ML20170B049
| ML20170B049 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Peach Bottom  |
| Issue date: | 07/22/2020 |
| From: | John Lubinski Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
| To: | Reasoner C Wolf Creek |
| Terry T, NMSS/DFM, 301-415-1488 | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20170B047 | List: |
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| EA-20-091 | |
| Download: ML20170B049 (4) | |
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SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 July 22, 2020 EA-20-091 Mr. Cleveland O. Reasoner, III President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Nuclear Officer Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation 1550 Oxen Lane P.O. Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839
SUBJECT:
ISSUANCE OF ORDER FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITY MEASURES AND FINGERPRINTING FOR UNESCORTED ACCESS AT THE WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION
Dear Mr. Reasoner:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) has issued the enclosed Order (Enclosure 1), which modifies the general license for your proposed independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). The Order requires compliance with two sets of requirements:
(1) Additional Security Measures for Physical Protection of Dry Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations (Enclosure 1, Attachment 1), and (2) Additional Security Measures for Access Authorization and Fingerprinting at Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations (Enclosure 1, Attachment 2). You will also find the supporting documents related to this Order in Enclosures 2 through 4.
Following the terrorist events of September 11, 2001, the Commission determined that the additional security measures (ASMs) included in this Order are required to ensure national safety and security.
Before placing spent fuel in the ISFSI, Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (Wolf Creek) must meet the following conditions:
- Demonstrate the ability to comply with the required ASMs as outlined in these documents no later than 365 days from the date of this Order or 90 days before the first day that spent fuel is initially placed in the ISFSI, whichever occurs first.
- Implement the ASM requirements.
- Receive written verification from the NRC (specifically from the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards) that Wolf Creek has adequately demonstrated compliance with the ASM requirements.
WARNING: Violation of Section 147 of the NOTICE: Upon removal of Attachment 1 to Enclosure 1 Atomic Energy Act, Safeguards Information, and Enclosure 4 to this letter, this document and the is subject to Civil and Criminal penalties. enclosed Order (Enclosure 1) are DECONTROLLED.
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SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION C. Reasoner III The Order does not remove the need for licensees to continue to meet and maintain the effectiveness of existing security measures taken in response to the events of September 11, 2001. The requirements will remain in effect until the Commission determines otherwise.
The enclosed Order calls for responses and actions within specified timeframes. With respect to the notices and submission mandated by Sections III.B and III.C of the Order for any requirement of the ASMs that needs analysis or is contingent on the completion of another requirement of the ASMs, the licensees response will be sufficient if its 20-day submission, as stated in Sections III.B and III.C of the Order, meets all of the following conditions:
- The licensee states that the completion of the requirement depends on the completion of an analysis or other requirement.
- The licensee includes the expected date of completion of the analysis or other requirement.
- The licensee states that, upon such completion, it will promptly submit the results of such analysis or will inform the NRC of the completion of the other requirement and the actions thereafter proposed with respect to the requirement at issue and of the projected date of completion.
If Wolf Creek wishes to preserve its right to request a hearing on any requirement that is contingent on the completion of an analysis or other requirement, it must file a request for an extension of time to ask for a hearing within 20 days of the publication date of the Order in the Federal Register, in accordance with Section IV of the Order. Such a request may seek a reasonable period of time to request a hearing beyond the date when the staff informs the licensee whether the actions proposed and the completion date for the requirement(s),
contingent on an analysis or other requirement, are satisfactory.
Please address letters of response to Sections III.B and III.C of the Order to ATTN: Document Control Desk, Director, Division of Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Address answers to the Order, as stated in Section IV, of the Order to the Secretary, Office of the Secretary of the Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Please contact Mr. Douglas L. Garner in the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response Douglas.Garner@nrc.gov for questions related to the ASMs. Contact Ms. Tomeka Terry of my staff at Tomeka.Terry@nrc.gov for issues related to compliance with the requirements in the enclosed Order or to answer any other questions you might have. NRC has forwarded the enclosed Order to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.
The material in Attachment 1 to Enclosure 1 contains safeguards information, as defined by Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Section 73.22, Protection of safeguards information: specific requirements, and its disclosure to unauthorized individuals is prohibited SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION
SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION C. Reasoner III by Section 147 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The material in Enclosure 4 is designated as Official Use Only Security-Related Information in accordance with agency requirements for sensitive, unclassified, non-safeguards information). Therefore, the NRC will not make those documents available for public inspection. However, Enclosure 1, without , will be made available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), which is accessible from the NRCs Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Sincerely, Digitally signed by John W. John W. Lubinski Date: 2020.07.22 Lubinski 15:30:09 -04'00' John W. Lubinski, Director Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-79
Enclosures:
- 1. Order for Implementation of Additional Security Measures and Fingerprinting for Unescorted Access to the Wolf Creek Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (with Attachment 1 [SGI]
and Attachment 2)
- 2. Guidance for Licensees Evaluation of Access Authorization to Spent Fuel Storage Facilities with the Inclusion of Criminal History (Fingerprint) Records Checks
- 3. Process to Challenge NRC Denials or Revocations of Unescorted Access to Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations
- 4. NRC Regulatory Information Summary 2002-12D, Revision 1, Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations Using Dry Storage NRC Threat Advisory and Protective Measures System (OUO-SRI) cc: Distribution via ListServ (without SGI and OUO-SRI)
Mike Skiles, Nuclear Plant Security Director (with SGI and OUO-SRI)
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SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION C. Reasoner III
SUBJECT:
ISSUANCE OF ORDER FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITY MEASURES AND FINGERPRINTING FOR UNESCORTED ACCESS AT THE WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION DATED: July 22, 2020 DISTRIBUTION: (w/Enclosure 1 only)
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