[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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