[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45994-45995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-19602]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-312; NRC-2018-0180]


Sacramento Municipal Utility District; Rancho Seco Nuclear 
Generating Station

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License termination; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing 
public notice of the termination of the Operating License (Possession 
Only) No. DPR-54. The NRC has terminated the license of the 
decommissioned Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station (Rancho Seco) in 
Herald, California and has approved the site for unrestricted release.

DATES: Notice of termination of Operating License No. DPR-54 issued on 
August 31, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0180 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 Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0180. 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.
     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 ``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 that document is available in ADAMS) is 
provided the first time that a document is referenced.
     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, MD 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ted Carter, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-5543, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has terminated License No. DPR-54, 
held by Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), for Rancho Seco 
in Herald, California, and has approved the site for unrestricted 
release. Accordingly, the existing indemnity agreement between SMUD and 
the NRC has been terminated.
    Rancho Seco initially went critical on September 16, 1974, and 
began commercial operation on April 18, 1975. On June 7, 1989, SMUD 
permanently terminated nuclear power operations at Rancho Seco. On 
December 8, 1989, SMUD completed defueling the reactor. On March 17, 
1992, the NRC amended the Rancho Seco operating license to ``Possession 
Only'' status (ADAMS Accession No. ML17283A071). On March 20, 1995, the 
NRC issued the Rancho Seco Decommissioning Order. The Order authorized 
SMUD to decommission the facility and accepted the Rancho Seco 
decommissioning funding plan. SMUD began actively decommissioning 
Rancho Seco in February 1997. In March 1997, SMUD revised the Rancho 
Seco Decommissioning Plan to conform to the content requirements of the 
Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report.
    On June 30, 2000, the NRC issued Materials License SNM-2510 for the 
Rancho Seco Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). This 
site-specific license authorizes SMUD to store Rancho Seco spent fuel 
at the Rancho Seco ISFSI. The licensee completed transferring all of 
the spent fuel to the ISFSI on August 21, 2002. All of the spent fuel 
is now stored at the ISFSI. The ISFSI is a separately licensed facility 
located outside the operating licensed site. On October 10, 2002, NRC 
approved a license amendment that eliminated the security plan 
requirements from the operating licensed facility (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML022840145).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of August 2018.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John P. Clements,
Acting Branch Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of 
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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