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ATTACHMENT 1—GENERAL TARGET SCHEDULE FOR PROCESSING AND RESOLVING REQUESTS FOR ACCESS TO SENSITIVE

UNCLASSIFIED NON-SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION IN THIS PROCEEDING—Continued 

Day Event/activity 

20 ...................... U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff informs the requester of the staff’s determination whether the request for 

access provides a reasonable basis to believe standing can be established and shows need for SUNSI. (NRC staff also informs any party to the proceeding whose interest independent of the proceeding would be harmed by the release of the information.) If NRC staff makes the finding of need for SUNSI and likelihood of standing, NRC staff begins document processing (preparation of redactions or review of redacted documents). 

25 ...................... If NRC staff finds no ‘‘need’’ or no likelihood of standing, the deadline for petitioner/requester to file a motion seeking a ruling 

to reverse the NRC staff’s denial of access; NRC staff files copy of access determination with the presiding officer (or Chief 

Administrative Judge or other designated officer, as appropriate). If NRC staff finds ‘‘need’’ for SUNSI, the deadline for any 

party to the proceeding whose interest independent of the proceeding would be harmed by the release of the information to 

file a motion seeking a ruling to reverse the NRC staff’s grant of access. 

30 ...................... Deadline for NRC staff reply to motions to reverse NRC staff determination(s). 

40 ...................... (Receipt +30) If NRC staff finds standing and need for SUNSI, deadline for NRC staff to complete information processing and 

file motion for Protective Order and draft Non-Disclosure Affidavit. Deadline for applicant/licensee to file Non-Disclosure 

Agreement for SUNSI. 

A ....................... If access granted: Issuance of presiding officer or other designated officer decision on motion for protective order for access 

to sensitive information (including schedule for providing access and submission of contentions) or decision reversing a 

final adverse determination by the NRC staff. 

A + 3 ................. Deadline for filing executed Non-Disclosure Affidavits. Access provided to SUNSI consistent with decision issuing the protective order. 

A + 28 ............... Deadline for submission of contentions whose development depends upon access to SUNSI. However, if more than 25 days 

remain between the petitioner’s receipt of (or access to) the information and the deadline for filing all other contentions (as

established in the notice of opportunity to request a hearing and petition for leave to intervene), the petitioner may file its

SUNSI contentions by that later deadline. 

A + 53 ............... (Contention receipt +25) Answers to contentions whose development depends upon access to SUNSI. 

A + 60 ............... (Answer receipt +7) Petitioner/Intervenor reply to answers. 

>A + 60 ............. Decision on contention admission. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 72–1050; NRC–2016–0231] 

Interim Storage Partners LLC’s 

Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel 

Storage Facility 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental impact 

statement; reopening of scoping 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is requesting public 

comments on the scope of the NRC’s 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the Interim Storage Partners LLC 

(ISP) proposed consolidated interim 

storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, to 

be located on the Waste Control 

Specialists LLC (WCS) site in Andrews 

County, Texas. ISP requested on June 8, 

2018, that the NRC resume its review, 

which had been suspended on April 18, 

2017, and provided a revised license 

application. The NRC is reopening the 

public scoping comment period that had 

closed on April 28, 2017, to allow more 

time for members of the public to 

develop and submit their comments. 

DATES: Submit comments by October 19, 

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 website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2016–0231. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. 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: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

• Email Comments to: You may email 

scoping comments to the Project’s email 

address: WCS_CISF_EIS@nrc.gov. 

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: 

James Park, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 

20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–6954; 

email: James.Park@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2016– 

0231 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2016–0231. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, 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. Documents 

related to WCS’ license application can 

be found under Docket Number 72– 

1050. 

• 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. 

• Project web page: Information 

related to the ISP CISF project can be 

accessed on the NRC’s project web page 

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fuel-storage/cis/waste-controlspecialist.html. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2016– 

0231 in your comment submission. 

Comments received during this scoping 

period will be considered by the NRC, 

along with all comments received 

during the previous period, in 

determining the scope of the EIS. 

Scoping comments submitted during the 

previous period need not be resubmitted 

during this scoping period. 

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 will post all comment 

submissions at https://

www.regulations.gov/ as well as enter 

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 into ADAMS. 

II. Discussion 

On April 28, 2016, WCS submitted a 

license application to the NRC for a 

proposed consolidated interim storage 

facility for spent nuclear fuel (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML16132A533). The NRC 

accepted the WCS application for 

detailed review on January 26, 2017 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML17018A168). 

On November 14, 2016, the NRC opened 

the public scoping period for its EIS on 

WCS’ license application for a proposed 

consolidated interim storage facility for 

spent nuclear fuel (81 FR 79531). On 

April 18, 2017, WCS requested that the 

NRC temporarily suspend its review 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML17110A206). 

The EIS public scoping comment period 

closed on April 28, 2017 (82 FR 14039). 

On June 8, 2018, ISP (a joint venture 

between WCS and Orano CIS LLC) 

requested that NRC resume its detailed 

review and submitted a revised license 

application (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML18166A003). On July 19, 2018, ISP 

provided an update to its application 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML18206A482). 

The NRC has decided to reopen the EIS 

public scoping comment period on this 

application until 45 days from October 

19, 2018, to allow more time for 

members of the public to submit their 

comments. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day 

of August 2018. 

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. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–334 and 50–412; NRC– 

2018–0193] 

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating 

Company; FirstEnergy Nuclear 

Generation, LLC; Beaver Valley Power 

Station, Units 1 and 2 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is making a finding 

of no significant impact (FONSI) for a 

proposed issuance of an exemption to 

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company 

(FENOC, the licensee), for Beaver Valley 

Power Station (BVPS), Units 1 and 2, 

located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. 

The proposed action would grant the 

licensee a partial exemption from the 

‘‘Physical barrier’’ requirements in the 

NRC’s regulations, to allow FENOC to 

continue using vertical, rather than 

angled, barbed wire fence toppings in 

certain limited protected area sections 

on-site. The NRC is considering an 

Exemption to Renewed Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–66, and 

Renewed Facility Operating License No. 

NPF–73, issued on November 5, 2009, 

and held by FENOC; and FirstEnergy 

Nuclear Generation, LLC for the 

operation of BVPS, Units 1 and 2. 

DATES: The environmental assessment 

referenced in this document is available 

on September 4, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2018–0193 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 website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0193. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. 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 publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, 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. 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: 

Bhalchandra K. Vaidya, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–3308; email: 

Bhalchandra.Vaidya@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering issuance of a 

partial exemption, pursuant to section 

73.5 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Specific 

exemptions,’’ from the ‘‘Physical 

barrier’’ requirement of 10 CFR 73.2, 

specifically with respect to the design 

criteria specified in 10 CFR 73.2(1) 

‘‘fences,’’ as it applies to the angular 

specification for brackets used to 

support the required barbed wire (or 

similar material) topper, to FENOC and 

FirstEnergy Nuclear Generation, LLC 

(collectively, the licensee), for BVPS, 

Units 1 and 2, located in Beaver County, 

Pennsylvania. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.21, the 

NRC has prepared an environmental 

assessment (EA) that analyzes the 

environmental effects of the proposed 

action. Based on the results of the EA, 

and in accordance with 10 CFR 51.31(a), 

the NRC has prepared a finding of no 

significant impact (FONSI) for the 

proposed exemption. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would grant the 

licensee a partial exemption from the 


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