ML18219B053

NRC-2018-000259 - Resp 1 - Final

ML18219B053
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Issue date:	08/03/2018
From:	Blaney S A NRC/OCIO
To:	Fitzpatrick C J Egan, FitzPatrick, Malsch & Lawrence, PLLC
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ML18219B043	List: ML18219B053
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NRC FORM 464 Part I U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION NRC RESPONSE NUMBER (04-2018)

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.. "~t,.,, I 2018-000259 11 1 I * <?, RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF ! .. . INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST '!. RESPONSE D 0 INTERIM FINAL lf-........ TYPE REQUESTER:

DATE: lcharles Fitzpatrick 11 08/03/2018 I DESCRIPTION OF REQUESTED RECORDS: All documents relatirig to Final Rule 10 CF_R. 63 and its preparation or promulgation generated or received by NRC or any NRC consultant or contractor during the relevant period, including, but not limited to, all interactions or exchanges with EPA or DOE or any consultants or contractors of either of those agencies.

PART I. --INFORMATION RELEASED*

[Z] The NRG 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 NRG Public Document Room; or FOIA Online, https://foiaonline.regulations.gov/foia/action/public/home.

[Z] Agency records subject to the.request are enclosed.

D 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. D We are continuing to process your request. [Z] See Part I.D --Comments.

PART I.A --FEES 11 D You will be billed by NRG for the amount indicated.

D Since the minimum fee threshold was not met, AMOUNT 11 you will not be charged fees. D You will receive a refund for the amount indicated.

' [Z] Due to our delayed response, you will not be D Fees waived. charged search and/or duplication fees that would otherwise be applicable to your request. PART 1.8--INFORMATION NOT LOCATED OR WITHHELD FROM DISCLOSURE.

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

[ZJ 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-2 F43, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001.

You may submit an appeal by e-mail to FOIA.resource@nrc.gov.

You may fax an appeal to (301) 415-5130.

Or you may submit an appeal through FOIA Online, https://foiaonline.regulations.gov/foia/action/public/home.

Please be sure to include on your submission that it is a "FOIA Appeal." PART 1.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) 415-1276.

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 e-mail 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.

NRC FORM 464 Part I (04-2018)

U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST PART I.D --COMMENTS NRC RESPONSE NUMBER 1 201s-0002s9 11 I I RE~~;sE D INTERIM I ./ I FINAL We reached out to the office of Nuclear Material Safety & Safeguards (NMSS) requesting any records responsive to your request. NMSS staff provided two "Regulatory History" documents, which list the records that were central to the rule-making.

The regulatory history for the final rule can be founc;I on public ADAMS as ML091270476.

The regulatory history for the proposed rule is enclosed.

Except as noted below, the documents listed in these regulatory history documents

--which comprise all of the records responsive to your request --are available in public ADAMS. Records with an 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 obtaining these records, please contact the NRC's public document room at 301-415-4737 or 1-800-397-4209 or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov.

• The two EPA documents can be found at the following websites:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML 1015/ML 101590169.pdf and https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OAR-2005-0083-0085. , As we discussed, with respect to the five copyrighted documents listed in the regulatory histories, you agreed to locate them yourself.

They may be located at, or through, the copyright holders' websites:

1. "Ground Water at Yucca Mountain:

How High Can It Rise?" is availabll3 for "free PDF download" at this website'.

https:// www. nap. ed u/catalog/2013/grou nd-water-at-yucca-mou ntai n-how-h ig h-can-it-rise.

2. "Technical.

Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards" Is available for "free PDF download" at this site: https://www.nap.edu/

catalog/4943/technical-bases-for-yucca-mountain-standards.

3. Tim McCartin's "Regulatory Perspective on Implementation of a Dose Standard for a One-Million Year Compliance Period, Proceedings of the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting" can be found within "Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXX". This article can be requested from Cambridge through this website: http:/www.cambridge.org/

about-us/rights-permissions/permissions7permissions-requests or you may purchase it through Amazon at this website: https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Basis-Nuclear-Waste-Management/dp/1558999426.

4. "Highest Pluvial-Lake Shorelines and Pleistocene Climate of the Western Great Basin" can be found at this website: http://www.science.earthjay.com/instruction/HSU/2017

_spring/GEOL_

110/reading/

Reheis_ 1999_highest_pleistocene_lakes_western_great_basin.pdf.

5. "Late Pleistocene and Holocene groundwater recharge from the chloride mass balance method and chlorine-36 data" can be found at this website: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2003WR001987.

Signature

-Freedom of Information Act Officer or Designee Stephanie A. Blaney ~,,Digitally signed by Stephanie A. Blaney ,:,/'.-sate:

2018.08.0314:11:51-04'00' UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 January 17, 2006 MEMORANDUM TO: Michael T. Lesar, Chief FROM: Rules and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services Office of Administration Frank P. Cardile Rulemaking and Guidance Branch . Division of Industrial and Medical* Nuclear Safety, NMSS *-,, '-. ,*n ,:::; "*' = , . ..., r.., .... ,...,, .

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REGULATORY HISTORY INDEX -PROPOSED RULE -IMPLEMENTAT.ION OF A DOSE STANDARD AFTER 10,000 . YEARS (10 CFR ~ART 63) Attached is the regulatory history index of those documents of central relevance to the subject rulemaking.

As appropriate, the ADAMS Accession Number is provided for each document or package (two documents are entered with the identification number for the Licensing Support Network, LSN, for Yucca Mountain, and two documents are identified but are not in ADAMS due to copyright restrictions).

