[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 26 (Monday, February 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 7038]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02608]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-250 and 50-251; NRC-2015-0011]


Florida Power & Light Company; Turkey Point Nuclear Generating 
Units 3 and 4

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: 10 CFR 2.206 request; receipt.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is giving notice 
that by petition dated July 18, 2014, as supplemented, Mr. Thomas 
Saporito (the petitioner) requested that the NRC take enforcement 
action with regard to Florida Power & Light Company (FPL or the 
licensee). The petitioner's requests are included in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0011 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0011. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected].
     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 at [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 the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By petition dated July 18, 2014 (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML14202A520), as supplemented by email (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML14202A521) and the petitioner's address to the Petition Review 
Board on September 3, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. ML14266A123), the 
petitioner requested that the NRC take enforcement action against FPL 
due to increased ultimate heat sink (UHS) temperatures at Turkey Point 
Nuclear Generating Units 3 and 4 (Turkey Point). The petition states 
concern with the impact of the higher UHS temperatures on the 
environment and the licensee's capability to mitigate accidents at the 
higher temperatures.
    The petitioner requested that the NRC take escalated enforcement 
action against FPL, specifically to issue FPL a violation and civil 
penalty, and to issue FPL a confirmatory order to maintain Turkey Point 
in a cold shutdown condition until FPL completes independent 
assessments of the UHS temperature increase and its impacts on safety-
related equipment. As the basis for this request, the petitioner stated 
that operation of Turkey Point at a UHS temperature greater than 100 
degrees Fahrenheit will significantly jeopardize public health and 
safety and the environment.
    The request is being treated pursuant to Section 2.206 of Title 10 
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). The NRC reviewed the 
petition, its supplements, and the transcripts from the meeting on 
September 3, 2014, and referred the request to the Director of the 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. The Director determined that the 
petitioner's request that the NRC take enforcement action until the 
licensee completes an independent root cause assessment for the rise in 
UHS temperature met the criteria for review under the 10 CFR 2.206 
process. The Director determined that the other requests in the 
petition did not meet the criteria for review under the 10 CFR 2.206 
process because they concern issues that have already been the subject 
of NRC staff review and evaluation and have been resolved. The NRC will 
take appropriate action on this petition within a reasonable time.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of January, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jennifer L. Uhle,
Deputy Director for Reactor Safety Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-02608 Filed 2-6-15; 8:45 am]
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