Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation's Proposed Idaho Spent Fuel Facility; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping Process

摘要

Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation (FWENC) submitted a license application on November 19, 2001 (67 FR 43358, June 27, 2002) for the receipt, possession, storage and transfer of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and other radioactive materials associated with SNF at its proposed Idaho Spent Fuel Facility, an independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI), to be located on the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) site in Butte County, Idaho. The license application will be considered under the provisions of NRC regulations at 10 CFR part 72. If granted, the license will authorize the applicant to store SNF in a dry storage system at the applicant's Idaho Spent Fuel Facility site. Additionally, in accordance with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations at 10 CFR part 51 and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), an environmental impact statement (EIS) is being prepared to examine the potential environmental impacts of the proposed licensing action (i.e. to construct and operate an ISFSI, including transfer of certain SNF from wet storage to dry interim storage pending its final transfer to a geologic repository). At this time, the NRC is so