Minnesota Administrative Rules

7855.0520 HISTORICAL AND FORECAST DATA.

Each applicant for a nuclear fuel processing facility shall provide five years of historical data, as well as a forecast of demand through the forecast years. The following information shall be included:

A.

the amount of each input material, in tons per year, produced nationally and the amount produced within Minnesota during each of the last five calendar years preceding the year of application;

B.

for each of the last five calendar years preceding the year of application, the year-end capacity within Minnesota and within the United States, in tons of input material per year, to process the materials listed in item A;

C.

an estimate of the amount of each input material expected to be produced nationally (including, if applicable, spent fuel from foreign reactors that use uranium supplied by the United States) and within Minnesota during the first six forecast years, the 11th forecast year (the tenth year after the year of application), and the 16th forecast year;

D.

a discussion of the methodology, statistical techniques, and data bases used in providing the forecast data required by item C;

E.

a list of known facilities to be added in the United States during the forecast years, including locations, in-service dates, and design capacities, for processing the same types of materials that would be processed by the proposed facility; and

F.

any major assumptions made in supplying the information required by items A to D, and a discussion of the sensitivity of the information to changes in the assumptions.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 216B.08; 216B.2421; 216B.243; 216C.10

History:

L 1983 c 289 s 115

Published Electronically:

November 14, 2003