ML18302A328
| ML18302A328 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 10/29/2018 |
| From: | Annette Vietti-Cook NRC/SECY |
| To: | |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| HI-STORE Fuel Storage, RAS 54582, Holtec International | |
| Download: ML18302A328 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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In the Matters of )
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HOLTEC INTERNATIONAL ) Docket No. 72-1051
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(HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage )
Facility) )
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INTERIM STORAGE PARTNERS LLC ) Docket No. 72-1050
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(WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility) )
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ORDER On July 16, 2018, the NRC provided notice in the Federal Register of Holtec Internationals application to construct and operate a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.1 Separately, on August 29, 2018, the NRC provided notice in the Federal Register of Interim Storage Partners application to construct and operate a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel.2 On September 14, 2018, Beyond Nuclear, Fasken Land and Minerals, and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners filed motions to dismiss both the Holtec and Interim Storage Partners applications.3 These groups argue that the NRC cannot, as a threshold matter, issue 1 Holtec International HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, 83 Fed. Reg. 32,919 (July 16, 2018).
2 Interim Storage Partners Waste Control Specialists Consolidated Interim Storage Facility, 83 Fed. Reg. 44,070 (Aug. 29, 2018), corrected, 83 Fed. Reg. 44,608 (Aug. 31, 2018) (noting that the correct deadline to file intervention petitions is October 29, 2018). Interim Storage Partners is a joint venture of Orano USA and Waste Control Specialists.
3 Beyond Nuclear filed its own motion to dismiss. Beyond Nuclear, Inc.s Motion to Dismiss Licensing Proceedings for Hi-Store Consolidated Interim Storage Facility and WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Violation of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Sept. 14,
licenses to Holtec or Interim Storage Partners because both applications are contrary to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA). Specifically, the groups argue that both applications contemplate the storage of Department of Energy-titled spent fuel in violation of various NWPA provisions.
The NRCs regulations allow interested persons to file petitions to intervene and requests for hearing in which they can raise concerns regarding a particular license application.
These regulations do not, however, provide for the filing of threshold motions to dismiss a license application; instead, interested persons must file petitions to intervene and be granted a hearing. I therefore deny both motions to dismiss on procedural grounds, without prejudice to the underlying merits of the legal arguments embedded within the motions.
Beyond Nuclear also filed hearing petitions in the Holtec and Interim Storage Partners proceedings that incorporated by reference the NWPA arguments that it raised in its motion to dismiss and identified those arguments as proposed contentions.4 I am separately referring these hearing requestsas well as other hearing requests challenging the applicationsto the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) for the establishment of a Board to consider all hearing requests in accordance with the hearing procedures set forth in 10 C.F.R. §2.309.
And, in accordance with 10 C.F.R. § 2.346(i), I am referring the motion from Fasken Land and 2018) (ADAMS Accession No. ML18257A318). Fasken Land and Minerals joined with Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners to file a motion to dismiss that is substantially similar to Beyond Nuclears motion. Motion of Fasken Land and Minerals and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners to Dismiss Licensing Proceedings for Hi-Store Consolidated Interim Storage Facility and WCS Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (Sept. 14, 2018) (ML18257A330). Both the NRC Staff and respective applicants filed oppositions to the motions, and Beyond Nuclear, Fasken Land and Minerals, and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners then filed replies.
4 Beyond Nuclear, Inc.s Hearing Request and Petition to Intervene (Sept. 14, 2018)
(ML18257A324) (Holtec docket); Beyond Nuclear, Inc.s Hearing Request and Petition to Intervene (Oct. 3, 2018) (ML18276A242) (Interim Storage Partners docket). Fasken Land and Minerals and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners have not filed related hearing petitions in either docket.
Minerals and Permian Basin Land and Royalty Owners to the ASLBP for consideration under
§ 2.309.
This Order is issued under my authority in 10 C.F.R. § 2.346(c), (g), (i), and (j).
