ML20177A379

Email from L. Cox, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to NRC Regarding Exemption Request for Duke Energy'S McGuire Nuclear Station

ML20177A379
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Site:	McGuire, 07201031, Mcguire
Issue date:	06/23/2020
From:	Cox L State of NC, Dept of Health & Human Services
To:	Yen-Ju Chen Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch
YJChen NMSS/DFM/STl 415.1018
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Download: ML20177A379 (3)

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From: Cox, Lee To: Chen, Yen-Ju

Subject:

[External_Sender] RE: [External] DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: EXEMPTION REQUEST FOR MCGUIRE NUCLEAR STATION INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:38:03 AM Hi Yen-Ju:

The benefit of saving dose to personnel, not creating additional contaminated waste, reducing fuel handling and heavy load lifting outweigh the risks of meeting the current TS. Agree with the exemption.

W. Lee Cox, III Chief Division of Health Service Regulation, Radiation Protection Section North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Help protect your family and neighbors from COVID-19.

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From: Chen, Yen-Ju <Yen-Ju.Chen@nrc.gov>

Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:38 PM To: Cox, Lee <lee.cox@dhhs.nc.gov>

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[External] DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: EXEMPTION REQUEST FOR MCGUIRE NUCLEAR STATION INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION CAUTION: External email. Do not click links or open attachments unless you verify. Send all suspicious email as an attachment to report.spam@nc.gov

Dear Mr. Cox:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by a letter dated September 12, 2019, and supplemented on February 3 and June 15, 2020, a request for an exemption, from Duke Energy

Carolinas, LLC (Duke Energy) in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 72.7, from the requirements of 10 CFR 72.212(b)(3), 72.212(b)(5)(i), and 72.212(b)(11) that requires compliance with the terms, conditions, and specifications of the Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No.

72-1031 for spent nuclear fuel stored at the McGuire Nuclear Station independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). The CoC is the NRC-approved design for each dry storage cask system used for spent fuel storage.

This exemption would allow Duke Energy to maintain MAGNATOR Cask 0FCTKN045 at its McGuire Nuclear Station ISFSI in a storage condition where the helium density is above the range specified in CoC No. 1031, Amendment No. 7, Technical Specification 3.1.1. The exemption request is publicly available from the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS),

accessible at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The ADAMS Accession Number for the exemption request and supplemental information are ML19270E395, ML20052D934, and ML20168A426, respectively.

As established in Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, the NRC is preparing an environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed action. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. No significant change in the types or amounts of any effluent released, no significant increase in individual or cumulative radiation exposures, and no significant increase in the potential for or consequences of radiological accidents will occur as the result of the exemption request. For these reasons, the NRC concludes in the draft EA that approval of the exemption request will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment.

The NRC is providing your office with the opportunity to review the attached draft EA and comment on environmental issues prior to public issuance of the EA. We request that the distribution and use of the draft EA be limited only to those staff involved in the review and comment process. We further request that your office provide any comments to the NRC staff by July 20, 2020. You can provide your comments to me, via email, if that is convenient for you. We will consider your timely comments and will revise the EA, as appropriate, before its final issuance.

If you have any questions, please contact me at Yen-Ju.Chen@nrc.gov or by telephone at 3014151018.

Yen-Ju Chen Sr. Project Manager Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized State official. Unauthorized disclosure of juvenile, health, legally privileged, or otherwise confidential information, including confidential information relating to an ongoing State procurement effort, is prohibited by law. If you have received this email in

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