[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 227 (Monday, November 26, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60508-60509]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-25666]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-285; NRC-2018-0268]
Omaha Public Power District, Fort Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1,
Partial Site Release
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Partial site release; public meeting and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering
two requests from the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) to approve the
release of land areas, under the control of the NRC power reactor
license for the Fort Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1 (FCS), License No.
DPR-40, of portions of their owned-controlled property and an easement-
controlled land area for unrestricted use. The NRC will review the
requests and the result of NRC confirmatory surveys of the properties
proposed for release. Approval of the request would allow OPPD to sell
the released portion of the owner-controlled property, to the north and
west of the plant in Nebraska, and to release the easement on the other
property, to the north and east of the plant, in Iowa. The NRC is
soliciting public comment on the requested actions and invites
stakeholders and interested persons to participate. The NRC plans to
hold a public meeting to promote full understanding of the requested
actions and to facilitate public comment.
DATES: Submit comments by December 26, 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. A public meeting will be held on November 28, 2018.
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-2018-0268. 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: Jack Parrott, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6634; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0268. 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-2018-0268.
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 ``Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1--
Request for Partial Site Release'' and ``Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1--
Request for Partial Site Release Phase 2'' are available in ADAMS under
Nos. ML18215A187 and ML18316A036, respectively.
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-2018-0268. 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. Background
The NRC has received two requests for approval of partial site
releases from the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD or licensee), by
letters dated June 29, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18215A187) and
November 12, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18316A036). The requests seek
approval for release for unrestricted use of a portion of the Fort
Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1 (FCS) site located at 9610 Power Lane,
Blair, Nebraska. The first proposed release area is a 120-acre portion
on the north
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and west side of the licensee-controlled facility property, wholly
within the State of Nebraska. The second proposed release area involves
a 475-acre parcel of land north and east of the site, located on the
banks of the Missouri River on the Iowa side of the Iowa-Nebraska
border, on which the licensee currently has an easement and that is
part of the exclusion area of the plant.
The FCS license (NRC License No. DPR-40, Docket No. 50-285) is for
a power reactor under part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of Production and
Utilization Facilities,'' of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR). The facility was certified as permanently shut
down, per NRC regulations in 10 CFR 50.82(a), by letter dated November
13, 2016. FCS is currently in ``SAFSTOR'' decommissioning mode awaiting
the termination of the power reactor license.
The licensee requests release from the NRC license, for
unrestricted use, of two portions of the site under 10 CFR 50.83,
``Release of Part of a Power Reactor Facility or Site for Unrestricted
Use.'' The licensee is declaring these portions of the site to be
``non-impacted'' as defined in 10 CFR 50.2. Approval of the request
would, for example, allow OPPD to sell a released portion to a non-OPPD
controlled entity.
As described in 10 CFR 50.83(c), the NRC will determine whether the
licensee has adequately evaluated the effect of releasing the
properties per the requirements of 10 CFR 50.83(a)(1), determine
whether the licensee's classification of any released areas as ``non-
impacted'' is adequately justified, and if the NRC determines that the
licensee's submittal is adequate, the NRC will inform the licensee in
writing that the release is approved.
III. Public Meeting
The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss OPPD's request for
approval of the partial site release. The meeting will be held on
Wednesday, November 28, 2018, from 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., Central
Standard Time, at the Residence Inn Omaha Downtown/Old Market Area, 106
South 15th St., Omaha, NE 68102.
This is a Category 3 public meeting where stakeholders are invited
to fully engage NRC staff to provide a range of views, information,
concerns and suggestions with regard to regulatory issues. After the
licensee and NRC staff presentation portion of the meeting, the public
is allowed to speak and ask questions. Comments can be provided orally
or in writing to the NRC staff present at the meeting.
Stakeholders should monitor the NRC's public meeting website for
information about the public meeting at: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/index.cfm. The agenda will be posted no later
than 10 days prior to the meeting.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of November, 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea Kock,
Acting Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and
Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2018-25666 Filed 11-23-18; 8:45 am]
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