[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 111 (Wednesday, June 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 32980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14209]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-285 and 50-298; NRC-2012-0014]
Omaha Public Power District, Nebraska Public Power District
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
director's decision with regard to petitions dated June 26 and July 3,
2011, filed by Mr. Thomas Saporito (the petitioner), requesting that
the NRC take action with regard to Fort Calhoun Station (FCS), Unit 1
and Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS), respectively. The petitioner's
requests and the director's decision are included in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.
DATES: June 10, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0014 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 Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0014. 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.
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 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: Fred Lyon, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-2296, 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. ML14128A141) on petitions filed by the petitioner
on June 26 and July 3, 2011 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML11182B029 and
ML11192A285, respectively). The petitioner supplemented the petitions
by teleconference on August 29, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11256A036).
The petitioner requested that the NRC issue a confirmatory order
against Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), the licensee for FCS,
prohibiting the licensee from restarting FCS, and issue a confirmatory
order to Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), the licensee for CNS,
requiring the licensee to bring CNS to a cold shutdown mode of
operation, until: (1) The floodwaters subside to an appreciably lower
level or to sea level, (2) the licensee upgrades its flood protection
plan, (3) the licensee repairs and enhances its current flood
protection berms, and (4) the licensee upgrades its station blackout
procedures to meet a challenging extended loss of offsite power because
of floodwaters and other natural disasters or terrorist attacks.
On August 29, 2011, the petitioner participated in a teleconference
with the NRC's Petition Review Board. The meeting provided the
petitioner an opportunity to provide additional information and to
clarify issues cited in the petition. The transcript for that meeting
is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML11256A036.
The NRC sent a copy of the proposed director's decision to the
petitioner, NPPD, and OPPD for comment on April 15, 2015 (ADAMS
Accession Nos. ML15062A354, ML15062A362, and ML15062A366,
respectively). The petitioner and the licensees were asked to provide
comments within 14 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. The staff did not receive any comments on the
proposed director's decision.
The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation has
determined that the requests, to prevent the restart of FCS or to bring
CNS to cold shutdown, be denied. The reasons for this decision are
explained in the director's decision DD-15-05 pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206
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 3rd day of June 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michele G. Evans,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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