80 FR 27710 - Construction Permit Application for the SHINE Medical Radioisotope Production Facility
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 93 (May 14, 2015)
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 93 (Thursday, May 14, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 27710-27711] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-11668] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 50-608; NRC-2013-0053] Construction Permit Application for the SHINE Medical Radioisotope Production Facility AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Draft environmental impact statement; public meetings and request for comment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the construction permit application submitted by SHINE Medical Technologies, Inc. (SHINE), for the SHINE Medical Radioisotope Production Facility (SHINE facility). The proposed SHINE facility would be located in Janesville, Wisconsin. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (issuance of the construction permit) include no action, reasonable alternative sites, and a reasonable [[Page 27711]] alternative technology. The NRC staff plans to hold two public meetings during the public comment period to present an overview of the draft EIS and to accept public comments on the document. DATES: Submit comments by July 6, 2015. Comments received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so but the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods (unless this document describes a different method for submitting comments on a specific subject):Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0053. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415- 3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. 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: Michelle Moser, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-6509; email: Michelle.Moser@nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0053 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 Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0053. NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://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. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is referenced. The draft EIS for the Construction Permit for the proposed SHINE facility is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15127A241. 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. B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0053 in the subject line of 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 posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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, 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 The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft EIS for the construction permit for the proposed SHINE facility. This draft EIS includes the preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action. The preliminary recommendation is that after weighing the environmental, economic, technical, and other benefits against environmental and other costs, and considering reasonable alternatives, the NRC staff recommends, the issuance of the requested construction permit to SHINE, unless safety issues mandate otherwise. III. Public Meetings The NRC staff will hold public meetings prior to the close of the public comment period to present an overview of the draft EIS for the proposed construction permit and to accept public comment on the document. Two meetings will be held on June 10, 2015, at the Rotary Botanical Gardens, 1455 Palmer Drive, Janesville, WI 53545. The first session will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue until 4:00 p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7:00 p.m. and will continue until 9:00 p.m., as necessary. The meetings will be transcribed and will include: (1) A presentation of the contents of the draft EIS; and (2) the opportunity for interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to provide comments on the draft EIS. Additionally, the NRC staff will host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session at the same location. No comments on the draft EIS will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered in the final EIS, comments must be provided either at the transcribed public meeting or submitted in writing by the comment deadline identified above. Persons may pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Ms. Michelle Moser, the NRC environmental project manager, at 1-800-368-5642, extension 6509, or by email at Michelle.Moser@nrc.gov no later than Friday, June 5, 2015. Members of the public may also register to provide oral comments within 15 minutes of the start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited by the time available, depending on the number of persons who register. If special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present information at the public meeting, the need should be brought to Ms. Moser's attention no later than Tuesday, June 2, 2015, to provide the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be accommodated. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of May, 2015. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. David J. Wrona, Chief, Environmental Review, and Guidance Branch, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2015-11668 Filed 5-13-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P
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adams.html. To begin the search, select 2009 staff requirements memorandum protected by any issue finality
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then (SRM) to SECY–08–0059, ‘‘Rulemaking provisions under part 52. This is
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Plan: Part 74—Material Control and because the issue finality provisions
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, Accounting of Special Nuclear under part 52, with certain exclusions
please contact the NRC’s Public Material.’’ The SRM and SECY–08–0059 discussed below, were not intended to
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at may be found in ADAMS under apply to every NRC action which
1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by Accession Nos. ML090360473 and substantially changes the expectations
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ML080580307, respectively. The SRM of current and future applicants. The
ADAMS accession number for each directed the NRC staff to revise existing exceptions to the general principle are
document referenced (if available in MC&A guidance documents to reflect whenever an applicant references a part
ADAMS) is provided the first time that any new and revised requirements. 52 license (e.g., an early site permit)
a document is references. The draft The draft guidance that the NRC is and/or NRC regulatory approval (e.g., a
regulatory guide is available issuing for public comment is a DG in design certification rule, a standard
electronically under ADAMS accession the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. design approval) with specified issue
number ML15015A271. The regulatory This series was developed to describe finality provisions. However, the scope
analysis may be found in ADAMS under and make available to the public of issue finality provided extends only
Accession No. ML15015A294. technical information, such as methods to the matters resolved in the license or
Regulatory guides are not that are acceptable to the NRC staff for regulatory approval. Early site permits,
copyrighted, and NRC approval is not implementing specific parts of the design certification rules, and standard
required to reproduce them. NRC’s regulations, techniques that the design approvals do not address or
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and staff uses in evaluating specific issues or resolve compliance with material
purchase copies of public documents at postulated events, and data that the staff control and accounting requirements in
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One needs in its review of applications for 10 CFR part 74. Therefore, no applicant
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville permits and licenses. referencing an early site permit, design
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The DG, entitled ‘‘Special Nuclear certification rule, or standard design
Material Control and Accounting approval is protected by relevant issue
B. Submitting Comments System for Non-Fuel Cycle Facilities,’’ finality provisions with respect to the
Please include Docket ID NRC–2015– is temporarily identified by its task material control and accounting matters
0120 in the subject line of your number, DG–5057. This DG–5057 is addressed in DG–5057.
