Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 236 / Thursday, December 7, 2000 / Proposed Rules 76899

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

10 CFR Part 72

RIN 3150–AG57

List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage

Casks: NAC–UMS Revision

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) is proposing to

amend its regulations revising the NAC

International (NAC) Universal Storage

System (NAC–UMS) listing within the

‘‘List of approved spent fuel storage

casks’’ to include Amendment No. 1 to

the Certificate of Compliance (CoC).

This amendment will allow holders of

power reactor operating licenses as

general licensees to store PWR design

basis fuel assemblies in accordance with

revised technical specifications and

Maine Yankee site-specific spent fuel in

the NAC–UMS. The changes proposed

for Amendment No. 1 to the NAC–UMS

CoC include: changes to authorized

contents to allow Maine Yankee sitespecific spent fuels within the PWR

basket, including damaged or

consolidated fuel in a Maine Yankee

fuel can and burnups up to 50,000

MWd/MTU; changes to allow longer

times for PWR spent fuel cask loading

operations based on reduced heat loads;

authorization to store, without canning,

intact PWR assemblies with missing

grid spacers (up to an unsupported

length of 60 inches); editorial

clarifications to the technical

specifications (TS); and deletion of a

certificate reference to the NS–4–FR

trade name of the solid neutron

shielding material in the VCC shield

plug.

DATES: Comments on the proposed rule

must be received on or before January 8,

2001.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to:

Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, Attn: Rulemakings and

Adjudications Staff. Deliver comments

to 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD,

between 7:30 am and 4:15 pm on

Federal workdays.

You may also provide comments via

the NRC’s interactive rulemaking

website (http://ruleforum.llnl.gov). This

site provides the capability to upload

comments as files (any format) if your

web browser supports that function. For

information about the interactive

rulemaking site, contact Ms. Carol

Gallagher (301) 415–5905; e-mail

CAG@nrc.gov.

Certain documents related to this rule,

including comments received by the

NRC, may be examined at the NRC

Public Document Room, 11555

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD. These

documents may also be viewed and

downloaded electronically via the

rulemaking website.

Documents created or received at the

NRC after November 1, 1999 are also

available electronically at the NRC

Public Electronic Reading Room on the

Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/

ADAMS/index.html. From this site, the

public can gain entry into the NRC’s

Agencywide Documents Access and

Management System (ADAMS), which

provides text and image files of NRC’s

public documents. An electronic copy

of the proposed CoC and preliminary

safety evaluation report (SER) can be

found in ADAMS under Accession No.

ML003754655. For more information,

contact the NRC’s Public Document

Room Reference Staff at 1–800–397–

4209, 301–415–4737 or by e-mail at

pdr@nrc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Keith McDaniel, telephone (301) 415–

5252, e-mail, KKM@nrc.gov, of the

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and

Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For

additional information see the Direct

Final Rule published in the final rules

section of this Federal Register.

Procedural Background

The NRC is also publishing this

proposed rule as a direct final rule

because it represents a limited and

routine change to an existing CoC that

is expected to be noncontroversial;

adequate protection of public health and

safety continues to be ensured. The

direct final rule will become effective on

February 20, 2001. However, if the NRC

receives significant adverse comments

on the direct final rule by January 8,

2001, then the NRC will publish a

document to withdraw the direct final

rule. If the direct final rule is

withdrawn, the NRC will address the

comments received in response to the

proposed revisions in a subsequent final

rule. Absent significant modifications to

the proposed revisions requiring

republication, the NRC will not initiate

a second comment period for this action

if the direct final rule is withdrawn.

List of Subjects In 10 CFR Part 72

Criminal penalties, Manpower

training programs, Nuclear materials,

Occupational safety and health,

Reporting and recordkeeping

requirements, Security measures, Spent

fuel.

For the reasons set out in the

preamble and under the authority of the

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended;

the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974,

as amended; and 5 U.S.C. 553; the NRC

is proposing to adopt the following

amendments to 10 CFR Part 72.

PART 72—LICENSING

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE

INDEPENDENT STORAGE OF SPENT

NUCLEAR FUEL AND HIGH-LEVEL

RADIOACTIVE WASTE

1. The authority citation for Part 72

continues to read as follows:

Authority: Secs. 51, 53, 57, 62, 63, 65, 69,

81, 161, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 189, 68 Stat.

929, 930, 932, 933, 934, 935, 948, 953, 954,

955, as amended, sec. 234, 83 Stat. 444, as

amended (42 U.S.C. 2071, 2073, 2077, 2092,

2093, 2095, 2099, 2111, 2201, 2232, 2233,

2234, 2236, 2237, 2238, 2282); sec. 274, Pub.

L. 86–373, 73 Stat. 688, as amended (42

U.S.C. 2021); sec. 201, as amended, 202, 206,

88 Stat. 1242, as amended, 1244, 1246 (42

U.S.C. 5841, 5842, 5846); Pub. L. 95–601, sec.

10, 92 Stat. 2951 as amended by Pub. L.

10d—48b, sec. 7902, 10b Stat. 31b3 (42

U.S.C. 5851); sec. 102, Pub. L. 91–190, 83

Stat. 853 (42 U.S.C. 4332); secs. 131, 132,

133, 135, 137, 141, Pub. L. 97–425, 96 Stat.

2229, 2230, 2232, 2241, sec. 148, Pub. L.

100–203, 101 Stat. 1330–235 (42 U.S.C.

10151, 10152, 10153, 10155, 10157, 10161,

10168).

Section 72.44(g) also issued under secs.

142(b) and 148(c), (d), Pub. L. 100–203, 101

Stat. 1330–232, 1330–236 (42 U.S.C.

10162(b), 10168(c),(d)). Section 72.46 also

issued under sec. 189, 68 Stat. 955 (42 U.S.C.

2239); sec. 134, Pub. L. 97–425, 96 Stat. 2230

(42 U.S.C. 10154). Section 72.96(d) also

issued under sec. 145(g), Pub. L. 100–203,

101 Stat. 1330–235 (42 U.S.C. 10165(g)).

Subpart J also issued under secs. 2(2), 2(15),

2(19), 117(a), 141(h), Pub. L. 97–425, 96 Stat.

2202, 2203, 2204, 2222, 2244, (42 U.S.C.

10101, 10137(a), 10161(h)). Subparts K and L

are also issued under sec. 133, 98 Stat. 2230

(42 U.S.C. 10153) and sec. 218(a), 96 Stat.

2252 (42 U.S.C. 10198).

2. In § 72.214, Certificate of

Compliance (CoC) 1015 is revised to

read as follows:

§ 72.214 List of approved spent fuel

storage casks.

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Certificate Number: 1015.

Initial Certificate Effective Date:

[November 20, 2000].

Amendment No. 1 Effective Date:

February 20, 2001.

SAR Submitted by: NAC

International, Inc.

SAR Title: Final Safety Analysis

Report for the NAC-UMS Universal

Storage System.

Docket Number: 72–1015.

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Certificate Expiration Date: November

20, 2020.

Model Number: NAC–UMS.

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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd

day of November, 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

William D. Travers,

Executive Director for Operations.

[FR Doc. 00–31098 Filed 12–6–00; 8:45 am]

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