ML19312A049
| ML19312A049 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Prairie Island  |
| Issue date: | 12/19/2019 |
| From: | John Tappert NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| To: | Azure J, Bordeaux R, Charles Brown, Buck S, Cavanaugh P, Faith M, Fox M, Frazier H, Hawk R, Jensvold K, Taylor L, Trudell R, Vig C, Duane White Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation, Prairie Island Indian Community, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribes, Spirit Lake Tribe of Fort Totten, St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Upper Sioux Indian Community, White Earth Tribal Council, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Yankton Sioux Tribe |
| Trefethen J | |
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| Download: ML19312A049 (83) | |
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December 19, 2019 Ms. Shelley Buck, President Prairie Island Indian Community 5636 Sturgeon Lake Road Welch, MN 55089
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear President Buck:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
S. Buck 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
S. Buck 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Jessie Seim, General Counsel Mr. Gabe Miller, Environmental Program Manager Ms. Heather Westra Mr. Noah White, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Robert Flying Hawk, Chairman Yankton Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 1153 Wagner, SD 57380
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Flying Hawk:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
R. Flying Hawk 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
R. Flying Hawk 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Mr. Kip Spotted Eagle, THPO Director
December 19, 2019 Mr. Coly Brown, Chairman Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska 100 Bluff Street Winnebago, NE 68071
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Brown:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
C. Brown 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
C. Brown 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
THPO Office
December 19, 2019 Mr. Michael Fairbanks, Chairman White Earth Tribal HQ 35500 Eagle View Rd Ogema, MN 56569
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Fairbanks:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
M. Fairbanks 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
M. Fairbanks 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Jaime Arsenault, THPO White Earth Nation P.O. Box 418 White Earth, MN 56591
December 19, 2019 Mr. Kevin Jensvold, Tribal Chairman Upper Sioux Community 5722 Travers Lane P.O. Box 147 Granite Falls, MN 56241
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Tribal Chairman Jensvold:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
K. Jensvold 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
K. Jensvold 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Samantha Odegard, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Jamie Azure, Chairman Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa 4180 Highway 281 Belcourt, ND 58316
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Azure:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
J. Azure 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
J. Azure 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Elaine Nadeau, THPO Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa P.O. Box 900 Belcourt, ND 58316
December 19, 2019 Mr. Mark Fox, Chairman Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation 404 Frontage Road New Town, ND 58763
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Fox:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
M. Fox 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
M. Fox 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Mr. Pete Coffey, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Lewis Taylor, Chairman St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin 24663 Angeline Ave.
Webster, WI 54893
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Taylor:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
L. Taylor 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
L. Taylor 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Wanda McFaggen, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Mike Faith, Jr., Chairman Standing Rock Sioux Tribe P.O. Box D, Building #1 North Standing Rock Ave.
Fort Yates, ND 58538
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Faith:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
M. Faith 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
M. Faith 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Mr. Jon Eagle, THPO
December 19, 2019 Ms. Peggy Cavanaugh, Chairperson Spirit Lake Tribe of Fort Totten P.O. Box 359 Fort Totten, ND 58335
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairperson Cavanaugh:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
P. Cavanaugh 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
P. Cavanaugh 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Dr. Erich Longie, THPO Spirit Lake Tribe of Fort Totten P.O. Box 76 Fort Totten, ND 58335
December 19, 2019 Mr. Donovan White, Chairman Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate P.O. Box 509 12554 BIA HWY 711 Agency Village, SD 57262-0509
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman White:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
D. White 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
D. White 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Dianne Desrosiers, THPO Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate P.O. Box 907 Sisseton, SD 57262-0907
December 19, 2019 Mr. Roger Trudell, Chairman Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska 425 Frazier Ave N. Suite 2 Niobrara, NE 68760
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Trudell:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
R. Trudell 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
R. Trudell 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Mr. Duane Whipple, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Rodney M. Bordeaux, President Rosebud Sioux Tribe PO Box 430 Rosebud, SD 57570-0430
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear President Bordeaux:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
R. Bordeaux 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
R. Bordeaux 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Mr. Ben Rhodd, THPO Rosebud Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 809 Rosebud, SD 57570
December 19, 2019 Mr. Charles Vig, Chair Shakopee Mdewakandon Sioux 2330 Sioux Trail NW Prior Lake, MN 55372
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chair Vig:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
C. Vig 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
C. Vig 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI
December 19, 2019 Ms. Cathy Chavers, Tribal Chairwoman Boise Forte Tribal Government - Nett Lake 5344 Lakeshore Dr Nett Lake, MN 55772
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Tribal Chairwoman Chavers:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
C. Chavers 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
C. Chavers 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Bev Miller, THPO Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians 5344 Lakeshore Dr P.O. Box 16 Nett Lake, MN 55772
December 19, 2019 Mr. Harold Frazier, Chair Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 590 Eagle Butte, SD 57625-0590
