[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1975-1976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00450]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-271; NRC-2015-0004]


Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power 
Station Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Request for comment and public meeting.

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SUMMARY: On December 23, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) received the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report 
(PSDAR) and the Site-Specific Decommissioning Cost Estimate (DCE) dated 
December 19, 2014, for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VY). 
The PSDAR, which includes the DCE, provides an overview of Entergy 
Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy or the licensee), planned 
decommissioning activities, schedule, projected costs, and 
environmental impacts for VY. The NRC is requesting public comments on 
Entergy's PSDAR and DCE and will hold a public meeting to discuss the 
PSDAR and DCE.

DATES: Submit comments by March 23, 2015. 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-2015-0004. 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, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Kim, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, telephone: 301-415-4125, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0004 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0004.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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 (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
     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-2015-0004 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 your 
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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

    Entergy is the holder of Renewed Facility Operating License No. 
DPR-28. The license provides, among other things, that the facility is 
subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC

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now or hereafter in effect. The facility consists of a boiling-water 
reactor located in Windham County, Vermont.
    By letter dated September 23, 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML13273A204), Entergy submitted Notification of Permanent Cessation of 
Power Operations for VY. In this letter, Entergy provided notification 
to the NRC of its intent to permanently cease power operation at the 
end of the current operating cycle, which is expected to occur in the 
fourth calendar quarter of 2014. In addition, Entergy indicated their 
intent to supplement the letter certifying the date on which operations 
have ceased, or will cease, in accordance with Sec.  50.82(a)(1)(i) of 
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) and 10 CFR 
50.4(b)(8).
    On December 19, 2014, Entergy submitted the PSDAR and DCE for VY in 
accordance with Sec.  50.82(a)(4)(i) (ADAMS Accession No. ML14357A110). 
The PSDAR includes a description of the planned decommissioning 
activities, a proposed schedule for their accomplishment, the site-
specific DCE (submitted concurrently), and a discussion that provides 
the basis for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with 
the site-specific decommissioning activities will be bounded by 
appropriate, previously issued generic and plant-specific environmental 
impact statements.

III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting

    The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR and DCE for VY. 
The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR and DCE and 
receive comments on Wednesday, February 19, 2015, from 6 p.m. until 9 
p.m., Eastern Standard Time, at the Quality Inn, 1380 Putney Road, 
Brattleboro, VT 05301. For additional information regarding the 
meeting, see the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site at http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. The agenda will be posted no later than 10 
days prior to the meeting.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of January, 2015.

    For the 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.
[FR Doc. 2015-00450 Filed 1-13-15; 8:45 am]
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