[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 112 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27033-27034]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12429]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-219; NRC-2018-0111]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating
Station; Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of receipt; availability; public meeting; and request
for comment.
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SUMMARY: On May 21, 2018, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
received the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR)
for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (Oyster Creek). The
PSDAR, which includes the site-specific decommissioning cost estimate
(DCE), provides an overview of Exelon Generation Company, LLC's (Exelon
or the licensee) planned decommissioning activities, schedule,
projected costs, and environmental impacts for Oyster Creek. The NRC
will hold a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR's content and receive
comments.
DATES: Submit comments by September 10, 2018. 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 before this
date.
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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID: NRC-2018-0111. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail
Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, 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 G. Lamb, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3100; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0111 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 website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0111.
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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2018-0111 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 will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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
Exelon is the holder of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-
16 for Oyster Creek. 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 one boiling-water
reactor located in Ocean County, New Jersey. By letter dated January 7,
2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110070507), the licensee submitted
Notification of Permanent Cessation of Power Operations for Oyster
Creek. In this letter, Exelon notified the NRC of its intent to
permanently cease operations at Oyster Creek no later than December 31,
2019. By letter dated February 14, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML18045A084), the licensee submitted its revised Notification of
Permanent Cessation of Power Operations for Oyster Creek. In this
letter, Exelon notified the NRC of its intent to permanently cease
operations at Oyster Creek no later than October 31, 2018.
On May 21, 2018, Exelon submitted the PSDAR, including the site-
specific DCE for Oyster Creek, in accordance with Sec. 50.82(a)(4)(i)
of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (ADAMS Accession No.
ML18141A775). The PSDAR includes a description of the planned
decommissioning activities, a proposed schedule for their
accomplishment, the site-specific DCE, and a discussion that provides
the basis for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with
the site-specific decommissioning activities will be bounded by
appropriate, previously issued generic and plant-specific environmental
impact statements. In a separate letter, Exelon submitted its update to
the spent fuel management plan for Oyster Creek on May 21, 2018 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML18141A486).
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting
The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR, including the
DCE, for Oyster Creek. The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss
the PSDAR, including the DCE, and receive comments on Tuesday, July 17,
2018, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., at the Community Hall--Lacey Township,
101 North Main Street, Forked River, New Jersey 08731. The NRC requests
that comments that are not provided during the meeting be submitted as
noted in Section I, ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments,''
of this document in writing by September 10, 2018.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of June, 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Douglas A. Broaddus,
Chief, Special Projects and Process Branch, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2018-12429 Filed 6-8-18; 8:45 am]
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