[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 14, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49553-49554]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19710]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-320; NRC-2013-0183]


Three Mile Island, Unit 2; Post Shutdown Decommissioning 
Activities Report

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of receipt; availability; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: On June 28, 2013, the GPU Nuclear Inc. (GPUN) submitted its 
Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activity Report (PSDAR) for Three Mile 
Island, Unit 2 (TMI-2). The PSDAR provides an overview of GPUN's 
proposed decommissioning activities, schedule, and costs for TMI-2. The 
NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR.

DATES: Submit comments by September 27, 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.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
[unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject]:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0183. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 
of this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, Mail 
Stop: 3WFN-06-A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    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: John T. Buckley, Office of Federal and 
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
6607; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0183 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
access publically-available information by any of the following 
methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0183.
     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

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ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document 
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time 
that a document is referenced. The PSDAR, dated June 2013, was placed 
in ADAMS with Accession No. ML13190A366.
     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-2013-0183 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 you do not want to be publicly disclosed in you 
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. Discussion

    The NRC issued GPUN operating license DPR-73 for TMI-2 on February 
8, 1978. Commercial operation of TMI-2 began on December 30, 1978. On 
March 28, 1979, TMI-2 experienced an accident which resulted in severe 
damage to the reactor core and has been in a non-operating status since 
the accident. The GPUN defueled the reactor vessel and decontaminated 
the facility to the extent that the plant is in a safe, inherently 
stable condition known as post-defueling monitored storage (PDMS). 
Approximately 99 percent of the fuel was removed from TMI-2 and shipped 
to Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory under the 
responsibility of the U.S. Department of Energy.
    The accident made the shutdown of TMI-2 unique from all other 
reactors in that GPUN did not follow the standard process for cessation 
of operations provided in Sec.  50.82 of Title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Termination of license.'' The formal 
transition of TMI-2 from post-accident cleanup to PDMS required NRC 
approval. The GPUN obtained NRC approval to maintain TMI-2 in the PDMS 
state until decommissioning with the issuance of License Amendment No. 
45 dated September 14, 1993 (ADAMS Accession No. 9405190046). License 
Amendment No. 45 also converted GPUN's operating license to the current 
possession-only license. As a result, the NRC considers GPUN to have 
submitted a certification of permanent cessation of operations and a 
certification of permanent fuel removal as of September 14, 1993. In 
accordance with Sec.  50.82 in effect at that time, GPUN should have 
submitted a decommissioning plan by September 1995. In 1996, the NRC 
amended its regulations in 10 CFR 50.82 to require, among other things, 
that power reactor licensees submit a PSDAR instead of a 
decommissioning plan. On June 28, 2013, the GPUN submitted its PSDAR to 
establish compliance with Sec.  50.82(a)(4). The GPUN stated that its 
PSDAR will maintain TMI-2 in the PDMS state up to an additional 20 
years to coincide with the end of the TMI, Unit 1 (TMI-1) Operating 
License to synchronize decommissioning of TMI-1 and TMI-2.

III. Request for Public Comments

    The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of August 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bruce Watson,
Chief, Decommissioning and Uranium Licensing Directorate, Division of 
Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and 
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs.
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