[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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