For the Commission NRC SEAL /RA/
Annette L. Vietti-Cook Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of October 2018
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of )
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HOLTEC INTERNATIONAL )
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(HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage )
Facility) )
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing ORDER OF THE SECRETARY have been served upon the following persons by Electronic Information Exchange (EIE).
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel Office of the General Counsel Mail Stop: T-3F23 Mail Stop - O-15 D21 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Washington, DC 20555-0001 Sarah Ladin, Law Clerk Patrick Moulding, Esq.
E-mail: sarah.ladin@nrc.gov E-mail: patrick.moulding@nrc.gov Joseph McManus, Law Clerk Sara B. Kirkwood, Esq.
E-mail: joseph.mcmanus@nrc.gov E-mail: sara.kirkwood@nrc.gov Taylor A. Mayhall Mauri Lemoncelli, Esq.
E-mail: taylor.mayhall@nrc.gov E-mail: mauri.lemoncelli@nrc.gov Office of Commission Appellate Christopher Hair, Esq.
Adjudication E-mail: christopher.hair@nrc.gov U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Joseph I. Gillespie, Esq.
E-mail: ocaamail@nrc.gov E-mail: joe.gillespie@nrc.gov Krupskaya T. Castellon, Paralegal E-mail: krupskaya.castellon@nrc.gov Holtec Counsel Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP OGC Mail Center: Members of this office have 1200 Seventeenth Street, NW received a copy of this filing by EIE service.
Washington, DC 20036 Jay Silberg, Esq. Dont Waste Michigan E-mail: jay.silberg@pillsburylaw.com 316 N. Michigan Street, Suite 520 Toledo, OH 43604-5627 Timothy J. Walsh, Esq. Terry J. Lodge, Esq.
E-mail: timothy.walsh@pillsburylaw.com E-mail: tjlodge50@yahoo.com Anne Leidich, Esq. Sierra Club E-mail: anne.leidich@pillsburylaw.com 4403 1st Avenue SE, Suite 402 Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 Michael Lepre, Esq. Wallace L. Taylor, Esq.
E-mail: michael.lepre@pillsburylaw.com E-mail: wtaylor784@aol.com
Docket No. 72-1051 ORDER OF THE SECRETARY Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg LLP Hogan Lovells LLP 1725 DeSales Street NW 555 13th Street NW Suite 500 Washington, DC 20004 Washington, DC 20036 Sachin S. Desai, Esq.
Diane Curran, Esq. E-mail: sachin.desai@hoganlovells.com E-mail: dcurran@harmoncurran.com Allison E. Hellreich, Esq.
E-mail: allison.hellreich@hoganlovells.com Robert V. Eye Law Office, LLC Law Office of Nancy L. Simmons 4840 Bob Billings Parkway 120 Girard Boulevard SE Lawrence, KS 66049 Albuquerque, NM 87106 Robert V. Eye, Esq. Nancy L. Simmons, Esq.
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E-mail: tijay1300@gmail.com Turner Environmental Law Clinic Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance 1301 Clifton Road 102 S. Canyon Atlanta, GA 30322 Carlsbad, NM 88220 Mindy Goldstein, Esq. John A. Heaton E-mail: magolds@emory.edu E-mail: jaheaton1@gmail.com City of Carlsbad, NM City of Hobbs, NM 1024 N. Edward 2605 Lovington Highway Carlsbad, NM 88220 Hobbs, NM 88242 Jason G. Shirley Garry A. Buie E-mail: jgshirley@cityofcarlsbadnm.com E-mail: gabuie52@hotmail.com Eddy County, NM Lea County, NM 101 W. Greene Street 100 N. Main Carlsbad, NM Lovington, NM 88260 Rick Rudometkin Jonathan B. Sena E-mail: rrudometkin@co.eddy.nm.us E-mail: jsena@leacounty.net
[Original signed by Brian Newell]
Office of the Secretary of the Commission Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of October, 2018 2