ML23057A006

State Consultation - License Amendment Request TMI-2 Solutions - Update Technical Specifications and Remove Certain License Conditions Applicable to Pdms

ML23057A006
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	02/24/2023
From:	Amy Snyder Reactor Decommissioning Branch
To:	Werner B State of PA, Dept of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Radiation Protection
References
Download: ML23057A006 (2)

Text

From: Amy Snyder To: Werner, Bryan Cc: Doug Tifft (He/Him/His); Shaun Anderson; Anthony Dimitriadis; Stephen Hammann; Tim Devik; Robert Sun

Subject:

State Consultation- License Amendment Request TMI-2 Solutions - Update Technical Specifications and Remove Certain License Conditions Applicable to PDMS Date: Friday, February 24, 2023 9:18:00 AM Attachments: TMI2DecommissioningLARFederalRegisterNotice.8-22-2022.pdf Bryan Werner, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Radiation Protection Rachel Carson State Office Building P.O. Box 8469 Harrisburg, PA 17105-8469-8469

Dear Mr. Werner,

By letter dated February 21, 2021(ADAMS Package Accession No. ML21057A047, as supplemented on May 5 (ML21133A264); January 7, 2022 (ML22013A177), March 23, (ML22101A079), April 7, (ML22101A077), May 16, (ML22138A285), September 29 (ML22276A024), October 29, (ML22307A082) and December 30, 2022 (ML22364A194);

and January 27 (ML23033A103) and February 14, 2023 (ML23049A004), the TMI-2 Solutions, the licensee, sought NRC review and approval of an amendment request to the Possession Only License (POL) and Appendix A, Technical Specifications (TS), of POL No.

DPR-73 (License) for TMINS, Unit No. 2 (TMI-2). In its application, TMI-2 Solutions stated that the revised TMl-2 POL and TS applicable during decommissioning are referred to as the Decommissioning TS. The amendment, if approved, would revise the POL and the associated TS to support the transition of TMI-2 from a Post-Defueling Monitored Storage (PDMS) condition to that of a facility undergoing radiological decommissioning (DECON) pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.82(a)(7).

The licensee proposes to eliminate those TS that are no longer applicable based on current plant radiological conditions and updated safe fuel mass limits (SFML). Changes to TS to remove the limiting conditions for PDMS, certain definitions, surveillance requirements, and administrative controls, as well as several license conditions that have already been met are also proposed. Upon issuance, this proposed amendment will modify License DPR-73 to include Appendix A of the license, TS, to support entry into DECON. TMl-2 Solutions intends to complete decommissioning of TMl-2 and release the site by 2037, except for an area set aside, as may be required, for debris material storage facilities.

TMl-2 Solutions also propose to relocate administrative controls from Section 6, Administrative Controls, to the Decommissioning Quality Assurance Plan (DQAP), and subsequently controlling them in accordance with 10 CFR 50.54(a) pursuant to the criteria contained in 10 CFR 50.36 and in accordance with the recommendations, guidance, and purpose of NRC Administrative Letter 95-06 (ML20101P963). The licensee proposes to relocate the content of these administrative controls into the DQAP verbatim except TS sectional cross references (e.g., as required by specification 6.9.2.v).

The Commission has previously issued a proposed finding that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration, as published in the Federal Register on August 22, 2022 (87 FR 51454), and there have been no public comments on this preliminary finding. Later,

the license supplemented it application and modified its No Significant Hazard Determination (ML23033A103). The NRC staff preliminary determined that the modified NSHD is bounded by the previous NSHD in scope and that the change in accident analysis would be bounded by the first proposed NSHD that the noticed on August 22, 2022.

I have attached a courtesy copy of the Federal Register Notice for your use. We are considering finalizing this proposed NSHC determination.

Also, we preliminarily determined that this amendment request would meet the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion from environmental review set forth set forth in 10 CFR 51.22 (c)(9) and (c)(10). The NRC staff preliminarily determined that the amendment involves no significant increase in the amounts, and no significant change in the types, of any effluents that may be released offsite, and that there is no significant increase in individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure and certain actions are administrative in nature, such as removing license conditions that would no longer be needed. Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), the NRC staff preliminarily believes that no environmental impact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection with the approval of this LAR.

If the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has comments on the TMI-2 license amendment request that would modify License POL No. DPR-73 for TMI-2 or our proposed NSHC determination, please e-mail me your comments by Close of Business (COB) March 17, 2023. If you do not have comments, I would appreciate it if you would please provide an email that you have no comments by COB March 17, 2023 If you have any questions, please contact me. My contact information is below.

Thank you.

A Amy Amy Snyder, Senior Project Manager Reactor Decommissioning Branch (RDB)

Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs (DUWP)

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS)

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Washington, D.C. 20555

( Office: (301) 415-6822 7 Fax: (301) 415-5369

- Mail Stop: T5-A10

¶ Location: T5-D48 8 E-mail: amy.snyder@nrc.gov