[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 67 (Monday, April 8, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13970-13971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-06838]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-302; NRC-2019-0076]
Duke Energy Florida, LLC; Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating
Plant
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 a
request from Duke Energy Florida, LLC (DEF) to approve the release of
land areas, under the control of the NRC power reactor license for the
Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant (CR3), License No. DPR-
72. Specifically, DEF requests approval to remove and release the
radiologically non-impacted portions of the site from its license for
unrestricted use. The NRC will review the request and conduct
confirmatory surveys of the properties proposed for release. The NRC is
soliciting public comment on the requested action and invites
stakeholders and interested persons to participate. The NRC plans to
hold a public meeting to promote full understanding of the requested
action and to facilitate public comment.
DATES: Submit comments by May 8, 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 April 25, 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-2019-0076. Address
questions about NRC dockets 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-7A06M, 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: John Hickman, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3017; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0076. 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-2019-0076.
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 ``Crystal River Unit 3--Partial
Site Release Request'' is available in ADAMS under Package Accession
No. ML19029A018.
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-2019-0076. 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 a partial site release
from DEF (the licensee), by letter dated January 22, 2019 (ADAMS
Package Accession No. ML19029A018). DEF requests NRC approval to remove
and release from its title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), part 50 license the portions of the site that the Historical Site
Assessment (HSA) characterization process has classified as
radiologically non-impacted, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.83(b). The
property that is subject to this release request is an approximately
3,854-acre parcel of land that the licensee states was not used for
plant operations or storage of radioactive material.
The CR3 license (NRC License No. DPR-72, Docket No. 50-302) is for
a power reactor under 10 CFR part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of
Production and Utilization Facilities.'' The facility was certified as
permanently shut down, per NRC regulations in 10 CFR 50.82(a), by
letter dated February 20, 2013. CR3 is currently in ``SAFSTOR''
decommissioning mode awaiting the termination of the power reactor
license.
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 DEF's request for
approval of the partial site release. The meeting will be held on
Thursday, April 25, 2019, from 7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., Eastern Time,
at the Holiday Inn Express Crystal River, 1203 NE 5th Street, Crystal
River, Florida 34429.
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 the 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. The NRC
will consider and, if appropriate,
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respond to these written and verbal comments, but such comments will
not otherwise constitute part of the decisional record.
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.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of April 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John Tappert,
Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and Waste
Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2019-06838 Filed 4-5-19; 8:45 am]
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