16772 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 57 / Thursday, March 24, 2022 / Notices 

(MD) 8.4, ‘‘Management of Backfitting, 

Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and 

Information Requests’’ (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18093B087). Any 

changes to this trial RG, such as 

withdrawal or addition of or 

modification to staff positions based on 

experience gained during the trial use 

period, prior to issuing a final RG will 

not be considered to be backfitting as 

defined in 10 CFR 50.109. This will 

ensure that the lessons learned from the 

regulatory trial use of the pilot 

applications of this RG are adequately 

addressed and that this guidance is 

sufficient to enhance regulatory stability 

in the review and approval of riskinformed applications for non-light 

water reactors. 

Dated: March 18, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06222 Filed 3–23–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 70–1151; NRC–2022–0047] 

Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC; 

Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility; and 

US Ecology, Inc.; Idaho Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act 

Subtitle C; Hazardous Disposal Facility 

Located Near Grand View, Idaho 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License amendment and 

exemptions; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing 

exemptions from NRC regulations and 

associated license amendment related to 

requests from Westinghouse Electric 

Company, LLC (WEC) and US Ecology, 

Inc. (USEI). WEC requested NRC 

approval for an alternate disposal and 

related exemptions for specified lowactivity radioactive waste from the 

Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility 

(CFFF) in Hopkins, South Carolina 

containing byproduct material and 

special nuclear material (SNM) under 

License Number SNM–1107. 

Additionally, the NRC is approving 

exemptions requested by USEI from the 

applicable licensing requirements to 

allow USEI to receive and dispose of the 

material from CFFF without an NRC 

license. The USEI disposal facility, 

located near Grand View, Idaho, is a 

Subtitle C Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste 

disposal facility permitted by the State 

of Idaho to receive low-level radioactive 

waste. Approval of the alternate 

disposal request from WEC and the 

exemptions and license amendment 

requested by WEC, and associated 

exemptions requested by USEI would 

allow WEC to transfer the specific waste 

from CFFF to USEI for disposal. 

DATES: The exemptions are effective on 

March 24, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2022–0047 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 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2022–0047. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@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 publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://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. The Request for 

Alternate Disposal Approval and 

Exemption for Specific CFFF Waste 

(License No. SNM–1197, Docket No. 70– 

1151) dated November 5, 2022, as 

corrected by letter dated December 1, 

2021, is available in ADAMS under 

Accession Nos. ML21309A095 and 

ML21336A461, respectively. The staff’s 

Safety Evaluation Report dated March 4, 

2022, is available in ADAMS under 

Package Accession No. ML22054A045. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR, 

Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. 

(ET), Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jenny Tobin, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

2328, email: Jennifer.Tobin@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC 

(WEC) holds a special nuclear materials 

(SNM) License Number SNM–1107 

under part 70 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

‘‘Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear 

Material.’’ Under the terms of its 

license, WEC fabricates nuclear fuel at 

the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility 

(CFFF). The US Ecology, Inc. (USEI) 

disposal facility near Grand View, Idaho 

is a Subtitle C Resource Conservation 

and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous 

waste disposal facility permitted by the 

State of Idaho to receive radioactive 

waste. 

II. Request/Action 

The proposed action would approve 

the alternate disposal request and 

provide exemptions from 10 CFR 70.3 

and 10 CFR 30.3 and an associated WEC 

license amendment, allowing WEC to 

transfer and USEI to receive and dispose 

of waste containing byproduct material 

and SNM. The volumetrically 

contaminated waste includes calcium 

fluoride (CaF2) sludge dredged from the 

disposal lagoons and the Sanitary 

Lagoon located on the site, the sanitary 

lagoon liner, contaminated soil from 

under and adjacent to the Sanitary 

Lagoon, and soil associated with the 

demolition of the CaF2 storage pad. The 

surface-contaminated waste being 

considered for disposal includes 

obsolete uranium hexafluoride (UF6) 

shipping cylinders and debris 

associated with demolition and removal 

of the CaF2 pad and Sanitary Lagoon. 

The waste being considered originates 

from processes associated with the 

chemical conversion of UF6 to uranium 

dioxide (UO2) performed at CFFF and is 

contaminated with isotopic uranium 

(U–234, U–235, and U–238) and 

technicium-99 (Tc-99). 

As proposed, this waste would be 

transported from CFFF in South 

Carolina to the USEI facility near Grand 

View, Idaho using a combination of 

trucks and railcars. The USEI facility is 

a RCRA Subtitle C hazardous waste 

disposal facility permitted by the State 

of Idaho. 

III. Discussion 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 70.17 and 10 CFR 

30.11, the Commission may, upon 

application of any interested person or 

upon its own initiative, grant such 

exemptions from the requirements of 10 

CFR part 70 and part 30 respectively, as 


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1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

it determines are authorized by law and 

will not endanger life or property or the 

common defense and security and are 

otherwise in the public interest. 

