81 FR 69554 - Strata Energy, Inc.; Ross Uranium In-Situ Recovery Facility; Source and Byproduct Materials License
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 194 (Thursday, October 6, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 69554-69555] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-24196] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 40-09091; NRC-2011-0148] Strata Energy, Inc.; Ross Uranium In-Situ Recovery Facility; Source and Byproduct Materials License AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Record of decision; update. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued an updated Record of Decision (ROD) related to the license for Strata Energy, Inc. (Strata), Ross Uranium In-Situ Recovery (ISR) Facility in Crook County, Wyoming. Strata's request for a source and byproduct materials license for the Ross ISR facility was contested through the NRC's adjudicatory process. On June 29, 2016, the Commission denied a petition for review of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's (ASLB) decision. The ROD has been updated to account for the ASLB's decision and the Commission's ruling. DATES: The ROD was updated as of September 28, 2016. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0148 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may access 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-2011-0148. 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 WBA 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 of this document. 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. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jessie Muir-Quintero, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7476; email: [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Discussion The NRC issued a license to Strata for its Ross ISR Facility in Crook County, Wyoming in April 2014. Along with the issuance of the license, the NRC published a ROD that supported its decision to approve Strata's license application for the Ross ISR Facility. After the license was issued, the NRC's ASLB, an independent, trial-level adjudicatory body, granted a hearing request from joint intervenors, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Powder River Basin Resource Council. The ASLB held an evidentiary hearing from September 30, 2014, through October 1, 2014, for three admitted contentions on environmental matters related to the licensing of the Ross ISR Facility. In its initial decision following the hearing, the ASLB ruled in favor of Strata and the NRC on all three contentions. In doing so, the ASLB supplemented the ROD to include a revised license condition (10.12) and additional analyses that were placed on the record by various parties. In June 2016, the Commission denied a petition for review of the ASLB's decision. The NRC's initial ROD was published on April 24, 2014. The updated ROD [[Page 69555]] accounts for the ASLB's decision and the Commission's ruling. II. Availability of Documents The documents identified in the following table are available to interested persons as indicated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ADAMS Item No. Document title Accession No. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1............... Generic Environmental Impact Statement ML091530075 for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, May 2009. 2............... Strata Energy, Inc., Materials License ML110120063 Application, January 4, 2011. 3............... Supplemental Information, February 28, ML110800187 2011. 4............... ASLB Decision, February 10, 2012...... ML12041A295 5............... Response to Request for Additional ML121030404 Information, March 30, 2012. 6............... Response to Request for Additional ML121020343 Information, April 6, 2012. 7............... Clarification to RAI Responses, August ML12227A369 10, 2012. 8............... Technical Report Replacement Pages, ML130370654 January 18, 2013. 9............... Containment Barrier Wall Construction ML13295A230 Update, October 14, 2013. 10.............. Safety Evaluation Report Suggested ML13296A026 Corrections, October 17, 2013. 11.............. Technical Report Replacement Pages, ML14051A020 February 19, 2014. 12.............. Environmental Impact Statement for the ML13078A036 Ross ISR Project in Crook County, Wyoming, Supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In- Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, Draft Report for Public Comments, March 31, 2013. 13.............. Environmental Impact Statement for the ML14056A096 Ross ISR Project in Crook County, Wyoming, Supplement to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In- Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, Final Report, February 28, 2014. 14.............. Programmatic Agreement for Protection ML14111A346 of Cultural Resources, April 2014. 15.............. NRC Safety Evaluation Report, April ML14108A088 18, 2014. 16.............. Source and Byproduct Materials License ML14069A315 SUA-1601, April 24, 2014. 17.............. NRC Staff's Record of Decision, April ML14073A107 24, 2014. 18.............. Natural Resource Defense Council's ML15048A103 Powder River Basin Resource Council's Petition for Review of Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's January 23, 2015 Initial Decision Denying Environmental Contentions 1 Through 3, and Interlocutory Decisions Denying Environmental Contentions \4/ 5\ and \6/7\, February 17, 2015. 19.............. ASLB Decision, January 23, 2015....... ML15023A566 20.............. Commission Decision, CLI-16-13 ML16181A107 Memorandum and Order, June 29, 2016. 21.............. NRC Staff's Updated Record of ML16230A021 Decision, September 28, 2016. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of September 2016. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Craig G. Erlanger, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2016-24196 Filed 10-5-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P
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determination is in the ITAAC Closure Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Unit 4, email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
Verification Evaluation Form (VEF) for Docket No. 5200026 technical questions, contact the
each ITAAC. The VEF is a form that A complete list of the review status individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
represents the NRC staff’s structured for VEGP Unit 4 ITAAC, including the INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
process for reviewing ICNs. Each ICN submission date and ADAMS Accession document.
