Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC; Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility, 48044-48045 [2022-16627]

Download as PDF 48044 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 150 / Friday, August 5, 2022 / Notices Wendy.Moore@nrc.gov or Betty.Thweatt@nrc.gov. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Week of August 8, 2022 There are no meetings scheduled for the week of August 8, 2022. Week of August 15, 2022—Tentative There are no meetings scheduled for the week of August 15, 2022. Week of August 22, 2022—Tentative There are no meetings scheduled for the week of August 22, 2022. Week of August 29, 2022—Tentative There are no meetings scheduled for the week of August 29, 2022. Week of September 5, 2022—Tentative There are no meetings scheduled for the week of September 5, 2022. Week of September 12, 2022—Tentative There are no meetings scheduled for the week of September 12, 2022. CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: For more information or to verify the status of meetings, contact Wesley Held at 301–287–3591 or via email at Wesley.Held@nrc.gov. The NRC is holding the meetings under the authority of the Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. Dated: August 3, 2022. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Wesley W. Held, Policy Coordinator, Office of the Secretary. [FR Doc. 2022–16969 Filed 8–3–22; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 70–1151; NRC–2015–0039] Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC; Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Environmental impact statement; issuance. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), NUREG- 2248, ‘‘Environmental Impact Statement for the License Renewal of the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility In Richland County, South Carolina’’ for Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC’s (WEC) license renewal application to renew its special nuclear material (SNM) license SNM–1107 to continue to operate its Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility (CFFF) for an additional 40 lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:20 Aug 04, 2022 Jkt 256001 years. The CFFF is located in Hopkins, South Carolina, and manufactures nuclear fuel assemblies for commercial nuclear power plants. If the WEC’s license renewal request is granted, as proposed, the license would be effective for 40 years from the date the NRC approves the renewal. DATES: The final EIS referenced in this document is available on August 5, 2022. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–0039 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–2015–0039. Address questions about Docket IDs to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301–415–0624; email: Stacy.Schumann@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 final EIS is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML22201A131. • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents, by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR, Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. • Project Website: Information related to the WEC project can be accessed on the NRC’s WEC website at https:// www.nrc.gov/info-finder/fc/ westinghouse-fuel-fab-fac-sc-lc.html. Under the section titled ‘‘Operating,’’ scroll down to ‘‘Key Documents’’ and click on final EIS, NUREG–2248. • Public Libraries: A copy of the final EIS will be made available at the following public libraries: Richland Public Library—Main; 1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29201 PO 00000 Frm 00088 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Richland Public Library—Lower Richland; 9019 Garners Ferry Road, Hopkins, SC 29061 Richland Public Library—Eastover; 608 Main Street, Eastover, SC 29044 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stacey Imboden, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–415–2462; email: Stacey.Imboden@ nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background In accordance with section 51.118 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Final environmental impact statement— notice of availability,’’ the NRC is making available NUREG–2248, which concerns the NRC’s final EIS for the proposed renewal of WEC’s license SNM–1107 for an additional 40 years. A Notice of Availability of the draft EIS (NUREG–2248) was published in the Federal Register (FR) on August 6, 2021, by the NRC (86 FR 43276) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (86 FR 43236). The public comment period on the draft EIS closed on September 20, 2021. On September 28, 2021, the NRC re-opened the public comment period until November 19, 2021 to allow more time for the public to submit comments (86 FR 53694). The comments received are addressed in the final EIS. The final EIS is available as indicated in the ADDRESSES section of this document. II. Discussion The NRC is issuing the final EIS for an application from WEC requesting to renew its SNM license SNM–1107 to continue operating the CFFF for an additional 40 years. The CFFF is located in Hopkins, South Carolina, and has been operating since 1969. The WEC’s license (SNM–1107) was last renewed by the NRC in 2007 for 20 years and will expire in September 2027. The proposed action is the renewal of the SNM–1107 license to allow the WEC to continue licensed operations and activities at the CFFF site for an additional 40 years from the date the NRC approves the license renewal request. The final EIS is being issued as part of the NRC’s process to decide whether to renew the SNM–1107 license pursuant to 10 CFR part 70. In this final EIS, the NRC staff has assessed the potential environmental impacts of the license renewal for an additional 40 years. The NRC staff assessed the impacts of the proposed action, the noaction alternative, and a 20-year license E:\FR\FM\05AUN1.SGM 05AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 150 / Friday, August 5, 2022 / Notices renewal alternative on land use; transportation; geology and soils; water resources; ecological resources; air quality; noise; historical and cultural resources; visual and scenic resources; socioeconomics; environmental