Portland General Electric Company; Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation, 73298-73299 [2020-25297]

Download as PDF 73298 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 222 / Tuesday, November 17, 2020 / Notices NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 72–17; NRC–2020–0238] Portland General Electric Company; Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact; issuance. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering an amendment request from Portland General Electric Company (PGE) to amend License No. SNM–2509 for the Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI), located in Columbia County, Oregon. The amendment would revise the safety analysis report (SAR) description of the licensee’s evaluation of explosion accident events. As part of its review, the NRC performed an environmental assessment (EA) of the proposed action. The NRC concluded that the proposed action would have no significant environmental impact. Accordingly, the NRC staff is issuing a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) associated with the proposed amendment. SUMMARY: The EA and FONSI referenced in this document became available on November 16, 2020. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020–0238 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC–2020–0238. Address questions about Docket IDs to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; email: Jennifer.Borges@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 ‘‘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. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this DATES: VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:46 Nov 16, 2020 Jkt 253001 document (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. • Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via email at PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1–800–397–4209 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Allen, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555; telephone: 301–415–6877; email: William.Allen@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Introduction In August 2012, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers installed an anchor buoy for a new Prescott Anchorage Area on the Columbia River just outside the Trojan ISFSI Controlled Area Boundary. During a 2015 inspection, an NRC inspector questioned if the supporting analyses for Trojan Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) Sections 2.2.3.1 ‘‘Explosions’’ and Section 8.2.8 ‘‘Explosions of Chemicals, Flammable Gasses, and Munitions’’ remained bounding due to the new anchorage. To address this issue, PGE reviewed the Trojan FSAR explosion event evaluation description, and concluded that certain statements pertaining to the deterministic evaluation of the design basis explosion event could not be confirmed. Therefore, PGE commissioned a comprehensive new evaluation of potential impacts on the Trojan ISFSI due to explosion events from both rail and waterborne vessel traffic. The evaluation also accounted for waterborne vessels periodically moored at the new Prescott Anchorage Area. PGE submitted a license amendment application to update the Trojan FSAR evaluation of explosion accident events originating from cargo transported by rail and waterborne vessels that could potentially affect the ISFSI and requested NRC approval of the subject FSAR change. The NRC is reviewing the amendment request from PGE dated March 10, 2020 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML20083G798). II. Environmental Assessment Summary Under the requirements of sections 51.21 and 51.30(a) of title10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC staff developed an EA (ADAMS Accession No. ML20287A234) to evaluate the proposed action, which is PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 for the NRC to approve the PGE amendment request to revise the SAR description of the licensee’s evaluation of explosion accident events. The EA defines the NRC’s proposed action (i.e., to approve the amendment request) as well as the purpose of and the need for the proposed action. The EA evaluates the potential environmental impacts of approving the amendment to update the Trojan FSAR evaluation of explosion accident events originating from cargo transported by rail and waterborne vessels that could potentially affect the ISFSI. The EA also provides the NRC’s conclusion. The NRC staff finds that the environmental effects from this amendment request are bounded by the environmental impacts discussed in the June 26, 2019 EA for renewal of the Trojan ISFSI license. That EA found that continued operation of the Trojan ISFSI for an additional 40 years will not significantly affect the quality of the environment (ML19058A264). The NRC staff finds that the environmental impacts from PGE’s amendment request are bounded by the previous EA for the following reasons. First, PGE’s requested amendment involves no changes to the ISFSI design or operation. Second, the SAR revision is limited to adding a more comprehensive evaluation of offsite explosion events. Third, the evaluation results remain the same. The new evaluation concludes, consistent with the prior evaluation, that offsite explosions would not have radiological consequences. Because the evaluation results, the ISFSI design, and the ISFSI operation remain unchanged, the proposed action does not change the types or quantities of effluents that may be released offsite, and it does not increase occupational or public radiation exposure. Therefore, there