Notice of Availability of Draft Standard Review Plan for Activities Related to U.S. Department of Energy Waste Determinations, NUREG-1854, 30967-30968 [E6-8347]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 104 / Wednesday, May 31, 2006 / Notices Week of May 29, 2006 Wednesday, May 31, 2006— 12:55 p.m. Affirmation Session (Public Meeting) (Tentative) a. Andrew Siemaszko, Docket No. IA– 05–021, unpublished Licensing Board Order (Dec. 22, 2006) (Tentative) 1 p.m. Discussion of Security Issues (Closed-Ex. 1) Week of June 5, 2006—Tentative Wednesday, June 7, 2006— 9 a.m. Discussion of Security Issues (Closed-Ex. 1 & 3) Week of June 12, 2006—Tentative There are no meetings scheduled for the Week of June 12, 2006. Week of June 19, 2006—Tentative DLC@nrc.gov. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. * * * * * This notice is distributed by mail to several hundred subscribers; if you no longer wish to receive it, or would like to be added to the distribution, please contact the Office of the Secretary, Washington, DC 20555 (301–415–1969). 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[Docket No. PROJ0734, PROJ0735, PROJ0736, POOM–32] Week of July 3, 2006—Tentative Notice of Availability of Draft Standard Review Plan for Activities Related to U.S. Department of Energy Waste Determinations, NUREG–1854 Additional Information jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES There are no meetings scheduled for the week of July 3, 2006. * * * * * AGENCY: The Affirmation of ‘‘Andrew Siemaszko, Docket No. IA–05–021, unpublished Licensing Board order (Dec. 22, 2005)’’ which was tentatively scheduled on Thursday, May 25, 2006, at 9:50 a.m. has been rescheduled tentatively on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 12:55 p.m. * * * * * The schedule for Commission meetings is subject to change on short notice. To verify the status of meetings call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. Contact person for more information: Michelle Schroll, (301) 415–1662. * * * * * The NRC Commission Meeting Schedule can be found on the Internet at: https://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/ policy-making/schedule.html. * * * * * The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in these public meetings, or need this meeting notice or the transcript or other information from the public meetings in another format (e.g., braille, large print), please notify the NRC’s Disability Program Coordinator, Deborah Chan, at 301–415–7041, TDD: 301–415–2100; or by e-mail at The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a draft Standard Review Plan (SRP) for activities related to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) waste determinations, for public comment. The draft SRP provides guidance to the NRC staff in evaluating non-high-level waste determinations developed by DOE for the Savannah River Site, Idaho National Laboratory, the Hanford site, and the West Valley Demonstration Project for certain wastes that are a result of the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. The draft SRP provides elements the NRC staff should review to determine whether there is reasonable assurance that the appropriate criteria can be met for determining that waste is incidental to reprocessing and can be managed as low-level waste. The draft SRP also provides information about the role of the NRC in the waste determination process and the NRC monitoring activities under the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (NDAA). The draft SRP does not set forth regulatory requirements for NRC or for DOE, and VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:52 May 30, 2006 Jkt 208001 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice of availability of draft Standard Review Plan for public comment. SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00111 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 30967 compliance with the draft SRP is not required. DATES: The public comment period on the draft SRP begins with publication of this notice and continues for 60 days. Written comments should be submitted as described in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. Comments submitted by mail should be postmarked by that date to ensure consideration. Comments received or postmarked after that date will be considered to the extent practical. ADDRESSES: Members of the public are invited and encouraged to submit comments to the Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Mail Stop T6–D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001. Please note Docket Nos. PROJ0734, PROJ0735, PROJ0736, and POOM–32 when submitting comments. Comments will also be accepted by e-mail at NRCREP@nrc.gov or by fax to (301) 415– 5397, Attention: Anna Bradford. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Anna Hajduk Bradford, Senior Project Manager, Environmental and Performance Assessment Branch, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 415–5228; fax number: (301) 415–5397; e-mail: AHB1@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background In October 2004, the NDAA was enacted. Section 3116 of the NDAA gave the NRC new responsibilities with respect to DOE waste management activities for certain ‘‘incidental’’ waste resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel within the States of South Carolina and Idaho. These responsibilities include consultation with DOE on the determination of whether waste is high-level waste (HLW), as well as monitoring of DOE’s disposal actions for these wastes. The concept behind incidental waste is that some material, resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, does not need to be disposed of as HLW in a geologic repository because the residual radioactive contamination, if properly isolated from the environment, is sufficiently low that it does not represent a hazard to public health and safety. Consequently, incidental waste is not considered to be HLW, but instead is low-level waste. DOE uses technical analyses that are documented in a waste determination to evaluate whether waste is incidental or HLW. A waste determination provides DOE’s analysis E:\FR\FM\31MYN1.SGM 31MYN1 jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES 30968 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 104 / Wednesday, May 31, 2006 / Notices as to whether the waste will meet the applicable incidental waste criteria. Prior to passage of the NDAA, DOE would periodically request the NRC to provide technical advice for specific waste determinations. The staff reviewed DOE’s waste determinations to assess whether they had sound technical assumptions, analyses, and conclusions with regard to meeting the applicable incidental waste criteria. Because the enactment of the NDAA is expected to increase the number of waste determinations submitted to the NRC for review, the NRC has decided to develop the draft SRP. The draft SRP provides guidance to the NRC staff on how to conduct a technical review of a waste determination, as well as how to conduct monitoring activities under the NDAA, and will help ensure consistency across different reviews and different reviewers. Because the technical aspects of the NRC’s waste determination reviews are expected to be similar for all four sites, regardless of whether the site is covered by the NDAA, the draft SRP will addresses reviews for the Savannah River Site, Idaho National Laboratory, Hanford, and West Valley. In November 2005, the NRC held a public scoping meeting in Rockville, MD, to obtain public input on the scope of the SRP. In addition, the NRC published a Federal Register notice (FRN) on November 2, 2005, announcing the scoping meeting and stating that written comments on the scope of the SRP would be accepted until November 25, 2005 (70 FR 66472). The transcript of the scoping meeting is publicly available in the NRC’s Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS) under accession number ML053400050. Written comments were received on the proposed scope of the SRP from the Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board (ML053620166), the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (ML053630035), and the Washington State Department of Ecology (ML053630034) and are publicly available in ADAMS. In December 2005, the NRC published a FRN issuing draft interim guidance for performing concentration averaging for waste determinations (70 FR 74846). The FRN was issued due to high stakeholder interest in obtaining the guidance as soon as practicable due to the ongoing development of waste determinations. The draft interim guidance was open for public comment until January 31, 2006. Comment letters were received from the State of Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (ML060370015), the State of VerDate Aug<31>2005 17:52 May 30, 2006 Jkt 208001 Washington Department of Ecology (ML060370019), the State of Oregon Department of Energy (ML060370016), Washington Closure Hanford (ML060480401), the Natural Resources Defense Council (ML060370017), and members of the public (ML061030268) and are publicly available in ADAMS. These comments will be considered along with comments received on the draft SRP. As discussed in the December FRN, the concentration averaging guidance is included in this draft SRP and is again open for public comment. Only minor editorial changes have been made to the text of the guidance. The final SRP will be issued after the NRC staff takes into consideration any public comments received, as appropriate. II. Further Information The draft SRP may be accessed on the Internet at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/ by selecting ‘‘NUREG–1854.’’ It is also available electronically at the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at https:// www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC’s ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC’s public documents. Recent documents related to reviews of NRC waste determinations can be found in ADAMS under Docket Numbers PROJ0734, PROJ0735, PROJ0736, and POOM–32. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff at 1– 800–397–4209, 301–415–4737 or by email to pdr@nrc.gov. The draft SRP is also available for inspection at the Commission’s Public Document Room, U.S. NRC’s Headquarters Building, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Upon written request and to the extent supplies are available, a single copy of the draft SRP can be obtained for a fee by writing to the Office of the Chief Information Officer, Reproduction and Distribution Services Section, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001; or by email to DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by fax at (310) 415–2289. Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 23rd day of May, 2006. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Larry Camper, Director, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 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[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 31, 2006)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. PROJ0734, PROJ0735, PROJ0736, POOM-32]


