[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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