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Diablo Canyon Independent Spent Fuel
Storage Installation; Notice of
Docketing for Amendment Request No.
2 to Special Nuclear Materials License
No. 2511
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Docketing of
Amendment Request for Materials
License SNM–2511.
AGENCY:
A request for hearing and/or
petition for leave to intervene must be
filed by July 19, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
M. Goshen, Project Manager, Licensing
Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage
and Transportation, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone:
301–492–3325; fax number: 301–492–
3348; e-mail: john.goshen@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC or Commission) is
considering an application dated
January 31, 2011, from Pacific Gas and
Electric Company (PG&E) to amend its
Special Nuclear Material License No.
SNM–2511, under the provisions of 10
CFR part 72, for the receipt, possession,
storage and transfer of spent fuel,
reactor-related Greater than Class C
waste and other radioactive materials
associated with spent fuel storage at the
Diablo Canyon Independent Spent Fuel
Storage Installation (ISFSI), located at
the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant,
Unit Nos. 1 and 2 site in San Luis
Obispo County, California. If granted,
the amendment will revise Materials
License SNM–2511 as follows:
1. Changes to Technical
Specifications (TS):
a. TS 1.1, ‘‘Definitions,’’ is revised to
include terms in support of high burnup
fuel (HBF) selection criteria and the
addition of neutron source assemblies
(NSAs), and instrument tube tie rods
(ITTRs).
b. TS 2.0, ‘‘Approved Contents,’’ is
revised in Tables 2.1–1 through 2.1–10
in support of HBF selection criteria and
the addition of NSAs, and ITTRs.
c. TS 2.0, ‘‘Approved Contents,’’ is
revised to add new TS 2.3 and
associated Table 2.3–1 to provide
alternative calculations for burnup
limits for fuel assemblies in a MultiPurpose Canister (MPC)-32 to allow
selection of HBF.
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d. TS 3.1.1, ‘‘Multi-Purpose Canister
(MPC),’’ is revised to eliminate the
vacuum drying option, which is not
allowed for HBF, and to add a reference
temperature of 70 °F for the MPC
Helium backfill pressure range.
e. TS 3.1.2, ‘‘Spent Fuel Storage Cask
(SFSC) Heat Removal System,’’ is
modified to allow the HI–STORM to be
considered operable with up to 50
percent vent blockage (although removal
of any blockage is still required on
discovery).
f. TS 3.1.4, ‘‘Supplemental Cooling
System,’’ is added to provide the
conditions and criteria for the
supplemental cooling system (SCS).
This change requires an exemption from
the requirements of 10 CFR 72.236(f).
TS 4.1.2b, ‘‘Design Features Important to
Criticality Control,’’ is revised to change
the B4C content in METAMIC to 33.0
wt%.
g. TS 5.1.3b, ‘‘MPC and SFSC Loading,
Unloading, and Preparation Program,’’ is
revised to delete the requirement for
maintaining the annulus full during
vacuum drying and to restore the
requirement for maintaining the
annulus full during reflood (unloading).
2. Revision of the licensing basis as
documented in the DC ISFSI Final
Safety Analysis Report Update (FSARU)
to:
a. Upgrade the thermal analysis
methodology to a three dimensional
(3D) Computational Fluid Dynamics
(CFD) model,
b. Remove the requirement for 100%
fuel failure coincident with 100% vent
blockage,
c. Change of some allowed component
temperatures in the thermal evaluation
(peak cladding, concrete, overpack
metal, transfer cask lid neutron
shielding),
d. Reduce the required torque criteria
for the MPC lift cleats, and
e. Addition of design criteria for the
SCS including a new accident for loss
of SCS.
3. An exemption from the
requirements of 10 CFR 72.236(f) to
allow use of a nonpassive SCS.
