[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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