Nuclear Waste Partnerships, LLC
| Published date | 20 November 2019 |
| Citation | 84 FR 64114 |
| Record Number | 2019-25121 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
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reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@
nrc.gov. The draft NUREG–2155, is
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML19298A303.
•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.
•NRC’s public website: The draft
NUREG–2155, Revision 2 is also
available on the NRC’s public website at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-
collections/nuregs/staff/ under
‘‘Implementation Guidance for 10 CFR
part 37, ‘Physical Protection of Category
1 and Category 2 Quantities of
Radioactive Material’ ’’ (NUREG–2155).
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2018–
0170 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure
that the NRC is able to make your
comment submission available to the
public in this docket. The NRC cautions
you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want
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,
and 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 submissions into
ADAMS.
II. Additional Information
NUREG–2155, Revision 2 is intended
to provide guidance on, and to assist
applicants and licensees in, the
implementation of part 37 of title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), ‘‘Physical Protection of Category 1
and Category 2 Quantities of
Radioactive Material.’’ This document
describes methods that the NRC finds
acceptable for implementing the
regulations. The purpose of this notice
is to provide the public with an
opportunity to review and provide
comments on draft NUREG–2155,
Revision 2. These comments will be
considered in the final version or
subsequent revisions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day
of November, 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul J. Michalak,
Acting Director, Division of Materials Safety,
Security, State and Tribal Programs, Office
of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
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[Docket No. 071–9305; NRC–2019–0188]
Nuclear Waste Partnerships, LLC
AGENCY
: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION
: Environmental assessment and
finding of no significant impact;
issuance.
SUMMARY
: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing an
environmental assessment (EA) and
finding of no significant impact (FONSI)
for an exemption request from Nuclear
Waste Partnerships, LLC for the one-
time shipment of transuranic waste in
two TRUPACT–III packages from the
Savannah River Site, Aiken, South
Carolina, to the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant, Carlsbad, New Mexico.
DATES
: The EA and FONSI referenced in
this document are available on
November 20, 2019.
ADDRESSES
: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2019–0188 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
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for Docket ID NRC–2019–0188. Address
questions about NRC docket IDs in
Regulations.gov 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.
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White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Pierre Saverot, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–7505; email: Pierre.Saverot@
nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Introduction
On January 28, 2014, Nuclear Waste
Partnership, LLC (NWP) requested an
exemption pursuant to section 71.12 of
title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), for approval of
two shipments, each containing a single
package of the Model No. TRUPACT–III
package, from the Savannah River Site
(SRS) in Aiken, South Carolina to the
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near
Carlsbad, New Mexico. NWP requested
an exemption from the requirements of
10 CFR 71.61, ‘‘Special Requirements
for Type B Packages Containing More
than 10
5
A
2
,’’ and authorization for an
increase in the decay heat and A
2
limit
beyond the limits in Certificate of
Compliance No. 9305. On June 29, 2016,
the NRC granted NWP’s exemption
request and reissued, on May 15, 2019,
that authorization and exemption to
correct a typographical error in one of
the serial numbers for the Standard
Large Box 2 (SLB2) associated with the
TRUPACT–III package (ADAMS
Accession No. ML19135A512). The
NWP’s current exemption is set to
expire on December 31, 2019.
On July 8, 2019, NWP submitted a
request to the NRC for a 24-month
extension of the current exemption
(ADAMS Accession No. ML19190A289)
because it had not yet shipped the two
subject TRUPACT–III packages. The
NRC is treating NWP’s July 8, 2019
request to extend its exemption as a new
exemption request—in accordance with
10 CFR 71.12—for the one-time
transport of two SLB2 waste boxes, each
in a Model No. TRUPACT–III package.
Specifically, NWP requests an
exemption from the requirements in 10
CFR 71.61, ‘‘Special requirements for
Type B packages containing more than
10
5
A
2
,’’ (i.e., deep-water immersion
test). NWP requests an exemption from
the deep-water immersion test because
the design of a TRUPACT–III package
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containing more than 10
5
A
2
has not
been demonstrated to meet the deep-
water immersion requirements of 10
CFR 71.61, i.e., the package’s
undamaged containment system has not
been shown that it can withstand an
external water pressure of 2 MegaPascal
for a period of not less than 1 hour
without collapse, buckling, or in-leakage
of water.