presents a narrative description of how Number for each ICN received, the • NRC’s Agencywide Documents
the ITAAC was completed. The NRC’s ADAMS Accession Number for each Access and Management System
ICN review process involves a VEF, and the ADAMS Accession (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-
determination on whether, among other Numbers for the inspection reports available documents online in the
things: (1) Each ICN provides sufficient associated with these specific ITAAC, ADAMS Public Documents collection at
information, including a summary of the can be found on the NRC’s Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
methodology used to perform the http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new- adams.html. To begin the search, select
ITAAC, to demonstrate that the reactors/new-licensing-files/vog4- ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
inspections, tests, and analyses have icnsr.pdf. select ‘‘Begin WBA Search.’’ For
been successfully completed; (2) each problems with ADAMS, please contact
ICN provides sufficient information to Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR)
demonstrate that the acceptance criteria of September 2016. reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
of the ITAAC are met; and (3) any NRC For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@
inspections for the ITAAC have been Jennifer Dixon-Herrity, nrc.gov. For the convenience of the
completed and any ITAAC findings Acting Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division reader, the ADAMS accession numbers
associated with that ITAAC have been of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New are provided in a table in the
closed. Reactors. ‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section of
The NRC staff’s determination of the [FR Doc. 2016–24192 Filed 10–5–16; 8:45 am] this document.
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based on information available at this purchase copies of public documents at
time and is subject to the licensee’s the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
ability to maintain the condition that NUCLEAR REGULATORY White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
the acceptance criteria are met. If the COMMISSION Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
staff receives new information that [Docket No. 40–09091; NRC–2011–0148] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
suggests the staff’s determination on any Jessie Muir-Quintero, Office of Nuclear
of these ITAAC is incorrect, then the Strata Energy, Inc.; Ross Uranium In- Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
staff will determine whether to reopen Situ Recovery Facility; Source and Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
that ITAAC (including withdrawing the Byproduct Materials License Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone:
staff’s determination on that ITAAC). 301–415–7476; email: Jessie.Muir-
The NRC staff’s determination will be AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Quintero@nrc.gov.
used to support a subsequent finding, Commission.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
pursuant to 10 CFR 52.103(g), at the end ACTION: Record of decision; update.
of construction that all acceptance I. Discussion
criteria in the combined license are met. SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory The NRC issued a license to Strata for
The ITAAC closure process is not Commission (NRC) has issued an its Ross ISR Facility in Crook County,
finalized for these ITAAC until the NRC updated Record of Decision (ROD) Wyoming in April 2014. Along with the
makes an affirmative finding under 10 related to the license for Strata Energy, issuance of the license, the NRC
CFR 52.103(g). Any future updates to Inc. (Strata), Ross Uranium In-Situ published a ROD that supported its
the status of these ITAAC will be Recovery (ISR) Facility in Crook County, decision to approve Strata’s license
reflected on the NRC’s Web site at Wyoming. Strata’s request for a source application for the Ross ISR Facility.
