[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 136 (Thursday, July 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42130-42132]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17387]
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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; reopening of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On April 6, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
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solicited comments on the License Termination Plan (LTP) for the Zion
Nuclear Power Station (ZNPS), Units 1 and 2. The public comment period
closed on May 26, 2015. The NRC has decided to reopen the public
comment period to allow more time for members of the public to develop
and submit their comments.
DATES: The comment period for the document published on April 6, 2015
(80 FR 18443) has been reopened. Comments should be filed no later than
August 17, 2015. Comments received after this date will be considered,
if it is practical to do so, but the Commission 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-2015-0082. 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 your comment submission.
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 Solution (ZS), LLC, is the holder of Facility Operating
License Nos. DPR-39 and DPR-48. The licenses provide, among other
things, that ZS is subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the
NRC now or hereafter in effect. The ZNPS 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 10 CFR 50.82(a)(1)(i) and (ii) of Title
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 50), 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 Nos. 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) (ADAMS
Accession No. ML003685889). The PSDAR was updated on March 18, 2008
(ADAMS Accession No. ML080840398). On September 1, 2010, the NRC
transferred Facility Operating License Numbers DPR-39 and DPR-48 from
Exelon to ZS (ADAMS Accession No. ML102290437). The ZS 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
Sec. 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.
A public meeting was held on April 28, 2015, in Zion, IL to discuss
the LTP and solicit public comments. A transcript of that meeting is
available (ADAMS Accession No. ML15148A377). Based on the interest
expressed at that meeting and in subsequent communications with the NRC
staff, the NRC has decided to reopen the comment period.
On April 6, 2015, the NRC solicited comments on the License
Termination Plan for the Zion Nuclear Power Station,
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Units 1 and 2. The public comment period closed on May 26, 2015. The
NRC has decided to reopen the public comment period on this document
until August 17, 2015.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of June, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Zahira Cruz,
Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-17387 Filed 7-15-15; 8:45 am]
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