[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 214 (Monday, November 5, 2018)]
[Notices]
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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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