comment submission, in order to ensure proposed revision 3 of RG 5.29.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day
that the NRC is able to make your Revision 3 of RG 5.29 considers of May, 2015.
comment submission available to the conformance with the provisions of For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
public in this docket. American National Standards Institute Harriet Karagiannis,
The NRC cautions you not to include (ANSI) N15.8 2009, ‘‘Methods of
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and
identifying or contact that you do not Nuclear Material Control—Material Generic Issues Branch, Division of
want to be publicly disclosed in your Control Systems—Special Nuclear Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
comment submission. The NRC will Material Control and Accounting Research.
post all comment submissions at Systems for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ to [FR Doc. 2015–11618 Filed 5–13–15; 8:45 am]
http://www.regulations.gov as well as be an acceptable approach to meet the BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
enter the comment submissions into MC&A requirements in subpart B of 10
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely CFR part 74 at nuclear power plants.
edit comment submissions to remove DG–5057 expands the scope of the NUCLEAR REGULATORY
identifying or contact information. guidance to cover the proposed new COMMISSION
If you are requesting or aggregating requirements in subpart A of 10 CFR
comments from other persons for part 74 and to cover all non-fuel cycle [Docket No. 50–608; NRC–2013–0053]
submission to the NRC, then you should facilities.
Construction Permit Application for
inform those persons not to include
identifying or contact information that III. Backfitting and Issue Finality the SHINE Medical Radioisotope
Draft Guide–5057 provides guidance Production Facility
they do not want to be publicly
disclosed in their comment submission. on MC&A recordkeeping and reporting AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
Your request should state that the NRC requirements, as set forth in 10 CFR part Commission.
does not routinely edit comment 74. The regulatory guidance held in this ACTION: Draft environmental impact
submissions to remove such information guidance provides methods that the statement; public meetings and request
before making the comment NRC staff finds acceptable for an for comment.
submissions available to the public or applicant or licensee to meet the
entering the comment submissions into requirements of the underlying NRC SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
ADAMS. regulations. The issuance of the Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
guidance in DG–5057 is not backfitting, comment a draft Environmental Impact
II. Additional Information as that term is defined in 10 CFR 50.109, Statement (EIS) for the construction
The NRC is conducting a rulemaking 70.76, or 72.62, or inconsistent with the permit application submitted by SHINE
to revise part 74 of Title 10 of the Code issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part Medical Technologies, Inc. (SHINE), for
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 52, because information collection and the SHINE Medical Radioisotope
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‘‘Material Control and Accounting of reporting requirements with respect to Production Facility (SHINE facility).
Special Nuclear Material,’’ and in this material control and accounting are not The proposed SHINE facility would be
regard published on November 8, 2013 included within the scope of the NRC’s located in Janesville, Wisconsin.
