82 FR 52944 - Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Systems and Facilities

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 219 (November 15, 2017)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft NUREG, NUREG-2215, ``Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Systems and Facilities.'' This Standard Review Plan (SRP) provides guidance to the NRC staff for reviewing Safety Analysis Reports (SARs) for (1) a Certificate of Compliance (CoC) for a dry storage system (DSS) for use at a general license facility, and (2) a specific license for a dry storage facility (DSF) that is either an independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) or a monitored retrievable storage installation (MRS). This draft SRP will replace NUREG-1536, ``Standard Review Plan for Dry Cask Storage Systems,'' NUREG-1567, ``Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facilities, and all Interim Staff Guidance (ISGs) that were used to enhance these NUREGs.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 219 (Wednesday, November 15, 2017)]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-24734]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0211]


Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Systems and 
Facilities

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment a draft NUREG, NUREG-2215, ``Standard Review Plan for 
Spent Fuel Dry Storage Systems and Facilities.'' This Standard Review 
Plan (SRP) provides guidance to the NRC staff for reviewing Safety 
Analysis Reports (SARs) for (1) a Certificate of Compliance (CoC) for a 
dry storage system (DSS) for use at a general license facility, and (2) 
a specific license for a dry storage facility (DSF) that is either an 
independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) or a monitored 
retrievable storage installation (MRS). This draft SRP will replace 
NUREG-1536, ``Standard Review Plan for Dry Cask Storage Systems,'' 
NUREG-1567, ``Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage 
Facilities, and all Interim Staff Guidance (ISGs) that were used to 
enhance these NUREGs.

DATES: Submit comments by January 2, 2018. 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 before this 
date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0211. 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.
     Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail 
Stop: OWFN-2-A13, 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: Jeremy Smith, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

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Washington DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-7308, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket NRC-2017-0211 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-2017-0211.
     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]. 
NUREG-2215, ``Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Systems 
and Facilities,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML17310A693.
     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-2017-0211 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 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, 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 submissions into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    The NRC utilizes information that is currently contained in 
multiple documents (NUREG-1536, NUREG-1567, and numerous ISGs) to 
assist the NRC staff in its reviews of spent fuel storage applications. 
The NRC's intent in combining and updating these documents into one 
document is to assist the NRC staff in its reviews by promoting a 
consistent regulatory review of a SAR for an ISFSI or a MRS license, or 
for a CoC; by promoting quality and uniformity of these reviews across 
each technical discipline; presenting a basis for the review's scope; 
identifying acceptable approaches to meeting regulatory requirements; 
and suggesting possible evaluation findings that can be used in the 
safety evaluation report for applications submitted under part 72 of 
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
    By this action, the NRC is requesting public comments on draft 
NUREG-2215. The NRC invites comments on all portions of this SRP that 
the commenter thinks the NRC should consider. The NRC will make a final 
determination regarding issuance of the NUREG after it considers any 
public comments received in response to this request.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of November 2017.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Michael Layton,
Director, Division of Spent Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2017-24734 Filed 11-14-17; 8:45 am]
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