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Vol. 82, No. 154 

Friday, August 11, 2017 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 72 

[NRC–2017–0008] 

RIN 3150–AJ89 

List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage 

Casks: NAC International 

MAGNASTOR® Cask System; 

Certificate of Compliance No. 1031, 

Amendment No. 7 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Direct final rule; confirmation of 

effective date. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is confirming the 

effective date of August 21, 2017, for the 

direct final rule that was published in 

the Federal Register on June 6, 2017. 

The direct final rule amended the NRC’s 

spent fuel storage regulations by 

revising the ‘‘List of approved spent fuel 

storage casks’’ to include Amendment 

No. 7 to Certificate of Compliance (CoC) 

No. 1031 for the NAC International, 

MAGNASTOR® Cask System. 

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date 

of August 21, 2017, for the direct final 

rule published June 6, 2017 (82 FR 

25931), is confirmed. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2017–0008 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–2017–0008. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@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 

‘‘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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section. 

• 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: 

Keith McDaniel, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–5252; email: Keith.McDaniel@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 6, 

2017 (82 FR 25931), the NRC published 

a direct final rule amending § 72.214 of 

title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations by revising the ‘‘List of 

approved spent fuel storage casks’’ to 

include Amendment No. 7 to CoC No. 

1031 for the NAC International, 

MAGNASTOR® Cask System. 

Amendment No. 7 provides a new 

Passive MAGNASTOR® Transfer Cask 

and associated Technical Specification 

(TS) changes in Appendices A and B 

(ADAMS Accession Nos. ML16295A248 

and ML16295A252), and updates 

Section 4.3.1(i) in Appendix A of the 

TSs to include revised seismic 

requirements. Clarifying (non-technical) 

changes were also made to Appendices 

A and B. 

In the direct final rule, the NRC stated 

that if no significant adverse comments 

were received, the direct final rule 

would become effective on August 21, 

2017. As described more fully in the 

direct final rule, a significant adverse 

comment is a comment where the 

commenter explains why the rule would 

be inappropriate, including challenges 

to the rule’s underlying premise or 

approach, or would be ineffective or 

unacceptable without a change. 

One comment on the direct final rule 

was submitted to Regulations.gov, 

however, the comment did not raise 

information related to this CoC and 

therefore was not posted. Because no 

significant adverse comments were 

received, the direct final rule will 

become effective as scheduled. 

During the comment period for the 

direct final rule, the NRC identified 

missing change bars and formatting 

inconsistencies. Additionally, the NRC 

identified errors and omissions of text 

in the draft CoC and TSs associated with 

Amendment No. 7. In Appendix A, a 

number was accidently changed from 7 

to 0 hours, in the table ‘‘PWR 

[Pressurized Water Reactor] TSC 

[Transportable Storage Canister] 

Transfer Using MTC [MAGNASTOR®

Transfer Cask] Reduced Helium Backfill 

Time.’’ In Appendix B, footnote 3 

omitted text; the footnote should read 

‘‘0.4 years for RCC [Reactor Control 

Components] in the PMTC [Passive 

MAGNASTOR® Transfer Cask] (reduced 

storage location heat load). For all other 

cask types, 0.2 years for RCC with 10- 

year minimum cool time.’’ Additionally, 

the description of the PMTC was 

inadvertently omitted from the CoC. The 

NRC evaluated the figures and 

information provided in NAC’s 

applications and presented its findings 

in Safety Evaluation Reports (SERs) (see 

Table 1, section 4.0 of the SER for 

Amendment 4 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML15107A472) and sections 5.7 and 

5.13 of the current SER (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML16295A258)), but the 

published draft CoC and TSs were in 

error. The administrative errors have 

been corrected in the final CoC and TSs. 

The final CoC, TSs, and SER for 

Amendment No. 7 for the 

MAGNASTOR® storage system can be 

viewed in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML17013A466. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day 

of August 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Helen Chang, 

Acting Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch, Division of Administrative 

Services, Office of Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2017–16946 Filed 8–10–17; 8:45 am] 

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