[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 245 (Thursday, December 19, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67078-67079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32212]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-146]


GPU Nuclear Corporation and Saxton Nuclear Experimental 
Corporation, (Saxton Nuclear Experimental Facility); Notice of Receipt 
and Availability for Comment of Post Shutdown Decommissioning 
Activities Report and Notice of Public Meeting

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is in receipt of and is 
making available for public inspection and comment the Post-Shutdown 
Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for the Saxton Nuclear 
Experimental Corporation (SNEC) Facility (SNEF) located near the 
Borough of Saxton, in Liberty Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. A 
public meeting on the SNEF PSDAR will be held in the Saxton Fire Hall 
located at 8th and North Street, Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678 on January 
28, 1997, at 7:00 p.m.
    Reactor operations at SNEF were terminated in May 1972. The reactor 
is defueled, with reactor fuel removed from the site, and the reactor 
cooling system is drained. SNEC submitted the SNEF Decommissioning Plan 
(DP) dated February 16, 1996, to the NRC in accordance with NRC 
regulations in effect at that time. The licensee submitted the SNEF 
Decommissioning Environmental Report on April 17, 1996. On July 18 and 
November 8, 1996, the licensee submitted additional information on the 
DP and environmental report in response to a request for additional 
information from the staff. When proposed amendments to the NRC's 
decommissioning regulations were published in the Federal Register on 
July 29, 1996 (61 FR 39278), the licensee requested that the review of 
the DP and related documents be suspended. When the amended regulations 
became effective on August 28, 1996, the submitted DP, as supplemented, 
became the SNEF PSDAR pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82 as amended. By letter 
dated September 30, 1996, the licensee discussed the effect of the 
amended regulations on its plans for decommissioning the SNEF.
    The public meeting, required by 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(ii), as amended, 
is informational and will include a presentation by the NRC staff on 
the decommissioning regulatory process. The licensee will give a 
presentation on planned decommissioning activities. A question and 
answer period will follow the presentations. Because of restrictions in 
the license for the SNEF, a license amendment is also needed before 
decommissioning activities can begin. This amendment to the SNEF 
license will be the subject of a separate notice for public comment 
pursuant to 10 CFR 50.91.
    The SNEF PSDAR is available for public inspection at the SNEF local 
public document room, located at the Saxton Community Library, Front 
Street, Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678, and at the Commission Public 
Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037. The SNEF 
PSDAR is filed as the SNEF DP dated February 16, 1996, the SNEF 
Decommissioning Environmental Report dated April 17,

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1996, and the licensee's response, dated July 18 and November 8, 1996, 
to a request for additional information from the staff dated June 6, 
1996.
    Comments regarding the SNEC PSDAR may be submitted in writing and 
addressed to Mr. Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager, Non-
Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, Division of 
Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, M.S. 
O-11-B-20, U.S. NRC, Washington, DC, 20555-0001, telephone (301) 415-
1127.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of December 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Seymour H. Weiss,
Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, 
Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-32212 Filed 12-18-96; 8:45 am]
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