[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 110 (Friday, June 6, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32363-32364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-12696]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos.: 50-295 and 50-304]


Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 
1 and 2; Notice of Public Meeting on the Proposed License Transfer and 
Draft Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mr. John B. Hickman, Mail Stop T-8F5, 
Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate, Division of 
Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and 
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: (301) 415-
3017 or via e-mail: [email protected].
SUMMARY: The NRC is providing notice that the NRC staff will conduct a 
meeting to discuss and accept public comments on the Zion Nuclear Power 
Station, Units 1 and 2 (Zion) proposed license transfer and Zion 
Solutions (ZS) draft Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report 
(PSDAR) on Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at 7 p.m. in a meeting room at the 
Illinois Beach Resort and Conference Center, 1 Lake Front Drive, Zion, 
Illinois (http://www.ilresorts.com/).
    Zion began commercial operation in December 1973 for Unit 1, and 
September 1974 for Unit 2. Unit 1 permanently shut down on February 21, 
1997, and Unit 2 permanently shut down on September 19, 1996. All fuel 
was removed from the reactor and placed in the spent fuel pool on April 
27, 1997, for Unit 1 and February 25, 1998, for Unit 2. In accordance 
with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(1)(i), the licensee certified in a letter dated 
February 13, 1998, that operations have ceased at Zion. In accordance 
with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(1)(ii), the licensee certified in a letter dated 
March 9, 1998, that all fuel had been removed from the Zion reactor 
vessels

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and committed to maintain them permanently defueled. The NRC 
acknowledged the certification of permanent cessation of power 
operation and permanent removal of fuel from the reactor vessels in a 
letter dated May 4, 1998. Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(2), the 10 CFR 50 
facility operating licenses for Zion no longer authorize operation of 
the reactors or emplacement or retention of fuel in the reactor 
vessels. Also, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.51(b), ``Continuation of 
license,'' the facility licenses remain in effect until the NRC 
notifies the licensee that the licenses have been terminated.
    On January 25, 2008, Exelon, the Zion licensee, submitted a request 
for a license transfer. The proposal is to transfer the licensed 
ownership, management authorities, and decommissioning trust fund of 
the facility to ZS a subsidiary of Energy Solutions. ZS was formed for 
the purpose of decommissioning the Zion site. The title to the site 
real estate and the spent nuclear fuel will remain with Exelon. ZS will 
construct and transfer the spent fuel to an ISFSI as part of the 
decommissioning. Following the decommissioning, currently scheduled for 
10 years, the license for the spent fuel will be transferred back to 
Exelon.
    On March 18, 2008, ZS submitted an amended PSDAR for Zion. The 
PSDAR represents the ZS plan of activities to become effective if the 
application for license transfer is approved. The PSDAR describes the 
planned decommissioning activities, provides a schedule for the planned 
decommissioning activities, includes a cost estimate for the 
decommissioning, and assesses the environmental impacts.

Further Information

    The application for license transfer and the draft PSDAR are 
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 ML080310521 for the 
transfer request and ML080840398 for the PSDAR. 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].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of June 2008.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Branch Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Decommissioning and 
Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate, Division of Waste Management 
and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and 
Environmental Management Programs.
[FR Doc. E8-12696 Filed 6-5-08; 8:45 am]
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