The Exemptions Are Authorized by Law 

The proposal provides that the 

material described in this notice would 

be transported and disposed of in 

compliance with Federal, State, and 

local regulations. Further, as previously 

noted, the NRC is authorized to grant 

exemptions from 10 CFR parts 30 and 

70. Granting these exemptions are also 

not contrary to the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended, or other regulatory 

requirements or law. Therefore, such 

disposal is not otherwise contrary to 

NRC requirements, and is otherwise 

authorized by law. 

The Exemptions Will Not Endanger Life, 

Property or the Common Defense and 

Security 

NRC staff reviewed the information 

provided by WEC to support its 10 CFR 

20.2002 alternate disposal request and 

the specific exemptions from 10 CFR 

30.3 and 10 CFR 70.3 and the associated 

license amendment in order to dispose 

of the specified material associated with 

cleanup activities at CFFF. The NRC 

staff concluded that the requested 

disposal of waste containing byproduct 

material and SNM is acceptable under 

10 CFR 20.2002. Details provided in this 

request, in combination with 

appropriate references to past approvals 

of similar procedures and material from 

the same site, provide an adequate 

description of the waste and 

demonstrate that the proposed manner 

and conditions of waste disposal would 

be protective of public health and safety 

and security and would not endanger 

property. In particular, under the 

alternate disposal request, public doses 

would be a fraction of the natural 

background radiation dose and a 

fraction of the annual public dose limit. 

NRC staff also notes that the request is 

also subject to regulation under RCRA. 

Lastly, because of the presence of SNM, 

the NRC evaluated potential criticality 

in its safety evaluation report and found 

no concerns. Therefore, the NRC 

concludes that issuance of the 

exemption will not endanger life, 

property, or the common defense and 

security. 

The Exemptions Are in the Public 

Interest 

Issuance of the exemptions to WEC 

and USEI is in the public interest 

because it provides for the efficient and 

safe disposal for the subject waste 

material, facilitates the 

decommissioning of the CFFF site 

consistent with the consent agreement 

between CFFF and the South Carolina 

Department of Health and 

Environmental Control, and conserves 

low-level radioactive waste disposal 

capacity at licensed low-level 

radioactive disposal sites while 

ensuring that the material being 

considered is disposed of safely in a 

regulated facility. Therefore, based upon 

the evaluation previously noted, 

exemptions are appropriate pursuant to 

10 CFR 30.11 and 10 CFR 70.17. 

IV. Environmental Considerations 

As required by 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC 

performed an environmental assessment 

(EA) that analyzes the environmental 

impacts of the proposed exemptions in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and 

NRC implementing regulations in 10 

CFR part 51. Based on the conclusions 

of the EA, the NRC staff has determined 

that there is no need to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed exemptions and has issued a 

finding of no significant impact 

(FONSI). The EA and FONSI were 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 10, 2022 (87 FR 13766). 

V. Conclusions 

Accordingly, the Commission has 

determined that, pursuant to 10 CFR 

70.17 and 10 CFR 30.11, exemptions for 

WEC and USEI are authorized by law, 

will not present an undue risk to the 

public health and safety, are consistent 

with the common defense and security, 

and are in the public interest. Therefore, 

the Commission hereby grants WEC and 

USEI exemptions from 10 CFR 70.3 and 

10 CFR 30.3 to allow WEC to transfer 

certain low-activity radioactive 

materials, including byproduct and 

SNM, from the WEC CFFF for disposal 

at the USEI disposal facility located near 

Grand View, Idaho, and issues WEC a 

conforming license amendment. 

Dated: March 21, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jacob I. Zimmerman, 

Chief, Fuel Facility Licensing Branch, 

Division of Fuel Management, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2022–06236 Filed 3–23–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–94467; File No. SR–NYSE– 

2022–13] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; New 

York Stock Exchange LLC; Notice of 

Filing and Order Granting Accelerated 

Approval of a Proposed Rule Change 

for Certain Amendments to the 

Preamble to Rule 9217 

March 18, 2022. 

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the 

‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2

notice is hereby given that on March 4, 

2022, New York Stock Exchange LLC 

(‘‘NYSE’’ or the ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’) the 

proposed rule change as described in 

Items I and II below, which Items have 

been prepared by the Exchange. The 

Commission is publishing this notice to 

solicit comments on the proposed rule 

change from interested persons and 

approving the proposal on an 

accelerated basis. 

I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Terms of Substance of 

the Proposed Rule Change 

The Exchange proposes certain 

amendments to the preamble to Rule 

9217. The proposed rule change is 

available on the Exchange’s website at 

www.nyse.com, at the principal office of 

the Exchange, and at the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room. 

II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

In its filing with the Commission, the 

self-regulatory organization included 

statements concerning the purpose of, 

and basis for, the proposed rule change 

and discussed any comments it received 

on the proposed rule change. The text 

of those statements may be examined at 

the places specified in Item III below. 

The Exchange has prepared summaries, 

set forth in sections A, B, and C below, 

of the most significant parts of such 

statements. 

A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and the 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

1. Purpose 

The Exchange proposes certain 

amendments to the preamble to Rule 

9217. 


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