[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 18, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71769-71770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25124]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-409; NRC-2015-0279]
LaCrosseSolutions, LLC; La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor Partial
Site Release
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Request for comment.
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SUMMARY: On June 27, 2016, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
received from LaCrosseSolutions, LLC (LS) a request for approval to
remove portions of the site from the operating license for the La
Crosse Boiling Water Reactor. Specifically, LS intends to remove and
release five radiologically non-impacted portions of the site from its
license. The partial site release request was submitted concurrently
with the La Crosse License Termination Plan and supports ongoing
decommissioning activities at the site. The NRC is requesting public
comments on LS's partial site release request and the La Crosse License
Termination Plan.
DATES: Submit comments by November 17, 2016. 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-2015-0279. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-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: Marlayna Vaaler, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3178; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0279 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-2015-0279.
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-2015-0279 in 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
The La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor (LACBWR) was an Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC) Demonstration Project Reactor that first went critical
in 1967, commenced commercial operation in November 1969, and was
capable of producing 50 megawatts electric. The reactor is located on
the east bank of the Mississippi River in Vernon County, Wisconsin. The
Allis-Chalmers Company was the original licensee; the AEC later sold
the plant to the Dairyland Power Cooperative (DPC) and granted it
Provisional Operating License No. DPR-45 on August 28, 1973.
The reactor permanently ceased operations on April 30, 1987, and
reactor defueling was completed on June 11, 1987. In a letter dated
August 4, 1987, the NRC terminated DPC's authority to operate LACBWR
under Provisional Operating License No. DPR-
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45, and granted the licensee a possess-but-not-operate status. By
letter dated August 18, 1988, the NRC amended DPC's Provisional
Operating License No. DPR-45 to Possession Only License No. DPR-45 to
reflect the permanently defueled configuration at LACBWR. Therefore,
pursuant to the provisions of Sec. Sec. 50.82(a)(1)(iii) and
50.82(a)(2) of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
DPC's part 50 license does not authorize operation of LACBWR or
emplacement or retention of fuel into the reactor vessel.
The NRC issued an order to authorize decommissioning of LACBWR and
approve the licensee's proposed Decommissioning Plan (DP) on August 7,
1991. Because the NRC approved DPC's DP before August 28, 1996,
pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82, the DP is considered the Post-Shutdown
Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for LACBWR. The PSDAR public
meeting was held on May 13, 1998, and subsequent updates to the LACBWR
decommissioning report have combined the DP and PSDAR into the ``LACBWR
Decommissioning Plan and Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities
Report'' (D-Plan/PSDAR).
The DPC developed an on-site independent spent fuel storage
installation (ISFSI) and completed the movement of all 333 spent
nuclear fuel elements from the Fuel Element Storage Well to dry cask
storage at the ISFSI by September 19, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML12290A027). The remaining associated buildings and structures are
ready for dismantlement and decommissioning activities.
By Order dated May 20, 2016 (ADAMS Accession No. ML16123A073), the
NRC approved the direct transfer of Possession Only License No. DPR-45
for LACBWR from DPC to LaCrosseSolutions, LLC (LS), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of EnergySolutions, LLC, and approved a conforming license
amendment, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80 and 50.90, to reflect the change.
The Order was published in the Federal Register on June 2, 2016 (81 FR
35383). The transfer assigns DPC's licensed possession, maintenance,
and decommissioning authorities for LACBWR to LS in order to implement
expedited decommissioning at the LACBWR site. Decommissioning of LACBWR
is scheduled to be completed in 2018.
By letter dated June 27, 2016 (ADAMS Accession No. ML16200A095), LS
submitted the License Termination Plan (LTP) for LACBWR in accordance
with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9). The LTP includes a 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 LACBWR
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 Environmental
Report describing any new information or significant environmental
changes associated with proposed license termination activities. The
LACBWR LTP is currently being reviewed by the NRC.
By letter dated June 27, 2016 (ADAMS Accession No. ML16181A068), LS
submitted a request for approval to remove portions of the site from
the part 50 License, No. DPR-45. Specifically, LS intends to remove and
release five radiologically non-impacted portions of the site from its
part 50 license in accordance with 10 CFR 50.83(b), ``Release of part
of a power reactor facility or site for unrestricted use.'' This
request is the subject of this notice.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 12th day of October 2016.
For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ted Carter,
Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2016-25124 Filed 10-17-16; 8:45 am]
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