83_FR_17622 83 FR 17545 - Proposed Subsequent Arrangement

83 FR 17545 - Proposed Subsequent Arrangement

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 77 (April 20, 2018)

Page Range17545-17546
FR Document2018-08284

This document is being issued under the authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The Department is providing notice of a proposed subsequent arrangement under the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Australia Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy between the United States of America and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 77 (Friday, April 20, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 77 (Friday, April 20, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17545-17546]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08284]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Proposed Subsequent Arrangement

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Proposed subsequent arrangement.

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SUMMARY: This document is being issued under the authority of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The Department is providing 
notice of a proposed subsequent arrangement under the Agreement between 
the Government of the United States of America and the Government of 
Australia Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the Agreement 
for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy between the 
United States of America and the European Atomic Energy Community 
(Euratom).

DATES: This subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than May 
7, 2018 and after 15 days of continuous session of the Congress has 
elapsed, beginning the day after the date on which the reports required 
under section 131b.(1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 
are submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate 
Foreign Relations Committee. The two time periods referred to above may 
run concurrently.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Sean Oehlbert, Office of 
Nonproliferation and Arms Control, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy. Telephone: 202-586-3806 or email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This subsequent arrangement concerns the 
retransfer of 507,713 g of U.S.-obligated

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low enriched uranium, 61,535 g of which is in the isotope of U-235 
(12.12 percent enrichment), and 4,427 g of plutonium, in the form of 
236 irradiated fuel assemblies from the Open Pool Australian Lightwater 
(OPAL) research reactor at the Australian Nuclear Science and 
Technology Organisation in Australia, to Orano (formerly AREVA NC) at 
the La Hague reprocessing plant in France. The material in the 
irradiated fuel assemblies, which is currently located at the OPAL 
reactor, is to be retransferred to the La Hague plant for reprocessing. 
Orano will take title to the plutonium recovered during reprocessing, 
which will be incorporated into fresh civilian mixed oxide fuel 
assemblies. Residual plutonium that is not removed during reprocessing 
will be vitrified in canisters, which will be returned to Australia at 
a later time.
    In accordance with section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, I have determined that this subsequent arrangement concerning 
the retransfer of U.S.-obligated special nuclear material for 
reprocessing will not be inimical to the common defense and security of 
the United States of America and made the judgment that it will not 
result in a significant increase in the risk of proliferation beyond 
that which exists now, or which existed at the time approval was 
requested.

    Dated: April 10, 2018.

