[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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