justice, public and occupational health, and waste management. Additionally, the final EIS analyzes and compares the benefits and costs of the proposed action and the alternatives. In preparing this final EIS, the NRC staff also considered, evaluated, and addressed the public comments received on the draft EIS. Appendix D of the final EIS summarizes the public comments received and the NRC’s responses. After comparing the impacts of the proposed action to those of the NoAction alternative and the 20-year license renewal alternative, the NRC staff, in accordance with the requirements in 10 CFR part 51, recommends the proposed action. This recommendation is based on (i) review of the license renewal application request, which includes the environmental report, supplemental documents, and the licensee’s responses to the NRC staff’s requests for additional information; (ii) consultation with Federal, State, and Tribal agencies and input from other stakeholders; (iii) the NRC staff’s independent review; and (iv) the NRC staff’s assessments in the final EIS. Dated: July 29, 2022. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Christopher M. Regan, Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety, and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2022–16627 Filed 8–4–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34–95398; File No. SR–CBOE– 2022–040] Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Amend Rule 4.5 lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the 17:20 Aug 04, 2022 I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Statement of the Terms of Substance of the Proposed Rule Change Cboe Exchange, Inc. (the ‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘Cboe Options’’) proposes to amend Rule 4.5. The text of the proposed rule change is provided in Exhibit 5. The text of the proposed rule change is also available on the Exchange’s website (https://www.cboe.com/ AboutCBOE/CBOELegalRegulatory Home.aspx), at the Exchange’s Office of the Secretary, and at the Commission’s Public Reference Room. II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change In its filing with the Commission, the Exchange included statements concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change and discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change. The text of these statements may be examined at the places specified in Item IV below. The Exchange has prepared summaries, set forth in sections A, B, and C below, of the most significant aspects of such statements. A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change 1. Purpose The proposed rule change amends Rule 4.5(d). Specifically, the Exchange 1 15 August 1, 2022. VerDate Sep<11>2014 ‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2 notice is hereby given that on July 29, 2022, Cboe Exchange, Inc. (‘‘Exchange’’ or ‘‘Cboe Options’’) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule change as described in Items I and II below, which Items have been prepared by the Exchange. The Exchange filed the proposal as a ‘‘non-controversial’’ proposed rule change pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A)(iii) of the Act 3 and Rule 19b–4(f)(6) thereunder.4 The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons. Jkt 256001 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). CFR 240.19b–4. 3 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(iii). 4 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). 2 17 PO 00000 Frm 00089 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 48045 proposes to amend Rule 4.5(d)(6) to account for conflicts between different provisions within the Short Term Option Series Rules and make other clarifying changes. In 2021, the Exchange amended Rule 4.5 to limit the intervals between strikes in equity options listed as part of the Short Term Option Series Program, excluding Exchange-Traded Fund Shares and ETNs, that have an expiration date more than twenty-one days from the listing date (‘‘Strike Interval Proposal’’).5 The Strike Interval Proposal adopted new subparagraph (d)(6), which included a table that intended to specify the applicable strike intervals that would supersede subparagraph (d)(5) 6 for Short Term Option Series in equity options, excluding options on exchange-traded fund shares and on exchange-traded notes, which have an expiration more than 21 days from the listing date. The Strike Interval Proposal was designed to reduce the density of strike intervals that would be listed in later weeks, within the Short Term Option Series Program, by utilizing limitations for intervals between strikes that have an expiration date more than 21 days from the listing date. The Exchange proposes to amend Rule 4.5(d)(6) to clarify the current rule text and amend the application of the table to account for potential conflicts within the Short Term Option Series Rules. Currently, Rule 4.5(d)(6) provides that notwithstanding subparagraph (d)(5), when Short Term Option Series in equity options (excluding options on ETFs and ETNs) have an expiration more than 21 days from the listing date, the strike interval for each option class will be based on the following table: 5 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 91456 (April 1, 2021), 86 FR 18090 (April 7, 2021) (SR– CBOE–2021–019). 6 Rule 4.5(d)(5) states the interval between strike prices on Short Term Option Series may be: (a) $0.50 or greater where the strike is less than $100 and $1 or greater where the strike price is between $100 and $150 for all classes that participate in the Short Term Option Series Program; (b) $0.50 or greater for classes that trade in one dollar increments in non-Short Term Options and that participate in the Short Term Option Series Program; or (c) $2.50 or greater where the strike price is above $150. A non-Short Term Option that is on a class that has been selected to participate in the Short Term Option Series Program is referred to as a ‘‘Related non-Short Term Option.’’ E:\FR\FM\05AUN1.SGM 05AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 150 (Friday, August 5, 2022)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 70-1151; NRC-2015-0039]


Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC; Columbia Fuel Fabrication 
Facility

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Environmental impact statement; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a 
final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), NUREG- 2248, 
``Environmental Impact Statement for the License Renewal of the 
Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility In Richland County, South Carolina'' 
for Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC's (WEC) license renewal 
application to renew its special nuclear material (SNM) license SNM-
1107 to continue to operate its Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility 
(CFFF) for an additional 40 years. The CFFF is located in Hopkins, 
South Carolina, and manufactures nuclear fuel assemblies for commercial 
nuclear power plants. If the WEC's license renewal request is granted, 
as proposed, the license would be effective for 40 years from the date 
the NRC approves the renewal.

DATES: The final EIS referenced in this document is available on August 
5, 2022.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0039 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-2015-0039. Address 
questions about Docket IDs to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; 
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 final EIS is available in ADAMS 
under Accession No. ML22201A131.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make 
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to 
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.
     Project Website: Information related to the WEC project 
can be accessed on the NRC's WEC website at https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/fc/westinghouse-fuel-fab-fac-sc-lc.html. Under the section 
titled ``Operating,'' scroll down to ``Key Documents'' and click on 
final EIS, NUREG-2248.
     Public Libraries: A copy of the final EIS will be made 
available at the following public libraries:

Richland Public Library--Main; 1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29201
Richland Public Library--Lower Richland; 9019 Garners Ferry Road, 
Hopkins, SC 29061
Richland Public Library--Eastover; 608 Main Street, Eastover, SC 29044

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stacey Imboden, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-2462; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    In accordance with section 51.118 of title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Final environmental impact statement--
notice of availability,'' the NRC is making available NUREG-2248, which 
concerns the NRC's final EIS for the proposed renewal of WEC's license 
SNM-1107 for an additional 40 years. A Notice of Availability of the 
draft EIS (NUREG-2248) was published in the Federal Register (FR) on 
August 6, 2021, by the NRC (86 FR 43276) and the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency (86 FR 43236). The public comment period on the draft 
EIS closed on September 20, 2021. On September 28, 2021, the NRC re-
opened the public comment period until November 19, 2021 to allow more 
time for the public to submit comments (86 FR 53694). The comments 
received are addressed in the final EIS. The final EIS is available as 
indicated in the ADDRESSES section of this document.

II. Discussion

    The NRC is issuing the final EIS for an application from WEC 
requesting to renew its SNM license SNM-1107 to continue operating the 
CFFF for an additional 40 years. The CFFF is located in Hopkins, South 
Carolina, and has been operating since 1969. The WEC's license (SNM-
1107) was last renewed by the NRC in 2007 for 20 years and will expire 
in September 2027. The proposed action is the renewal of the SNM-1107 
license to allow the WEC to continue licensed operations and activities 
at the CFFF site for an additional 40 years from the date the NRC 
approves the license renewal request.
    The final EIS is being issued as part of the NRC's process to 
decide whether to renew the SNM-1107 license pursuant to 10 CFR part 
70. In this final EIS, the NRC staff has assessed the potential 
environmental impacts of the license renewal for an additional 40 
years. The NRC staff assessed the impacts of the proposed action, the 
no-action alternative, and a 20-year license

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renewal alternative on land use; transportation; geology and soils; 
water resources; ecological resources; air quality; noise; historical 
and cultural resources; visual and scenic resources; socioeconomics; 
environmental justice, public and occupational health, and waste 
management. Additionally, the final EIS analyzes and compares the 
benefits and costs of the proposed action and the alternatives. In 
preparing this final EIS, the NRC staff also considered, evaluated, and 
addressed the public comments received on the draft EIS. Appendix D of 
the final EIS summarizes the public comments received and the NRC's 
responses.
    After comparing the impacts of the proposed action to those of the 
No-Action alternative and the 20-year license renewal alternative, the 
NRC staff, in accordance with the requirements in 10 CFR part 51, 
recommends the proposed action. This recommendation is based on (i) 
review of the license renewal application request, which includes the 
environmental report, supplemental documents, and the licensee's 
responses to the NRC staff's requests for additional information; (ii) 
consultation with Federal, State, and Tribal agencies and input from 
other stakeholders; (iii) the NRC staff's independent review; and (iv) 
the NRC staff's assessments in the final EIS.

    Dated: July 29, 2022.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher M. Regan,
Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental and Financial Support, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety, and Safeguards.
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