80 FR 78257 - Northern States Power Company-Minnesota; Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 241 (December 16, 2015)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a renewed license to Northern States Power Company--Minnesota (NSPM) for its Materials License SNM-2506 for the receipt, possession, transfer, and storage of spent fuel at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant (Prairie Island) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI), located in Goodhue County, Minnesota. The renewed license authorizes operation of the Prairie Island ISFSI in accordance with the provisions of the renewed license and its Technical Specifications (TS). The renewed license expires on October 31, 2053.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 241 (Wednesday, December 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78257-78258]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31636]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 72-10; NRC-2013-0251]


Northern States Power Company--Minnesota; Prairie Island Nuclear 
Generating Plant Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License renewal; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a 
renewed license to Northern States Power Company--Minnesota (NSPM) for 
its Materials License SNM-2506 for the receipt, possession, transfer, 
and storage of spent fuel at the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating 
Plant (Prairie Island) Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation 
(ISFSI), located in Goodhue County, Minnesota. The renewed license 
authorizes operation of the Prairie Island ISFSI in accordance with the 
provisions of the renewed license and its Technical Specifications 
(TS). The renewed license expires on October 31, 2053.

DATES: December 16, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0251 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0251. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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 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 [email protected]. For 
the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided 
in a table in the ``Availability of Documents'' Section II of this 
document.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at

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the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John-Chau Nguyen, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555; telephone: 301-415-0262; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion

    Based upon the application dated October 20, 2011, as supplemented 
February 29, 2012, April 26, 2012, July 26, 2013, July 31, 2014, 
September 3, 2014, and October 12, 2015, the NRC has issued a renewed 
license to NSPM, for its Prairie Island ISFSI, located in Goodhue 
County, Minnesota. The renewed license authorizes and requires 
operation of the Prairie Island ISFSI in accordance with the provisions 
of the renewed license and its TS. The renewed license will expire on 
October 31, 2053. The NSPM's application for a renewed license complies 
with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 
as amended (the Act), and the NRC's rules and regulations. The NRC has 
made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the NRC's 
regulations in Chapter 1 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 
(10 CFR), and sets forth those findings in the renewed license. The 
agency afforded an opportunity for a hearing in the Notice of 
Opportunity for a Hearing published in the Federal Register on June 25, 
2012 (77 FR 37937).
    The NRC staff prepared a safety evaluation report for the renewal 
of the ISFSI license and concluded, based on that evaluation, the ISFSI 
will continue to meet the regulations in 10 CFR part 72. The NRC staff 
also prepared a draft environmental assessment (EA) and finding of no 
significant impact (FONSI) for the renewal of this license in November 
19, 2013 (78 FR 69460). The final EA and FONSI, were published on July 
1, 2015 (80 FR 37662). The NRC staff's consideration of the impacts of 
continued storage of spent nuclear fuel (as documented in NUREG-2157, 
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Storage of Spent 
Fuel'') was included as an appendix to the EA. The NRC staff concluded 
that renewal of this ISFSI license will not have a significant impact 
on the quality of the human environment.

II. Availability of Documents

    The following table includes the ADAMS accession numbers for the 
documents referenced in this notice. For additional information on 
accessing ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of this document.

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                                                        ADAMS  accession
                       Document                                No.
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NSPM's application, dated October 20, 2011............       ML11304A068
Response to Request for Supplemental Information,            ML12065A073
 dated February 29, 2012..............................
Response to License Renewal Observations, dated April        ML121170406
 26, 2012.............................................
Response to First Request for Additional Information,        ML13210A272
 dated July 26, 2013..................................
Response to Second Request for Additional Information,       ML14234A463
 dated July 31, 2014..................................
Supplement to PINGP ISFSI License Renewal Application        ML14247A316
 for Prairie Island Independent Spent Fuel Storage
 Installation- Revised Safety Analysis Report
 Information..........................................
Supplement to PINGP ISFSI License Renewal Application-       ML14282A814
 Revised LRA Appendix C...............................
NRC Environmental Assessment..........................       ML15098A026
NRC Safety Evaluation Report..........................       ML15336A230
Supplement to PINGP ISFSI License Renewal Application-       ML15285A007
 AMP Rev 2............................................
NUREG-2157, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for       ML14196A105
 Continued Storage of Spent Fuel, Volume 1............
NUREG-2157, Generic Environmental Impact Statement for       ML14196A107
 Continued Storage of Spent Fuel, Volume 2............
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of December 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Steve Ruffin,
Acting Chief, Spent Fuel Licensing Branch, Division of Spent Fuel 
Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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