Notice of Availability of Draft Standard Review Plan for 
Activities Related to U.S. Department of Energy Waste Determinations, 
NUREG-1854

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability of draft Standard Review Plan for public 
comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a 
draft Standard Review Plan (SRP) for activities related to U.S. 
Department of Energy (DOE) waste determinations, for public comment. 
The draft SRP provides guidance to the NRC staff in evaluating non-
high-level waste determinations developed by DOE for the Savannah River 
Site, Idaho National Laboratory, the Hanford site, and the West Valley 
Demonstration Project for certain wastes that are a result of the 
reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. The draft SRP provides elements the 
NRC staff should review to determine whether there is reasonable 
assurance that the appropriate criteria can be met for determining that 
waste is incidental to reprocessing and can be managed as low-level 
waste. The draft SRP also provides information about the role of the 
NRC in the waste determination process and the NRC monitoring 
activities under the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (NDAA). The draft SRP does not set forth 
regulatory requirements for NRC or for DOE, and compliance with the 
draft SRP is not required.

DATES: The public comment period on the draft SRP begins with 
publication of this notice and continues for 60 days. Written comments 
should be submitted as described in the ADDRESSES section of this 
notice. Comments submitted by mail should be postmarked by that date to 
ensure consideration. Comments received or postmarked after that date 
will be considered to the extent practical.