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chair Frazier:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
H. Frazier 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
H. Frazier 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Mr. Steve Vance, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Lester Thompson Jr., Chair Crow Creek Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 50 Ft. Thompson, SD 57339-0050
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chair Thompson :
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
L. Thompson 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
L. Thompson 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Merle Marks, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Anthony Reider Flandreau-Santee Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 283 Flandreau, SD 57028-0283
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Mr. Reider:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
A. Reider 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
A. Reider 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Mr. Garrie Killsahundred, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Kevin DuPuis, Tribal Chairman Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 1720 Big Lake Road Cloquet, MN 55720
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Tribal Chairman DuPuis:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
K. DuPuis 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
K. DuPuis 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Jill Hoppe, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Norman W. Deschampe, Chairperson Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe 27 Store Road P.O. Box 428 Grand Portage, MN 55605
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairperson Deschampe:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
N. Deschampe 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
N. Deschampe 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Mary Ann Gagnon, THPO Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa P.O. Box 428 Grand Portage, MN 55605
December 19, 2019 Mr. Greg Blackdeer, Division Manager Ho-Chunk Nation Division of Natural Resources P.O. Box 726 Black River Falls, WI 54615
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Mr. Blackdeer :
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
G. Blackdeer 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
G. Blackdeer 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI
December 19, 2019 Mr. Faron Jackson, Chairman Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe 190 Sailstar Drive, NW Cass Lake, MN 56601
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairman Jackson:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
F. Jackson 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
F. Jackson 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Amy Burnette, THPO Leech Lake Historic Preservation Office 115 6th Street, NW, Suite E Cass Lake, MN 56633
December 19, 2019 Mr. Boyd I. Gourneau, Chair Lower Brule Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 187 Lower Brule, SD 57548-0187
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chair Gourneau:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
B. Gourneau 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
B. Gourneau 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Clair Green
December 19, 2019 Mr. Robert Larsen, President Lower Sioux Indian Community of Minnesota P.O. Box 308 39527 Reservation Hwy 1 Morton, MN 56270
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear President Larsen:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
R. Larsen 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
R. Larsen 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Cheyanne St. John THPO/Historic Site Mgr Lower Sioux Indian Community of Minnesota 39527 Reservation Highway 1 Morton, MN 56270
December 19, 2019 Honorable Melanie Benjamin, Chief Executive Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe 43408 Oodena Drive Onamia, MN 56359-2236
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Honorable Benjamin:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
M. Benjamin 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
M. Benjamin 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Natalie Weyaus, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Julian Bear Runner, President Oglala Sioux Tribe P.O. Box 2070 Pine Ridge, SD 57770-2070
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear President Bear Runner:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
J. Bear Runner 2 In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
J. Bear Runner 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Mr. Thomas Brings, THPO
December 19, 2019 Mr. Darrel Seki, Sr., Chairperson Red Lake Band of Chippewa 15484 Migizi Drive Red Lake, MN 56671
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
Dear Chairperson Seki:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received, by letter dated July 26, 2019, an application from the Northern States Power Company (NSPM) to amend Materials License Number SNM-2506 for the Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (PI ISFSI).
The PI ISFSI is located within the site boundary of the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (PINGP) in Goodhue County, Minnesota, approximately 28 miles southeast of the Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area (figure enclosed). The NSPM is requesting to amend its license to increase the maximum amount of spent fuel that may be possessed and stored at the PI ISFSI, as well as approval of the design of an additional concrete pad to be built within the confines of the existing facility. The licensee has stated that the new pad will utilize a design consistent with the existing pads and that installation of this new pad will result in ground disturbing activities to be performed within the existing ISFSI fencing.
The SNM-2506 currently allows NSPM to store up to 48 TN-40 and TN-40HT casks of spent fuel.
The NSPM license amendment requests approval to store up to an additional 16 casks, for a total of 64 casks. The NSPM has a Certificate of Need from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for the expansion of the ISFSI to accommodate a total of 64 casks. Current PI ISFSI operations include storage and periodic transfer of filled casks to the ISFSI pad and routine inspections and monitoring of the ISFSI site; these activities are expected to continue.
As established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, the NRC regulation that implements the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA),
the NRC staff is preparing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for this proposed action, the requested amendment to the PI ISFSI license. The purpose of the EA is to assess potential environmental impacts that may significantly affect the human environment. In accordance with 36 CFR §800.8 (Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act), the NRC staff is coordinating compliance of the Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, with its NEPA review process. The EA will include an analysis of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources. In support of the environmental review, the NRC staff is requesting your concurrence on NRCs determination that the proposed PI ISFSI expansion does not have the potential to cause effects to historic properties, assuming they were present. This determination is based on the following information.
