---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 51.61"
title: "10"
number: "51.61"
heading: "Environmental report—independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) or monitored retrievable storage installation (MRS) license."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/51.61"
---

# §51.61. Environmental report—independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) or monitored retrievable storage installation (MRS) license.


Each applicant for issuance of a license for storage of spent fuel in an independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) or for the storage of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste in a monitored retrievable storage installation (MRS) pursuant to [part 72](/cfr/10/part72.md) of this chapter shall submit with its application to: ATTN: Document Control Desk, Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, a separate document entitled “Applicant's Environmental Report—ISFSI License” or “Applicant's Environmental Report—MRS License,” as appropriate. If the applicant is the U.S. Department of Energy, the environmental report may be in the form of either an environmental impact statement or an environmental assessment, as appropriate. The environmental report shall contain the information specified in [§ 51.45](/cfr/10/51.45.md) and shall address the siting evaluation factors contained in [subpart E of part 72](/cfr/10/part72-subpartE.md) of this chapter. As stated in [§ 51.23](/cfr/10/51.23.md), no discussion of the environmental impacts of the continued storage of spent fuel in an ISFSI is required in this report.


## Notes

### Amendments

[79 FR 56261, Sept. 19, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, secs. 161, 193 (42 U.S.C. 2201, 2243); Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, secs. 201, 202 (42 U.S.C. 5841, 5842); National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332, 4334, 4335); Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, secs. 144(f), 121, 135, 141, 148 (42 U.S.C. 10134(f), 10141, 10155, 10161, 10168); 44 U.S.C. 3504 note. Sections 51.20, 51.30, 51.60, 51.80, and 51.97 also issued under Nuclear Waste Policy Act secs. 135, 141, 148 (42 U.S.C. 10155, 10161, 10168). Section 51.22 also issued under Atomic Energy Act sec. 274 (42 U.S.C. 2021) and under Nuclear Waste Policy Act sec. 121 (42 U.S.C. 10141). Sections 51.43, 51.67, and 51.109 also issued under Nuclear Waste Policy Act sec. 114(f) (42 U.S.C. 10134(f)).

### Source

Source: 49 FR 9381, Mar. 12, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[79 FR 56261, Sept. 19, 2014]