83 FR 27033 - Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station; Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 112 (June 11, 2018)

On May 21, 2018, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (Oyster Creek). The PSDAR, which includes the site-specific decommissioning cost estimate (DCE), provides an overview of Exelon Generation Company, LLC's (Exelon or the licensee) planned decommissioning activities, schedule, projected costs, and environmental impacts for Oyster Creek. The NRC will hold a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR's content and receive comments.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 112 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27033-27034]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12429]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-219; NRC-2018-0111]


Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating 
Station; 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 May 21, 2018, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
received the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) 
for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (Oyster Creek). The 
PSDAR, which includes the site-specific decommissioning cost estimate 
(DCE), provides an overview of Exelon Generation Company, LLC's (Exelon 
or the licensee) planned decommissioning activities, schedule, 
projected costs, and environmental impacts for Oyster Creek. The NRC 
will hold a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR's content and receive 
comments.

DATES: Submit comments by September 10, 2018. 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 before this 
date.

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID: NRC-2018-0111. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail 
Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, 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 G. Lamb, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3100; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0111 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 http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0111.
     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 this 
document.
     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-2018-0111 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 http://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 submissions into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    Exelon is the holder of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-
16 for Oyster Creek. 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 one boiling-water 
reactor located in Ocean County, New Jersey. By letter dated January 7, 
2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110070507), the licensee submitted 
Notification of Permanent Cessation of Power Operations for Oyster 
Creek. In this letter, Exelon notified the NRC of its intent to 
permanently cease operations at Oyster Creek no later than December 31, 
2019. By letter dated February 14, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML18045A084), the licensee submitted its revised Notification of 
Permanent Cessation of Power Operations for Oyster Creek. In this 
letter, Exelon notified the NRC of its intent to permanently cease 
operations at Oyster Creek no later than October 31, 2018.
    On May 21, 2018, Exelon submitted the PSDAR, including the site-
specific DCE for Oyster Creek, in accordance with Sec.  50.82(a)(4)(i) 
of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML18141A775). The PSDAR includes a description of the planned 
decommissioning activities, a proposed schedule for their 
accomplishment, the site-specific DCE, and a discussion that provides 
the basis for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with 
the site-specific decommissioning activities will be bounded by 
appropriate, previously issued generic and plant-specific environmental 
impact statements. In a separate letter, Exelon submitted its update to 
the spent fuel management plan for Oyster Creek on May 21, 2018 (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML18141A486).

III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting

    The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR, including the 
DCE, for Oyster Creek. The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss 
the PSDAR, including the DCE, and receive comments on Tuesday, July 17, 
2018, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., at the Community Hall--Lacey Township, 
101 North Main Street, Forked River, New Jersey 08731. 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 September 10, 2018.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of June, 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Douglas A. Broaddus,
Chief, Special Projects and Process Branch, Division of Operating 
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2018-12429 Filed 6-8-18; 8:45 am]
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