[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 97 (Monday, May 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23318-23319]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-10430]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323; NRC-2016-0237]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Director's decision under 10 CFR 2.206; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a
director's decision with regard to a petition dated July 14, 2016,
filed by Mr. David Lochbaum on behalf of the Union of Concerned
Scientists (the petitioner), requesting that the NRC take action
against Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E, the licensee) with
regard to Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 (DCPP). The
petitioner's requests and director's decision are included in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0237 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-2016-0237. 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.
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 this
document.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margaret Watford, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1233, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the Director,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, has issued a director's decision
(ADAMS Accession No. ML17108A590) on a petition filed by the petitioner
on July 14, 2016 (ADAMS Accession No. ML16196A294). The petition was
supplemented by an email dated August 2, 2016, and a letter dated March
27, 2017 (ADAMS
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Accession Nos. ML16215A109 and ML17102A524, respectively).
The petitioner requested that the NRC take enforcement action
against PG&E related to the DCPP. Specifically, the petitioner
requested that the NRC ``issue a Demand for Information pursuant to 10
CFR [title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations] 2.204 to PG&E
requiring the company to provide the NRC with a written explanation as
to why its June 17, 2015, license amendment request failed to include
all the accurate information needed by the NRC staff to complete its
review and the measures it will implement so as to comply with the 10
CFR 50.9 [``Completeness and accuracy of information''] in future
submittals to the NRC.''
On August 2, 2016, the petitioner met with the NRC's Petition
Review Board. The meeting provided the petitioner and the licensee an
opportunity to provide additional information and to clarify issues
cited in the petition. The transcript for that meeting is available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML16232A570.
The NRC sent a copy of the proposed director's decision to the
petitioner and the licensee for comment on March 15, 2017. The
petitioner and the licensee were asked to provide comments by March 29,
2017, on any part of the proposed director's decision that was
considered to be erroneous or any issues in the petition that were not
addressed. While most of the comments received from the petitioner are
outside the scope of the 2.206 petition, the comments are addressed at
the end of the final director's decision.
The Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, has determined
that the request for enforcement action against PG&E be denied. The
reasons for this decision are explained in the director's decision DD-
17-03 pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the Commission's regulations.
The NRC will file a copy of the director's decision with the
Secretary of the Commission for the Commission's review in accordance
with 10 CFR 2.206. As provided by this regulation, the director's
decision will constitute the final action of the Commission 25 days
after the date of the decision unless the Commission, on its own
motion, institutes a review of the director's decision in that time.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of May 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William M. Dean,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2017-10430 Filed 5-19-17; 8:45 am]
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