[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 3, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 8049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-02189]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0233]
Report on Waste Burial Charges; Changes in Decommissioning Waste
Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: NUREG; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1307, Revision 18, ``Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in
Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial
Facilities.'' This report, which is revised periodically, explains the
formula acceptable to the NRC for determining the minimum
decommissioning fund requirements for nuclear power reactor licensees,
as required by NRC regulations. Specifically, this report provides the
adjustment factor and updates the values for the labor, energy, and
waste burial escalation factors of the minimum formula.
DATES: NUREG-1307, Revision 18, is available on February 3, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to NRC-2020-0233 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain
publicly available information related to this document using any of
the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0233. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
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]. NUREG-1307, Revision 18, ``Report on
Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs
at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities,'' is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML21027A302.
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emil Tabakov, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6814, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
Pursuant to section 50.75 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), ``Reporting and Recordkeeping for Decommissioning
Planning,'' the NRC requires nuclear power reactor licensees to adjust
annually, in current year dollars, their estimate of the cost to
decommission their plants. The annual updates are part of the process
for providing reasonable assurance that adequate funds for
decommissioning will be available when needed.
Revision 18 of NUREG-1307, ``Report on Waste Burial Charges:
Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste
Burial Facilities,'' modifies the previous revision to this report
issued in February 2019 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19037A405) and
incorporates updates to the adjustment factor and to the labor, energy,
and waste burial escalation factors of the NRC minimum decommissioning
fund formula. Due to modest pricing changes in low-level waste burial
charges at the nation's four low-level waste disposal facilities, the
minimum decommissioning fund formula amounts calculated by licensees,
based on revised low-level waste burial factors presented in this
report, will likely reflect minimum decommissioning fund requirements
(on average) that are similar to or slightly lower than those reported
by licensees in 2019.
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice in the Federal Register on November 17,
2020 (85 FR 73299) requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1307,
Revision 18. The public comment period closed on December 17, 2020. The
NRC received four public comments. The public comments and the NRC
staff's responses are presented in a comment resolution matrix
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML21008A253. The staff
considered the public comments received on the draft document in
preparing final NUREG-1307, Revision 18.
Dated: January 28, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard H. Turtil,
Acting Chief, Financial Assessment Branch, Division of Rulemaking,
Environmental, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2021-02189 Filed 2-2-21; 8:45 am]
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