An NRC acceptance review,
documented in a letter to PG&E dated
April 14, 2011, found that the
application contains sufficient
information for the NRC staff to begin its
technical review. This application was
docketed under 10 CFR 72.16; the ISFSI
Docket No. is 72–26 and will remain the
same for this action. All other
procedural requirements in Part 72 will
be met as the NRC continues to process
this license amendment request (see
section II of this notice, ‘‘Opportunity to
Request a Hearing’’).
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The Commission will approve the
license amendment if it determines that
the application meets the standards and
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the
Commission’s regulations, and pursuant
to 10 CFR 72.58, the findings required
by 10 CFR 72.40. These findings will be
documented in a Safety Evaluation
Report.
II. Opportunity To Request a Hearing
The Commission may issue either a
notice of hearing or a notice of proposed
action and opportunity for hearing in
accordance with 10 CFR 72.46(b)(1) or,
if a determination is made that the
amendment does not present a genuine
issue as to whether public health and
safety will be significantly affected by
the Director, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, or his designee,
take immediate action on the
amendment in accordance with 10 CFR
72.46(b)(2) and provide notice of the
action taken and an opportunity for
interested persons to request a hearing
on whether the action should be
rescinded or modified.
All documents filed in NRC
adjudicatory proceedings, including a
request for hearing, a petition for leave
to intervene, any motion or other
document filed in the proceeding prior
to the submission of a request for
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under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in
accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule
(72 FR 49139, August 28, 2007). The EFiling process requires participants to
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accordance with the procedures
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hearing in this proceeding if the
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MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at (866) 672–7640. The NRC
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Office of the Secretary of the
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Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
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the presiding officer subsequently
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excerpts that serve the purpose of the
adjudicatory filings and would
constitute a Fair Use application,
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copyrighted materials in their
submission.
Petitions for leave to intervene must
be filed no later than 60 days from May
20, 2011. Non-timely filings will not be
entertained absent a determination by
the presiding officer that the petition or
request should be granted or the
contentions should be admitted, based
on a balancing of the factors specified in
10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)–(viii).
III. Further Information
Documents related to this action,
including the application for renewal
and supporting documentation, are
available online in the NRC Library at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. From this page, the public
can gain entry into the NRC’s
Agencywide Document Access and
Management System (ADAMS), which
provides text and image files of NRC’s
public documents. The ADAMS
accession numbers for the documents
related to this notice are: License
Renewal Application dated January 31,
2011 (ML110400387), and the
acceptance review letter dated April 14,
2011 (ML111050015). If you do not have
access to ADAMS or if there are
problems in accessing the documents
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staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737
or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
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reproduction contractor will copy
documents for a fee.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day
of May, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kimberly J. Hardin,
Acting Branch Chief, Licensing Branch,
Division of Spent Fuel Storage and
Transportation, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards.
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[Docket No. 72-26; NRC-2011-0110]
Diablo Canyon Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation; Notice
of Docketing for Amendment Request No. 2 to Special Nuclear Materials
License No. 2511
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Docketing of Amendment Request for Materials License
SNM-2511.
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DATES: A request for hearing and/or petition for leave to intervene
must be filed by July 19, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John M. Goshen, Project Manager,
Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-492-
3325; fax number: 301-492-3348; e-mail: john.goshen@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is
considering an application dated January 31, 2011, from Pacific Gas and
Electric Company (PG&E) to amend its Special Nuclear Material License
No. SNM-2511, under the provisions of 10 CFR part 72, for the receipt,
possession, storage and transfer of spent fuel, reactor-related Greater
than Class C waste and other radioactive materials associated with
spent fuel storage at the Diablo Canyon Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation (ISFSI), located at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant,
Unit Nos. 1 and 2 site in San Luis Obispo County, California. If
granted, the amendment will revise Materials License SNM-2511 as
follows:
1. Changes to Technical Specifications (TS):
a. TS 1.1, ``Definitions,'' is revised to include terms in support
of high burnup fuel (HBF) selection criteria and the addition of
neutron source assemblies (NSAs), and instrument tube tie rods (ITTRs).
