80 FR 42130 - Zion Solutions, LLC, Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, License Termination Plan

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 136 (July 16, 2015)

On April 6, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) solicited comments on the License Termination Plan (LTP) for the Zion Nuclear Power Station (ZNPS), Units 1 and 2. The public comment period closed on May 26, 2015. The NRC has decided to reopen the public comment period to allow more time for members of the public to develop and submit their comments.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 136 (Thursday, July 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42130-42132]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17387]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-295 and 50-304; NRC-2015-0082]


Zion Solutions, LLC, Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, 
License Termination Plan

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Request for comment; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On April 6, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

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solicited comments on the License Termination Plan (LTP) for the Zion 
Nuclear Power Station (ZNPS), Units 1 and 2. The public comment period 
closed on May 26, 2015. The NRC has decided to reopen the public 
comment period to allow more time for members of the public to develop 
and submit their comments.

DATES: The comment period for the document published on April 6, 2015 
(80 FR 18443) has been reopened. Comments should be filed no later than 
August 17, 2015. 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 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0082. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: O12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    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: John Hickman, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3017, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0082 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 Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0082
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then 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 the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0082 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 posts all comment submissions at http://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

    Zion Solution (ZS), LLC, is the holder of Facility Operating 
License Nos. DPR-39 and DPR-48. The licenses provide, among other 
things, that ZS is subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the 
NRC now or hereafter in effect. The ZNPS facility consists of two 
pressurized-water reactors located in Lake County, Illinois.
    In September 1996, ZNPS, Unit 2 was permanently shut-down after 
approximately 23 years of operation. In February 1997, ZNPS, Unit 1 was 
permanently shut-down after approximately 24 years of operation. In 
early 1998, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(1)(i) and (ii) of Title 
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 50), Exelon Generating 
Company LLC (Exelon) notified the NRC of the permanent cessation of 
operations at the ZNPS and the permanent removal of all spent fuel 
assemblies from the reactor vessels to the spent fuel pool (ADAMS 
Legacy Accession Nos. 9902200407 and 9803110251). On February 14, 2000, 
Exelon submitted a Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report 
(PSDAR) for the Zion units, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(i) (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML003685889). The PSDAR was updated on March 18, 2008 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML080840398). On September 1, 2010, the NRC 
transferred Facility Operating License Numbers DPR-39 and DPR-48 from 
Exelon to ZS (ADAMS Accession No. ML102290437). The ZS acquired ZNPS to 
conduct the decommissioning of the facility and then return the 
decommissioned site back to Exelon. The spent fuel has been moved from 
the spent fuel pool to the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation. 
Decommissioning of ZNPS is scheduled to be completed in 2018.
    By letter dated December 19, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML15005A336), and supplemented on February 26, 2015 (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML15061A281), ZS submitted the LTP for ZNPS in accordance with 
Sec.  50.82(a)(9). The LTP addresses site characterization to ensure 
that final radiation surveys (FRS) 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 FRS plan to confirm that ZNPS will 
meet the release criteria in 10 CFR part 20, subpart E; dose-modeling 
scenarios that ensure compliance with the radiological criteria for 
license termination; an estimate of the remaining site-specific 
decommissioning costs; and a supplement to the Defueled Safety Analysis 
Report and the Environmental Report describing any new information or 
significant environmental change associated with proposed license 
termination activities.
    A public meeting was held on April 28, 2015, in Zion, IL to discuss 
the LTP and solicit public comments. A transcript of that meeting is 
available (ADAMS Accession No. ML15148A377). Based on the interest 
expressed at that meeting and in subsequent communications with the NRC 
staff, the NRC has decided to reopen the comment period.
    On April 6, 2015, the NRC solicited comments on the License 
Termination Plan for the Zion Nuclear Power Station,

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Units 1 and 2. The public comment period closed on May 26, 2015. The 
NRC has decided to reopen the public comment period on this document 
until August 17, 2015.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of June, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Zahira Cruz,
Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of 
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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