In 2015, the NRC renewed the NSPM license to receive, possess, store, and transfer PINGP spent fuel in the PI ISFSI for an additional 40-year period. As part of the review, the NRC staff analyzed the potential environmental impacts associated with construction activities for potential future expansion of the ISFSIs capacity. This analysis included review of input from the Prairie Island Indian Community, original construction photographs, results of light detection and ranging remote sensing, and participation in a Phase I archeological survey conducted in September 2014. The NRC staffs assessment was documented in Section 4.14, of the Cumulative Impacts Section of the EA, dated June 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Number ML15098A026). The assessment found that the proposed expansion would not impact any areas beyond that evaluated in the 1992 licensing EA and would not result in an impact to any historic, archaeological or cultural resources. Additionally, NSPM committed to follow their Cultural Resources Management Plan, which states that if the ISFSI expansion is determined to have the potential to disturb previously undisturbed soils that could contain archaeological resources, then subsurface testing may be required to determine the significance of resources that may be present. In the 2015 license renewal EA, the NRC staff stated that, The Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office determined that no properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be affected by [the ISFSI license renewal]
project. Based on the projects scope and information from previous cultural resources and geotechnical surveys, the licensee has stated that the activities associated with this license amendment would not affect any historic and archaeological resources.
The NSPM PI ISFSI amendment request is publicly available in the NRC Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or from the NRCs ADAMS. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
The accession number for the application package is ML19217A311. For your reference, this package includes correspondence that was sent to Ms. Heather Westra on February 1, 2019, from Mr. Scott Sharp, Site Vice President at PINGP,
SUBJECT:
PINGP ISFSI Expansion Request for Information Regarding Potentially Affected Resources, as well as the response letter that was sent from Jessie Seim, General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community on March 6, 2019.
D. Seki 3 Please provide your concurrence or submit any comments and/or information you may have regarding this environmental review within 30 days of receipt of this letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Ms. Cinthya I. Román, Chief, 11555 Rockville Pike, Mail Stop:
T-4B72, Rockville, Maryland 20852. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Jean Trefethen of my staff by telephone at 301-415-0867 or via email at Jean.Trefethen@nrc.gov.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
/RA/
John R. Tappert, Director Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 72-10 License No. SNM-2506
Enclosure:
5 Mile Radius Around the Prairie Island ISFSI cc w/encl.:
Ms. Kade Ferris, THPO Red Lake Band of Chippewa P.O. Box 274 Red Lake, MN 56671
D. Seki 4
SUBJECT:
SECTION 106 CONSULTATION OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT REGARDING THE PROPOSED LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR THE PRAIRIE ISLAND INDEPENDENT SPENT FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION (DOCKET NUMBER: 72-10)
DATED: December 19, 2019 Identical letters have been sent to:
Chairman Robert Flying Hawk, Yankton Sioux Tribe Chairman Coly Brown, Winnebago Tribe Chairman Michael Fairbanks, White Earth Nation of Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Chairman Kevin Jensvold, Upper Sioux Chairman Jamie Azure, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Chairman Mark Fox, Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Lewis Taylor, St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin Chairman Mike Faith, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairperson Peggy Cavanaugh, Spirit Lake Tribe of Fort Totten Chairman Donovan White, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Chairman Roger Trudell, Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska President Rodney M. Bordeaux, Rosebud Sioux Tribe Chair Charles Vig, Shakopee Mdewakandon Sioux Tribal Chairwoman Cathy Chavers, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Chair Harold Frazier, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chair Lester Thompson, Jr., Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Anthony Reider, Flandreau-Santee Sioux Tribe Tribal Chairman Kevin DuPuis, Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Chairperson Norman W. Deschampe, Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Division Manager Greg Blackdeer, Ho-Chunk Chairman Faron Jackson, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Chair Boyd I. Gourneau, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe President Robert Larsen, Lower Sioux Indian Community Honorable Melanie Benjamin, Mille Lac Band Ojibwe President Julian Bear Runner, Oglala Sioux Tribe Chairperson Darrel Seki, Sr., Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians ADAMS Accession Number: ML19312A048 Pkg *via email OFFICE REFS/ERMB REFS/ERMB REFS/ERMB OGC REFS/ERMB REFS NAME MCoflin JTrefethen* AWalker-Smith *ACoggins CRomán JTappert DATE 11/4/2019 11/4/2019 11/4/2019 11/22/2019 12/03/2019 12/19/2019 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY