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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 149 / Friday, August 6, 2021 / Notices
Environmental impact statement; issuance.

ACTION:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC is issuing its final Environmental Impact Statement FEIS
for Interim Storage Partners ISPs license application to construct and operate a consolidated interim storage facility CISF for spent nuclear fuel SNF and Greater-Than-Class C GTCC
waste, along with a small quantity of mixed oxide MOX fuel. The proposed CISF would be located on an approximately 130-hectare 320-acre site, within the approximately 5,666hectare 14,000-acre Waste Control Specialists WCS site in Andrews County, Texas. The proposed action is the issuance of an NRC license authorizing a CISF to store up to 5,000
metric tons of uranium MTUs 5,500
short tons of SNF for a license period of 40 years.
DATES: The FEIS referenced in this document is available on August 6, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC20160231 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 NRC20160231. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 3014150624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
NRCs 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 NRCs Public Document Room PDR
reference staff at 18003974209, 301
4154737, or by email to pdr.resource@
nrc.gov. The FEIS is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML21209A955.
Project Webpage: Information related to the ISP CISF project can be accessed on the NRCs project web page at https www.nrc.gov/waste/spentfuel-storage/cis/waste-controlspecialist.html.

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Public Libraries: A copy of the FEIS
will be made available at the following public libraries:
Andrews County Library, 109 NM 1st Street, Andrews, TX 79714.
Hobbs Public Library, 509 N Shipp Street, Hobbs, NM 88240.
Eunice Public Library, 1003 Ave. N, Eunice, NM 88231.

Gaines County Library, 704 Hobbs Hwy, Seminole, TX
79360.
Winkler County Library, 307 S Poplar Street, Kermit, TX
79745.
Yoakum County Library, 205 W 4th Street, Denver City, TX 7932.

Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 18003974209 or 3014154737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James R. Park, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 205550001, telephone:
3014156954, email: James.Park@
nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background In accordance with section 51.118 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 10 CFR, the NRC is making available the FEIS for the license application submitted by ISP to construct and operate a CISF for SNF
and GTCC waste, along with a small quantity of MOX fuel, which are collectively referred to in the EIS as SNF, and composed primarily of spent uranium-based fuel. The NRC published the draft EIS in the Federal Register on May 8, 2020 85 FR 27447, and the Environmental Protection Agency noticed the availability of the draft EIS
on May 8, 2020 85 FR 27412. The public comment period on the draft EIS
ended on November 3, 2020, and the comments received are addressed in the FEIS. The FEIS is available as indicated in the ADDRESSES section of this document.
II. Discussion The NRC is issuing the FEIS for an application from ISP requesting a license to authorize construction and operation of a CISF for SNF at the WCS
site in Andrews County, Texas. ISPs
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proposed location for its CISF is on an approximately 130-hectare 320-acre site, within the approximately 5,666hectare 14,000-acre WCS site in Andrews County, Texas. The proposed action is the issuance of an NRC license authorizing a CISF to store up to 5,000
MTUs 5,500 short tons of SNF for a license period of 40 years.
The FEIS is being issued as part of the NRCs process to decide whether to issue a license to ISP pursuant to 10
CFR part 72. In this FEIS, the NRC staff has assessed the potential environmental impacts to construct and operate the proposed CISF. The NRC
staff assessed the impacts of the proposed action and the No-Action alternative on land use; transportation;
geology and soils; water resources;
ecological resources; air quality; noise;
historical and cultural resources; visual and scenic resources; socioeconomics;
environmental justice, public and occupational health, and waste management. Additionally, the FEIS
analyzes and compares the benefits and costs of the proposed action and the NoAction alternative. In preparing this FEIS, the NRC staff also considered, evaluated, and addressed the public comments received on the draft EIS.
Appendix D of the FEIS summarizes the public comments received and the NRCs responses.
After comparing the impacts of the proposed action to those of the NoAction alternative, the NRC staff, in accordance with the requirements in part 51 of 10 CFR, recommends the proposed action, subject to the determinations in the staffs safety review of the application. This recommendation is based on i the ISP
license application, which includes an environmental report and supplemental documents, and ISPs responses to the NRC staffs requests for additional information; ii the NRC staffs consultation with Federal, State, tribal, local agencies, and input from other stakeholders, including members of the public; iii the NRC staffs independent review; and iv the NRC staffs assessments provided in the FEIS.
Dated: July 29, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John R. Tappert, Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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