are no significant radiological environmental impacts associated with the proposed action. There is no change to non-radiological effluents because the proposed action only requires revising the FSAR and does not have other environmental impacts. Thus, the proposed action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment and the environmental impacts of the proposed action are no greater than those described in the EA for renewal of SNM–2509. Agencies and Persons Consulted The NRC provided the Oregon Health Authority a draft copy of the EA for review in an email dated August 27, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20244A153). The NRC staff has determined that this amendment would E:\FR\FM\17NON1.SGM 17NON1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 222 / Tuesday, November 17, 2020 / Notices have no impact on historic and cultural resources or ecological resources. Consequently, no consultations are necessary under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act or Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. III. Finding of No Significant Impact Based on its review of the proposed action in the EA, in accordance with the requirements in 10 CFR part 51, the NRC staff has concluded that the proposed action, approval of the requested amendment, will not significantly impact the quality of the human environment, as the environmental impacts are bounded by the previous EA for renewal of SNM– 2509. Therefore, the NRC finds that there are no significant environmental impacts from the proposed action, and that preparation of an environmental impact statement is not warranted. Accordingly, the NRC has determined that a FONSI is appropriate. Dated: November 12, 2020. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. John B. McKirgan, Chief, Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch, Division of Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2020–25297 Filed 11–16–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received before this date. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking website: • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2020–0233. Address questions about Docket IDs to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff. For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting comments, see ‘‘Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments’’ in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emil Tabakov, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 6814, email: Emil.Tabakov@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: [NRC–2020–0233] I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments Report on Waste Burial Charges A. Obtaining Information Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment. Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020– 0233 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly available information related to this action by any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2020–0233. • 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 ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC’s Public Document Room reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@ nrc.gov. NUREG–1307, Revision 18, ‘‘Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft report entitled, NUREG–1307, Revision 18, ‘‘Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities.’’ This report, which is revised periodically, explains the formula acceptable to the NRC for determining the minimum decommissioning fund requirements for nuclear power reactor licensees, as required by NRC regulations. Specifically, this report provides the adjustment factor and updates the values for the labor, energy, and waste burial escalation factors of the minimum formula. DATES: Submit comments by December 17, 2020. Comments received after this SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:46 Nov 16, 2020 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 73299 Burial Facilities, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20296A391. • Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via email at PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1–800–397–4209 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. B. Submitting Comments The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking Website (https:// www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC–2020–0233 in your comment submission. The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at https:// www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information. If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS. II. Discussion Pursuant to section 50.75 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Reporting and Recordkeeping for Decommissioning Planning,’’ the NRC requires nuclear power reactor licensees to adjust annually, in current year dollars, their estimate of the cost to decommission their plants. The annual updates are part of the process for providing reasonable assurance that adequate funds for decommissioning will be available when needed. Revision 18 of NUREG–1307, ‘‘Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities,’’ modifies the previous revision to this report issued in February 2019 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19037A405) and incorporates updates to the adjustment factor and to the labor, energy, and waste burial escalation factors of the NRC minimum decommissioning fund formula. Due to modest pricing changes in low-level waste burial charges at the E:\FR\FM\17NON1.SGM 17NON1

