ANDREWS – A federal agency reviewing a license application from Interim Storage Partners (ISP) for interim above-ground storage of spent fuel here issued its Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) last week. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) found no “discernible negative effects on the environment or natural resources” in its final EIS with ISP’s consolidated interim storage facility application. The scope of the EIS included an evaluation of the radiological and non-radiological environmental impacts from the construction, operation and decommissioning of the consolidated interim storage of spent fuel at Waste Control Specialists’ site in Andrews County, as well as mitigation measures to ...