(78 FR 67225) a proposed rule for backfitting protections or part 52 issue Possible alternatives to the proposed
comment. The rulemaking to revise the finality provisions. action (issuance of the construction
material control and accounting (MC&A) Applicants and potential applicants permit) include no action, reasonable
regulations was initially authorized by a are not, with certain exceptions, alternative sites, and a reasonable
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alternative technology. The NRC staff select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS III. Public Meetings
plans to hold two public meetings Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,
during the public comment period to please contact the NRC’s Public The NRC staff will hold public
present an overview of the draft EIS and Document Room (PDR) reference staff at meetings prior to the close of the public
to accept public comments on the 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by comment period to present an overview
document. email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The of the draft EIS for the proposed
ADAMS accession number for each construction permit and to accept
DATES: Submit comments by July 6,
2015. Comments received after this date document referenced (if it is available in public comment on the document. Two
will be considered, if it is practical to do ADAMS) is provided the first time that meetings will be held on June 10, 2015,
so but the Commission is able to ensure it is referenced. The draft EIS for the at the Rotary Botanical Gardens, 1455
consideration only for comments Construction Permit for the proposed Palmer Drive, Janesville, WI 53545. The
received on or before this date. SHINE facility is available in ADAMS first session will convene at 2:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments under Accession No. ML15127A241. and will continue until 4:00 p.m., as
by any of the following methods (unless • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and necessary. The second session will
this document describes a different purchase copies of public documents at convene at 7:00 p.m. and will continue
method for submitting comments on a the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One until 9:00 p.m., as necessary. The
specific subject): White Flint North, 11555 Rockville meetings will be transcribed and will
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. include: (1) A presentation of the
http://www.regulations.gov and search contents of the draft EIS; and (2) the
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0053. Address B. Submitting Comments opportunity for interested government
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Please include Docket ID NRC–2013– agencies, organizations, and individuals
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 0053 in the subject line of your to provide comments on the draft EIS.
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For comment submission. Additionally, the NRC staff will host
technical questions, contact the informal discussions one hour prior to
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER The NRC cautions you not to include the start of each session at the same
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this identifying or contact information that location. No comments on the draft EIS
document. you do not want to be publicly
will be accepted during the informal
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, disclosed in your comment submission.
discussions. To be considered in the
Office of Administration, Mail Stop: The NRC posts all comment
final EIS, comments must be provided
OWFN–12–H08, U.S. Nuclear submissions at http://
either at the transcribed public meeting
Regulatory Commission, Washington, www.regulations.gov as well as entering
the comment submissions into ADAMS. or submitted in writing by the comment
DC 20555–0001. deadline identified above. Persons may
For additional direction on obtaining The NRC does not routinely edit
comment submissions to remove pre-register to attend or present oral
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and identifying or contact information. comments at the meeting by contacting
Submitting Comments’’ in the Ms. Michelle Moser, the NRC
If you are requesting or aggregating environmental project manager, at 1–
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of comments from other persons for
this document. 800–368–5642, extension 6509, or by
submission to the NRC, you should
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
email at Michelle.Moser@nrc.gov no
inform those persons not to include
Michelle Moser, Office of Nuclear later than Friday, June 5, 2015. Members
identifying or contact information that
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– of the public may also register to
they do not want to be publicly
415–6509; email: Michelle.Moser@ disclosed in their comment submission. provide oral comments within 15
nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Your request should state that the NRC minutes of the start of each session.
Commission, Washington, DC 20555– does not routinely edit comment Individual oral comments may be
0001. submissions to remove such information limited by the time available, depending
before making the comment on the number of persons who register.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
submissions available to the public or If special equipment or accommodations
I. Obtaining Information and entering the comment into ADAMS. are needed to attend or present
Submitting Comments information at the public meeting, the
II. Discussion need should be brought to Ms. Moser’s
A. Obtaining Information
The NRC is issuing for public attention no later than Tuesday, June 2,
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2013– 2015, to provide the NRC staff adequate
0053 when contacting the NRC about comment a draft EIS for the construction
permit for the proposed SHINE facility. notice to determine whether the request
the availability of information for this can be accommodated.
action. You may obtain publicly- This draft EIS includes the preliminary
available information related to this analysis that evaluates the Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day
action by any of the following methods: environmental impacts of the proposed of May, 2015.
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to action and alternatives to the proposed For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
http://www.regulations.gov and search action. The preliminary David J. Wrona,
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0053. recommendation is that after weighing
Chief, Environmental Review, and Guidance
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents the environmental, economic, technical, Branch, Division of License Renewal, Office
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Access and Management System and other benefits against of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly environmental and other costs, and
[FR Doc. 2015–11668 Filed 5–13–15; 8:45 am]
available documents online in the considering reasonable alternatives, the
BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
ADAMS Public Documents collection at NRC staff recommends, the issuance of
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ the requested construction permit to
adams.html. To begin the search, select SHINE, unless safety issues mandate
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then otherwise.
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| Action | Draft environmental impact statement; public meetings and request for comment. | |
| Dates | Submit comments by July 6, 2015. Comments received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so but the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date. | |
| Contact | Michelle Moser, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-6509; email: [email protected]; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. | |
| FR Citation | 80 FR 27710 |
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