ADDRESSES: Members of the public are invited and encouraged to submit 
comments to the Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Mail Stop T6-D59, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Please 
note Docket Nos. PROJ0734, PROJ0735, PROJ0736, and POOM-32 when 
submitting comments. Comments will also be accepted by e-mail at 
NRCREP@nrc.gov or by fax to (301) 415-5397, Attention: Anna Bradford.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Anna Hajduk Bradford, Senior 
Project Manager, Environmental and Performance Assessment Branch, 
Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Rockville, MD 20852. Telephone: (301) 415-5228; fax number: 
(301) 415-5397; e-mail: AHB1@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    In October 2004, the NDAA was enacted. Section 3116 of the NDAA 
gave the NRC new responsibilities with respect to DOE waste management 
activities for certain ``incidental'' waste resulting from the 
reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel within the States of South Carolina 
and Idaho. These responsibilities include consultation with DOE on the 
determination of whether waste is high-level waste (HLW), as well as 
monitoring of DOE's disposal actions for these wastes. The concept 
behind incidental waste is that some material, resulting from the 
reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, does not need to be disposed of as 
HLW in a geologic repository because the residual radioactive 
contamination, if properly isolated from the environment, is 
sufficiently low that it does not represent a hazard to public health 
and safety. Consequently, incidental waste is not considered to be HLW, 
but instead is low-level waste. DOE uses technical analyses that are 
documented in a waste determination to evaluate whether waste is 
incidental or HLW. A waste determination provides DOE's analysis

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as to whether the waste will meet the applicable incidental waste 
criteria.
    Prior to passage of the NDAA, DOE would periodically request the 
NRC to provide technical advice for specific waste determinations. The 
staff reviewed DOE's waste determinations to assess whether they had 
sound technical assumptions, analyses, and conclusions with regard to 
meeting the applicable incidental waste criteria. Because the enactment 
of the NDAA is expected to increase the number of waste determinations 
submitted to the NRC for review, the NRC has decided to develop the 
draft SRP. The draft SRP provides guidance to the NRC staff on how to 
conduct a technical review of a waste determination, as well as how to 
conduct monitoring activities under the NDAA, and will help ensure 
consistency across different reviews and different reviewers. Because 
the technical aspects of the NRC's waste determination reviews are 
expected to be similar for all four sites, regardless of whether the 
site is covered by the NDAA, the draft SRP will addresses reviews for 
the Savannah River Site, Idaho National Laboratory, Hanford, and West 
Valley.
    In November 2005, the NRC held a public scoping meeting in 
Rockville, MD, to obtain public input on the scope of the SRP. In 
addition, the NRC published a Federal Register notice (FRN) on November 
2, 2005, announcing the scoping meeting and stating that written 
comments on the scope of the SRP would be accepted until November 25, 
2005 (70 FR 66472). The transcript of the scoping meeting is publicly 
available in the NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System 
(ADAMS) under accession number ML053400050. Written comments were 
received on the proposed scope of the SRP from the Savannah River Site 
Citizens Advisory Board (ML053620166), the South Carolina Department of 
Health and Environmental Control (ML053630035), and the Washington 
State Department of Ecology (ML053630034) and are publicly available in 
ADAMS.
    In December 2005, the NRC published a FRN issuing draft interim 
guidance for performing concentration averaging for waste 
determinations (70 FR 74846). The FRN was issued due to high 
stakeholder interest in obtaining the guidance as soon as practicable 
due to the ongoing development of waste determinations. The draft 
interim guidance was open for public comment until January 31, 2006. 
Comment letters were received from the State of Idaho Department of 
Environmental Quality (ML060370015), the State of Washington Department 
of Ecology (ML060370019), the State of Oregon Department of Energy 
(ML060370016), Washington Closure Hanford (ML060480401), the Natural 
Resources Defense Council (ML060370017), and members of the public 
(ML061030268) and are publicly available in ADAMS. These comments will 
be considered along with comments received on the draft SRP. As 
discussed in the December FRN, the concentration averaging guidance is 
included in this draft SRP and is again open for public comment. Only 
minor editorial changes have been made to the text of the guidance.
    The final SRP will be issued after the NRC staff takes into 
consideration any public comments received, as appropriate.

II. Further Information

    The draft SRP may be accessed on the Internet at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/ by selecting 
``NUREG-1854.'' It is also available electronically at the NRC's 
Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 
From this site, you can access the NRC's ADAMS, which provides text and 
image files of NRC's public documents. Recent documents related to 
reviews of NRC waste determinations can be found in ADAMS under Docket 
Numbers PROJ0734, PROJ0735, PROJ0736, and POOM-32. If you do not have 
access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the documents 
located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff 
at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
    The draft SRP is also available for inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room, U.S. NRC's Headquarters Building, 11555 Rockville 
Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Upon written request and to 
the extent supplies are available, a single copy of the draft SRP can 
be obtained for a fee by writing to the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Reproduction and Distribution Services Section, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; or by e-mail to 
DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by fax at (310) 415-2289.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 23rd day of May, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Larry Camper,
Director, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, 
Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards.
 [FR Doc. E6-8347 Filed 5-30-06; 8:45 am]
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