[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 219 (Wednesday, November 14, 2007)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 64003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-22213]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 51
[Docket No. PRM-51-12]
State of California; Supplement to a Petition for Rulemaking
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Supplemental petition for rulemaking; notice of receipt.
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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received a
supplement to a petition for rulemaking filed with the Commission by
Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General for the State of California. The
NRC docketed the original petition dated March 16, 2007, as PRM-51-12.
In this supplement to PRM-51-12, the petitioner provides clarification
to the original PRM. This document is being noticed for information
only and not for public comment.
ADDRESSES: For a copy of the original petition PRM-51-12 and the
supplement to PRM-51-12, write to Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking,
Directives, and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services,
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
PRM-51-12 and the supplement to PRM-51-12 may be inspected and
copied for a fee at the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), 11555 Rockville
Pike, Public File Area O1F21, Rockville, Maryland. Copies of comments
received on PRM-51-12 are available through the NRC's Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and
image files of NRC's public documents. These documents may be accessed
through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at
http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. If you do not have access to
ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the documents located in
ADAMS contact the NRC's PDR Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking,
Directives, and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services,
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001, Telephone: 301-415-7163, or toll free: 800-
368-5642.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC received a petition for rulemaking
dated March 16, 2007, submitted by Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney
General for the State of California (petitioner). The petition was
docketed as PRM-51-12. The notice of receipt of PRM-51-12 was published
on May 14, 2007 (72 FR 27068). On September 19, 2007, the petitioner
submitted a document characterized as an ``Amended Petition'' for
rulemaking to clarify PRM-51-12.
In the original petition, the petitioner requested that the NRC
rescind its regulations at 10 CFR Part 51 that declare the potential
environmental effects of the approval, construction, and operation of
high-density pool storage of spent nuclear fuel, are not and cannot be
significant for purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) and NEPA analysis; adopt and issue a generic determination that
approval of such storage at a nuclear power plant or any other facility
does constitute a major federal action that may have a significant
effect on the human environment; and order that no NRC licensing
decision that approves high-density pool storage of spent nuclear fuel
at a nuclear power plant or other storage facility may issue without
the prior adoption and certification of an environmental impact
statement (EIS) that complies with NEPA in all respects, including full
identification, analysis, and disclosure of the potential environmental
effects of such storage, including the potential for accidental or
deliberately caused release of radioactive products to the environment,
whether by accident or through acts of terrorism, as well as full and
adequate discussion of potential mitigation for such effects, and full
discussion of an adequate array or alternatives to the proposed storage
project.
In the September 19, 2007 document, the petitioner clarifies that
the State of California seeks to have the NRC rescind all regulations
found in 10 CFR Part 51, that imply, find or determine that the
potential environmental effects of high-density pool storage of spent
nuclear fuel are not significant for purposes of NEPA and NEPA
analysis. The petitioner also includes requests for a generic
determination and order. These requests are identical to the requests
made in the March 16, 2007 petition and are as described previously.
The NRC does not consider the September 19, 2007 document to be
substantively different from PRM-51-12. Therefore, the NRC will
consider the September 19, 2007 document to be a supplement to PRM-51-
12 and will include it in the docket for PRM-51-12. The NRC is
publishing this notice for information only and not for public comment.
The public comment period for PRM-51-12 closed on July 30, 2007.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of November 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew L. Bates,
Acting Secretary of the Commission.
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