United Nuclear Corporation; License Amendment Application, 79973-79975 [2024-22479]
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LICENSE AMENDMENT ISSUANCES—Continued
Brief Description of Amendments .......................
Public Comments Received as to Proposed
NSHC (Yes/No).
The amendments revised the Joseph M. Farley, Units 1 and 2, Renewed Facility Operating License Technical Specification (TS) 3.6.5, ‘‘Containment Air Temperature,’’ Actions upon exceeding the TS 3.6.5 Limiting Condition for Operation (LCO) limit of containment average air
temperature ≤120 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) and removes an expired LCO Note. Specifically,
the amendments relocate existing TS 3.6.5 Required Action A.1 as Required Action A.3 and
revises the associated Completion Time and adds a clarifying Completion Time Note, adds
Required Actions and Completion Times A.1 and A.2, for Condition A when containment average air temperature is not within the LCO limit.
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Tennessee Valley Authority; Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2; Rhea County, TN
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Public Comments Received as to Proposed
NSHC (Yes/No).
50–390, 50–391.
August 27, 2024.
ML24218A144.
169 (Unit 1), 75 (Unit 2).
The amendments revised the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Technical Specification
Surveillance Requirement 3.9.5.1 to reduce the minimum required flow rate for circulating
reactor coolant with one residual heat removal loop in operation from 2,500 gallons per
minute (gpm) to 2,000 gpm.
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Virginia Electric and Power Company; Surry Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Surry County, VA
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Public Comments Received as to Proposed
NSHC (Yes/No).
50–280, 50–281.
August 23, 2024.
ML24219A237.
319 (Unit 1), 319 (Unit 2).
The amendments revised the Surry Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, technical specifications
to adopt Technical Specifications Task Force (TSTF) Traveler TSTF– 577, Revision 1, ‘‘Revised Frequencies for Steam Generator Tube Inspections’’ related to steam generator tube
inspection and reporting changes based on operating history.
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Vistra Operations Company LLC; Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Somervell County, TX
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Public Comments Received as to Proposed
NSHC (Yes/No).
50–445, 50–446.
August 20, 2024.
ML24179A077.
189 (Unit 1) ,189 (Unit 2).
The amendments revised Technical Specification 3.8.1, Required Action B.4, to extend the allowed outage time for an inoperable emergency diesel generator from 72 hours to 14 days.
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Vistra Operations Company LLC; Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Somervell County, TX
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Public Comments Received as to Proposed
NSHC (Yes/No).
Dated: September 24, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Aida Rivera-Varona,
Deputy Director, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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190 (Unit 1) and 190 (Unit 2).
The amendments revised technical specifications to adopt Technical Specifications Task Force
(TSTF) Traveler TSTF–589, ‘‘Eliminate Automatic Diesel Generator Start During Shutdown.’’
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[Docket No. 04008907; NRC–2024–0170]
United Nuclear Corporation; License
Amendment Application
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
AGENCY:
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Opportunity to comment;
opportunity to request a hearing and to
petition for leave to intervene.
ACTION:
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has received an
application from United Nuclear
Corporation (UNC), a subsidiary of
General Electric (GE) for amendment of
Source Material License No. SUA–1475,
Docket No. 04008907, which authorizes
the licensee to possess byproduct
SUMMARY:
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material in the form of uranium waste
tailings and other byproduct wastes
generated by the licensee’s past milling
operations located at: 1051 State
Highway 566, Gallup, New Mexico
87305. In addition to corrections to the
license that have been approved in
previous Safety Evaluation Reports, the
licensee requests changes to the dates in
Condition 35 of the license which
would extend the projected date from
2019 to 2038 for emplacement of the
final radon barrier; extend the projected
date for placement of the erosion
protection from 2019 to 2038; and to
extend the completion of the
groundwater corrective actions from
2018 to 2036.
DATES: Submit comments by December
2, 2024. A request for a hearing or
petition for leave to intervene must be
filed by December 2, 2024.
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–2024–0170. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov 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.
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:
James Smith, Office of Nuclear Materials
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
6103; email: James.Smith@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
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A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2024–
0170 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–2024–0170.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly
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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, at
301–415–4737, or by email to
PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The application
is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML24135A218.
• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you
may examine and order copies of
publicly available documents, is open
by appointment. 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 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern
time (ET), 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–2024–0170 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. Introduction
The NRC has received, by letter dated
May 14, 2024, (ADAMS Accession No.
ML24135A218), an application to
amend Source Materials License No.
