NRC Information on Spent Fuel Storage in Utah..

[Harold Chaney <HDC@nrc.gov>]

Fellow Radsafe'ers here is some light information on the proposed spent reactor
fuel storage facility near Salt Lake, Utah.  Evidently some utilities are very
proactive in the arena

H.  Dean Chaney, CHP -  USNRC, Region IV/WCFO
hdc@nrc.gov
ddchaney@castles.com

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Nov.  28, 1997
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NRC ESTABLISHES PUBLIC DOCUMENT ROOM ON PROPOSAL FOR
NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE FACILITY IN UTAH

 	The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is establishing a Local Public
Document Room (LPDR) to make available documents pertaining to a proposal to
establish a facility for the storage of spent nuclear fuel at the Skull Valley Goshute
Indian Reservation approximately 50 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah.

	The LPDR is located at the Documents Division, Marriott Library,
University of Utah, 295 S.  1500 East, Salt Lake City, 84112-0860.  The library's
hours are from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday;
9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday.  The Documents Division
telephone number is (801) 581-8394.

	Teresa Linton, information services librarian with the NRC's LPDR
Program, will visit the library on Wednesday, Dec.  3, to set up the collection and
provide staff training.  She will be available there from 1 to 5 p.m. to meet with
interested members of the public.

	The NRC has established the LPDR because of the high degree of public and
political  interest in the proposal for the spent fuel installation by Private Fuel
Storage, a consortium of 10 utilities.  Private Fuel Storage has leased approximately
820 acres from the Goshute Indian Reservation for the facility.  The NRC's Office
of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards is reviewing the consortium's
application for project and requested that the LPDR be established.

	The Local Public Document Room collection is a microfiche file of all publicly
available l NRC documents issued since January 1990, including documents
pertaining to the Private Fuel Storage proposal.  Documents available are generated
by the NRC, the applicant, and interested parties that correspond with the NRC.

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