[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 112 (Friday, June 12, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 28073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13820]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-16; NRC-2009-0238]


DTE Energy, Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant, Unit 1; Notice of 
Public Meeting on the Proposed License Amendment and License 
Termination Plan

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing notice 
that the NRC staff will conduct a meeting to discuss and accept public 
comments on the Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant, Unit 1 (Fermi-1) 
proposed License Amendment and License Termination Plan (LTP) on 
Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at 7 p.m. in a meeting room at the Monroe 
County Board of Commissioners, 125 E. Second Street, Monroe, MI 48161 
(http://www.co.monroe.mi.us/).
    Fermi-1 was granted an operating license on May 10, 1963 by the 
Atomic Energy Commission, the regulatory predecessor to the NRC. Power 
testing above one megawatt thermal commenced in December 1965. In 
October 1966, due to blocked coolant flow, two fuel subassemblies 
sustained significant damage. No abnormal releases to the environment 
occurred. Fermi-1 was restarted approximately four years later. The 
facility was permanently shut down in November 1972 and the fuel and 
blanket subassemblies were shipped offsite in 1973. A possession-only 
license was issued on January 23, 1976. Since that time, the site has 
been in safe storage pending final decommissioning. Pursuant to 10 CFR 
50.51(b), ``Continuation of license,'' the facility license remains in 
effect until the NRC notifies the licensee that the license has been 
terminated. On March 25, 2009, DTE Energy, the licensee, submitted a 
proposed LTP for the Fermi-1 site. The proposal is to incorporate the 
LTP by license condition (LC) via an amendment to the Fermi-1 license. 
The LC would also establish change criteria for determining when 
changes to the LTP would require prior NRC approval. The LTP 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.
    The application for license amendment and the proposed LTP 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 number ML090970803. 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 or questions regarding the proposed license amendment, 
proposed LTP or the public meeting may be addressed to Mr. Theodore B. 
Smith, 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) 415-6721 or via e-mail [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of June 2009.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Duane Schmidt,
Acting 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. E9-13820 Filed 6-11-09; 8:45 am]
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