SUA–1475 (the UNC license) for the
UNC Church Rock Mill site located in
New Mexico. Specifically, UNC
requested to extend the projected dates
for (1) the completion of groundwater
corrective actions, (2) the emplacement
of the final radon barrier and erosion
protection, and (3) completion of the
ground water corrective actions, for the
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UNC Church Rock Mill Site. UNC is
requesting an amendment to Source
Material License No. SUA–1475, Docket
No. 04008907, for License Conditions
35.A(1), which would extend the
projected date from 2019 to 2038 for
emplacement of the final radon barrier;
condition 35.B(1) to extend the
projected date for placement of the
erosion protection from 2019 to 2038;
and condition 35.B(2) to extend the
completion of the of groundwater
corrective actions from 2018 to 2036.
III. Opportunity To Comment and
Opportunity To Request a Hearing and
Petition for Leave To Intervene
Prior to making a final determination
on this, the UNC’s second request to
extend the date for emplacing the final
radon barrier and the erosion protection,
the NRC is providing an opportunity for
public participation required under
criterion 6A(2) of Appendix A of part 40
to title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, through the provision of
this opportunity to provide comments.
An NRC administrative completeness
review found the application acceptable
for a technical review. Prior to making
a licensing decision on the request, the
NRC will need to evaluate the proposal
against the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
as amended (the Act), and the NRC’s
regulations. The NRC’s findings will be
documented in a technical evaluation
report.
Within 60 days after the date of
publication of this notice, any persons
(petitioner) whose interest may be
affected by this action may file a request
for a hearing and petition for leave to
intervene (petition) with respect to the
action. Petitions shall be filed in
accordance with the Commission’s
‘‘Agency Rules of Practice and
Procedure’’ in 10 CFR part 2. Interested
persons should consult a current copy
of 10 CFR 2.309. If a petition is filed, the
presiding officer will rule on the
petition and, if appropriate, a notice of
a hearing will be issued.
Petitions must be filed no later than
60 days from the date of publication of
this notice in accordance with the filing
instructions in the ‘‘Electronic
Submissions (E-Filing)’’ section of this
document. Petitions and motions for
leave to file new or amended
contentions that are filed after the
deadline will not be entertained absent
a determination by the presiding officer
that the filing demonstrates good cause
by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR
2.309(c)(1)(i) through (iii).
A State, local governmental body,
Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or
designated agency thereof, may submit
a petition to the Commission to
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participate as a party under 10 CFR
2.309(h) no later than 60 days from the
date of publication of this notice.
Alternatively, a State, local
governmental body, Federally
recognized Indian Tribe, or designated
agency thereof may participate as a nonparty under 10 CFR 2.315(c).
For information about filing a petition
and about participation by a person not
a party under 10 CFR 2.315, see ADAMS
Accession No. ML20340A053 (https://
adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/
main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML203
40A053) and on the NRC’s public
website at https://www.nrc.gov/aboutnrc/regulatory/adjudicatory/hearing.
html#participate.
IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)
All documents filed in NRC
adjudicatory proceedings, including
documents filed by an interested State,
local governmental body, Federally
recognized Indian Tribe, or designated
agency thereof that requests to
participate under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must
be filed in accordance with 10 CFR
2.302. 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, unless an
exemption permitting an alternative
filing method, as further discussed, is
granted. Detailed guidance on electronic
submissions is located in the ‘‘Guidance
for Electronic Submissions to the NRC’’
(ADAMS Accession No. ML13031A056)
and on the NRC’s public website at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html.
To comply with the procedural
requirements of E-Filing, at least 10
days prior to the filing deadline, the
participant should contact the Office of
the Secretary by email at
Hearing.Docket@nrc.gov, or by
telephone at 301–415–1677, to (1)
request a digital identification (ID)
certificate, which allows the participant
(or its counsel or representative) to
digitally sign submissions and access
the E-Filing system for any proceeding
in which it is participating; and (2)
advise the Secretary that the participant
will be submitting a petition or other
adjudicatory document (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 proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an
electronic docket.
