[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.
[FR Doc. 2018-19602 Filed 9-10-18; 8:45 am]
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