[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 94 (Monday, May 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 31021]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12128]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-146]


GPU Nuclear Corp., Saxton Nuclear Experimental Facility; Notice 
of Receipt, Availability for Comment, and Meeting To Discuss License 
Termination Plan

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is in receipt of and is 
making available for public inspection and comment the License 
Termination Plan (LTP) for the Saxton Nuclear Experimental Facility 
(SNEF) located in Saxton, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
    Reactor operations at the SNEF were ended in May 1972. The reactor 
was defueled and all fuel was removed from the site in 1972. In 
accordance with NRC regulations in effect at that time, the Saxton 
Nuclear Experimental Corporation (SNEC) submitted a decommissioning 
plan for the SNEF to the NRC in February 1996 (GPU Nuclear Corporation 
(GPUN) became a co-licensee for the SNEF on May 10, 1996). 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 decommissioning plan be 
suspended. When the amended regulations became effective on August 28, 
1996, the submitted decommissioning plan, as supplemented, became the 
SNEF Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) pursuant 
to 10 CFR 50.82 as amended. A public meeting was held in Saxton, 
Pennsylvania on January 28, 1997, to provide information and gather 
pubic comment on the PSDAR. Because of restrictions in the license for 
the SNEF, a license amendment was needed before decommissioning 
activities could commence. License Amendment No. 15 to Amended Facility 
License No. DPR-4 approving decommissioning was issued on April 20, 
1998. The facility is undergoing active decontamination and 
dismantlement.
    In accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9), all power reactor licensees 
must submit an application for termination of their license. The 
application for termination of license must be accompanied or preceded 
by an LTP to be submitted for NRC approval. If found acceptable by the 
NRC staff, the LTP is approved by license amendment, subject to such 
conditions and limitations as the NRC staff deems appropriate and 
necessary. SNEC and GPUN (the licensees) submitted the proposed LTP for 
the SNEF by application dated February 2, 2000. In accordance with 10 
CFR 20.1405 and 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii), the NRC is providing notice to 
individuals in the vicinity of the site that the NRC is in receipt of 
the SNEF LTP, and will accept comments from affected parties. In 
accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii), the NRC is also providing 
notice that the NRC staff will conduct a meeting to discuss the SNEC 
LTP on Thursday, May 25, 2000, at 7:00 p.m. at the Saxton Fire Hall 
located at 8th and Norris Street, Saxton, Pennsylvania 16678.
    The SNEF LTP and associated environmental report are available for 
public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman 
Building, at 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC 20037. They are also 
available through http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/reports under ``What's New on 
This Page,'' ``Decommissioning,'' or ``Other Documents.''

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of May 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ledyard B. Marsh,
Chief, Events Assessment, Generic Communications and Non-Power Reactors 
Branch, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-12128 Filed 5-12-00; 8:45 am]
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