b. TS 2.0, ``Approved Contents,'' is revised in Tables 2.1-1
through 2.1-10 in support of HBF selection criteria and the addition of
NSAs, and ITTRs.
c. TS 2.0, ``Approved Contents,'' is revised to add new TS 2.3 and
associated Table 2.3-1 to provide alternative calculations for burnup
limits for fuel assemblies in a Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC)-32 to
allow selection of HBF.
d. TS 3.1.1, ``Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC),'' is revised to
eliminate the vacuum drying option, which is not allowed for HBF, and
to add a reference temperature of 70 [deg]F for the MPC Helium backfill
pressure range.
e. TS 3.1.2, ``Spent Fuel Storage Cask (SFSC) Heat Removal
System,'' is modified to allow the HI-STORM to be considered operable
with up to 50 percent vent blockage (although removal of any blockage
is still required on discovery).
f. TS 3.1.4, ``Supplemental Cooling System,'' is added to provide
the conditions and criteria for the supplemental cooling system (SCS).
This change requires an exemption from the requirements of 10 CFR
72.236(f). TS 4.1.2b, ``Design Features Important to Criticality
Control,'' is revised to change the B4C content in METAMIC to 33.0 wt%.
g. TS 5.1.3b, ``MPC and SFSC Loading, Unloading, and Preparation
Program,'' is revised to delete the requirement for maintaining the
annulus full during vacuum drying and to restore the requirement for
maintaining the annulus full during reflood (unloading).
2. Revision of the licensing basis as documented in the DC ISFSI
Final Safety Analysis Report Update (FSARU) to:
a. Upgrade the thermal analysis methodology to a three dimensional
(3D) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model,
b. Remove the requirement for 100% fuel failure coincident with
100% vent blockage,
c. Change of some allowed component temperatures in the thermal
evaluation (peak cladding, concrete, overpack metal, transfer cask lid
neutron shielding),
d. Reduce the required torque criteria for the MPC lift cleats, and
e. Addition of design criteria for the SCS including a new accident
for loss of SCS.
3. An exemption from the requirements of 10 CFR 72.236(f) to allow
use of a nonpassive SCS.
An NRC acceptance review, documented in a letter to PG&E dated
April 14, 2011, found that the application contains sufficient
information for the NRC staff to begin its technical review. This
application was docketed under 10 CFR 72.16; the ISFSI Docket No. is
72-26 and will remain the same for this action. All other procedural
requirements in Part 72 will be met as the NRC continues to process
this license amendment request (see section II of this notice,
``Opportunity to Request a Hearing'').
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The Commission will approve the license amendment if it determines
that the application meets the standards and requirements of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Commission's
regulations, and pursuant to 10 CFR 72.58, the findings required by 10
CFR 72.40. These findings will be documented in a Safety Evaluation
Report.
II. Opportunity To Request a Hearing
The Commission may issue either a notice of hearing or a notice of
proposed action and opportunity for hearing in accordance with 10 CFR
72.46(b)(1) or, if a determination is made that the amendment does not
present a genuine issue as to whether public health and safety will be
significantly affected by the Director, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, or his designee, take immediate action on the
amendment in accordance with 10 CFR 72.46(b)(2) and provide notice of
the action taken and an opportunity for interested persons to request a
hearing on whether the action should be rescinded or modified.
All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including a
request for hearing, a petition for leave to intervene, any motion or
other document filed in the proceeding prior to the submission of a
request for hearing or petition to intervene, and documents filed by
interested governmental entities participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c),
must be filed in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139,
August 28, 2007). The E-Filing process requires participants to submit
and serve all adjudicatory documents over the internet, or in some
cases to mail copies on electronic storage media. Participants may not
submit paper copies of their filings unless they seek an exemption in
accordance with the procedures described below.