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72-17; NRC-2020-0238]


Portland General Electric Company; Trojan Independent Spent Fuel 
Storage Installation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact; 
issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering an 
amendment request from Portland General Electric Company (PGE) to amend 
License No. SNM-2509 for the Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage 
Installation (ISFSI), located in Columbia County, Oregon. The amendment 
would revise the safety analysis report (SAR) description of the 
licensee's evaluation of explosion accident events. As part of its 
review, the NRC performed an environmental assessment (EA) of the 
proposed action. The NRC concluded that the proposed action would have 
no significant environmental impact. Accordingly, the NRC staff is 
issuing a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) associated with the 
proposed amendment.

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in this document became available on 
November 16, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0238 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0238. Address 
questions about Docket IDs to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-9127; 
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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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]. The ADAMS accession number for each 
document referenced in this document (if that document is available in 
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.
     Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies 
of public documents is currently closed. You may submit your request to 
the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 
between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except 
Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Allen, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555; telephone: 301-415-6877; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction

    In August 2012, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers installed an 
anchor buoy for a new Prescott Anchorage Area on the Columbia River 
just outside the Trojan ISFSI Controlled Area Boundary. During a 2015 
inspection, an NRC inspector questioned if the supporting analyses for 
Trojan Final Safety Analysis Report (FSAR) Sections 2.2.3.1 
``Explosions'' and Section 8.2.8 ``Explosions of Chemicals, Flammable 
Gasses, and Munitions'' remained bounding due to the new anchorage. To 
address this issue, PGE reviewed the Trojan FSAR explosion event 
evaluation description, and concluded that certain statements 
pertaining to the deterministic evaluation of the design basis 
explosion event could not be confirmed. Therefore, PGE commissioned a 
comprehensive new evaluation of potential impacts on the Trojan ISFSI 
due to explosion events from both rail and waterborne vessel traffic. 
The evaluation also accounted for waterborne vessels periodically 
moored at the new Prescott Anchorage Area.
    PGE submitted a license amendment application to update the Trojan 
FSAR evaluation of explosion accident events originating from cargo 
transported by rail and waterborne vessels that could potentially 
affect the ISFSI and requested NRC approval of the subject FSAR change. 
The NRC is reviewing the amendment request from PGE dated March 10, 
2020 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML20083G798).

II. Environmental Assessment Summary

    Under the requirements of sections 51.21 and 51.30(a) of title10 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC staff developed an EA 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML20287A234) to evaluate the proposed action, 
which is for the NRC to approve the PGE amendment request to revise the 
SAR description of the licensee's evaluation of explosion accident 
events.
    The EA defines the NRC's proposed action (i.e., to approve the 
amendment request) as well as the purpose of and the need for the 
proposed action. The EA evaluates the potential environmental impacts 
of approving the amendment to update the Trojan FSAR evaluation of 
explosion accident events originating from cargo transported by rail 
and waterborne vessels that could potentially affect the ISFSI. The EA 
also provides the NRC's conclusion.
    The NRC staff finds that the environmental effects from this 
amendment request are bounded by the environmental impacts discussed in 
the June 26, 2019 EA for renewal of the Trojan ISFSI license. That EA 
found that continued operation of the Trojan ISFSI for an additional 40 
years will not significantly affect the quality of the environment 
(ML19058A264). The NRC staff finds that the environmental impacts from 
PGE's amendment request are bounded by the previous EA for the 
following reasons. First, PGE's requested amendment involves no changes 
to the ISFSI design or operation. Second, the SAR revision is limited 
to adding a more comprehensive evaluation of offsite explosion events. 
Third, the evaluation results remain the same. The new evaluation 
concludes, consistent with the prior evaluation, that offsite 
explosions would not have radiological consequences.
    Because the evaluation results, the ISFSI design, and the ISFSI 
operation remain unchanged, the proposed action does not change the 
types or quantities of effluents that may be released offsite, and it 
does not increase occupational or public radiation exposure. Therefore, 
there are no significant radiological environmental impacts associated 
with the proposed action. There is no change to non-radiological 
effluents because the proposed action only requires revising the FSAR 
and does not have other environmental impacts. Thus, the proposed 
action will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human 
environment and the environmental impacts of the proposed action are no 
greater than those described in the EA for renewal of SNM-2509.

Agencies and Persons Consulted

    The NRC provided the Oregon Health Authority a draft copy of the EA 
for review in an email dated August 27, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML20244A153). The NRC staff has determined that this amendment would

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have no impact on historic and cultural resources or ecological 
resources. Consequently, no consultations are necessary under Section 
106 of the National Historic Preservation Act or Section 7 of the 
Endangered Species Act.

III. Finding of No Significant Impact

    Based on its review of the proposed action in the EA, in accordance 
with the requirements in 10 CFR part 51, the NRC staff has concluded 
that the proposed action, approval of the requested amendment, will not 
significantly impact the quality of the human environment, as the 
environmental impacts are bounded by the previous EA for renewal of 
SNM-2509.
    Therefore, the NRC finds that there are no significant 
environmental impacts from the proposed action, and that preparation of 
an environmental impact statement is not warranted. Accordingly, the 
NRC has determined that a FONSI is appropriate.

    Dated: November 12, 2020.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John B. McKirgan,
Chief, Storage and Transportation Licensing Branch, Division of Fuel 
Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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