Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Public Meeting on the Proposed License Transfer and Draft Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report, 32363-32364 [E8-12696]
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requirements pertaining to qualification
of certain electrical equipment
important to safety. In addition,
Criterion III, ‘‘Design Control,’’ of
Appendix B, ‘‘Quality Assurance
Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ to 10
CFR Part 50 requires that where a test
program is used to verify the adequacy
of a specific design feature, it should
include suitable qualification testing of
a prototype unit under the most severe
DBE.
This regulatory guide describes a
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acceptable for complying with the
regulations for qualification of safetyrelated battery chargers and inverters for
nuclear power plants.
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Stephen C. O’Connor,
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Notice of Public Meeting for the Partial
Site Release of the Off-Shore Piping
for San Onofre Generation Station,
Unit 1
release for unrestricted use of the offshore portion of the circulating water
system from SONGS Unit 1, and to
accept public comments on the
proposed action. The proposed release
is requested in accordance with NRC
regulations at 10 CFR 50.83, Release of
Part of a Power Reactor Facility or Site
for Unrestricted Use. The public
meeting will be held on June 11, 2008,
at the Dana Point Marina Inn, 24800
Dana Point Harbor Drive, Dana Point,
CA 92629. The meeting will convene at
6 p.m. and will continue until 8 p.m.,
as necessary. The meeting will include:
(1) An overview of the NRC review and
inspection processes; (2) a presentation
of the proposed action; and (3) the
opportunity for interested government
agencies, organizations, and individuals
to provide comments on the SONGS
plan. To be considered, comments must
be provided either at the transcribed
public meeting or in writing. Persons
may pre-register to attend or present
oral comments at the meeting by
contacting Mr. James Shepherd, the
NRC Project Manager at 1–800–368–
5642, extension 6712, or by e-mail at
James.Shepherd@nrc.gov no later than
June 9, 2008. Members of the public
may also register to provide oral
comments within 15 minutes of the start
of the meeting. Individual, oral
comments may be limited by the time
available, depending on the number of
persons who register. If special
equipment or accommodations are
needed to attend or present information
at the public meeting, the need should
be brought to Mr. Shepherd’s attention
no later than June 9, 2008, to provide
the NRC staff adequate notice to
determine whether the request can be
accommodated.
Mr.
James Shepherd, Reactor
Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Waste Management and Environmental
Protection, Office of Federal and State
Materials and Environmental
Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop T8
F05, Washington, DC 20555–0001. Mr.
Shepherd may be contacted at the
aforementioned telephone number or email address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day
of May, 2008.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The NRC staff will hold a
public meeting to discuss the proposed
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Keith McConnell,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning and
Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate,
Division of Waste Management and
Environmental Protection, Office of Federal
and State Materials and Environmental
Management Programs.
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[Docket Nos.: 50–295 and 50–304]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC;
Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1
and 2; Notice of Public Meeting on the
Proposed License Transfer and Draft
Post Shutdown Decommissioning
Activities Report
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
Mr.
John B. Hickman, Mail Stop T–8F5,
Decommissioning and Uranium
Recovery Licensing Directorate,
Division of Waste Management and
Environmental Protection, Office of
Federal and State Materials and
Environmental Management Programs,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone:
(301) 415–3017 or via e-mail:
john.hickman@nrc.gov.
SUMMARY: The NRC is providing notice
that the NRC staff will conduct a
meeting to discuss and accept public
comments on the Zion Nuclear Power
Station, Units 1 and 2 (Zion) proposed
license transfer and Zion Solutions (ZS)
draft Post Shutdown Decommissioning
Activities Report (PSDAR) on
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at 7 p.m. in
a meeting room at the Illinois Beach
Resort and Conference Center, 1 Lake
Front Drive, Zion, Illinois (https://
www.ilresorts.com/).
Zion began commercial operation in
December 1973 for Unit 1, and
September 1974 for Unit 2. Unit 1
permanently shut down on February 21,
1997, and Unit 2 permanently shut
down on September 19, 1996. All fuel
was removed from the reactor and
placed in the spent fuel pool on April
27, 1997, for Unit 1 and February 25,
1998, for Unit 2. In accordance with 10
CFR 50.82(a)(1)(i), the licensee certified
in a letter dated February 13, 1998, that
operations have ceased at Zion. In
accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(1)(ii),
the licensee certified in a letter dated
March 9, 1998, that all fuel had been
removed from the Zion reactor vessels
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
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and committed to maintain them
permanently defueled. The NRC
acknowledged the certification of
permanent cessation of power operation
and permanent removal of fuel from the
reactor vessels in a letter dated May 4,
1998. Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(2),
the 10 CFR 50 facility operating licenses
for Zion no longer authorize operation
of the reactors or emplacement or
retention of fuel in the reactor vessels.
