Document: 10 CFR Part 51
Document ID: c486531b-b7dc-4842-88c5-f55c9c7bd838
Document Type: cfr
Title: Postconstruction environmental impact statements.
Source: 10 CFR Part 51
Source URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/part-51/section-51.95
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Chapter: 
Section ID: 51.95
CFR Part: 51
CFR Title: 10

Content:
nt or renewal of a license to store spent fuel at a nuclear power reactor after expiration of the operating or combined license for the nuclear power reactor, the NRC staff will prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement for the post operating or post combined license stage or an environmental assessment, as appropriate, which will update the prior environmental documentation prepared by the NRC for compliance with NEPA under the provisions of this part. The supplement or assessment may incorporate by reference any information contained in the final environmental impact statement—for the operating or combined license stage, as appropriate, or in the records of decision prepared in connection with the early site permit, construction permit, operating license, or combined license for that facility. The supplement will include a request for comments as provided in § 51.73 . As stated in § 51.23 , the generic impact determinations regarding the continued storage of spent fuel in NUREG-2157 shall be deemed incorporated into the supplemental environmental impact statement or shall be considered in the environmental assessment, if the impacts of continued storage of spent fuel are applicable to the proposed action. [ 61 FR 66545 , Dec. 18, 1996, as amended at 72 FR 49516 , Aug. 28, 2007; 78 FR 37317 , June 20, 2013; 79 FR 56262 , Sept. 19, 2014; 89 FR 64190 , Aug. 6. 2024]