[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 35 (Friday, February 21, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10200-10201]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-03470]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323; NRC-2020-0054]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power
Station, Units 1 and 2
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of receipt; public meeting; and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: On December 4, 2019, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) received the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
(PSDAR) for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (Diablo Canyon),
Units 1 and 2. The PSDAR, which includes the Cost Summary from the
Site-Specific Decommissioning Cost Estimate (DCE), provides an overview
of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E, the licensee) planned
decommissioning activities, schedule, projected costs, and
environmental impacts for Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2. The NRC will
hold a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR and receive comments.
DATES: Submit comments by June 22, 2020. 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0054. 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: Balwant K. Singal, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3016; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0054 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0054.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://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 ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if that document is available in ADAMS) is
provided the first time that it 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-2020-0054 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.
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The NRC will post all comment submissions at https://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
PG&E is the holder of Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-80 and
DPR-82 for Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2, respectively. 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 a pair of Westinghouse four-loop pressurized-
water reactors located in San Luis Obispo County, California. By letter
dated November 27, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18331A553), the licensee
informed the NRC that it will permanently cease power operations at
Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2, on November 2, 2024 and August 26, 2025,
respectively.
On December 4, 2019, PG&E submitted the PSDAR containing the Cost
Summary from Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2 DCE in accordance with
section 50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(ADAMS Accession No. ML19338F173). The PSDAR includes a description of
the planned decommissioning activities, a proposed schedule for their
accomplishment, cost summary from 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 for Diablo
Canyon, Units 1 and 2. The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss
the PSDAR and receive comments on Thursday, March 19, 2020, from 6:00
p.m. until 8:00 p.m., at the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County
Government Center, 1055 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, California
93408. The NRC requests that comments that are not provided during the
meeting be submitted as noted in the ADDRESSES section of this document
in writing by June 22, 2020.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of February 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jennifer L. Dixon-Herrity,
Chief, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2020-03470 Filed 2-20-20; 8:45 am]
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