[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 138 (Monday, July 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42846-42847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17763]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-18 and 50-183; NRC-2015-0169]
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy; Vallecitos Nuclear Center
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Partial site release; public meeting and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering a
request from GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to approve the release from
their NRC power reactor licenses of a portion of their Vallecitos
Nuclear Center property for unrestricted use. The NRC will approve or
deny the request based on its review of the request and the result of
an NRC confirmatory survey of the property proposed for release.
Approval of the request would allow GE to sell the released portion of
the property to a non-GE controlled entity. The NRC is requesting
public comment on the contemplated action and invites stakeholders and
interested persons to participate. The NRC plans to hold a public
meeting to promote full understanding of the contemplated action and
facilitate public comment.
DATES: Submit comments by October 5, 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 before this
date. A public meeting will be held on July 22, 2015.
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-2015-0169. 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: OWFN-12-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: Jack D. Parrott, Senior Project
Manager, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards; telephone:
301-415-6634; email: [email protected]; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0169 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-2015-0169.
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.
I. Background
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received, by
letter dated April 24, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15114A437), a
request from GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GE or licensee), to approve a
partial site release of its Vallecitos Nuclear Center (VNC) site
located at 6705 Vallecitos Rd, Sunol, California. The VNC site contains
two facilities licensed as power reactors under part 50, ``Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,'' of Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). Both units, Vallecitos
Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR), NRC License DPR-1, Docket 50-18, and
Empire State Atomic Development Agency Vallecitos Experimental
Superheat Reactor (EVESR), NRC License DR-10, Docket 50-183, are shut
down per NRC regulations in 10 CFR 50.82(a). These units are in
``SAFSTOR'' mode awaiting the termination of the power reactor
licenses. In accordance with 10 CFR 50.83, ``Release of Part of a Power
Reactor Facility or Site for Unrestricted Use,'' the licensee requests
release from the NRC licenses, for unrestricted use, of an
approximately 610-acre parcel, in the northern section of the
approximately 1,600 acre VNC site. The licensee is declaring the parcel
as ``non-impacted'' per the definition in 10 CFR 50.2. Approval of the
request will allow GE to sell the released portion to a non-GE
controlled entity.
The NRC will determine whether the licensee has adequately
evaluated the effect of releasing the property per the requirements of
10 CFR 50.83(a)(1), and determine whether the licensee's classification
of any released areas as ``non-impacted'' is adequately justified. If
the NRC determines that the licensee's submittal is adequate, the NRC
will inform the licensee in writing that the release is approved.
II. Public Meeting
The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss GE's request for
approval of the partial site release.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 22, 2015, from 6:30
p.m. until 8:30 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time, at the Holiday Inn Dublin,
6680 Regional St., Dublin, CA 94568.
This is a Category 3 public meeting where stakeholders are invited
to fully engage NRC staff to provide a range of views, information,
concerns and suggestions with regard to regulatory issues concerning
the proposed action. After the licensee and NRC staff presentation
portions of the meeting, the public is allowed to speak and ask
questions. Comments can be provided orally or in writing to the NRC
staff present at the meeting.
The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with
disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation
to participate in these public meetings, or need this meeting notice or
the transcript or other information from the public meetings in another
format (e.g., braille, large print), please notify Kimberly Meyer, NRC
Disability Program Manager, at 301-287-0739, by videophone at 240-428-
3217, or by email at [email protected]. Determinations on
requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case
basis.
Stakeholders should monitor the NRC's public meeting Web site for
information about the public meeting at: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/index.cfm. The agenda
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will be posted no later than 10 days prior to the meeting.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of July, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and
Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-17763 Filed 7-17-15; 8:45 am]
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