    For the Department of Energy.
Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty,
Under Secretary for Nuclear Security Administrator, National Nuclear 
Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018-08284 Filed 4-19-18; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 77 / Friday, April 20, 2018 / Notices 17545 facility would not impact the Yakima comments received throughout the steelhead, and visual changes associated River turbidity. BOD is not a pollutant NEPA process for the Project. with new structures. of concern with fish hatcheries; there Another consideration was the extent to which each alternative under Mitigation are no BOD limitations in either federal requirements or in the 2015 Upland Fin- consideration would meet the following All mitigation measures described in Fish Hatchery and Rearing general BPA purposes (i.e., objectives) the final EIS and the project Biological permit requirements. Therefore, BPA identified in the final EIS: Assessment with the U.S. Fish and believes it has sufficiently considered • Support efforts to mitigate for Wildlife Service have been adopted. A the potential impacts of the effluent effects of the development and complete list of these measures is pollutants on water quality. operation of the Federal Columbia River presented in the project Mitigation Regarding EPA’s comment that the Power System on fish and wildlife in Action Plan, available on the project side channel dilution rates should be the mainstem Columbia River and its website. All practicable means to avoid considered, the end-of-pipe effluent that tributaries under the Northwest Power or minimize environmental harm are would be discharged into the side Act. adopted. channel would meet the water quality • Assist in carrying out commitments Issued in Portland, Oregon, on April 10, standards for the Yakima River, whether related to proposed hatchery actions 2018. it is into the side channel or the main that are contained in the 2008 Columbia Dated: April 10, 2018. stem itself; dilution is not part of the Basin Fish Accords Memorandum of Agreement with the Yakama Nation and Elliot E. Mainzer, criteria for meeting the effluent water quality standards. Therefore, BPA others. Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. believes that further calculations of • Implement BPA’s Fish and Wildlife [FR Doc. 2018–08285 Filed 4–19–18; 8:45 am] dilution rates are not necessary or Implementation Plan EIS and Record of BILLING CODE 6450–01–P relevant to water quality considerations. Decision policy direction, which calls The end-of-pipe effluent water quality for protecting weak stocks, while also pertains to EPA’s comment on sustaining overall populations of fish for DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY whether there would be effluent plumes their economic and cultural value. due to incomplete lateral mixing in the • Minimize harm to natural and Proposed Subsequent Arrangement Yakima River. The hatchery operation at human resources, including species AGENCY: National Nuclear Security full capacity has to meet end-of-pipe listed under the Endangered Species Administration, Department of Energy. discharge limitations that reduce the Act. After considering and balancing all of ACTION: Proposed subsequent existing load present in the Yakima arrangement. River. The WAC sets effluent limitation these factors, BPA has decided to fund guidelines for the pollutant of concern the Melvin R. Sampson Hatchery, SUMMARY: This document is being to meet water quality standards at the Yakima Basin Coho Project. The issued under the authority of the end-of-pipe, not at some point Proposed Action was recommended to Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. downstream after a mixing zone or BPA for funding by the Northwest The Department is providing notice of a dilution factor are taken into Power and Conservation Council and is proposed subsequent arrangement consideration. Therefore, because the consistent with the Council’s Columbia under the Agreement between the effluent itself would meet load River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. Government of the United States of requirements, there would be no plumes Providing funding for the construction America and the Government of within the river due to the effluent and of the Proposed Action will help Australia Concerning Peaceful Uses of further consideration of lateral mixing is mitigate for the effects of the FCRPS on Nuclear Energy and the Agreement for not necessary or relevant. fish and wildlife by restoring natural Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Ecology is poised to issue an NPDES coho spawning in the Yakima Basin. In Nuclear Energy between the United permit for the hatchery and has stated addition, the Proposed Action is States of America and the European that it is satisfied that the hatchery consistent with commitments contained Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). effluent would clearly meet all water in the 2008 Columbia Basin Fish DATES: This subsequent arrangement quality criteria. As such, BPA believes Accords, as well as with BPA’s Fish and Wildlife Implementation Plan policy will take effect no sooner than May 7, it has a sufficient understanding of the 2018 and after 15 days of continuous impacts of the hatchery effluent on direction for protecting weak stocks, while sustaining overall populations of session of the Congress has elapsed, water quality, that the final EIS provides beginning the day after the date on appropriate consideration and analyses fish for their economic and cultural value. which the reports required under of these impacts to meet the section 131b.(1) of the Atomic Energy requirements of NEPA, and that the In planning and designing the hatchery, BPA, the Yakama Nation, and Act of 1954, as amended, are submitted additional calculations do not alter the to the House Foreign Affairs Committee conclusions made in the final EIS about other project designers worked to minimize environmental and social and the Senate Foreign Relations potential water quality impacts. Committee. The two time periods impacts through project design, Rationale for Decision consultation with regulatory entities, referred to above may run concurrently. In making its decision to implement and development of mitigation FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. the Proposed Action, BPA has measures. Impacts considered and fully Sean Oehlbert, Office of considered and balanced a variety of disclosed in the final EIS, include Nonproliferation and Arms Control, sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES relevant factors. BPA considered how disturbance of soils, vegetation removal, National Nuclear Security well the Proposed Action and the No conversion of habitat, groundwater and Administration, Department of Energy. Action Alternative would fit with BPA’s surface water impacts on aquifers and Telephone: 202–586–3806 or email: statutory missions and relevant policies floodplains, impacts of hatchery effluent Sean.Oehlbert@nnsa.doe.gov. and procedures. BPA also considered discharge, impacts of hatchery SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This the environmental impacts described in construction and juvenile coho releases subsequent arrangement concerns the the final EIS, as well as public on species such as bull trout and retransfer of 507,713 g of U.S.-obligated VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:44 Apr 19, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20APN1.SGM 20APN1