Information about applying for a
digital ID certificate is available on the
NRC’s public website at https://
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www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/
getting-started.html. After a digital ID
certificate is obtained and a docket
created, the participant must submit
adjudicatory documents in Portable
Document Format. Guidance on
submissions is available on the NRC’s
public website at https://www.nrc.gov/
site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A
filing is considered complete at the time
the document is 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. ET on the due date. Upon receipt
of a transmission, the E-Filing system
time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email confirming
receipt of the document. The E-Filing
system also distributes an email that
provides access to the document to the
NRC’s 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 document on
those participants separately. Therefore,
applicants and other participants (or
their counsel or representative) must
apply for and receive a digital ID
certificate before adjudicatory
documents are filed to obtain access to
the documents via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using
the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system
may seek assistance by contacting the
NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk
through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located
on the NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC
Electronic Filing Help Desk is available
between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., ET, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Participants who believe that they
have 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 stating why there is good cause for
not filing electronically and requesting
authorization to continue to submit
documents in paper format. Such filings
must be submitted in accordance with
10 CFR 2.302(b)–(d). Participants filing
adjudicatory documents in this manner
are responsible for serving their
documents on all other participants.
Participants granted an exemption
under 10 CFR 2.302(g)(2) must still meet
the electronic formatting requirement in
10 CFR 2.302(g)(1), unless the
participant also seeks and is granted an
exemption from 10 CFR 2.302(g)(1).
Documents submitted in adjudicatory
proceedings will appear in the NRC’s
electronic hearing docket, which is
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publicly available at https://
adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded
pursuant to an order of the presiding
officer. If you do not have an NRCissued digital ID certificate as
previously described, click ‘‘cancel’’
when the link requests certificates and
you will be automatically directed to the
NRC’s electronic hearing docket where
you will be able to access any publicly
available documents in a particular
hearing docket. Participants are
requested not to include personal
privacy information such as social
security numbers, home addresses, or
personal phone numbers in their filings
unless an NRC regulation or other law
requires submission of such
information. With respect to
copyrighted works, except for limited
excerpts that serve the purpose of the
adjudicatory filings and would
constitute a Fair Use application,
participants should not include
copyrighted materials in their
submission.
Dated: September 26, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Randolph W. Von Till,
Chief, Uranium Recovery and Materials
Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and
Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards.
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Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc.;
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Environmental Impact Statement
Nuclear Regulatory
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ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
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environmental impacts for the
subsequent license renewal (SLR) of
Renewed Facility Operating License No.
NPF–12 for Virgil C. Summer Nuclear
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DATES: October 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
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NRC about the availability of
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 04008907; NRC-2024-0170]
United Nuclear Corporation; License Amendment Application
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Opportunity to comment; opportunity to request a hearing and to
petition for leave to intervene.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received an
application from United Nuclear Corporation (UNC), a subsidiary of
General Electric (GE) for amendment of Source Material License No. SUA-
1475, Docket No. 04008907, which authorizes the licensee to possess
byproduct
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material in the form of uranium waste tailings and other byproduct
wastes generated by the licensee's past milling operations located at:
1051 State Highway 566, Gallup, New Mexico 87305. In addition to
corrections to the license that have been approved in previous Safety
Evaluation Reports, the licensee requests changes to the dates in
Condition 35 of the license which would extend the projected date from
2019 to 2038 for emplacement of the final radon barrier; extend the
projected date for placement of the erosion protection from 2019 to
2038; and to extend the completion of the groundwater corrective
actions from 2018 to 2036.
DATES: Submit comments by December 2, 2024. A request for a hearing or
petition for leave to intervene must be filed by December 2, 2024.
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-2024-0170. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov 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.
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: James Smith, Office of Nuclear
Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6103; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0170 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-2024-0170.
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, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. The application is available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML24135A218.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), 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-2024-0170 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. Introduction
The NRC has received, by letter dated May 14, 2024, (ADAMS
Accession No. ML24135A218), an application to amend Source Materials
License No. SUA-1475 (the UNC license) for the UNC Church Rock Mill
site located in New Mexico. Specifically, UNC requested to extend the
projected dates for (1) the completion of groundwater corrective
actions, (2) the emplacement of the final radon barrier and erosion
protection, and (3) completion of the ground water corrective actions,
for the UNC Church Rock Mill Site. UNC is requesting an amendment to
Source Material License No. SUA-1475, Docket No. 04008907, for License
Conditions 35.A(1), which would extend the projected date from 2019 to
2038 for emplacement of the final radon barrier; condition 35.B(1) to
extend the projected date for placement of the erosion protection from
2019 to 2038; and condition 35.B(2) to extend the completion of the of
groundwater corrective actions from 2018 to 2036.
