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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: <br />D~aC~~ 4~t <br />Action Agenda <br />Item # <br />SUBJECT: Funding for process to obtain standing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in <br />the permitting process for expanded storage of waste nuclear fuel rods at Shearon Harris <br />nuclear power plant <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: Yes No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />County Engineer's memo <br />WAIS Document Retrieval from Federal <br />Register for 1/13/99 <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: Yes No <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />County Engineer Extension 2303 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br />Durham - 688-7331 <br />Mebane - 227-2031 <br />Chapel Hill - 967-9251/968-4501 <br />PURPOSE: To present for BOCC review a report on: 1) the process required to obtain the standing <br />required to intervene in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) proceedings for. the <br />review and approval of Carolina Power and Light's (CP&L) application to amend its <br />operating permit to allow it to expand its high level nuclear waste storage operation for <br />used nuclear fuel rods at its Shearon Harris nuclear power plant; and 2) the cost of funding <br />the legal and engineering/technical consulting services necessary to review the CP& L <br />waste storage expansion proposal and permit application and create and file the documents <br />with the NRC as necessary to obtain standing. <br />BACKGROUND: CP&L's has proposed to use its existing operational and partially constructed <br />temporary waste storage pools at its Shearon Harris facility to store spent nuclear <br />fuel rods from the Harris facility as well as it own Brunswick and Robinson nuclear <br />power plants. To carry out this strategy, two existing but incomplete pools at the <br />plant must be completed. This, in turn, requires that CP&L submit an application to <br />modify the Harris operating permit to the NRC. <br />In accordance with standard NRC procedures, the permit modification application <br />has been submitted; NRC staff have proposed to make a fording that CP&L's <br />expansion plans represent no significant h~.~.ard; and the NRC has published the <br />notice of the application and the proposed staff finding - as of January 13, 1999 - in <br />the Federal Register. The public, again in accordance with standard NRC <br />