[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 172 (Thursday, September 9, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50563-50564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-19417]



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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: Public meetings and request for comment.

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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 planned 
decommissioning activities, schedule, projected costs, and 
environmental impacts for DAEC. The NRC will hold an in-person as well 
as a virtual public meeting to discuss the DAEC PSDAR and DCE and to 
receive comments.

DATES: The in-person public meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 
28, 2021, from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. (CT) (7:00 p.m. until 10:00 
p.m. ET), at the Palo Community Center, located at 2800 Hollenbeck 
Road, in Palo, Iowa. The virtual meeting will occur during the week of 
October 4, 2021; additional details for the virtual meeting will be 
provided on the NRC's public meeting website. Comments are due by 
December 20, 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; 
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: Kim Conway, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-1335; 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. (ET), 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

    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.
    Accordingly, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(ii), the NRC noticed 
receipt of the DAEC PSDAR, including the DCE, and made it available for 
public comment on June 19, 2020 (85 FR 37116). The PSDAR, dated April 
2, 2020, is available at ADAMS Accession No. ML20094F603. The purpose 
of the original Federal Register notice (85 FR 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, but was reopened on October 26, 2020 (85 FR 67780), to account 
for the restrictions associated with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 
public health emergency. The DAEC PSDAR was supplemented on February 5, 
2021; the updated version is available at ADAMS Accession No. 
ML21036A160. The public comment period closed again on February 19, 
2021, was reopened on March 5, 2021 (86 FR 12990), and extended again 
on August 9, 2021 (86 FR 43570). The DAEC PSDAR public comment period 
will currently close on December 20, 2021.

III. Request for Comment and Public Meetings

    The NRC will hold an in-person public meeting to discuss the DAEC 
PSDAR and receive comments on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, from 6:00

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p.m. until 9:00 p.m. (CT), at the Palo Community Center, located at 
2800 Hollenbeck Road, in Palo, Iowa. The virtual public meeting will 
occur during the week of October 4, 2021, and will be noticed 
separately with details provided on the NRC's public meeting website at 
https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
    The NRC is continuing to closely monitor the Coronavirus Disease 
2019 public health emergency and will make changes or cancellations to 
these meetings as necessary to protect public health and safety. The 
most current information for both the planned DAEC PSDAR meetings will 
be available on the NRC's public meeting website previously referenced, 
or by contacting the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this document. The NRC requests that comments that 
are not provided during the meetings be submitted in writing, as noted 
in section I, ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments,'' of 
this document, by December 20, 2021.

    Dated: September 2, 2021.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bruce A. Watson,
Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning, 
Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
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