[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 120 (Thursday, June 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37533-37535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13406]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323; NRC-2022-0132]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power
Plant, Units 1 and 2; Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Public meeting and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: On December 4, 2019, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E,
the licensee) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
letters enclosing the post-shutdown decommissioning activities report
(PSDAR), the site-specific decommissioning cost estimate (SSDCE), and
the irradiated fuel management plan (IFMP), for the Diablo Canyon
Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 (Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2). The
PSDAR, including the SSDCE and IFMP, provide an overview of PG&E's
planned activities, schedule, projected costs, and environmental
impacts for the decommissioning of Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2. On
February 21, 2020, the NRC solicited comments on these documents.
Subsequently, PG&E submitted a notification of changes on October 19,
2021. The NRC planned to hold a public meeting in the vicinity of
Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2, to discuss the PSDAR's content, including
the SSDCE and IFMP, and receive comments but decided to reschedule the
public meeting due to concerns with the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) public health emergency. The NRC has rescheduled the public
meeting to discuss the PSDAR, including the SSDCE and IFMP, and receive
comments.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on Thursday, July 21, 2022, from
6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Pacific Time (PT), at the San Luis Obispo
County Government Building, located at 1055 Monterey Street, in San
Luis Obispo, California. The public meeting is also accessible through
an online webinar. Submit comments by October 19, 2022. Comments
received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do
so,
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but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
on or before this date. See section III, ``Request for Comment and
Public Meeting,'' of this document for additional information.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
Federal rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0132. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
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: Samson S. Lee, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3168, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0132 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0132.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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]. For the convenience of the reader,
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2022-0132 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
https://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 into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
PG&E is the holder of Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-80 and
DPR-82 for Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2, respectively. The license
provides, among other things, that the facility is subject to all
relevant rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC now or hereafter in
effect. The facility consists of a pair of Westinghouse four loop
pressurized water reactors located in San Luis Obispo County,
California. By letter dated November 27, 2018, PG&E informed the NRC
that it will permanently cease power operations at Diablo Canyon, Units
1 and 2, on November 2, 2024, and August 26, 2025, respectively.
Paragraph 50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) states that a PSDAR must contain a description of
the planned decommissioning activities along with a schedule for their
accomplishment, a discussion that provides the reasons for concluding
that the environmental impacts associated with site-specific
decommissioning activities will be bounded by appropriate previously
issued environmental impact statements, and an SSDCE, including the
projected cost of managing irradiated fuel.
Accordingly, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(ii), the NRC noticed
receipt of the Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2 PSDAR, including the SSDCE
and IFMP, and made them available for public comment on February 21,
2020 (85 FR 10200). The public comment period closed on June 22, 2020.
The purpose of the Federal Register notice (85 FR 10200; February 21,
2020) was to inform the public of a meeting on March 19, 2020, to
discuss and accept comments on the PSDAR, including the SSDCE and IFMP.
Due to the concerns of COVID-19, the NRC canceled the March 19, 2020,
public meeting (85 FR 15505; March 18, 2020). On October 19, 2021, PG&E
submitted a notification of changes to the PSDAR, including the SSDCE
and IFMP.
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting
The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR, including the
SSDCE and IFMP, for Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2. The NRC is planning
to hold the PSDAR meeting and receive comments on Thursday, July 21,
2022, from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. (PT), at the San Luis Obispo
County Government Building, located at 1055 Monterey Street, in San
Luis Obispo, California. Please contact Samson Lee no later than July
8, 2022, if accommodations or special equipment is needed to attend or
to provide comments. Information regarding the public meeting,
including webinar information, will be posted on the NRC's public
meeting website at least 10 calendar days before the meeting. The NRC's
public meeting website is located at https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve.html. The NRC requests that comments provided outside the
Thursday, July 21, 2022, meeting be submitted as noted in section I,
``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments,'' of this document in
writing by October 19, 2022.
IV. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through one or more of the following methods, as
indicated.
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Document description ADAMS accession No.
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Letter from PG&E to the NRC, ``Certification of ML18331A553.
Permanent Cessation of Power Operations,''
dated November 27, 2018.
Letter from PG&E to the NRC, ``Diablo Canyon ML19338F173.
Power Plant, Units 1 and 2--Post-Shutdown
Decommissioning Activities Report,'' dated
December 4, 2019.
Letter from PG&E to the NRC, ``Diablo Canyon ML19338F260.
Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 Irradiated Fuel
Management Plan,'' dated December 4, 2019.
Letter from PG&E to the NRC, ``Diablo Canyon ML19345D344 and
Power Plant, Units 1 and 2--Site-Specific ML19345D345.
Decommissioning Cost Estimate,'' dated December
4, 2019 (publicly available version).
Letter from PG&E to the NRC, ``Notification of ML21293A120.
Changes to Post-Shutdown Decommissioning
Activities Report, Site-Specific
Decommissioning Cost Estimate, and Irradiated
Fuel Management Plan for Diablo Canyon Power
Plant, Units 1 and 2,'' dated October 19, 2021.
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Dated: June 17, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jennifer L. Dixon-Herrity,
Chief, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2022-13406 Filed 6-22-22; 8:45 am]
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