[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 214 (Monday, November 5, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 55409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24079]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2018-0218]
Report on Changes to Low-Level Waste Burial Charges
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment Revision 17 of draft NUREG-1307, ``Report on Waste
Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-
Level Waste Burial Facilities.'' This report, which is revised
periodically, explains the formula acceptable to the NRC for
determining the minimum decommissioning fund requirements for nuclear
power reactors. Specifically, this report provides escalation factors,
and updates to these values, for the labor, energy, and waste
components of the minimum formula.
DATES: Submit comments by December 5, 2018. 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
before this date.
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-2018-0218. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov 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: Emil Tabakov, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6814, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0218 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-2018-0218.
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]. NUREG-1307, Revision 17, ``Report on
Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs
at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities,'' is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18270A412.
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-2018-0218 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 into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
NUREG-1307, Revision 17, ``Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes
in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial
Facilities,'' modifies the previous revision to this report issued in
March 2017 (ADAMS Accession No. ML17060A362) and incorporates updates
to the escalation factors for the labor, energy, and waste components
of the NRC minimum decommissioning fund formula. As a result of these
changes, the minimum decommissioning fund formula amounts calculated by
licensees, based on revised low-level waste burial cost factors
presented in this report and revised national labor and energy price
information, will likely reflect (on average) higher minimum
decommissioning fund requirements than those previously reported by
licensees in 2017.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of October 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anthony R. Bowers,
Chief, Financial Projects Branch, Division of Licensing Projects,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2018-24079 Filed 11-2-18; 8:45 am]
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