[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 119 (Friday, June 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37116-37117]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13215]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-331; NRC-2020-0148]


NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC; Duane Arnold Energy Center; 
Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of receipt; availability; public meeting and request for 
comment.

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SUMMARY: On April 2, 2020, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

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received the post-shutdown decommissioning activities report (PSDAR) 
for the Duane Arnold Energy Center (DAEC). The PSDAR, which includes 
the site-specific decommissioning cost estimate (DCE), provides an 
overview of NextEra Energy Duane Arnold, LLC's (NEDA or the licensee) 
planned decommissioning activities, schedule, projected costs, and 
environmental impacts for DAEC. The NRC will hold a public meeting to 
discuss the PSDAR's content and receive comments.

DATES: Submit comments by October 19, 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 on or 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-2020-0148. Address 
questions about NRC docket IDs 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: Scott P. Wall, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-2855; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0148 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-2020-0148.
     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 it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first 
time that it is mentioned in this document.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2020-0148 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 will post all comment submissions at 
https://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 submissions into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    NEDA is the holder of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-49 
for DAEC. 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 adjacent to the Cedar River approximately 2.5 miles northeast 
of the town of Palo in Linn County, Iowa. By letter dated January 18, 
2019 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19023A196), the licensee submitted its 
notification of permanent cessation of power operations for DAEC. In 
this letter, NEDA notified the NRC of its intent to permanently cease 
power operations at DAEC in the fourth quarter of 2020. By letter dated 
March 2, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20062E489), the licensee submitted 
a revised notification of permanent cessation of power operations for 
DAEC. In this letter, NEDA notified the NRC of its intent to 
permanently cease power operations at DAEC on October 30, 2020.
    On April 2, 2020, NEDA submitted the PSDAR, including the site-
specific DCE for DAEC, in accordance with Sec.  50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML20094F603). The PSDAR includes a description of the planned 
decommissioning activities, a proposed schedule for their 
accomplishment, the site-specific DCE, and a discussion that provides 
the basis for the NRC to conclude 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

    Due to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the NRC has 
delayed holding a public meeting to obtain comments from the public on 
the DACE PSDAR, including the DCE. However, with recent announcements 
for relaxing PHE restrictions by Iowa Governor Reynolds, the NRC is 
tentatively planning to hold the PSDAR meeting and receive comments on 
Tuesday, July 28, 2020, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., at the Palo Community 
Center, 2800 Hollenbeck Rd, Palo, Iowa 52324. If PHE restrictions do 
not allow the meeting to be held on July 28, 2020, the NRC will notify 
the public by revising the date on the NRC Public Meeting Schedule on 
the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. The NRC 
requests that comments provided outside the July 28, 2020 meeting be 
submitted as noted in Section I, ``Obtaining Information and Submitting 
Comments,'' of this document in writing by October 19, 2020.

    Dated: June 15, 2020.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Nancy L. Salgado,
Chief, Plant Licensing Branch III, Division of Operating Reactor 
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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