[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 65 (Monday, April 6, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18443-18444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-07855]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-295 and 50-304; NRC-2015-0082]


Zion Solutions, LLC, Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, 
License Termination Plan

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Request for comment and public meeting.

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SUMMARY: On December 19, 2014, as supplemented on February 26, 2015, 
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received from Zion 
Solutions, LLC, (ZS), the License Termination Plan (LTP) for the Zion 
Nuclear Power Station (ZNPS), Units 1 and 2. The LTP provides details 
about the known radiological information for the site, the planned 
demolition and decommissioning tasks to be completed, and the final 
radiological surveys and data that will need to be obtained to allow 
termination of the NRC's license for ZNPS. The NRC is requesting public 
comments on ZS's LTP and will hold a public meeting to discuss the LTP.

DATES: Submit comments by May 26, 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.

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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-2015-0082. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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: O12-H08, 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: John Hickman, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3017, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information.

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0082 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-2015-0082.
     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-2015-0082 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

    Zion Solutions is the holder of Facility Operating License Nos. 
DPR-39 and DPR-48. The license provides, among other things, that the 
facility is subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC 
now or hereafter in effect. The facility consists of two pressurized-
water reactors located in Lake County, Illinois.
    In September 1996, ZNPS Unit 2 was permanently shut-down after 
approximately 23 years of operation. In February 1997, ZNPS Unit 1 was 
permanently shut-down after approximately 24 years of operation. In 
early 1998, in accordance with section 50.82(a)(1)(i) and (ii) of title 
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Exelon Generating 
Company LLC (Exelon) notified the NRC of the permanent cessation of 
operations at the ZNPS and the permanent removal of all spent fuel 
assemblies from the reactor vessels to the spent fuel pool (ADAMS 
Legacy Accession Numbers 9902200407 and 9803110251). On February 14, 
2000, Exelon submitted a Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities 
Report (PSDAR) for the Zion units, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(i) 
(ML003685889). The PSDAR was updated on March 18, 2008 (ML080840398). 
On September 1, 2010, the NRC transferred Facility Operating License 
Numbers DPR-39 and DPR-48 from Exelon to ZS (ML102290437). Zion 
Solutions acquired ZNPS to conduct the decommissioning of the facility 
and then return the decommissioned site back to Exelon. The spent fuel 
has been moved from the spent fuel pool to the Independent Spent Fuel 
Storage Installation. Decommissioning of ZNPS is scheduled to be 
completed in 2018.
    By letter dated December 19, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML15005A336), and supplemented on February 26, 2015 (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML15061A281), ZS submitted the LTP for ZNPS in accordance with 
section 50.82(a)(9). The LTP addresses site characterization to ensure 
that final radiation surveys (FRS) cover all areas where contamination 
existed, remains, or has the potential to exist or remain, 
identification of remaining dismantlement activities, plans for site 
remediation, a description of the FRS plan to confirm that ZNPS will 
meet the release criteria in 10 CFR part 20, subpart E, dose-modeling 
scenarios that ensure compliance with the radiological criteria for 
license termination, an estimate of the remaining site-specific 
decommissioning costs, and a supplement to the Defueled Safety Analysis 
Report and the Environmental Report describing any new information or 
significant environmental change associated with proposed license 
termination activities.

III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting

    The NRC is requesting public comments on the ZNPS LTP. The NRC will 
conduct a public meeting to discuss the LTP and receive comments on 
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., Central Time, at the 
Illinois Beach Resort & Conference Center, 1 Lake Front Drive., Zion, 
IL. 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 26th day of March, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bruce Watson,
Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning, 
Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-07855 Filed 4-3-15; 8:45 am]
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