III. Opportunity To Comment and Opportunity To Request a Hearing and
Petition for Leave To Intervene
Prior to making a final determination on this, the UNC's second
request to extend the date for emplacing the final radon barrier and
the erosion protection, the NRC is providing an opportunity for public
participation required under criterion 6A(2) of Appendix A of part 40
to title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, through the provision
of this opportunity to provide comments. An NRC administrative
completeness review found the application acceptable for a technical
review. Prior to making a licensing decision on the request, the NRC
will need to evaluate the proposal against the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended (the Act), and the NRC's regulations. The NRC's
findings will be documented in a technical evaluation report.
Within 60 days after the date of publication of this notice, any
persons (petitioner) whose interest may be affected by this action may
file a request for a hearing and petition for leave to intervene
(petition) with respect to the action. Petitions shall be filed in
accordance with the Commission's ``Agency Rules of Practice and
Procedure'' in 10 CFR part 2. Interested persons should consult a
current copy of 10 CFR 2.309. If a petition is filed, the presiding
officer will rule on the petition and, if appropriate, a notice of a
hearing will be issued.
Petitions must be filed no later than 60 days from the date of
publication of this notice in accordance with the filing instructions
in the ``Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)'' section of this document.
Petitions and motions for leave to file new or amended contentions that
are filed after the deadline will not be entertained absent a
determination by the presiding officer that the filing demonstrates
good cause by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)
through (iii).
A State, local governmental body, Federally recognized Indian
Tribe, or designated agency thereof, may submit a petition to the
Commission to
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participate as a party under 10 CFR 2.309(h) no later than 60 days from
the date of publication of this notice. Alternatively, a State, local
governmental body, Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or designated
agency thereof may participate as a non-party under 10 CFR 2.315(c).
For information about filing a petition and about participation by
a person not a party under 10 CFR 2.315, see ADAMS Accession No.
ML20340A053 (https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML20340A053) and on the NRC's public website
at https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/adjudicatory/hearing.html#participate.
IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)
All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including
documents filed by an interested State, local governmental body,
Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or designated agency thereof that
requests to participate under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302. 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,
unless an exemption permitting an alternative filing method, as further
discussed, is granted. Detailed guidance on electronic submissions is
located in the ``Guidance for Electronic Submissions to the NRC''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML13031A056) and on the NRC's public website at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least 10
days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should contact the
Office of the Secretary by email at [email protected], or by
telephone at 301-415-1677, to (1) request a digital identification (ID)
certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or
representative) to digitally sign submissions and access the E-Filing
system for any proceeding in which it is participating; and (2) advise
the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a petition or
other adjudicatory document (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 proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an electronic docket.
Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is
available on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/getting-started.html. After a digital ID certificate is
obtained and a docket created, the participant must submit adjudicatory
documents in Portable Document Format. Guidance on submissions is
available on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A filing is considered complete at the
time the document is 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. ET on the due date. Upon receipt of a
transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email confirming receipt of the document. The E-Filing
system also distributes an email that provides access to the document
to the NRC's 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 document on those
participants separately. Therefore, applicants and other participants
(or their counsel or representative) must apply for and receive a
digital ID certificate before adjudicatory documents are filed to
obtain access to the documents via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using the NRC's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC's Electronic
Filing Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC's
public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by
email to [email protected], or by a toll-free call at 1-866-672-
7640. The NRC Electronic Filing Help Desk is available between 9 a.m.
and 6 p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Participants who believe that they have 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
stating why there is good cause for not filing electronically and
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper
format. Such filings must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR
2.302(b)-(d). Participants filing adjudicatory documents in this manner
are responsible for serving their documents on all other participants.
Participants granted an exemption under 10 CFR 2.302(g)(2) must still
meet the electronic formatting requirement in 10 CFR 2.302(g)(1),
unless the participant also seeks and is granted an exemption from 10
CFR 2.302(g)(1).
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in the
NRC's electronic hearing docket, which is publicly available at https://adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the
presiding officer. If you do not have an NRC-issued digital ID
certificate as previously described, click ``cancel'' when the link
requests certificates and you will be automatically directed to the
NRC's electronic hearing docket where you will be able to access any
publicly available documents in a particular hearing docket.
Participants are requested not to include personal privacy information
such as social security numbers, home addresses, or personal phone
numbers in their filings unless an NRC regulation or other law requires
submission of such information. With respect to copyrighted works,
except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose of the adjudicatory
filings and would constitute a Fair Use application, participants
should not include copyrighted materials in their submission.
Dated: September 26, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Randolph W. Von Till,
Chief, Uranium Recovery and Materials Decommissioning Branch, Division
of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2024-22479 Filed 9-30-24; 8:45 am]
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