[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 165 (Friday, August 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52598-52599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18387]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-255 and 72-007; NRC-2022-0158]


Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC, Palisades Nuclear 
Plant, 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 23, 2020, 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 Palisades Nuclear Plant (Palisades), contingent upon 
the transfer of the Palisades license 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 Palisades. The 
Palisades license transfer transaction closed on June 28, 2022. 
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 Palisades site to discuss the PSDAR's content and 
receive comments.

DATES: Submit comments by December 27, 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

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received on or before this date. The public meeting will be held on 
Thursday, September 22, 2022, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Central 
Time (CT), at the South Haven campus of Lake Michigan College, located 
at 125 Veterans Boulevard, in South Haven, Michigan. The public meeting 
is also accessible through an online webinar. See Section III, 
``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-2022-0158. 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 Doell, Office of Nuclear 
Material 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-2022-0158 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-2022-0158.
     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 Palisades PSDAR is available in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML20358A232.
     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-2022-0158 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 Renewed 
Facility Operating License No. DPR 20 for Palisades and the general 
license for the Palisades 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. Palisades is a pressurized-water reactor 
located in Covert, Michigan, in Van Buren County, that is permanently 
shut down.
    On December 23, 2020, HDI submitted to the NRC the PSDAR for 
Palisades, contingent upon the transfer of the Palisades license to 
HDI. Paragraph 50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), ``Termination of license,'' 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 Palisades license transfer transaction 
closed on June 28, 2022. 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 Palisades. The NRC is planning to hold a public meeting in the 
vicinity of Palisades to discuss the PSDAR's content and receive 
comments on Thursday, September 22, 2022, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 
p.m. (CT), at the at the South Haven campus of Lake Michigan College, 
located at 125 Veterans Boulevard, in South Haven, Michigan. Please 
contact Marlayna Doell no later than September 9, 2022, if 
accommodations or special equipment is needed to attend or to provide 
comments. Additional information regarding the public meeting, 
including webinar information, will be posted on the NRC's public 
meeting website at least 10 calendar days before the meeting. The NRC's 
public meeting website is located at https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve.html. 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 
December 27, 2022.

    Dated: August 22, 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. 2022-18387 Filed 8-25-22; 8:45 am]
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