[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 245 (Friday, December 21, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65760-65761]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-27724]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-293; NRC-2018-0286]
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of receipt; public meeting; and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: On November 16, 2018, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) received the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
(PSDAR) for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (Pilgrim). The PSDAR,
which includes the Site-Specific Decommissioning Cost Estimate (DCE),
provides an overview of the Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy,
the licensee) planned decommissioning activities, schedule, projected
costs, and environmental impacts for Pilgrim. The NRC will hold a
public meeting to discuss the PSDAR and the DCE and receive comments.
DATES: Submit comments by March 21, 2019. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 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-2018-0286. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Krupskaya Castellon;
telephone: 301-287-9221; 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: John G. Lamb, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3100; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0286 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-2018-0286.
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 ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then 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 document is
mentioned in this document.
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-2018-0286 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 posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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 submissions into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
Entergy is the holder of Renewed Facility Operating License No.
DPR-35 for Pilgrim. The license provides, among other things, that the
facility is subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC
now or hereafter in effect. The facility consists of one boiling-water
reactor located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. By letter dated November
10, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15328A053), the licensee submitted
Notification of Permanent Cessation of Power Operations for Pilgrim. In
this letter, Entergy notified the NRC of its intent to permanently
cease operations at Pilgrim no later than June 1, 2019.
On November 16, 2018, Entergy submitted the PSDAR including and the
DCE for Pilgrim in accordance with Sec. 50.82(a)(4)(i) of Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (ADAMS Accession No. ML18320A034). The
PSDAR includes a description of the planned decommissioning activities,
a proposed schedule for their accomplishment, the DCE, and a discussion
that provides the basis for concluding that the environmental impacts
associated with the site-specific decommissioning activities will be
bounded by appropriate, previously issued generic and plant-specific
environmental impact statements.
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting
The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR including the
DCE for Pilgrim. The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss the
PSDAR including the DCE and receive comments on Tuesday, January 15,
2019, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., at the Hotel 1620, 180 Water Street,
Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360. The NRC requests that comments that are
not provided during the meeting be submitted as noted in section I,
``Obtaining
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Information and Submitting Comments'' of this document in writing by
March 21, 2019.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of December 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Douglas A. Broaddus,
Chief, Special Projects and Process Branch, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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