[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 80 (Monday, April 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 20673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-11117]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Availability of Draft NUREG-1628 ``Staff Responses to 
Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Decommissioning of Nuclear Power 
Reactors''

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the 
availability of NUREG-1628, ``Staff Responses to Frequently Asked 
Question Concerning Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Reactors,'' a 
draft report for comment dated April 1998.
    This document, through a question-and-answer format, provides 
information to the public on decommissioning. The questions were taken 
from a variety of sources over the past several years, including 
written inquiries and questions asked at public meetings and during 
informal discussions with the NRC staff. The document was prepared in 
response to (1) the increase in the number of power reactors beginning 
the decommissioning process, (2) recent changes in the decommissioning 
regulations, and (3) a perceived lack of information available to 
members of the public on decommissioning. This document is being issued 
for public comment. As a result of comments received from the members 
of the public, the final document may be modified.
    The report contains information on the following topics as they 
relate to decommissioning: definition of decommissioning, 
decommissioning alternatives, decommissioning experience in the U.S. 
regulation of decommissioning, low-level waste storage and disposal of 
wastes associated with facility storage and decommissioning, high-level 
waste storage and disposal, license termination, hazards associated 
with decommissioning, financing, and public involvement during the 
decommissioning process.
    Draft NUREG-1628 is available for inspection and copying for a fee 
at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW, (Lower Level), 
Washington, D.C. A free single copy of the draft NUREG-1628 may be 
requested by writing to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Reproduction, and Distribution and Inventory Services Section, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001 or by faxing a request to 301-415-2289. For 
further information contact, John L. Minns, Division of Reactor Program 
Management. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
3166.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of April 1998.

    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. 98-11117 Filed 4-24-98; 8:45 am]
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