80 FR 47532 - Southern California Edison;San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 152 (August 7, 2015)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a final director's decision with regard to a petition dated June 18, 2012, filed by Mr. Richard Ayres, Counsel for Friends of the Earth (the petitioner), requesting that the NRC take action with regard to Southern California Edison (SCE or the licensee) at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The petitioner's requests and the final director's decision are included in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 152 (Friday, August 7, 2015)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19407]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-361 and 50-362; NRC-2013-0083]


Southern California Edison;San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, 
Units 2 and 3

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Director's decision under 10 CFR 2.206; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a 
final director's decision with regard to a petition dated June 18, 
2012, filed by Mr. Richard Ayres, Counsel for Friends of the Earth (the 
petitioner), requesting that the NRC take action with regard to 
Southern California Edison (SCE or the licensee) at the San Onofre 
Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The petitioner's requests and the 
final director's decision are included in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section of this document.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0083 when contacting the

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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 Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0083. 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.
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(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
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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 that document 
is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is 
referenced.
     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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Wengert, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-4037, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the Director, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, has issued a director's decision 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15183A164) on a petition filed by the petitioner 
on June 18, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12171A409). The petition was 
supplemented on November 16, 2012, January 16, 2013, and February 6, 
2013 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML12325A748, ML13029A643, and ML13109A075, 
respectively).
    The petitioner requested that the NRC order SCE to submit a license 
amendment application for the design and installation of the SONGS, 
Units 2 and 3, replacement steam generators.
    As the basis of the request, the petitioner asserted that the 
licensee violated section 50.59 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), ``Changes, Tests, and Experiments,'' when the 
steam generators for SONGS, Units 2 and 3, were replaced in 2010 and 
2011, without a license amendment request.
    On January 16, 2013, the petitioner met with the NRC's Petition 
Review Board (PRB). The meeting provided the petitioner and the 
licensee an opportunity to provide additional information and to 
clarify issues cited in the petition. During the PRB meeting, the 
petitioner further requested that the NRC suspend SCE's licenses until 
they are amended. The transcript for that meeting was treated as a 
supplement to the petition and is available in ADAMS under Accession 
No. ML13029A643.
    The NRC sent a copy of the proposed director's decision to the 
petitioner and the licensee for comment on February 27, 2015 (ADAMS 
Accession Nos. ML15020A121 and ML15020A165, respectively). The 
petitioner and the licensee were asked to provide comments within 30 
days on any part of the proposed director's decision that was 
considered to be erroneous or any issues in the petition that were not 
addressed. Comments were received from the petitioner and are addressed 
in an attachment to the final director's decision. The licensee had no 
comments on the proposed director's decision; however, the licensee did 
provide a response to the petitioner's comments. The NRC staff reviewed 
the response from the licensee and determined that, because the 
licensee's comments are direct rebuttals to the petitioner's comments 
and raised no concerns with the director's decision, no changes to the 
director's decision are required as a result of these comments.
    The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation has 
determined that the requests for the NRC to order the licensee to 
submit a license amendment application for the design and installation 
of the SONGS, Units 2 and 3, replacement steam generators and to 
suspend SCE's licenses until they are amended be denied. The reasons 
for this decision are explained in the director's decision (DD-15-07) 
pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206, ``Requests for action under this subpart,'' 
of the Commission's regulations.
    The NRC will file a copy of the director's decision with the 
Secretary of the Commission for the Commission's review in accordance 
with 10 CFR 2.206. As provided by this regulation, the director's 
decision will constitute the final action of the Commission 25 days 
after the date of the decision unless the Commission, on its own 
motion, institutes a review of the director's decision in that time.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28 day of July 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William M. Dean,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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