This rulemaking proposed revisions to the regulations in 10 CFR Part 63 to make it consistent with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed revisions to its . standards for Yucca Mountain, which specify an individual dose limit for the period after 10,000 years. The title of the proposed rule was "Implementation of a Dose Standard After 10,000 Years" and was published in the _Federal Re9ister on September 8, 2005 {70 FR 53313).

Enclosure:

Regulatory History Index CONTACT: Frank Cardile, NMSS/IMNS (301) 415-6185 IT, . C<. _:.-:_; */5t** .,... . *~. ' ~;(ii~:

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--... ----* . ---. ------SECY-05-0144, Attachment 1, Federal Reyes, LA Regt~t_e~_Noti~~_fo_r_e_r_c,posed Part 63 -. --* --------* SECY-05-01°44, Attachment 2, Draft Chang, L& Regulatory Analysis for proposed Part 63 Mccartin, T --SRM-SECY-05-0144, Memo from Annette Vietti-Cook, AL Vietti-Cook to Luis A Reyes --_ Co_mmisslon Voting Ftecor<::t . Vietti-Cq9k, AL ----.. ------...:1...--

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09/01/2005 Federal R~g_ister_rt_~tlce for Prop9_s~d Part 63 Vietti-Cook, AL NRC/SECY . *--. -.. ------*-' . ---------***--*. ... ----* .. *-.. *----. ----** -----------ML052420436

• . 08/30/2005 Draft Regulatory Analysis for proposed Part Chang,L NRC/IMNS/RGB 63 ' ... --.. ----* ---' --**-------. *--*---*-*m *** -ML052150020 09/07/2005 Congressional letter ~o Honorable Ralph Hall Outlaw, W NRC/OCA ------. -----~ng_J3e9rgey9inovich, Re: Proposed Part 63 . -. ---------.. -*-----* -.. *--. --*---**-* -** ML060090402 01/06/06 Regulatory History for Proposed Rule -1 O Cardile, F NRC/IMNS CFR Part 63 **---------* ML041350316 03/31/2004 Technical Report: System-Level Codell, R, et al NRC/NMSS/DHLWRS . Performance Assessment of Proposed ' ' Repository at Yucca Mountain using TPA I Version 4.1 Code .... ... -* -----------~. .. . ---* -, _____ . -* --.. -. ---DEN0011320417 1999 U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-Thompson, R, U.S. Geological Survey i (LSN ID number) 338. Quantitative Paleoclimatic et al ' . ' Reconstructions from Late Pleistocene Plant ' Macrofossils of the Yucca Mountain Region *-.. .-. --------.'-. -.. . ------. --: -* ---* ----. .... DEN001331654

• 03/14/2002 DOE Civilian Radioactive Waste Sharpe, S Desert Research Institute

(LSN ID number) Management Technical Report: Future ! Climate Analysis -10,000 years to 1,000,000

', Years After Present -----,; -.. ----------* ----*--*-------* -* ---I , Copyright 1999 Quaternary Research Journal* Article: Reheis, M U.S. Geological Survey : material Highest Pluvial-Lake Shorelines and ' ! I Pleistocene Climate of the Western Great '1 1 Basin '. Volume 52 pages 196-205 -----.. -* . **-----*---*---------2

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.. -3 UNITED STATE$ NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 2055S-0001 October 13, 2005 --MEMORANDUM TO: Timothy McCartinc-LWRS/~ _ , . *:r::*-.. n .... ** /!~

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'RULE: IMPLEMENTATION OF A D~fANDARD AFTER 10,000 YEARS (10 CFR PART 63-AH68} In a memorandum dated March 24, 2000 (copy attached), the Executive Director for Operations established procedures for ensuring that a complete regulatory history is compiled for each rulemaking action undertaken by an office under his purview. Briefly, these procedures require that-Documents of central relevance to a rulemaking be maintained, and identified for a source of access; and An index of documents comprising the regulatory history be developed and submitted to the Rules and Directives Branch (RDB). within 60 days after the rulemaking is completed.

The rulemaking that is amending its regulations governing the disposal of high-level radioactive wastes in a proposed geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was published on September, 8, 2005 (70 FR 53313). The Regulatory History should be created in ADAMS. All documents currently in WordPerfect should be transferred to ADAMS. In the profile of each document related to the Regulatory History, use the Regulation Identifier Number (RIN) as the Case/Reference Number. This will make it easier to combine ail the documents into a folder under ADAMS. For help in creating this folder, contact the ADAMS helpline at 415-1234.

Please prepare an index of all the documents included in ttlis folder and forward the completed index to the RDB (T6-D59) by December 13, 2005. This index should also be included in the Regulatory History. In your transmittal memorandum to RDB, please include the title of the rule, the complete Federal Register citation, and a listing of all.parts affected by the document.

T. McCartin 2 Check all attachments to each document to ensure that no documents to be withheld are inadvertently released.

SECY Papers concerning rulemaking issues are generally released to the public. The Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM} generally contains instructions from SECY that indicate when and if a SECY Paper, the SRM, and Commission vote sheets may be made available to the public. Any questions concerning the release of any SECY Paper, SRM, or Commissioner vote sheet must be coordinated with the Office of the Secretary.

Commission vote sheets may be released to the public if so stated on the vote sheet.

• If you cannot meet the December 1*a, 2005, deadline, please let me know. If you have any questions call me at 415-6297.

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