[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 27, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11578-11580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05802]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-18 and 50-183; NRC-2019-0082]
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy; Vallecitos Nuclear Center Partial Site
Release
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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ACTION: Partial site release; public meeting and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering a
request from GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to approve the release for
unrestricted use of a portion of its property under the control of the
NRC power reactor licenses for the Vallecitos Nuclear Center (VNC) in
Sunol, California. Approval of the request would allow GEH to make
available to the Alameda County Transportation Commission an
approximately seven-acre portion on the southern boundary of the GEH-
controlled property to support road development and widening of
California State Highway 84. The NRC is soliciting public comment on
the requested action and invites 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 April 26, 2019. 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 March 28, 2019.
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-2019-0082. Address
questions about NRC 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: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
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-2019-0082. 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-2019-0082.
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 requesting document, entitled
``GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy--Unconditional Release of Route 84 Frontage
Section of Vallecitos Nuclear Center (VNC) Site,'' is available in
ADAMS under accession no. ML18348A425.
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-2019-0082. 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 received a request for approval of the partial site
releases from GE Hitachi Nuclear Entergy (GEH or licensee), by letter
dated December 14, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18348A425). The request
seeks approval for release for unrestricted use of a non-impacted
portion of the VNC site acreage located at 6705 Vallecitos Rd., Sunol,
California. The proposed release area is an approximately seven-acre
portion on the south side of the licensee-controlled facility property.
The GEH licenses (NRC License No. DPR-1, Docket No. 50-18, and
License No. DR-10, Docket No. 50-183) are for power reactors licensed
under part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization
Facilities,'' of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
The two facilities are certified as permanently shut down with licenses
allowing only the possession of nuclear material (not operation of the
reactors). Both reactors are currently in ``SAFSTOR'' decommissioning
mode awaiting the termination of their power reactor licenses.
The licensee requests this partial site release for unrestricted
use under 10 CFR 50.83, ``Release of part of a power reactor facility
or site for unrestricted use.'' The licensee has declared this portion
of the site to be ``non-impacted'' as defined in 10 CFR 50.2,
``Definitions.'' Approval of the request would allow GEH to make the
released portion of the property available to the Alameda County
Transportation Commission to support road development and widening of
California State Highway 84.
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 area as ``non-
impacted'' is adequately justified; and if the NRC determines that the
licensee's submittal is adequate, inform the licensee in writing that
the release is approved.
III. Public Meeting
The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss GEH's request for
approval of the partial site release. The meeting will be held on
Thursday, March 28, 2019, from 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., Pacific
Daylight Time, at the Aloft Hotel Dublin-Pleasanton, 4075 Grafton
Street, Dublin, California.
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 related to
GEH's request. After the licensee and NRC staff presentations, the
public can ask questions and give feedback. Comments
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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: https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
The agenda will be posted no later than 10 days prior to the meeting.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of March 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen S. Koenick,
Acting Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and
Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2019-05802 Filed 3-26-19; 8:45 am]
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