NRC-2022-0047, Federal Register Notice Issuing Exemption and License Amendment WEC ADR4 Ex FRN 87FR16772
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| Site: | Westinghouse |
| Issue date: | 03/24/2022 |
| From: | US Government |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards |
| J TOBIN NRC/NMSS/DFM/FFLB 3014152328 | |
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16772 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 57 / Thursday, March 24, 2022 / Notices (MD) 8.4, Management of Backfitting, Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste Regulatory Commission, Washington, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and disposal facility permitted by the State DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-Information Requests (ADAMS of Idaho to receive low-level radioactive 2328, email: Jennifer.Tobin@nrc.gov.
Accession No. ML18093B087). Any waste. Approval of the alternate SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
changes to this trial RG, such as disposal request from WEC and the withdrawal or addition of or exemptions and license amendment I. Background modification to staff positions based on requested by WEC, and associated Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC experience gained during the trial use exemptions requested by USEI would (WEC) holds a special nuclear materials period, prior to issuing a final RG will allow WEC to transfer the specific waste (SNM) License Number SNM-1107 not be considered to be backfitting as from CFFF to USEI for disposal. under part 70 of title 10 of the Code of defined in 10 CFR 50.109. This will DATES: The exemptions are effective on Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
ensure that the lessons learned from the March 24, 2022. Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear regulatory trial use of the pilot ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID Material. Under the terms of its applications of this RG are adequately NRC-2022-0047 when contacting the license, WEC fabricates nuclear fuel at addressed and that this guidance is NRC about the availability of the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility sufficient to enhance regulatory stability information regarding this document. (CFFF). The US Ecology, Inc. (USEI) in the review and approval of risk- disposal facility near Grand View, Idaho You may obtain publicly available informed applications for non-light is a Subtitle C Resource Conservation information related to this document water reactors. and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous using any of the following methods:
- Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to waste disposal facility permitted by the Dated: March 18, 2022.
https://www.regulations.gov and search State of Idaho to receive radioactive For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. waste.
Meraj Rahimi, for Docket ID NRC-2022-0047. Address Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs questions about Docket IDs in II. Request/Action Management Branch, Division of Engineering, Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; The proposed action would approve Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. telephone: 301-415-0624; email: the alternate disposal request and
[FR Doc. 2022-06222 Filed 3-23-22; 8:45 am] Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical provide exemptions from 10 CFR 70.3 BILLING CODE 7590-01-P questions, contact the individual listed and 10 CFR 30.3 and an associated WEC in the For Further Information license amendment, allowing WEC to Contact section of this document. transfer and USEI to receive and dispose NUCLEAR REGULATORY
- NRCs Agencywide Documents of waste containing byproduct material COMMISSION Access and Management System and SNM. The volumetrically (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly contaminated waste includes calcium
[Docket No. 70-1151; NRC-2022-0047] available documents online in the fluoride (CaF2) sludge dredged from the ADAMS Public Documents collection at disposal lagoons and the Sanitary Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC; https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility; and Lagoon located on the site, the sanitary adams.html. To begin the search, select lagoon liner, contaminated soil from US Ecology, Inc.; Idaho Resource Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For Conservation and Recovery Act under and adjacent to the Sanitary problems with ADAMS, please contact Lagoon, and soil associated with the Subtitle C; Hazardous Disposal Facility the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR)
Located Near Grand View, Idaho demolition of the CaF2 storage pad. The reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301- surface-contaminated waste being AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 415-4737, or by email to considered for disposal includes Commission. PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The Request for obsolete uranium hexafluoride (UF6)
ACTION: License amendment and Alternate Disposal Approval and shipping cylinders and debris exemptions; issuance. Exemption for Specific CFFF Waste associated with demolition and removal (License No. SNM-1197, Docket No. 70- of the CaF2 pad and Sanitary Lagoon.
SUMMARY
- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 1151) dated November 5, 2022, as The waste being considered originates Commission (NRC) is issuing corrected by letter dated December 1, from processes associated with the exemptions from NRC regulations and 2021, is available in ADAMS under chemical conversion of UF6 to uranium associated license amendment related to Accession Nos. ML21309A095 and dioxide (UO2) performed at CFFF and is requests from Westinghouse Electric ML21336A461, respectively. The staffs contaminated with isotopic uranium Company, LLC (WEC) and US Ecology, Safety Evaluation Report dated March 4, (U-234, U-235, and U-238) and Inc. (USEI). WEC requested NRC 2022, is available in ADAMS under technicium-99 (Tc-99).
approval for an alternate disposal and Package Accession No. ML22054A045. As proposed, this waste would be related exemptions for specified low-
- NRCs PDR: You may examine and transported from CFFF in South activity radioactive waste from the purchase copies of public documents, Carolina to the USEI facility near Grand Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility by appointment, at the NRCs PDR, View, Idaho using a combination of (CFFF) in Hopkins, South Carolina Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, trucks and railcars. The USEI facility is containing byproduct material and 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, a RCRA Subtitle C hazardous waste special nuclear material (SNM) under Maryland 20852. To make an disposal facility permitted by the State License Number SNM-1107. appointment to visit the PDR, please of Idaho.
