[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 251 (Tuesday, December 31, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79709-79710]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31317]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-302; NRC-2013-0283]


Duke Energy Florida, Inc., Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear 
Generating Plant Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of receipt; availability; public meeting; and request 
for public comment.

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SUMMARY: On December 5, 2013, the NRC received the Post-Shutdown 
Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR), dated December 2, 2013 
(Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession 
No. ML13340A009), for the Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant 
(CR-3). The PSDAR provides an overview of Duke Energy Florida, Inc.'s 
(DEF's, the licensee's) proposed decommissioning activities, schedule, 
and costs for CR-3. The NRC will hold a public meeting to discuss the 
PSDAR and receive comments.

DATES: Submit comments by March 5, 2014. Comments 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 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):
     NRC Public Meeting: The NRC will conduct a public meeting 
to discuss and accept comments on the CR-3 PSDAR on Thursday, January 
16, 2014, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m., EST, at the Crystal River Nuclear 
Plant Training Center/Emergency Operations Facility, Room 150, 8200 
West Venable Street, Crystal River, FL 34429. The NRC requests that 
comments that are not addressed during the meeting be submitted in 
writing.
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0283. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual 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: Christopher Gratton, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1055; or email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0283 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-2013-0283.
     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 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.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at

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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-2013-0283 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

    CR-3 began commercial operation in March 1977. On February 20, 
2013, Florida Power Corporation (FPC), which was renamed DEF in October 
2013, provided to the NRC its certification of permanent cessation of 
operations (Cert1) and permanent removal of fuel from the reactor 
vessel (Cert2), as required by 10 CFR 50.82(a)(1)(i) and (ii), 
respectively. FPC stated in its February 20, 2013, letter that it had 
safely shut down the reactor on September 26, 2009, and had completed 
the transfer all fuel from the reactor vessel to the spent fuel pool on 
May 28, 2011. The letter documenting the licensee's certifications may 
be viewed in ADAMS at Accession No. ML13056A005.
    With the docketing of Cert1 and Cert2 on February 20, 2013, 
pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(2), the 10 CFR Part 50 facility operating 
license for CR-3 no longer authorizes operation of the reactor or 
emplacement or retention of fuel in the reactor vessel. In addition, 
pursuant to 10 CFR 50.51, ``Continuation of license,'' Subpart (b), the 
facility license remains in effect until the NRC notifies the licensee 
that the license has been terminated.
    On December 2, 2013, DEF submitted the PSDAR for CR-3 in accordance 
with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(i). The PSDAR includes a description of the 
planned decommissioning activities, a proposed schedule for their 
accomplishment, a site-specific decommissioning cost estimate, and a 
discussion that provides the basis for concluding that the 
environmental impacts associated with decommissioning activities will 
be bounded by appropriate, previously issued environmental impact 
statements.

III. Request for Comment

    The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR for CR-3.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of December, 2013.

    For The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Douglas A. Broaddus,
Chief, Plant Licensing IV-2 and Decommissioning Transition Branch, 
Division of Operator Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
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