ML20167A303

Letter - Ynps Exemption 190502, Rev 0

ML20167A303
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Site:	Yankee Rowe, 07201025
Issue date:	07/10/2020
From:	John Mckirgan Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch
To:	Hemingway S Yankee Atomic Electric Co
Devaser N
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July 10, 2020 Mr. Shae Hemingway Manager, Yankee Rowe Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation Yankee Atomic Electric Company 49 Yankee Road, Rowe, MA 01367

SUBJECT:

EXEMPTION FROM 10 CFR 72.212 AND 72.214 FOR DRY SPENT FUEL STORAGE ACTIVITIES - YANKEE ATOMIC INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION

Dear Mr. Hemingway:

This is in response to your letter dated May 2, 2019, requesting an exemption from the requirements in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 72.212(a)(2),

10 CFR 72.212(b)(3), 10 CFR 72.2I2(b)(5)(i), 10 CFR 72.212(b)(11), and 10 CFR 72.214, pursuant to 10 CFR 72.7. In your letter you stated that Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YAEC) desired to adopt Amendment No. 8 to Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 1025 for the fifteen canisters at the site. CoC No. 1025, Amendment No. 8 was approved by the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on March 4, 2019. The exemption would relieve YAEC from the requirement in Amendment No. 8 to CoC No. 1025, Appendix A Technical Specifications for NAC-MPC System, (1) Section A.5.1 Training Program, to develop training modules under the Systems Approach to Training that include comprehensive instructions for the operation and maintenance of the independent spent fuel storage installation, except for the NAC-MPC System and (2) Section A.5.4 Radioactive Effluent Control Program, to submit an annual report specifying the quantity of each of the principal radionuclides released to the environment in liquid and in gaseous effluents during the previous 12 months of operation. The NRC has previously granted the same exemption to YAEC from the requirements of CoC No.

1025, Amendment No. 5, in its letter to YAEC dated July 15, 2010 (Agencywide Document Access and Management System [ADAMS] Accession No. ML102020239).

The NRC staff has determined that granting the proposed exemption from specific provisions of 10 CFR 72.212(a)(2), 10 CFR 72.212(b)(3), 10 CFR 72.2I2(b)(5)(i), 10 CFR 72.212(b)(11), and 10 CFR 72.214 is authorized by law, will not endanger life or property or the common defense and security, and is otherwise in the public interest. Therefore, the NRC staff has concluded that the proposed changes will not pose an increased risk to public health and safety.

The NRC staff determined the proposed action fits a category of actions that do not require an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement. The exemption meets the categorical exclusion requirements of 10 CFR 51.22(c)(25)(i)-(v) and (vi)(B) and (E). Therefore, an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact will not be issued. A copy of the Notice of Issuance that was sent to the Office of the Federal Register for publishing on July 2, 2020, is enclosed.

S. Hemingway Accordingly, the exemption will be effective immediately.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding, of the NRCs Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure, a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of ADAMS. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

If you have any questions, please contact me at 301-415-5722, or Nishka Devaser of my staff, at 301-415-5196. Any future correspondence related to this action should reference CAC No. 001028, Docket Nos. 72-1025 and 50-029, and EPID L-2020-LLE-0006.

Sincerely, Digitally signed by John B.

John B. McKirgan McKirgan Date: 2020.07.10 09:59:51 -04'00' John B. McKirgan, Chief, Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket Nos.: 50-029, 72-1025

Enclosure:

Federal Register Notice cc: Service List

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