Along with its exemption request,
NWP also requests approval from the
NRC for an increase in: (1) The A
2
limit
from less than 10
5
A
2
to 2.1x10
5
A
2
and
(2) the authorized decay heat limit from
80 watts (W) to 190 W. The A
2
and
decay heat limits are established in the
TRUPACT–III Certificate of Compliance
No. 9305, Revision No. 10 (ADAMS
Package Accession No. ML18171A176).
The TRUPACT–III is a shipping
container used to transport transuranic
(TRU) waste within an SLB2. The
TRUPACT–III packages are front loaded
in a horizontal position on custom-
designed trailers for truck transport. The
two TRUPACT–III packages will be
transported by truck from the SRS in
South Carolina, to the U.S. Department
of Energy WIPP, Carlsbad, New Mexico.
The SLB2 waste boxes have not yet
been loaded into the TRUPACT–III
packages and are currently sitting on a
storage pad at SRS. The contents of each
SLB2 waste box is primarily one-half of
a decommissioned tank used to process
Plutonium-238.
II. Environmental Assessment
Description of the Proposed Action
Under the requirements of 10 CFR
51.21 and 51.30(a), the NRC staff
developed an EA (ADAMS Accession
No. ML19317E461) to evaluate the
proposed Federal action, which is for
the NRC to grant an exemption to NWP
from the deep-water immersion test
requirements for the one-time transport
of two TRUPACT–III packages from SRS
to WIPP.
Need for the Proposed Action
The EA defines the NRC’s proposed
action (i.e., to grant NWP’s exemption
request from 10 CFR 71.61) and the
purpose and need for the proposed
action. Evaluations of the potential
environmental impacts of the proposed
action and alternatives to the proposed
action were considered, followed by the
NRC’s conclusion.
Environmental Impacts of the Proposed
Action
The EA evaluates the potential
environmental impacts of granting the
exemption of the two subject
TRUPACT–III packages from the deep-
water immersion test. The only
potential impacts from granting the
exemption would be radiological
impacts associated with an accident
scenario. However, the analysis in the
EA shows that there would be no
radiological impacts as a result of
exempting these two packages from the
deep-water immersion test since the
packages will not cross any body of
water with a depth greater than 15
meters (m) (50 feet [ft]). Any
nonradiological impacts would be no
greater than those for the transport of
any other TRUPACT–III package and
would be bounded by previous
environmental analyses (NUREG–0170,
Vol. 1; ADAMS Accession No.
ML12192A283). Therefore, the
environmental impacts of transporting
these two TRUPACT–III packages from
SRS to WIPP are still bounded by those
impacts documented in NUREG–0170.
Environmental Impacts of the
Alternatives to the Proposed Action
As an alternative to the proposed
action, the staff considered denial of the
proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘no-action’’
alternative); further segmenting the
waste; using a different type of package;
and storing the waste until the activity
decays below 10
5
A
2
. None of the
alternatives is preferable to the
proposed action because either the
impacts are greater than the proposed
action or they do not meet the purpose
and need of the proposed action.
Therefore, the proposed action is the
preferred alternative.
Agencies and Persons Consulted
In accordance with its stated policy,
on September 23, 2019, the staff
consulted with the States of South
Carolina and New Mexico regarding the
environmental impact of the proposed
action (ADAMS Accession Package Nos.
ML19269E263, and ML19269E169,
respectively). The NRC did not receive
any comments on the draft EA (ADAMS
Accession Nos. ML19304B327, and
ML19310F330, respectively).
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
The NRC staff has prepared an EA and
FONSI in support of the proposed
action. The EA is available at ADAMS
Accession No. ML19317E461. The NRC
staff has concluded that the proposed
action, for the NRC to grant an
exemption to NWP from the deep-water
immersion test for the transport of two
SLB2 waste boxes in Model No.
TRUPACT–III packages from SRS to
WIPP, will not significantly impact the
quality of the human environment, and
that the proposed action is the preferred
alternative. The environmental impacts
of the two packages are bounded by
previous NRC environmental analysis
since the packages will not cross bodies
of water greater than 15 m (50 ft) in
depth.
The NRC staff has determined that the
exemption from the deep-water
immersion test for the two subject
packages would have no impact on
historic and cultural resources or
ecological resources and, therefore, no
consultations are necessary under
Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act and Section 7 of the
Endangered Species Act, respectively.
The NRC finds that there are no
significant environmental impacts from
the proposed action, and that
preparation of an environmental impact
statement is not warranted.
Accordingly, the NRC has determined
that a FONSI is appropriate.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th of
November, 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel I. Doyle,
Acting Chief, Storage and Transportation
Licensing Branch Division of Fuel
Management, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards.
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DATES
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction
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