the date of this letter, unless renewed.

-Arrangements with law enforcement agencies along the route as re-quired by 10 CFR 73.37(a)(2) have been completed by the URC staff.

Data relating to these-arrangements are included in Enclosure 2.

This information is to be incorporated into your shipment plans and provided to your carrier along with instructions regarding its use.

Please note that assuring highway safety is the responsibility of the licensee and carrier, and our approval is not intended to pro-vide relief in this regard.

During seasonal periods when inclement weather can occur with short notice, the' appropriate state police should be contacted with regard to road conditions before a shipment commences.

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FEBr0 891 Ms. Joan McLaughlin Please note that the netification requirements of 10 CFR 73.37(f) and 73.72 apply for each shipment.

When making notification to this office, please confirm that armed escort will be provided as required and the governor or his designee will or has been notified.

Notification to a governor or his designee should be very specific especially with regard to series shipments.

Designate exactly how many individual shipments are to be included.

In the event the number of shipments in a series is revised, indicate that it is a revision of the original notification and an increase or decrease in the number of shipments.

In addition, the change notification should specify that tho information for any of the shipments in the revised series may not be decontrolled until ten days after the arrival at the destination of the last shipment in that series.

Should you require additional information or have questions concern-ing this matter, plaase contact Russel R.

Rentschler of my staff at (301) 492-0381.

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MacDonald, Chief Transportation Branch Division of Safeguards and Tra:tsportation, NMSS Enclosures; 1.

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343-ROAD TRANSPORTATION ROUTE PORTSMOUTH MARINE TERMINAL, PORTSMOUTH VIRGINIA TO DOE SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT, AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA VIRGINIA 1.

US-58 west to US-17*

1.5 miles 2.

US 17 south to I-264*

1.0 mile 3.

I-264 west to US-58*

3.5 miles 4.

US-58 west to I-95**

68.0 miles 5.

1-95 south to the North Carolina state line 15.0 miles Subtotal 89.0 miles NORTH CAROLINA 6.

1-95 south to the South Carolina state line 181.0 miles Subtotal 181.0 miles SOUTH CAROLINA 7.

I-95 south to I-20 36.0 miles 8.

I-20 south to SC-19*

121.0 miles 9.

SC-19 east to DOE Savannah River Plant

  • 20.0 miles Subtotal 177.0 miles TOTAL 447.0 miles-

" Access to or exit from Interstate or State Preferred Routes.

    • State Preferred Route, Department of Health, Commonwealth of Virginia letter January 12, 1984.

1 February 1991

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