[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 119 (Thursday, June 24, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33383-33384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13474]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-003, 50-247, 50-286, and 72-051; NRC-2021-0125]


Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC; Indian Point Nuclear 
Generating, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3; 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 December 19, 2019, Holtec Decommissioning International, 
LLC (HDI) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a 
letter enclosing the post-shutdown decommissioning activities report 
(PSDAR) for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3 
(Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC)), contingent upon the transfer of 
the IPEC licenses to HDI. The PSDAR, which includes the site-specific 
decommissioning cost estimate (DCE), provides an overview of HDI's 
planned activities, schedule, projected costs, and environmental 
impacts for the decommissioning of the IPEC. The IPEC license transfer 
transaction closed on May 28, 2021. Accordingly, the NRC is noticing 
receipt of the PSDAR and making it available for public comment. The 
NRC will hold a public meeting in the vicinity of the IPEC to discuss 
the PSDAR's content and receive comments. The date, time, and location 
of the meeting will be provided in a future Federal Register notice.

DATES: Submit comments by October 22, 2021. 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; 
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-2021-0125. 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: Richard V. Guzman, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-1030; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0125 when contacting the NRC 
about

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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-2021-0125.
     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 IPEC PSDAR is available in ADAMS 
under Accession No. ML19354A698.
     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-2021-0125 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 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

    HDI has the authority to conduct licensed activities under 
Provisional License No. DPR-5, Renewed Facility License No. DPR-26, and 
Renewed Facility License No. DPR-64 for the IPEC and the general 
license for the IPEC independent spent fuel storage installation. These 
licenses provide, among other things, that the respective facilities 
are subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC now or 
hereafter in effect. The facilities consist of three pressurized-water 
reactors located in Buchanan, New York, in Westchester County, all of 
which are permanently shutdown.
    On December 19, 2019, HDI submitted to the NRC the PSDAR for the 
IPEC, contingent upon the transfer of the IPEC licenses to HDI (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML19354A698). Paragraph 50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 10 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) states that a PSDAR must contain a 
description of the planned decommissioning activities along with a 
schedule for their accomplishment, a discussion that provides the 
reasons for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with 
site-specific decommissioning activities will be bounded by appropriate 
previously issued environmental impact statements, and a site-specific 
DCE, including the projected cost of managing irradiated fuel. The IPEC 
license transfer transaction closed on May 28, 2021. Accordingly, 
pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(ii), the NRC is noticing receipt of the 
PSDAR and making it available for public comment.

III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting

    The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR, including the 
DCE, for the IPEC. The NRC will hold a public meeting in the vicinity 
of the IPEC to discuss the PSDAR's content and receive comments. The 
date, time, and location of the meeting will be provided in a future 
Federal Register notice. The NRC requests that comments that are not 
provided during the meeting be submitted as noted in section I, 
``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments,'' of this document in 
writing by October 22, 2021.

    Dated: June 15, 2021.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James G. Danna,
Chief, Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of Operating Reactor 
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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