To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least
ten (10) days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should
contact the Office of the Secretary by e-mail at
hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by telephone at 301-415-1677, to request (1)
a digital ID certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel
or representative) to digitally sign documents and access the E-
Submittal server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and
(2) advise the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a
request or petition for hearing (even in instances in which the
participant, or its counsel or representative, already holds an NRC-
issued digital ID certificate). Based upon this information, the
Secretary will establish an electronic docket for the hearing in this
proceeding if the Secretary has not already established an electronic
docket.
Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is
available on NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/apply-certificates.html. System requirements for accessing
the E-Submittal server are detailed in NRC's ``Guidance for Electronic
Submission,'' which is available on the agency's public Web site at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants may
attempt to use other software not listed on the Web site, but should
note that the NRC's E-Filing system does not support unlisted software,
and the NRC Meta System Help Desk will not be able to offer assistance
in using unlisted software.
If a participant is electronically submitting a document to the NRC
in accordance with the E-Filing rule, the participant must file the
document using the NRC's online, Web-based submission form. In order to
serve documents through EIE, users will be required to install a Web
browser plug-in from the NRC Web site. Further information on the Web-
based submission form, including the installation of the Web browser
plug-in, is available on the NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
Once a participant has obtained a digital ID certificate and a
docket has been created, the participant can then submit a request for
hearing or petition for leave to intervene. Submissions should be in
Portable Document Format (PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance
available on the NRC public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A filing is considered complete at the time the
documents are submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be
timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing system
no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Upon receipt of
a transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an e-mail notice confirming receipt of the document. The
E-Filing system also distributes an e-mail notice that provides access
to the document to the NRC Office of the General Counsel and any others
who have advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to
participate in the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the
documents on those participants separately. Therefore, applicants and
other participants (or their counsel or representative) must apply for
and receive a digital ID certificate before a hearing request/petition
to intervene is filed so that they can obtain access to the document
via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using the agency's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC Meta System
Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC Web site
at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by e-mail at
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a toll-free call at (866) 672-7640. The
NRC Meta System Help Desk is available between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.,
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding government holidays.
Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper
format. Such filings must be submitted by: (1) First class mail
addressed to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention:
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, express mail, or
expedited delivery service to the Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth
Floor, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland, 20852, Attention: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff.
Participants filing a document in this manner are responsible for
serving the document on all other participants. Filing is considered
complete by first-class mail as of the time of deposit in the mail, or
by courier, express mail, or expedited delivery service upon depositing
the document with the provider of the service. A presiding officer,
having granted an exemption request from using E-Filing, may require a
participant or party to use E-Filing if the presiding officer
subsequently determines that the reason for granting the exemption from
use of E-Filing no longer exists.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in
NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at
https://ehd1.nrc.gov/EHD/, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the
Commission, or the presiding officer. Participants are requested not to
include personal privacy information, such as social security numbers,
home addresses, or home phone numbers in their filings, unless an NRC
regulation or other law requires submission of such information. With
respect to
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copyrighted works, except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose
of the adjudicatory filings and would constitute a Fair Use
application, participants are requested not to include copyrighted
materials in their submission.
Petitions for leave to intervene must be filed no later than 60
days from May 20, 2011. Non-timely filings will not be entertained
absent a determination by the presiding officer that the petition or
request should be granted or the contentions should be admitted, based
on a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)-
(viii).
III. Further Information
Documents related to this action, including the application for
renewal and supporting documentation, are available online in the NRC
Library at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page,
the public can gain entry into the NRC's Agencywide Document Access and
Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC's
public documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for the documents related
to this notice are: License Renewal Application dated January 31, 2011
(ML110400387), and the acceptance review letter dated April 14, 2011
(ML111050015). 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 (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737 or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction
contractor will copy documents for a fee.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of May, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kimberly J. Hardin,
Acting Branch Chief, Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage
and Transportation, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2011-12460 Filed 5-19-11; 8:45 am]
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