[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 130 (Friday, July 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40870-40871]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14552]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-285; NRC-2022-0127]


Omaha Public Power District, Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1; 
License Termination Plan

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Public meeting and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: On August 3, 2021, as supplemented on January 13, 2022, the 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received from the Omaha Public 
Power District (OPPD, the licensee) a license amendment request to add 
a license condition to include the requirements of a License 
Termination Plan (LTP) for the Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1 (FCS). The 
LTP provides details about the known radiological information for the 
site, the planned demolition and decommissioning tasks to be completed, 
and the final radiological surveys and data that must be obtained for 
termination of the NRC's license for FCS. The NRC is requesting public 
comments on FCS's LTP and will hold a public meeting to discuss the 
LTP.

DATES: The public meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 
from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Central Time (CT), at the Blair Public 
Library & Technology Center, 2233 Civic Dr., Blair, NE. The public 
meeting is also available through an online webinar. Submit comments by 
September 6, 2022. 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. See 
Section IV ``Request for Comment and Public Meeting'' of this document 
for additional information.

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-2022-0127. 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: Jack D. Parrott, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-6634, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0127 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-2022-0127.
     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]. For the convenience of the reader, 
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are 
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make 
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to 
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (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-2022-0127 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

    Omaha Public Power District (OPPD or licensee) is the holder of 
Facility Operating License No. DPR-40. The license provides, among 
other things, that the facility is subject to all rules, regulations, 
and orders of the NRC now or hereafter in effect. The facility is a 
pressurized-water reactor located in Washington County, NE.
    On June 24, 2016, OPPD formally notified the NRC of its intent to 
permanently cease operations at FCS. By letter dated November 13, 2016, 
the licensee notified the NRC that it had

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permanently ceased power operations at FCS on October 14, 2016, and 
certified that as of November 13, 2016, all fuel had been permanently 
removed from the FCS reactor vessel and placed in the FCS spent fuel 
pool.
    The licensee submitted its Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities 
Report (PSDAR) on March 20, 2017. The PSDAR described the licensee's 
proposed decommissioning activities and schedule. At that time, the 
licensee selected to place the facility in long-term storage (i.e., the 
``SAFSTOR'' decommissioning option) as described in the PSDAR. SAFSTOR 
is a method of decommissioning in which a nuclear facility is placed 
and maintained in a condition that allows the facility to be safely 
stored and subsequently decontaminated (deferred decontamination) to 
levels that permit release for unrestricted use. The licensee planned 
to continue in SAFSTOR until 2058.
    By letter dated December 16, 2019, OPPD submitted an updated PSDAR 
to reflect that the decommissioning approach for the FCS was changing 
from SAFSTOR to the immediate decontamination and dismantlement of the 
facility (i.e., the DECON decommissioning option). DECON is a method of 
decommissioning in which structures, systems, and components that 
contain radioactive contamination are removed from the site and safely 
disposed at a commercially operated low-level waste disposal facility 
or decontaminated to a level that permits the site to be released for 
unrestricted use as soon as possible after removal of the spent fuel 
from the spent fuel pool. On May 13, 2020, FCS removed the last 
canister of fuel and all special nuclear material from the spent fuel 
pool.
    On August 3, 2021, FCS submitted their LTP to the NRC as 
supplemented by letter dated January 13, 2022. Paragraph 50.82(a)(9) of 
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Termination of 
license,'' specifies that an application for license termination must 
be accompanied or preceded by a LTP, which is subject to NRC review and 
approval. The LTP addresses site characterization to ensure that the 
scope of final status surveys (FSS) of the site cover all areas where 
contamination existed, remains, or has the potential to exist or 
remain, identification of remaining dismantlement activities, plans for 
site remediation, a description of the FSS plans to confirm that FCS 
will meet the release criteria in 10 CFR part 20, subpart E, 
``Radiological Criteria for License Termination,'' dose-modeling 
scenarios that ensure compliance with the radiological criteria for 
license termination, an estimate of the remaining site-specific 
decommissioning costs, a supplement to the FCS Defueled Safety Analysis 
Report and an updated assessment of the environmental effects of 
decommissioning FCS.
    According to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii), after the licensee submits an 
LTP the NRC must hold a public meeting near the site. The purpose of 
the meeting is for the NRC staff to discuss the NRC's review of the LTP 
and to request public comments on the LTP.

III. Availability of Documents

    The documents identified in the following table are available to 
interested persons through one or more of the following methods, as 
indicated.

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                          Document                                           ADAMS accession No.
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OPPD notification of its intent to permanently cease         ML16176A213.
 operations at Fort Calhoun Station, dated June 24, 2016.
OPPD certification that all fuel had been permanently        ML16319A254.
 removed from the FCS reactor vessel and placed in the FCS
 spent fuel pool, dated November 13, 2016.
OPPD submittal of PSDAR for FCS, dated March 30, 2017......  ML17089A759.
OPPD submittal of an updated PSDAR for FCS to reflect the    ML19351E355.
 change from SAFSTOR to DECON, dated December 16, 2019.
OPPD notification of the removal of the last canister of     ML20139A138.
 fuel and all special nuclear material from the spent fuel
 pool, dated May 18, 2020.
OPPD submittal of their LTP to the NRC.....................  ML21271A178 (Package).
OPPD supplement to the LTP.................................  ML22034A602 (Package).
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    The NRC may post materials related to this document, including 
public comments, on the Federal rulemaking website at https://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2022-0127. The Federal 
rulemaking website allows you to receive alerts when changes or 
additions occur in a docket folder. To subscribe: (1) Navigate to the 
docket folder (NRC-2022-0127); (2) click the ``Sign up for Email 
Alerts'' link; and (3) enter your email address and select how 
frequently you would like to receive emails (daily, weekly, or 
monthly).

IV. Request for Comment and Public Meeting

    The NRC is requesting public comments on the FCS LTP. The NRC will 
conduct a public meeting to discuss the LTP and receive comments on 
Wednesday, July 13, 2022, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., CT, at the Blair 
Public Library & Technology Center, 2233 Civic Dr., Blair, NE. Please 
contact Mr. Jack Parrott no later than July 11, 2022, if accommodations 
or special equipment is needed to attend or to provide comments, so 
that the NRC staff can determine whether the request can be 
accommodated. For additional information regarding the meeting, see the 
NRC's Public Meeting Schedule website at https://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. The agenda will be posted no later than 10 days prior to the 
meeting.

    Dated: July 4, 2022.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Shaun M. Anderson,
Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning, 
Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2022-14552 Filed 7-7-22; 8:45 am]
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