Exelon Generation Corporation, LLC; Calvert Cliffs Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation, 64420 [2014-25758]

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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 209 (Wednesday, October 29, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 64420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25758]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-8; NRC-2011-0085]


Exelon Generation Corporation, LLC; Calvert Cliffs 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 Exelon Generation Corporation, LLC (Exelon 
Generation), for its Materials License SNM-2505 for the receipt, 
possession, transfer, and storage of spent fuel at the Calvert Cliffs 
independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI), located in Calvert 
County, Maryland. The renewed license authorizes operation of the 
Calvert Cliffs ISFSI in accordance with the provisions of the renewed 
license and its Technical Specifications (TS). The renewed license 
expires on November 30, 2052.

DATES: October 29, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0085 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2011-0085. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 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 https://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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. For 
the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided 
in a table in the ``Availability of Documents'' section of this 
document.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Goshen, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555; telephone: 301-287-9250; email: 
John.Goshen@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Based upon the application dated September 
17, 2010, as supplemented February 10, June 28 and December 15, 2011; 
July 27, 2012; June 14, 2013; and April 24, and September 8, 2014, the 
U.S. NRC has issued a renewed license to Exelon Generation Corporation, 
LLC (Exelon Generation), for its Calvert Cliffs independent spent fuel 
storage installation (ISFSI), located in Calvert County, Maryland. The 
renewed license authorizes and requires operation of the Calvert Cliffs 
ISFSI in accordance with the provisions of the renewed license and its 
TS. The renewed license will expire on November 30, 2052. Exelon's 
application for a renewed license complies with the standards and 
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (the Act), as amended, 
and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made 
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission'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 April 
25, 2011 (76 FR 22935). The NRC received no request for a hearing or 
petition for leave to intervene following the notice.
    The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report (SER) 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 an Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of 
No Significant Impact for the renewal of this license on June 8, 2012 
(77 FR 34093). The EA and Finding of No Significant Impact, which was 
re-issued on October 23, 2014, (79 FR 63444), and includes 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'') as an appendix 
to the EA, concluded that renewal of this ISFSI license will not have a 
significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
    Availability of Documents: The ADAMS accession numbers for the 
documents related to this notice are:

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1...........................  Applicant's           ML102650247
                               application, dated
                               September 17, 2010.
2...........................  Response to First     ML110620134
                               Request for
                               Supplemental
                               Information, dated
                               February 10, 2011.
3...........................  Response to Second    ML110730720
                               Request for
                               Supplemental
                               Information, dated
                               March 9, 2011.
4...........................  Response to First     ML11180A270
                               Request for
                               Additional
                               Information, dated
                               June 28, 2011.
5...........................  Response to Second    ML113640129
                               Request for
                               Additional
                               Information, dated
                               December 15, 2011.
6...........................  Response to Third     ML12212A216
                               Request for
                               Supplemental
                               Information, dated
                               July 27, 2012.
7...........................  Partial Response to   ML131700610
                               Third Request for
                               Additional
                               Information, dated
                               June 14, 2013.
8...........................  Supplemental          ML131190290
                               Response to Third
                               Request for
                               Additional
                               Information, dated
                               April 24, 2014.
9...........................  Response to Fourth    ML14267A065
                               Request for
                               Additional
                               Information, dated
                               September 18, 2014.
10..........................  NRC Safety            ML14274A038
                               Evaluation Report.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of October 2014.
Michele M. Sampson,
Chief, Spent Fuel Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Management, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2014-25758 Filed 10-28-14; 8:45 am]
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