ML24292A174

FOIA-2025-000003 - Resp 1 - Final

ML24292A174
Person / Time
Issue date:	10/18/2024
From:	Sillah A NRC/OCIO
To:	Hulst J - No Known Affiliation
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FOIA-2025-000003
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NRC FORM 464 Part I (03-13-2023)

RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FOIA or Reference Number Response Number

Response

Type Interim Final Requester:

Date:

Description of Requested Records:

PART I. -- INFORMATION RELEASED The NRC has made some, or all, of the requested records publicly available through one or more of the following means:

(1) https://www.nrc.gov ; (2) public ADAMS, https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html; (3) microfiche available in the NRC Public Document Room; or the NRC Public Access Link (PAL), at https://foia.nrc-gateway.gov/app/Home.aspx.

Agency records subject to the request are enclosed.

Records subject to the request that contain information originated by or of interest to another Federal agency have been referred to that agency (See Part I.D -- Comments) for a disclosure determination and direct response to you.

We are continuing to process your request.

See Part I.D -- Comments.

PART I.A -- FEES AMOUNT You will be billed by NRC for the amount indicated.

You will receive a refund for the amount indicated.

Fees waived.

Since the minimum fee threshold was not met, you will not be charged fees.

Due to our delayed response, you will not be charged search and/or duplication fees that would otherwise be applicable to your request.

PART I.B -- INFORMATION NOT LOCATED OR WITHHELD FROM DISCLOSURE We did not locate any agency records responsive to your request. Note: Agencies may treat three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records as not subject to the FOIA ("exclusions"). See 5 U.S.C. 552(c). This is a standard notification given to all requesters; it should not be taken to mean that any excluded records do, or do not, exist.

We have withheld certain information pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described, and for the reasons stated, in Part II.

Because this is an interim response to your request, you may not appeal at this time. We will notify you of your right to appeal any of the responses we have issued in response to your request when we issue our final determination.

You may appeal this final determination within 90 calendar days of the date of this response. If you submit an appeal by mail, address it to the FOIA Officer, at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop T-6 A60M, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001. You may submit an appeal by email to FOIA.resource@nrc.gov. You may fax an appeal to (301) 415-5130. Please be sure to include on your submission that it is a FOIA Appeal. You may file an appeal through the NRC Public Access Link (PAL) at https://foia.nrc-gateway.gov/app/Home.aspx.

PART I.C -- REFERENCES AND POINTS OF CONTACT You have the right to seek assistance from the NRC's FOIA Public Liaison by submitting your inquiry at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/

foia/contact-foia.html, or by calling the FOIA Public Liaison at (301) 415-0717.

If we have denied your request, you have the right to seek dispute resolution services from the NRC's Public Liaison or the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS). To seek dispute resolution services from OGIS, you may email OGIS at ogis@nara.gov, send a fax to (202) 741-5789, or send a letter to: Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. For additional information about OGIS, please visit the OGIS website at https://www.archives.gov/ogis.

FOIA-2025-000003 1

Jaclyn Hulst 10/18/2024 References from Backgrounders on analysis of cancer risks (Request ##1567286), environmental monitoring (Request #1567281), and tritium (Request #1567271), as provided at a summer 2024 meeting regarding Palisades in Michigan.

NRC FORM 464 Part I (03-13-2023)

RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Response Number Interim Final PART I.D -- COMMENTS Signature - Freedom of Information Act Officer or Designee FOIA or Reference Number

Response

Type 1

Upon receipt of your request on October 1, 2024, we contacted you to explain that FOIA does not answer questions. You clarified your request as indicated in the Description of Requested Records, above, and we tasked Region III with searching for responsive records.

Records with a ML Accession Number are publicly available in the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room at https://

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. If you need assistance in obtaining these records, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) at 301-415-4737 or 1-800-397-4209, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. You can also use this link to access the records listed with a ML Accession Number; update the ML number at the end of the link: https://

adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=MLXXXXXXXXX As a result of this search, the following items were located, separated by Backgrounder:

1) Backgrounder: Analysis of Cancer Risks 1990 U.S. National Institutes of Health-National Cancer Institute report, Cancer in Populations Living Near Nuclear Facilities: See ML20116F538, ML20116F547, and ML20116F560 National Academy of Sciences Phase I Committee May 2012 report: See ML15035A132 National Academy of Sciences Phase II report: See ML15035A135 2023 IRC session: See ML23207A114 and ML23207A121.

2) Backgrounder: Environmental Monitoring https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/index.html https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part050/part050-0036a.html https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/index.html https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-190 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/index.html https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/tritium/plant-info.html https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/oversight/listofrpts-body.html https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/buried-pipes-fs.html - see also ML100480894 https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/grndwtr-contam-tritium.html.

3) Backgrounder: Tritium https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/grndwtr-contam-tritium.html https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/tritium/plant-info.html https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/bio-effects-radiation.html - see also ML033390088 For Tritium References, please see the continuation page attached to this document.

Alecia S. Sillah Digitally signed by Alecia S. Sillah Date: 2024.10.18 07:49:29 -04'00' FOIA-2025-000003

FOIA-2025-000003 NRC 464 Part I - Continuation Page Tritium References "Atomic Energy Commission (U.S.) (AEC), Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities, Federal Register, Vol. 36, No. 111, pp. 11113-11117, Washington, DC, June 9, 1971."

California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (CAL-EPA), Public Health Goal for Tritium in Drinking Water, April 27, 2006.

40 CFR 141.16, Maximum Contaminant Levels for Beta Particle and Photon Radioactivity from Man-Made Sources.

40 CFR 190, Environmental Radiation Protection Requirements for Normal Operations of Activities in the Uranium Fuel Cycle: Final Environmental Statement, Volumes 1&2. November 1, 1976 (1976a).

Drinking Water Regulations: Radionuclides. Federal Register, Vol. 41, No. 133, pp. 28402-28409, July 9, 1976 (1976b).

Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations: Proposed Maximum Contaminant Levels for Radioactivity. Federal Register, Vol. 40, No. 158, pp. 34324-34328, August 14, 1975.

International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). ICRP Publication 26, Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, 1977.

ICRP Publication 30, Limits for Intake of Radionuclides by Workers, 1979.

ICRP Publication 60, Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, Ann. ICRP 21(1-3), 1991.

National Commission on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP). Report No. 116, Limitation of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation, March 31, 1993.

NCRP, Report No. 160, Ionizing Radiation Exposure of the Population of the United States: An Update, 2009.

National Research Council, Radiochemistry in Nuclear Power Reactors, National Academies Press:

Washington, DC, 1996.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.), Fact Sheet on Biological Effects of Radiation (2004, available at: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/bio-effects-radiation.html, January 2011.

See Also: ML033390088 NRC, NUREG-0543, Methods for Demonstrating LWR Compliance with the EPA Uranium Fuel Cycle Standard (40 CFR Part 190), January 1980.

See Also: ML081360410 NRC Issuances: Opinions and Decisions of the NRC with Selected Orders, Docket No. RM 2:

Numerical Guides for Design Objectives and Limiting Conditions for Operation to Meet the Criterion As Low As Practicable for Radioactive Material In Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactor Effluents, April 30, 1975.

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), Sources, Effects, and Risks of Ionizing Radiation, Annex B: Exposures from Nuclear Power Plant Production, 1988.