[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 241 (Wednesday, December 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78257-78258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31636]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 72-10; NRC-2013-0251]
Northern States Power Company--Minnesota; Prairie Island Nuclear
Generating Plant Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License renewal; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a
renewed license to Northern States Power Company--Minnesota (NSPM) for
its Materials License SNM-2506 for the receipt, possession, transfer,
and storage of spent fuel at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating
Plant (Prairie Island) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation
(ISFSI), located in Goodhue County, Minnesota. The renewed license
authorizes operation of the Prairie Island ISFSI in accordance with the
provisions of the renewed license and its Technical Specifications
(TS). The renewed license expires on October 31, 2053.
DATES: December 16, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0251 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0251. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. For
the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided
in a table in the ``Availability of Documents'' Section II of this
document.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at
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the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John-Chau Nguyen, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555; telephone: 301-415-0262; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
Based upon the application dated October 20, 2011, as supplemented
February 29, 2012, April 26, 2012, July 26, 2013, July 31, 2014,
September 3, 2014, and October 12, 2015, the NRC has issued a renewed
license to NSPM, for its Prairie Island ISFSI, located in Goodhue
County, Minnesota. The renewed license authorizes and requires
operation of the Prairie Island ISFSI in accordance with the provisions
of the renewed license and its TS. The renewed license will expire on
October 31, 2053. The NSPM's application for a renewed license complies
with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
as amended (the Act), and the NRC's rules and regulations. The NRC has
made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the NRC's
regulations in Chapter 1 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR), and sets forth those findings in the renewed license. The
agency afforded an opportunity for a hearing in the Notice of
Opportunity for a Hearing published in the Federal Register on June 25,
2012 (77 FR 37937).
The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal
of the ISFSI license and concluded, based on that evaluation, the ISFSI
will continue to meet the regulations in 10 CFR part 72. The NRC staff
also prepared a draft environmental assessment (EA) and finding of no
significant impact (FONSI) for the renewal of this license in November
19, 2013 (78 FR 69460). The final EA and FONSI, were published on July
1, 2015 (80 FR 37662). The NRC staff's consideration of the impacts of
continued storage of spent nuclear fuel (as documented in NUREG-2157,
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Storage of Spent
Fuel'') was included as an appendix to the EA. The NRC staff concluded
that renewal of this ISFSI license will not have a significant impact
on the quality of the human environment.
II. Availability of Documents
The following table includes the ADAMS accession numbers for the
documents referenced in this notice. For additional information on
accessing ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of this document.
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ADAMS accession
Document No.
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NSPM's application, dated October 20, 2011............ ML11304A068
Response to Request for Supplemental Information, ML12065A073
dated February 29, 2012..............................
Response to License Renewal Observations, dated April ML121170406
26, 2012.............................................
Response to First Request for Additional Information, ML13210A272
dated July 26, 2013..................................
Response to Second Request for Additional Information, ML14234A463
dated July 31, 2014..................................
Supplement to PINGP ISFSI License Renewal Application ML14247A316
for Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation- Revised Safety Analysis Report
Information..........................................
Supplement to PINGP ISFSI License Renewal Application- ML14282A814
Revised LRA Appendix C...............................
NRC Environmental Assessment.......................... ML15098A026
NRC Safety Evaluation Report.......................... ML15336A230
Supplement to PINGP ISFSI License Renewal Application- ML15285A007
AMP Rev 2............................................
NUREG-2157, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for ML14196A105
Continued Storage of Spent Fuel, Volume 1............
NUREG-2157, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for ML14196A107
Continued Storage of Spent Fuel, Volume 2............
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of December 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Steve Ruffin,
Acting Chief, Spent Fuel Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel
Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-31636 Filed 12-15-15; 8:45 am]
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