SECY-23-0050, Weekly Information Report Week Ending May 26, 2023
| ML23151A351 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 06/08/2023 |
| From: | Marissa Bailey NRC/EDO/AO |
| To: | Commissioners NRC/OCM |
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| Download: ML23151A351 (8) | |
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INFORMATION REPORT JUNE 8, 2023 SECY-23-0050 FOR: The Commissioners FROM: Marissa G. Bailey Assistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director for Operations
SUBJECT:
WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING MAY 26, 2023 CONTENTS Enclosure Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer A Office of the Chief Information Officer B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation C Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards D Office of the Secretary E Matthew Meyer for Marissa G. Bailey Assistant for Operations, OEDO CONTACT: John R. Jolicoeur, OEDO 301-415-1642 Meyer, Matthew signing on behalf of Bailey, Marissa on 06/08/23
ML23151A351 OFFICE OEDO OEDO/AO
NAME JJolicoeur MMeyer for MBailey
DATE 06/01/2023 06/08/2023 Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer Items of Interest Week Ending May 26, 2023
ARRIVALS
NGUYEN, MINH SUMMER INTERN (MANAGEMENT ANALYST) OIG
RETIREMENTS
NONE
DEPARTURES
NONE
JUNE 8, 2023 ENCLOSURE A Office of the Chief Information Officer Items of Interest Week Ending May 26, 2023
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) Requests and Appeals Received During the Period of May 22 - May 26, as submitted by requester
Tracking Requesters Requesters Request Description Received Number Name Organization Date FOIA-Dutro, New Mexico Requester is seeking records 05/23/2023 2023-Pamela Environment related to a license issued to 000115 Department Holtec International on May 8, 2023. (Date Range for Record Search: From 8/1/2022 To 5/12/2023)
FOIA-Noble, Tara Certrec Requester is seeking the River 05/25/2023 2023-Corporation Bend Final Safety Analysis 000119 Report, issued in 1981. The information received from ADAMS: Accession number 8108270861, dated 8/25/1981, 670 pages, microfiche address 09559:278 - 09561:249 and Accession number 8105010363, dated 4/22/1981, 550 pages, microfiche address 28376:033 - 28376:033.
Requester already tried to request via PDR, but documents are not listed as public. (Date Range for Record Search: From 4/22/1981 To 8/25/1981)
FOIA-Fields, Uranium Requester is seeking the 05/26/2023 2023-Sarah Watch following: Letter dated January 000120 16, 2002, from Mr. Frank Marcinowski, Director, Radiation Protection Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, to the NRC. Letter responded to an NRC Federal Register Notice (66 FR 55604, November 2, 2001) concerning
JUNE 8, 2023 ENCLOSURE B Tracking Requesters Requesters Request Description Received Number Name Organization Date FOIA-the National Mining 2023-Associations petition for 000120 rulemaking, which sought relief (continued) from all NRC licensing and inspection fees for uranium recovery licensees. The January 16, 2002, Letter was referenced in a March 7, 2002, letter from Michael F. Weber, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, NRC, to Frank Marcinowski (Accession Number ML020580106).
JUNE 8, 2023 ENCLOSURE B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Items of Interest Week Ending May 26, 2023
Constellation Submits Letter to NRC Stating that the Digital Modification at Limerick is Delayed and the Initial Installation of the Modification is Being Pivoted from Unit 1 to Unit 2.
On May 23, 2023, Constellation Energy Generation, LLC (Constellation or Licensee) submitted a letter (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML23143A342) to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) stating the digital modification at Limerick is delayed and the initial installation of the modification is being pivoted from Unit 1 to Unit 2. The licensee stated that the final design activities for the [digital modification] have been delayed due to additional design refinement iterations. Because of the delay, Constellation is changing its planned installation from Unit 1 in April 2024 to Unit 2 in April 2025. The licensee provided revised dates for information (i.e., supplements) needed to complete the initial license amendment request and new dates for parts of the license amendment request it plans to revise. The delay by the licensee will change the review completion date communicated to the licensee (i.e., March 11, 2024). Based on the revised and new dates provided by the licensee, the NRC staff will update the Limerick digital instrumentation and controls license amendment review schedule, including estimated review completion date.
NRC Held its Second Public Meeting with Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI), to Discuss the Proposed Regulatory Path to Restart Palisades
On May 24, 2023, the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards held its second public meeting with Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI), to discuss the proposed regulatory path to restart Palisades (ML23072A404). As part of the discussion, HDI laid out three key factors that would lead it to a decision on whether or not to move forward with the project: (1) Department of Energy loan, (2) legislative action from the state of Michigan, and (3) a power purchase agreement. HDI expects to make its decision on restart during the July - October time frame and engage the staff on pre-application dialogue shortly following its decision, with a goal to get all restart submittals to the NRC within 6 months of the decision.
JUNE 8, 2023 ENCLOSURE C Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Items of Interest Week Ending May 26, 2023
Indian Point Effluent Releases WebPage
On May 19, 2023, staff published a new Indian Point FAQ public U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) webpage on effluent releases. The new webpage provides responses to common public concerns and questions related to effluent releases and provides links to radioactive effluent and environmental reports for Indian Point Units 2 & 3. The NRC assembled this website to improve public awareness as well as reduce the required staff resources needed to respond to individual questions and concerns. The new webpage is available at https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/reactors/ip3/faq.html.
Waste Control Specialist Non-Enforcement Order for the Possession of Special Nuclear Material
On May 22, 2023, the NRC staff issued a non-enforcement order for the possession of special nuclear material (SNM) to Waste Control Specialists (WCS) (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML22221A070). The order supersedes an existing order that grants WCS an exemption from Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 70 requirements allowing possession of SNM greater than a critical mass aboveground at the WCS Site in Andrews County, Texas. The order also authorizes WCS to move the U.S. Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Waste from the WCS Federal Waste Facility disposal cell to the enclosure in the WCS Treatment Storage and Disposal Facility, prepare the LANL waste for shipment in the enclosure, and to temporarily store the LANL waste in the enclosure.
Extravasations Rulemaking Public Meeting On May 24, 2023, the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards staff held a public meeting to facilitate stakeholder feedback on the preliminary proposed rule language and questions included in the Federal Register notice (88 FR 24130) related to the rulemaking on reporting nuclear medicine injection extravasations as medical events. The meeting had over 200 attendees from the NRC, medical community, patient advocates, Agreement States, and the public. Feedback included questions on the definitions in the preliminary proposed rule language, availability of the dosimetry model for comment, the use of existing professional society and international standards to inform the rule and reducing patient self-reporting of extravasations. Staff will consider the comments on the Federal Register notice as they develop the proposed rule package.
JUNE 8, 2023 ENCLOSURE D Office of the Secretary Items of Interest Week Ending May 26, 2023
Document Released to Public Date of Subject Document
Decision Documents
- 1. Staff Requirements 05/25/23 Expansion of Current Policy on Potential Memorandum SECY-22-0076 Common-Cause Failures in Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems
- 2. Commission Voting Record 05/25/23 Expansion of Current Policy on Potential SECY-22-0076 Common-Cause Failures in Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems
Information
- 1. SECY-23-0039 05/09/23 Management Directive 8.2, NRC Incident Response Program and Incident Response Manual Chapter 200, Incident Response Plan Memoranda
- 1. None
Commission Correspondence
- 1. Letter to the Honorable Edward J. Markey, et al., submits the NRC's Semiannual Status Report on the Licensing Activities and Regulatory Duties from the reporting period of October 1, 2022, - March 31, 2023, and includes a list of rulemaking activities.
- 2. Letter to the Honorable Thomas Carper, et al., submits the report for the second quarter in Fiscal Year 2023 on the licensing activities and regulatory duties of the NRC for the reporting period of January 1 - March 31, 2023.
- 3. Letter to Melanie Benjamin, Chief Executive, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, responds to concerns regarding the tritium leaks at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant.
- 4. Letter to the Honorable Dianne Feinstein, et al., submits the NRCs monthly Congressional Status Report for April 2023.
Federal Register Notices Issued
- 1. Cimarron Environmental Response Trust; Cimarron Facility [NRC-2023-0087]
JUNE 8, 2023 ENCLOSURE E