[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 156 (Friday, August 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39433-39434]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15535]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-219; NRC-2025-0907]
Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC; Oyster Creek Nuclear
Generating Station; License Termination Plan
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Public meeting; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering a
request from Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI) seeking
approval of a license amendment application approving the license
termination plan (LTP). The NRC requests public comments on the
remaining decommissioning activities at the Oyster Creek Nuclear
Generating Station (OCNGS) as described in the LTP amendment
application for the OCNGS. The NRC plans to hold a public meeting to
promote full understanding of the requested action and to facilitate
public comment.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 17,
2025, at the Lacey Township Municipal Building Court Room, 818 Lacey
Road, Forked River, New Jersey 08731, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. eastern
time (ET). The public meeting is also available through an online
webinar or by phone. See section III ``Request for Comment and Public
Meeting'' of this document for additional information. Submit comments
by October 14, 2025. 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.
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-2025-0907. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Bridget Curran;
telephone: 301-415-1003; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual(s) 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: Amy M. Snyder, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6822; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket NRC-2025-0907 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-2025-0907.
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]. The ADAMS
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accession number for each document referenced (if it is available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this
document.
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. 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-2025-0907 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
HDI is the holder of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DRP-16
for OCNGS. 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 consists of a single unit boiling
water reactor (BWR) that was utilized for the generation and
transmission of electric power using nuclear fission as the source of
production. The plant entered commercial operation on December 23,
1969. The reactor was refueled 26 times during operation spanning a
period of almost a half-century and was the oldest U.S. BWR at the time
of permanent shutdown and defueling in 2018. By letter dated August 1,
2024 (ADAMS Accession No. ML24214A037), as supplemented by letters
dated March 27, 2025 (ADAMS Accession No. ML25086A156), April 29, 2025
(ADAMS Package Accession No. ML25119A267) and May 13, 2025 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML25133A131), HDI requested approval of a proposed
amendment to the Renewed Facility Operating License DPR-16 for OCNGS to
include LTP requirements.
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting
According to paragraph 50.82(a)(9)(iii) of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), after the licensee submits an LTP, the
NRC must hold a public meeting near the site. In accordance with 10 CFR
50.82(a)(9)(iii) and 20.1405, upon the receipt of an LTP from a
licensee, NRC must publish a notice in the Federal Register and solicit
comments from affected parties. The purpose of the meeting is for the
NRC staff to meet with stakeholders and discuss the NRC's review of the
LTP and request public comments on the LTP. In addition, please see the
related notice regarding the LTP proposed no significant hazards
consideration determination and opportunity to request a hearing and
petition to intervene (90 FR 30110, July 8, 2025). The meeting will be
held on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at the Lacey Township Municipal
Building Court Room, 818 Lacey Road, Forked River, New Jersey 08731,
from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. ET. Please contact Amy M. Snyder at 301-415-
6822 or by email at [email protected] no later than September 3, 2025,
if accommodations or special equipment are needed for you to attend or
to provide comments, so that the NRC staff can determine whether the
request can be accommodated.
For additional information regarding this meeting see the NRC's
Public Meeting Schedule website for information https://www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. The agenda will be posted no later than 10 days prior to the
meeting.
Dated: August 12, 2025.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michelle Sutherland,
Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2025-15535 Filed 8-14-25; 8:45 am]
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