ML24138A123
| ML24138A123 | |
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| Issue date: | 06/26/2024 |
| From: | Raymond Furstenau NRC/NMSS/DREFS/MRPB |
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| References | |
| NRC-2024-0096, RIN 3150-AL17 89 FR 57095, 07/15/2024 | |
| Download: ML24138A123 (10) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2024-0096]
RIN 3150-AL17
List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Holtec International HI-STORM FW
System, Certificate of Compliance No. 1032, Amendment No. 7
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
SUMMARY
- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to amend its
spent fuel regulations by revising the Holtec International HI-STORM Flood/Wind Multi-
purpose Canister Storage System listing within the List of approved spent fuel storage
casks to include Amendment No. 7 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1032. Amendment
No. 7 revises the certificate of compliance to add a new overpack, add new multi-
purpose canisters MPC-44 and MPC-37P, and add new fuel type 10x10J to approved
content. Amendment No. 7 also incorporates other technical changes and several
editorial changes.
DATES: Submit comments by August 12, 2024. Comments received after this date will
be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only
for comments received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID NRC-2024-0096
at https://www.regulations.gov. If your material cannot be submitted using
https://www.regulations.gov, call or email the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document for alternate instructions.
You can read a plain language description of this proposed rule at
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/NRC-2024-0096. For additional direction on
obtaining information and submitting co mments, see Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this
document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caylee Kenny, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-7150, email: Caylee.Kenny@nrc.gov; and
Yen-Ju Chen, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-
1018, email: Yen-Ju.Chen@nrc.gov. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments II. Rulemaking Procedure III. Background IV. Plain Writing V. Availability of Documents
2 I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0096 when contacting the NRC about the
availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly available information
related to this action by any of the following methods:
- Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and
search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0096. Address questions about NRC dockets to Dawn
Forder, telephone: 301-415-3407, email: Dawn.Forder@nrc.gov. For technical questions
contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
- NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public
Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For problems with ADAMS, please
contact the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209,
301-415-4737, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. For the convenience of the
reader, instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are provided
in the Availability of Documents section.
- NRCs PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of
publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an appointment to visit
the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or
301-415-4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time, Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
3 The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal
rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC-2024-
0096 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identif ying or contact information that you
do not want to be publicly disclosed in y our comment submission. The NRC will post all
comment submissions at https://www.regulat ions.gov as well as enter the comment
submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying
or contact information that they do not w ant to be publicly disclosed in their comment
submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions
available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Rulemaking Procedure
Because the NRC considers this action to be non-controversial, the NRC is
publishing this proposed rule concurrently with a direct final rule in the Rules and
Regulations section of this issue of the Federal Register. The direct final rule will
become effective on September 25, 2024. Howeve r, if the NRC receives any significant
adverse comment by August 12, 2024, t hen the NRC will publish a document that
withdraws the direct final rule. If the direct final rule is withdrawn, the NRC will address
the comments in a subsequent final rule. In general, absent significant modifications to
the proposed revisions requiring republication, the NRC will not initiate a second
comment period on this action in the event the direct final rule is withdrawn.
4 A significant adverse comment is a comment where the commenter explains why
the rule would be inappropriate, including challenges to the rules underlying premise or
approach, or would be ineffective or unacceptable without a change. A comment is
adverse and significant if:
- 1) The comment opposes the rule and provides a reason sufficient to require a
substantive response in a notice-and-comment process. For example, a substantive
response is required when:
a) The comment causes the NRC to reevaluate (or reconsider) its position or
conduct additional analysis;
b) The comment raises an issue serious enough to warrant a substantive
response to clarify or complete the record; or
c) The comment raises a relevant iss ue that was not previously addressed or
considered by the NRC.
- 2) The comment proposes a change or an addition to the rule, and it is apparent
that the rule would be ineffective or unacceptable without incorporation of the change or
addition.
- 3) The comment causes the NRC to make a change (other than editorial) to the
rule.
For a more detailed discussion of the proposed rule changes and associated
analyses, see the direct final rule published in the Rules and Regulations section of this
issue of the Federal Register.
III. Background
Section 218(a) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as amended, requires
that [t]he Secretary [of the Department of Energy] shall establish a demonstration
5 program, in cooperation with the private sector, for the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel
at civilian nuclear power reactor sites, with the objective of establishing one or more
technologies that the [Nuclear Regulatory] Commission may, by rule, approve for use at
the sites of civilian nuclear power reactors without, to the maximum extent practicable,
the need for additional site-specific approvals by the Commission. Section 133 of the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act states, in part, that [t]he Commission shall, by rule, establish
procedures for the licensing of any te chnology approved by the Commission under
Section 219(a) [sic: 218(a)] for use at the site of any civilian nuclear power reactor.
To implement this mandate, the Commission approved dry storage of spent
nuclear fuel in NRC-approved casks under a general license by publishing a final rule
that added a new subpart K in part 72 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR) entitled General License for Storage of Spent Fuel at Power Reactor Sites
(55 FR 29181; July 18, 1990). This rule also established a new subpart L in 10 CFR part
72 entitled Approval of Spent Fuel Storage Casks, which contains procedures and
criteria for obtaining NRC approval of spent fuel storage cask designs. The NRC
subsequently issued a final rule on June 8, 2011 (76 FR 33121), that approved the
Holtec International HI-STORM Flood/Wind Multi-purpose Canister Storage System
design and added it to the list of NRC-approved cask designs in § 72.214 as Certificate
of Compliance No. 1032.