17546 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 77 / Friday, April 20, 2018 / Notices low enriched uranium, 61,535 g of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY which is in the isotope of U–235 (12.12 Kogut, Executive Secretary; High Energy percent enrichment), and 4,427 g of Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP); U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory plutonium, in the form of 236 irradiated Department of Energy; Office of Science; Commission fuel assemblies from the Open Pool SC–25/Germantown Building, 1000 [Docket No. ER18–1343–000] Australian Lightwater (OPAL) research Independence Avenue SW, Washington, reactor at the Australian Nuclear DC 20585; Telephone: (301) 903–1298. Carolina Solar Power, LLC; Science and Technology Organisation in Supplemental Notice That Initial Australia, to Orano (formerly AREVA SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Market-Based Rate Filing Includes NC) at the La Hague reprocessing plant Purpose of Meeting: To provide Request for Blanket Section 204 in France. The material in the irradiated advice and guidance on a continuing Authorization fuel assemblies, which is currently basis to the Department of Energy and located at the OPAL reactor, is to be This is a supplemental notice in the the National Science Foundation on above-referenced proceeding Carolina retransferred to the La Hague plant for scientific priorities within the field of reprocessing. Orano will take title to the Solar Power, LLC‘s application for high energy physics research. market-based rate authority, with an plutonium recovered during reprocessing, which will be Tentative Agenda: Agenda will accompanying rate tariff, noting that incorporated into fresh civilian mixed include discussions of the following: such application includes a request for oxide fuel assemblies. Residual May 14–15, 2018. blanket authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of future issuances of securities plutonium that is not removed during • Discussion of Department of Energy and assumptions of liability. reprocessing will be vitrified in High Energy Physics Program Any person desiring to intervene or to canisters, which will be returned to Australia at a later time. • Discussion of National Science protest should file with the Federal Foundation Elementary Particle Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 In accordance with section 131 of the Physics Program First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, • Reports on and Discussions of Topics in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 I have determined that this subsequent of the Commission’s Rules of Practice arrangement concerning the retransfer of of General Interest in High Energy and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and U.S.-obligated special nuclear material Physics 385.214). Anyone filing a motion to for reprocessing will not be inimical to • Public Comment (10-minute rule) intervene or protest must serve a copy the common defense and security of the Public Participation: The meeting is of that document on the Applicant. United States of America and made the Notice is hereby given that the judgment that it will not result in a open to the public. A webcast of this deadline for filing protests with regard significant increase in the risk of meeting will be available. Please check to the applicant’s request for blanket proliferation beyond that which exists the website below for updates and authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of now, or which existed at the time information on how to view the future issuances of securities and approval was requested. meeting. If you would like to file a assumptions of liability, is May 7, 2018. Dated: April 10, 2018. written statement with the Committee, The Commission encourages For the Department of Energy. you may do so either before or after the electronic submission of protests and Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, meeting. If you would like to make oral interventions in lieu of paper, using the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security statements regarding any of these items FERC Online links at http:// Administrator, National Nuclear Security on the agenda, you should contact John www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic Administration. Kogut, (301) 903–1298 or by email at: service, persons with internet access [FR Doc. 2018–08284 Filed 4–19–18; 8:45 am] John.Kogut@science.doe.gov. You must who will eFile a document and/or be BILLING CODE 6450–01–P make your request for an oral statement listed as a contact for an intervenor at least five business days before the must create and validate an meeting. Reasonable provision will be eRegistration account using the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY made to include the scheduled oral eRegistration link. Select the eFiling statements on the agenda. The link to log on and submit the DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Chairperson of the Panel will conduct intervention or protests. Advisory Panel the meeting to facilitate the orderly Persons unable to file electronically conduct of business. Public comment should submit an original and 5 copies AGENCY: Office of Science, Department of the intervention or protest to the of Energy. will follow the 10-minute rule. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ACTION: Notice of open meeting. Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC will be available on the U.S. Department 20426. SUMMARY: This notice announces a of Energy’s Office of High Energy The filings in the above-referenced meeting of the DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Advisory Panel website: http:// proceeding are accessible in the Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). The science.energy.gov/hep/hepap/ Commission’s eLibrary system by Federal Advisory Committee Act clicking on the appropriate link in the meetings/. requires that public notice of these above list. They are also available for meetings be announced in the Federal Issued at Washington, DC, on April 16, electronic review in the Commission’s sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Register. 2018. Public Reference Room in Washington, DATES: Monday, May 14, 2018, 8:30 a.m. Latanya Butler, DC. There is an eSubscription link on to 6:00 p.m.; Tuesday, May 15, 2018, Deputy Committee Management Officer. the website that enables subscribers to 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. [FR Doc. 2018–08242 Filed 4–19–18; 8:45 am] receive email notification when a ADDRESSES: Hilton Washington DC BILLING CODE 6450–01–P document is added to a subscribed North/Gaithersburg, 620 Perry Parkway, docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Online service, please email VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:44 Apr 19, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20APN1.SGM 20APN1


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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionProposed subsequent arrangement.
DatesThis subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than May 7, 2018 and after 15 days of continuous session of the Congress has elapsed, beginning the day after the date on which the reports required under section 131b.(1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, are submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The two time periods referred to above may run concurrently.
ContactMr. Sean Oehlbert, Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy. Telephone: 202-586-3806 or email: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 17545 
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