[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 42 (Friday, March 5, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12990-12991]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-04631]


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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: Reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On June 19, 2020, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
solicited comments on 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's) planned decommissioning activities, schedule, projected 
costs, and environmental impacts for DAEC. The public comment period 
closed on October 19, 2020, was reopened on October 26, 2020, and 
closed again on February 19, 2021. The NRC has decided to reopen the 
public comment period for a second time to provide additional time for 
members of the public to develop and submit their comments, as well as 
to allow time for an in-person public meeting on the PSDAR. The NRC 
will hold a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR's content and receive 
comments once restrictions associated with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 
public health emergency are lifted.

DATES: The comment period for the document published on June 19, 2020 
(85 FR 37116) has been reopened. Comments should be filed no later than 
August 19, 2021. 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 on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject); however, the NRC encourages electronic 
comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking website:
     Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0148. 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.
     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: Marlayna V. Doell, Office of Nuclear 
Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3178; 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.
     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.

B. Submitting Comments

    The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). 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 into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    On June 19, 2020, the NRC solicited comments on the PSDAR dated 
April 2, 2020, including the site-specific DCE for DAEC (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML20094F603). The purpose of the original Federal 
Register notice (85 FR

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37116; June 19, 2020) was to inform the public of a meeting to discuss 
and accept comments on the PSDAR and DCE. The public comment period 
closed on October 19, 2020, was reopened on October 26, 2020 (85 FR 
67780), to account for the restrictions associated with the Coronavirus 
Disease 2019 public health emergency and closed again on February 19, 
2021.
    The NRC has decided to once again reopen the public comment period 
on this document until August 19, 2021, to provide additional time for 
members of the public to develop and submit their comments, as well as 
to allow time for an in-person public meeting on the DAEC PSDAR. The 
NRC will hold a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR's content and 
receive comments once restrictions associated with the Coronavirus 
Disease 2019 public health emergency are lifted. Members of the public 
interested in attending this meeting should monitor the NRC's Public 
Meeting Schedule website at https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg for additional 
information.

    Dated: March 2, 2021.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bruce Watson,
Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning, 
Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2021-04631 Filed 3-4-21; 8:45 am]
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