IV. Plain Writing
The Plain Writing Act of 2010 (Pub. L. 111-274) requires Federal agencies to
write documents in a clear, concise, and well-organized manner. The NRC has written
this document to be consistent with the Plain Writing Act as well as the Presidential
Memorandum, Plain Language in Government Writing, published June 10, 1998 (63
6 FR 31885). The NRC requests comment on the proposed rule with respect to clarity and
effectiveness of the language used.
V. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to interested
persons as indicated.
DOCUMENT ADAMS ACCESSION NO. / WEB LINK / FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION Proposed Certificate of Compliance and Proposed Technical Specifications
Certificate of Compliance No.1032, ML23030B793 Amendment No. 7 Certificate of Compliance No. 1032, ML23030B794 Amendment 7, Appendix A: Technical Specifications Certificate of Compliance No. 1032, ML23030B795 Amendment 7, Appendix B: Approved Contents and Design Features Certificate of Compliance No. 1032, ML23030B796 Amendment No. 7, Preliminary Safety Evaluation Report Environmental Documents
Environmental Assessment for Proposed ML051230231 Rule Entitled, "Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel in NRC-Approved Storage Casks at Nuclear Power Reactor Sites, dated March 8, 1989 Environmental Assessment and Finding ML100710441 of No Significant Impact for the Final Rule Amending 10 CFR Part 72 License and Certificate of Compliance Terms, dated May 3, 2010 Generic Environmental Impact Statement ML14198A440 (package) for Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: Final Report (NUREG-2157, Volumes 1 and 2), dated September 30, 2014
7 Storage of Spent Fuel In NRC-Approved 55 FR 29181 Storage Casks at Power Reactor Sites Final Rule, dated July 18, 1990 Holtec International HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 Request Documents
Holtec International - HI-STORM FW ML21126A266 (package)
Amendment 7 Request, dated May 6, 2021 Holtec International HI-STORM FW ML21126A267 Amendment 7 Request - HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 ML21126A268 Summary of Proposed Changes - HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 ML21126A269 Certificate of Compliance - HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 ML21126A270 Certificate of Compliance, Appendix A - HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 ML21126A271 Certificate of Compliance, Appendix B - HI-STORM FW FSAR ML21126A273 Proposed Revision 9 Revised Pages (Non-Proprietary) 9: Affidavit of Kimberly Manzione ML21126A297 in Accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 HOLTEC International HI-STORM FW ML21288A521 (package)
Amendment 7 Responses to Requests for Supplemental Information, dated October 15, 2021 Holtec International, HI-STORM FW ML22048C221 Amendment 9 Request, dated February 17, 2022 Holtec International, HI-STORM FW ML22192A215 (package)
Amendment 7 Responses to Requests for Additional Information Part 1, dated July 11, 2022 Holtec International, HI-STORM FW ML22194A954 Amendment 7 Responses to Requests for Additional Information Part 1 - Additional Supporting Documents, dated July 13, 2022 HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 Responses to ML22210A145 (package)
Requests for Additional Information Part 2, dated July 29, 2022 Holtec International, HI-STORM FW ML22258A250 (package)
Amendment 7 RAI Responses Part 1 Clarification Call Action Items, dated September 15, 2022 HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 Responses to ML22276A281 (package)
Requests for Additional Information Part 3, dated October 3, 2022 HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 RAI 5-2 ML22336A132 (package)
Response Clarification, dated December 1, 2022
8 Holtec International HI-STORM FW ML23006A263 (package)
Amendment 7 Responses to Requests for Additional Information Part 4, dated January 6, 2023 Holtec International - HI-STORM FW ML23128A302 (package)
Amendment 7 Responses to Requests for Additional Information Part 5, dated May 8, 2023 Holtec International HI-STORM FW ML23181A192 (package)
Amendment 7 RAI Responses Part 5 Clarification Call Action Items, dated June 30, 2023 Holtec International, HI-STORM FW ML23192A031 (package)
Amendment 7 RAI Responses Part 5 Clarification Corrected Attachments 4 and 5, dated July 11, 2023 Holtec International, HI-STORM FW ML23227A248 (package)
Amendment 7 RAI 3-10 Response Clarification Call Action Items, dated August 15, 2023 HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 RAI Response ML23321A245 (package)
Clarifications (Part 3), dated November 17, 2023 Holtec International, HI-STORM FW ML24047A323 (package)
Amendment 7 RAI Response Clarifications (Part 4), dated February 16, 2024 HI-STORM FW Amendment 7 RAI Response ML24100A027 (package)
Clarifications (Part 5), dated April 8, 2024 OTHER DOCUMENTS User Need Memo for Rulemaking for the ML23030B792 Holtec HI-STORM Flood/Wind Multi-Purpose Canister Storage System, CoC No. 1032, Amendment 7, dated May 17, 2024 Agreement State Program Policy Statement; 82 FR 48535 Correction, dated October 18, 2017 Plain Language in Government Writing, 63 FR 31885 dated June 10, 1998 Storage of Spent Fuel In NRC-Approved 55 FR 29181 Storage Casks at Power Reactor Sites: Final Rule, dated July 18, 1990 List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: 76 FR 33121 HI-STORM Flood/Wind Addition, dated June 8, 2011
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Dated: June 26, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
/RA/
Raymond Furstenau, Acting Executive Director for Operations.
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