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new- and byproduct materials license for the After the license was issued, the
reactors/oversight/itaac.html. Ross ISR facility was contested through NRC’s ASLB, an independent, trial-level
This notice fulfills the staff’s the NRC’s adjudicatory process. On June adjudicatory body, granted a hearing
obligations under 10 CFR 52.99(e)(1) to 29, 2016, the Commission denied a request from joint intervenors, the
publish a notice in the Federal Register petition for review of the Atomic Safety Natural Resources Defense Council and
of the NRC staff’s determination of the and Licensing Board’s (ASLB) decision. the Powder River Basin Resource
successful completion of inspections, The ROD has been updated to account Council. The ASLB held an evidentiary
tests and analyses. for the ASLB’s decision and the hearing from September 30, 2014,
Commission’s ruling. through October 1, 2014, for three
Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Unit 3, DATES: The ROD was updated as of admitted contentions on environmental
Docket No. 5200025 September 28, 2016. matters related to the licensing of the
A complete list of the review status ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID Ross ISR Facility. In its initial decision
for VEGP Unit 3 ITAAC, including the NRC–2011–0148 when contacting the following the hearing, the ASLB ruled
submission date and ADAMS Accession NRC about the availability of in favor of Strata and the NRC on all
Number for each ICN received, the information regarding this document. three contentions. In doing so, the ASLB
ADAMS Accession Number for each You may access publicly-available supplemented the ROD to include a
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VEF, and the ADAMS Accession information related to this document revised license condition (10.12) and
Numbers for the inspection reports using any of the following methods: additional analyses that were placed on
associated with these specific ITAAC, • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to the record by various parties. In June
can be found on the NRC’s Web site at http://www.regulations.gov and search 2016, the Commission denied a petition
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new- for Docket ID NRC–2011–0148. Address for review of the ASLB’s decision. The
reactors/new-licensing-files/vog3- questions about NRC dockets to Carol NRC’s initial ROD was published on
icnsr.pdf. Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; April 24, 2014. The updated ROD
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accounts for the ASLB’s decision and II. Availability of Documents
the Commission’s ruling. The documents identified in the
following table are available to
interested persons as indicated.
Item ADAMS
Document title
No. Accession No.
1 ....... Generic Environmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, May 2009 .................................... ML091530075
2 ....... Strata Energy, Inc., Materials License Application, January 4, 2011 .................................................................................. ML110120063
3 ....... Supplemental Information, February 28, 2011 ..................................................................................................................... ML110800187
4 ....... ASLB Decision, February 10, 2012 ...................................................................................................................................... ML12041A295
5 ....... Response to Request for Additional Information, March 30, 2012 ...................................................................................... ML121030404
6 ....... Response to Request for Additional Information, April 6, 2012 ........................................................................................... ML121020343
7 ....... Clarification to RAI Responses, August 10, 2012 ................................................................................................................ ML12227A369
8 ....... Technical Report Replacement Pages, January 18, 2013 ................................................................................................... ML130370654
9 ....... Containment Barrier Wall Construction Update, October 14, 2013 ..................................................................................... ML13295A230
10 ..... Safety Evaluation Report Suggested Corrections, October 17, 2013 ................................................................................. ML13296A026
11 ..... Technical Report Replacement Pages, February 19, 2014 ................................................................................................. ML14051A020
12 ..... Environmental Impact Statement for the Ross ISR Project in Crook County, Wyoming, Supplement to the Generic En- ML13078A036
vironmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, Draft Report for Public Comments, March
31, 2013.
13 ..... Environmental Impact Statement for the Ross ISR Project in Crook County, Wyoming, Supplement to the Generic En- ML14056A096
vironmental Impact Statement for In-Situ Leach Uranium Milling Facilities, Final Report, February 28, 2014.
14 ..... Programmatic Agreement for Protection of Cultural Resources, April 2014 ....................................................................... ML14111A346
15 ..... NRC Safety Evaluation Report, April 18, 2014 .................................................................................................................... ML14108A088
16 ..... Source and Byproduct Materials License SUA–1601, April 24, 2014 ................................................................................. ML14069A315
17 ..... NRC Staff’s Record of Decision, April 24, 2014 .................................................................................................................. ML14073A107
18 ..... Natural Resource Defense Council’s Powder River Basin Resource Council’s Petition for Review of Atomic Safety and ML15048A103
Licensing Board’s January 23, 2015 Initial Decision Denying Environmental Contentions 1 Through 3, and Interlocu-
tory Decisions Denying Environmental Contentions 4⁄5 and 6⁄7, February 17, 2015.
19 ..... ASLB Decision, January 23, 2015 ....................................................................................................................................... ML15023A566
20 ..... Commission Decision, CLI–16–13 Memorandum and Order, June 29, 2016 ..................................................................... ML16181A107
21 ..... NRC Staff’s Updated Record of Decision, September 28, 2016 ......................................................................................... ML16230A021
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