[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 171 (Thursday, September 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46783-46784]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23474]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-213]


Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation; Connecticut Yankee Atomic 
Power Company; Haddam Neck Plant; Notice of Receipt of and Availability 
for Comment of Post-Shutdown Decommission Activities Report

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is in receipt of and 
is making available for public inspection and comment, the Post-
Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR), dated August 22, 
1997, for the Haddam Neck Plant (HNP) located in Middlesex County, 
Connecticut, Town of Haddam.
    The licensee has selected the DECON alternative for decommissioning 
the site.1 The Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company 
(CYAPCo or licensee) plans to decontaminate the main coolant system in 
early 1998 and to initiate large component removal, (e.g. reactor 
vessel, steam generators and pressurizer) in mid-1998. Decontamination 
and removal of all structures and systems, except the Spent Fuel 
Storage Building (SFSB), is scheduled for completion by the end of 
2002. The SFSB removal is projected for 2022. Soil remediation and the 
final site survey, excluding the SFSB, are scheduled for mid-2004. The 
licensee states, in the PSDAR, that environmental impacts due to 
decommissioning will be within the bounds of the NRC Final Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement, NUREG-0586, the GEIS and the estimated 
total cost of decommissioning expected to be about $426,726,000.
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    \1\ DECON is the alternative in which the equipment, structures, 
and portions of the facility and site containing radioactive 
contaminants are removed or decontaminated to a level that permits 
the property to be released for unrestricted use shortly after 
cessation of operations.
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    HNP has been shut down since July 22, 1996. CYAPCo informed the 
NRC, by letter dated December 5, 1996, that as required by 10 CFR 
50.82(a)(1)(i) and (ii), it had permanently ceased power operations and 
had removed the nuclear fuel from the reactor vessel. The fuel is now 
stored, onsite, in the spent fuel pool.
    The PSDAR is available for public inspection at the local public 
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room located in the Russell Library, 123 Broad Street, Middletown, 
Connecticut 06457, and at the Commission Public Document Room, 2120 L 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037.
    The NRC will hold a public meeting in the vicinity of the HNP 
within the next 60 days. The NRC will publish a notice in the Federal 
Register and in the local media announcing the date, time, and location 
of this meeting along with a brief description of the purpose of the 
meeting.
    Comments regarding the PSDAR should be submitted in writing to Mr. 
Morton B. Fairtile, Mail Stop 011-B 20, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 within 30 days after the date of 
this notice.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of August 1997.

    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. 97-23474 Filed 9-3-97; 8:45 am]
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