[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 9738]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02701]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2024-0188]
NUREG: Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning
Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Final report; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1307, Revision 20, ``Report on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in
Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial
Facilities.'' This report, which is revised periodically, explains the
formula acceptable to the NRC for determining the minimum
decommissioning fund requirements for nuclear power reactor licensees,
as required by NRC regulations. Specifically, this report provides the
adjustment factor and updates the values for the labor, energy, and
waste burial escalation factors of the minimum formula.
DATES: NUREG-1307, Revision 20 is available on February 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0188 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0188. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Bridget Curran;
telephone: 301-415-1003; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
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, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. NUREG-1307, Revision 20, ``Report
on Waste Burial Charges: Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal
Costs at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities,'' is available in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML25037A226.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emil Tabakov, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6814; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
Pursuant to section 50.75 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), ``Reporting and recordkeeping for decommissioning
planning,'' the NRC requires nuclear power reactor licensees to adjust
annually, in current year dollars, their estimate of the cost to
decommission their plants. The annual updates are part of the process
for providing reasonable assurance that adequate funds for
decommissioning will be available when needed.
Revision 20 of NUREG-1307, ``Report on Waste Burial Charges:
Changes in Decommissioning Waste Disposal Costs at Low-Level Waste
Burial Facilities,'' modifies the previous revision to this report
issued in February 2023 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23044A207) and
incorporates updates to the labor, energy, and waste burial escalation
factors of the NRC minimum decommissioning fund formula. Due to
moderately lower low-level waste (LLW) burial charges at two of the
nation's four LLW disposal facilities, to which a majority of licensees
are anticipated to dispose some portion of their LLW, and slightly to
moderately higher charges at the remaining two facilities, to which a
small number of licensees are anticipated to dispose of their LLW, the
minimum decommissioning fund formula amounts calculated by licensees,
based on revised LLW burial factors presented in this report, will
likely reflect minimum decommissioning fund requirements that are
lower, on average, when compared to those previously reported by
licensees in 2023.
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice in the Federal Register on November 19,
2024 (89 FR 91436) requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1307,
Revision 20. The public comment period closed on December 19, 2024. The
NRC received two public comments. The public comments and the NRC
staff's responses are presented in a comment resolution matrix
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML25016A004. The staff
considered the public comments received on the draft document in
preparing final NUREG-1307, Revision 20.
Dated: February 11, 2025.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Frederick R. Miller,
Chief, Financial Assessment Branch, Division of Rulemaking,
Environment, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2025-02701 Filed 2-14-25; 8:45 am]
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