send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Additionally, the NRC is approving exemptions requested by USEI from the or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415- III. Discussion applicable licensing requirements to 4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Pursuant to 10 CFR 70.17 and 10 CFR allow USEI to receive and dispose of the (ET), Monday through Friday, except 30.11, the Commission may, upon material from CFFF without an NRC Federal holidays. application of any interested person or license. The USEI disposal facility, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: upon its own initiative, grant such located near Grand View, Idaho, is a Jenny Tobin, Office of Nuclear Material exemptions from the requirements of 10 Subtitle C Resource Conservation and Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear CFR part 70 and part 30 respectively, as VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:39 Mar 23, 2022 Jkt 256001 PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\24MRN1.SGM 24MRN1
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 57 / Thursday, March 24, 2022 / Notices 16773 it determines are authorized by law and consistent with the consent agreement SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE will not endanger life or property or the between CFFF and the South Carolina COMMISSION common defense and security and are Department of Health and
[Release No. 34-94467; File No. SR-NYSE-otherwise in the public interest. Environmental Control, and conserves 2022-13]
The Exemptions Are Authorized by Law low-level radioactive waste disposal capacity at licensed low-level Self-Regulatory Organizations; New The proposal provides that the York Stock Exchange LLC; Notice of radioactive disposal sites while material described in this notice would Filing and Order Granting Accelerated ensuring that the material being be transported and disposed of in Approval of a Proposed Rule Change compliance with Federal, State, and considered is disposed of safely in a regulated facility. Therefore, based upon for Certain Amendments to the local regulations. Further, as previously Preamble to Rule 9217 noted, the NRC is authorized to grant the evaluation previously noted, exemptions from 10 CFR parts 30 and exemptions are appropriate pursuant to March 18, 2022.
- 70. Granting these exemptions are also 10 CFR 30.11 and 10 CFR 70.17. Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the not contrary to the Atomic Energy Act IV. Environmental Considerations Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the of 1954, as amended, or other regulatory Act),1 and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,2 requirements or law. Therefore, such As required by 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC notice is hereby given that on March 4, disposal is not otherwise contrary to performed an environmental assessment 2022, New York Stock Exchange LLC NRC requirements, and is otherwise (EA) that analyzes the environmental (NYSE or the Exchange) filed with authorized by law. impacts of the proposed exemptions in the Securities and Exchange accordance with the National Commission (the Commission) the The Exemptions Will Not Endanger Life, Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and proposed rule change as described in Property or the Common Defense and NRC implementing regulations in 10 Items I and II below, which Items have Security CFR part 51. Based on the conclusions been prepared by the Exchange. The NRC staff reviewed the information Commission is publishing this notice to provided by WEC to support its 10 CFR of the EA, the NRC staff has determined solicit comments on the proposed rule 20.2002 alternate disposal request and that there is no need to prepare an change from interested persons and the specific exemptions from 10 CFR environmental impact statement for the approving the proposal on an 30.3 and 10 CFR 70.3 and the associated proposed exemptions and has issued a accelerated basis.
license amendment in order to dispose finding of no significant impact of the specified material associated with (FONSI). The EA and FONSI were I. Self-Regulatory Organizations cleanup activities at CFFF. The NRC published in the Federal Register on Statement of the Terms of Substance of staff concluded that the requested March 10, 2022 (87 FR 13766). the Proposed Rule Change disposal of waste containing byproduct The Exchange proposes certain material and SNM is acceptable under V. Conclusions amendments to the preamble to Rule 10 CFR 20.2002. Details provided in this Accordingly, the Commission has 9217. The proposed rule change is request, in combination with determined that, pursuant to 10 CFR available on the Exchanges website at appropriate references to past approvals 70.17 and 10 CFR 30.11, exemptions for www.nyse.com, at the principal office of of similar procedures and material from the Exchange, and at the Commissions WEC and USEI are authorized by law, the same site, provide an adequate Public Reference Room.
will not present an undue risk to the description of the waste and II. Self-Regulatory Organizations public health and safety, are consistent demonstrate that the proposed manner Statement of the Purpose of, and with the common defense and security, and conditions of waste disposal would Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule be protective of public health and safety and are in the public interest. Therefore, the Commission hereby grants WEC and Change and security and would not endanger property. In particular, under the USEI exemptions from 10 CFR 70.3 and In its filing with the Commission, the alternate disposal request, public doses 10 CFR 30.3 to allow WEC to transfer self-regulatory organization included would be a fraction of the natural certain low-activity radioactive statements concerning the purpose of, background radiation dose and a materials, including byproduct and and basis for, the proposed rule change fraction of the annual public dose limit. SNM, from the WEC CFFF for disposal and discussed any comments it received NRC staff also notes that the request is at the USEI disposal facility located near on the proposed rule change. The text also subject to regulation under RCRA. Grand View, Idaho, and issues WEC a of those statements may be examined at Lastly, because of the presence of SNM, conforming license amendment. the places specified in Item III below.
the NRC evaluated potential criticality The Exchange has prepared summaries, Dated: March 21, 2022. set forth in sections A, B, and C below, in its safety evaluation report and found For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. of the most significant parts of such no concerns. Therefore, the NRC concludes that issuance of the Jacob I. Zimmerman, statements.
exemption will not endanger life, Chief, Fuel Facility Licensing Branch, A. Self-Regulatory Organizations property, or the common defense and Division of Fuel Management, Office of Statement of the Purpose of, and the security. Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
[FR Doc. 2022-06236 Filed 3-23-22; 8:45 am] Change The Exemptions Are in the Public khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES BILLING CODE 7590-01-P Interest 1. Purpose Issuance of the exemptions to WEC The Exchange proposes certain and USEI is in the public interest amendments to the preamble to Rule because it provides for the efficient and 9217.
safe disposal for the subject waste material, facilitates the 1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
decommissioning of the CFFF site 2 17 CFR 240.19b-4.
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