[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 107 (Friday, June 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 35406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13876]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-312]


Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), Rancho Seco Nuclear 
Generating Plant; Notice of Public Meeting

    The NRC will conduct a public meeting in the Chabolla Community 
Center, 630 Chabolla Avenue, Galt, California, on June 20, 2000, to 
discuss SMUD plans to commence dismantlement and decontamination 
activities at the Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, Herald, 
California. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m., with the doors opening 
at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be chaired by Mr. Don Notolli, 
Supervisor, County Supervisory District 5, County of Sacramento, 
California, and will include short presentations by the NRC staff on 
the decommissioning process and NRC inspection program and by SMUD on 
its planned decommissioning activities. There will be an opportunity 
for members of the public to make comments and question the NRC staff 
and SMUD representatives.
    On November 4, 1999, SMUD provided Amendment 2 to its Post-Shutdown 
Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) to the NRC staff. This 
revision describes, in part, the licensee's plans to forego its initial 
option of hardened--SAFSTOR (i.e., long-term safe storage) for the 
Rancho Seco facility to implement an accelerated schedule of 
dismantlement and decontamination that will result in license 
termination by 2008. This licensee decision was made, in part, on its 
success in the incremental decontamination and dismantlement of the 
facility as described in Amendment 1 to its PSDAR dated January 29, 
1997.
    The NRC staff believes that the licensee's decision to change from 
hardened-SAFSTOR to full-plant decontamination and dismantlement is a 
significant change to the activities and schedules identified in the 
original PSDAR submitted on March 20, 1997. As such, the NRC plans to 
inform the public of the licensee's new decommissioning schedule by 
conducting a public meeting at the Chabolla Community Center which is 
in the vicinity of the Rancho Seco facility. This meeting will also 
provide a forum for the public to gather information and ask questions 
or make comments.
    For more information, contact Paul W. Harris, Project Directorate 
IV & Decommissioning, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone 
301-415-1169 or email at [email protected].
    The PSDAR is available for public inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room located at the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, 
Washington, DC, and is accessible electronically from the ADAMS Public 
Library (Amendment 2 Accession No. ML993160051) component on the NRC 
Web site, http://www.nrc.gov (the Electronic Reading Room).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of May 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul W. Harris,
Project Manager, Decommissioning Section, Project Directorate IV & 
Decommissioning, Division of Licensing Project Management, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-13876 Filed 6-1-00; 8:45 am]
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