[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 9, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45585-45586]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12926]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-312]


Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Rancho Seco Nuclear 
Generating Station; Notice of Receipt and Availability for Comment of 
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 Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station 
(Rancho Seco) located in Sacramento County, California.
    Rancho Seco was a 913-MWe pressurized water reactor designed by 
Babcock and Wilcox Company. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District 
(SMUD) shut down Rancho Seco permanently on June 7, 1989 after 
approximately 15 years of operation. On August 29, 1989, SMUD formally 
notified the NRC that the plant was shut down permanently.
    On May 20, 1991, SMUD submitted the Rancho Seco Decommissioning 
Plan and on March 20, 1995, the NRC issued an Order approving the 
Decommissioning Plan and authorizing the decommissioning of Rancho 
Seco. In March 1997, SMUD submitted its Post Shutdown Decommissioning 
Activities Report (PSDAR), in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82. The PSDAR 
superseded the original Decommissioning Plan and provided the 
information required by 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4).
    SMUD began actively decommissioning Rancho Seco in February 1997, 
and completed the transfer of all of the spent nuclear fuel to the 10 
CFR part 72 ISFSI on August 21, 2002. Plant dismantlement is 
substantially complete and most of the systems, structures and 
components that were safety-related or important-to-safety have been 
removed from the plant and shipped for disposal.
    In accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9), all power reactor licensees 
must submit an application for

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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. SMUD submitted the proposed 
LTP for Rancho Seco by application dated April 12, 2006. 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 Rancho Seco LTP, and will accept comments from affected 
parties.
    The Rancho Seco LTP is available for public viewing at the NRC's 
Public Document Room (PDR) or electronically through the NRC Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at accession numbers 
ML061460052, ML061460053, ML061460093, ML061460095, ML061460097, 
ML061460098, ML061460100, ML061460101, ML061460103, ML061460105, 
ML061460107, ML061460109, ML061460110, ML061460113, ML061460116, 
ML061460129, ML061460152, ML061460154, ML061460157. Documents may be 
examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the PDR, located at One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 
Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the 
ADAMS Public Library component on the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov 
(the Public Electronic Reading Room). Persons who do not have access to 
ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in 
ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-
397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by E-mail at [email protected].
    Comments regarding the Rancho Seco LTP may be submitted in writing 
and addressed to Mr. John B. Hickman, Mail Stop T-7E18, Decommissioning 
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone (301) 415-
3017 or E-mail [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of July 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Claudia Craig,
Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Section, Decommissioning Directorate, 
Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. E6-12926 Filed 8-8-06; 8:45 am]
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