ML20128A651
| ML20128A651 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 01/15/1993 |
| From: | Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| References | |
| FRN-57FR28645, RULE-PR-72 NUDOCS 9302020276 | |
| Download: ML20128A651 (3) | |
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l ~ II 93 m 28 P218 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMIS510!l 10 CfR Part 72 RIN 3150-AE15 List of Approved Spent fuel Storage Casks:
Additions; Extension of Conunent Period AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule: Extension of comment period.
SUMMARY
- On June 26,1992 (57 FR 28645), the NRC published for public comment a proposed rule which would amend its list of approved spent fuel storage casks by adding two casks to the list. The proposed amendment would allow holders of power reactor operating licenses to store spent fuel in these approved casks under a general license. The initial comment period for this proposed rule expired on September 9, 1992. Subsequent to the expiration of the public comment period, the NRC took steps to implement the provisions in l its regulations (10 CFR 2.790(c)) that provides that information submitted to NRC in a rulemaking proceeding which subsequently forms the basis for a final rule will not be withheld from public disclosure by'NRC. The NRC has evaluated the information which forms the basis of this proposed rule.
l Accordingly, additional supplemental information which was previously categorized as proprietary information has been placed in the Public Document Room and all local public document rooms. The additional information being placed in the POR at this time only relates to the VSC-24 cask. The second jWjO 9302020274 930115 k57$28645 PDR 0 SEN
cask (lil-24) will be covered separately in a subsequent notice. In addition, the comment period for the June 26, 1992, proposed rule is being reopened for 30 days to allow comments on the additional information.
2/ nl43 DALES: Although the corament period expira on (30 days af ter publication) comments received af ter this date will be considered if it is practical to do so but the Commission is able to assure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments or suggestions to the Secretary of the Commission, V. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch. Copies of comments received may be examined at the llRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW. (Lower Level),
Washington, DC.
FOR FURTHER ll1 FORMAT 10l1 CONTACT: Mr. Gordon E. Gundersen, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 492-3803, or Mr. James F. Schneider, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, V 5. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 504-2692.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Pursuant to 10 CFR 2.790(c), NRC is placing in the NRC Public Document Room portions of the cask vendor's Safety Analysis Report (SAR), as well as certain information of the vendor, supporting its respective SAR, which the vendor claimed to be proprietary. Although NRC has not yet approved or adopted a final rule in the present rulemaking, NRC is disclosing now the vendor's information described above, in advance of any final rule, during the proposed rulemaking stage.
The information of the cask vendor being disclosed at this time provides added detail to the information NRC previously placed in the NRC Public Document Room at the outset of this rulemaking. It complements and supplements the design information already disclosed, providing further detail on such matters as the vendor's design calculations (often in the form of
computer rens) and specific data inputs for models used by the vendor for such calculations, as well as cask design details such as reinforcing steel sizing and shield lid thickness. The information being disclosed therefore provides additional specificity for the public about the technical information that was considered by the NRC staif in preparing the principal kRC documents underlying this rulemaking, that is, the proposed Certificate of Compliance for the cask and the associated NRC staf f Safety Evaluation Report and related Env'ronmental Assessment which were previously placed in the NRC Public Document Room at the outset of this proposed rulemaking, in disclosing the cask vendor's information described above, in advance of any final rule, NRC is giving the public an additional opportunity to review the content of Jch information, and the agency is accordingly extending the public comment period for an additional 30 days for this limited purpose, in case members of the public wish to submit additional comments or supplement their prior cc.nments in this proceeding. However, the agency will consider all comments already received to date (which are available in the NRC Public Document Room), and it is therefore unnecessary for commenters to repeat or resubmit prior corm.ents. Accordingly, commenters are specifically requested to limit their written submissions to comments based on a review of the cask vendor's information now being put in the NRC Public Document Room.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this f[-day of ,, 1993.
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