[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 244 (Wednesday, December 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75198-75199]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-30610]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0299]
Standard Format and Content for Post-Shutdown Decommissioning
Activities Report
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1272, ``Standard Format
and Content for Post-shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report.'' This
guide describes a method that the NRC staff considers acceptable for
use in complying with the Commission's requirements regarding the
submission of a post-shutdown decommissioning activities report
(PSDAR).
DATES: Submit comments by February 19, 2013. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date. Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in
connection with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed
or improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time.
ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related
to this document, which the NRC possesses and are publically available,
by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2012-
0299. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0299. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected].
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.
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For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward O'Donnell, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-251-7455 or email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0299 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access information related to this document by any of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0299.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly-available documents online in the NRC
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. The draft regulatory guide
is available electronically under ADAMS Accession No. ML111870024. The
regulatory analysis may be found under ADAMS Accession No. ML112020240.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2012-0299 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
II. Further Information
The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft guide in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and
make available to the public such information as methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
NRC's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff
needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
DG-1271 is proposed revision 1 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.185,
``Standard Format and Content for Post-shutdown Decommissioning
Activities Report,'' which was issued in July 2000. DG-1271 would
update RG 1.185 to reflect lessons learned since its original issuance.
This regulatory guide identifies the type of information that the PSDAR
must contain and establishes a standard format for the PSDAR that the
NRC staff considers acceptable. The PSDAR is required of nuclear power
plant licensees before or within two years of permanent cessation of
operations. The report must include a description of the licensee's
planned decommissioning activities, a schedule for the accomplishment
of significant milestones, an estimate of expected costs, and a
discussion of the licensee's evaluation of the environmental impacts
associated with site-specific decommissioning activities.
III. Backfitting and Issue Finality
As discussed in the ``Implementation'' section of this regulatory
guide, the NRC has no current intention to impose this regulatory guide
on holders of current operating licenses or combined licenses.
Accordingly, the issuance of this regulatory guide would not constitute
``backfitting'' as defined in 10 CFR 50.109(a)(1) of the Backfit Rule
or be otherwise inconsistent with the applicable issue finality
provisions in 10 CFR part 52.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of December, 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2012-30610 Filed 12-18-12; 8:45 am]
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