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Forwards Redraft Version of Proposed Response to Question 3 of Randolph Ltr.In Author View,Response to Question Does Not Require Reference to Commission Recent Promulgation of Part 60
ML20154P438
Person / Time
Issue date: 02/24/1981
From: Trubatch S
NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)
To: Combs T
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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TASK-TF, TASK-URFO NUDOCS 9810220325
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> ilities pursuant to Chapters 6, 7. 8 and 10 of the Atomic Energy Adt,of 1954, as amended. Since Chapter 10 or the AEA applien only f+> ' tdt licensing of utilization 'and production ' facilities , the DOE

' facilities described'in Section 20P(3) would be regulated pursuant

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, ,  % l2189(would_ explicitly confirm these interpretation ol' current NEC' h la6thority. ALfull discussion of the Commission's view or the scope pH.

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ultimate: disposal of high-level waste. Currently, we believe NHC iias[suchauthority.underSections202(3)'and202(4)ortheEnergy'

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f Reorganization Act of 1974 Those sections authorize the NRC to license DOE facilities for the storage of high-level waste; and the Hj% . leg'islative~ history of those sectionseclearly indicates that the-M term " storage" was intended to include " disposal." However, S.

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,isoiation including monitored retrievable storage. Section 310 of

< 'S. N189,would amend Section 202(3) of the ERA to explicitly refer Ito. spent fuel, ' but would not alter the current languH6e which refern expressly only to storage. Thus, by explicitly defining " storage"

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a'. 2189 fcould be interpreted an precluding NRC from licensing DOE c .3 disposal facilities.
SychrcaninterpretationalsoappearsinconadstentwithSection 405(c) . That section is clearly intended to provide ror NRC licenn-
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-of:S. 2189. 'This intention could.not be realized if theidefinition

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' au'thority. Section.310 would amend Seetion 202(3) of the ERA to J. extend tlae Commission's current authority to spent fuel transferred

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