Also, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.51(b),
‘‘Continuation of license,’’ the facility
licenses remain in effect until the NRC
notifies the licensee that the licenses
have been terminated.
On January 25, 2008, Exelon, the Zion
licensee, submitted a request for a
license transfer. The proposal is to
transfer the licensed ownership,
management authorities, and
decommissioning trust fund of the
facility to ZS a subsidiary of Energy
Solutions. ZS was formed for the
purpose of decommissioning the Zion
site. The title to the site real estate and
the spent nuclear fuel will remain with
Exelon. ZS will construct and transfer
the spent fuel to an ISFSI as part of the
decommissioning. Following the
decommissioning, currently scheduled
for 10 years, the license for the spent
fuel will be transferred back to Exelon.
On March 18, 2008, ZS submitted an
amended PSDAR for Zion. The PSDAR
represents the ZS plan of activities to
become effective if the application for
license transfer is approved. The PSDAR
describes the planned decommissioning
activities, provides a schedule for the
planned decommissioning activities,
includes a cost estimate for the
decommissioning, and assesses the
environmental impacts.
Further Information
The application for license transfer
and the draft PSDAR are available for
public viewing at the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) or electronically
through the NRC Agencywide
Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS) at accession numbers
ML080310521 for the transfer request
and ML080840398 for the PSDAR.
Documents may be examined, and/or
copied for a fee, at the PDR, located at
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland.
Publicly available records will be
accessible electronically from the
ADAMS Public Library component on
the NRC Web site, https://www.nrc.gov
(the Public Electronic Reading Room).
Persons who do not have access to
ADAMS or who encounter problems in
accessing the documents located in
ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR
Reference staff by telephone at 1–(800)
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397–4209, or (301) 415–4737, or by
e-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day
of June 2008.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Branch Chief, Reactor Decommissioning
Branch, Decommissioning and Uranium
Recovery Licensing Directorate, Division of
Waste Management and Environmental
Protection, Office of Federal and State
Materials and Environmental Management
Programs.
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[Docket No. CP2008–7; Order No. 79]
Express Mail International Bilateral/
Multilateral Agreements
Postal Regulatory Commission.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: A new law gives the Postal
Service considerable pricing flexibility
for competitive products. Pursuant to
this authority, the Postal Service has
filed two notices with the Commission
concerning prices for inbound
international Express Mail, which is in
the competitive category. The
Commission has established a
consolidated docket for consideration of
these pricing decisions. This will allow
interested persons an opportunity to
comment.
DATES: Comments due June 16, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Submit documents
electronically via the Commission’s
Filing Online system at https://
www.prc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel,
202–789–6820 and
stephen.sharfman@prc.gov.
On May
20, 2008, the Postal Service filed notice,
pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3632(b)(3) and 39
CFR 3015.5, of the Governors’ decision
establishing prices for competitive
products not of general applicability for
Inbound Express Mail International
(EMS).1 The Postal Service’s filing,
docketed as Docket No. CP2008–6,
includes supporting material, including
the Governors’ Decision, filed under
seal. In support of this treatment, the
Postal Service asserts that prices
negotiated under bilateral/multilateral
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1 Notice of United States Postal Service of
Governors’ Decision on Inbound Prices Under
Express Mail International (EMS) Bilateral/
Multilateral Agreements, May 20, 2008 (Notice).
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agreements are highly confidential
among postal administrations and that
their public disclosure would
compromise the Postal Service’s ability
to negotiate agreements with other
posts. Id. at 1.
Concurrently, the Postal Service filed
notice, pursuant to 39 CFR 3015.5, of a
specific negotiated service agreement
covering Inbound EMS prices.2 This
filing, docketed as Docket No. CP2008–
7, includes the contract and supporting
materials filed under seal. In support,
the Postal Service asserts that its ability
to negotiate bilateral or multilateral
EMS agreements would be
compromised if the underlying prices
are publicly disclosed. It also states that
public disclosure would compromise
foreign posts’ ability to negotiate with
other posts. Id.
The Postal Service filings in these
dockets are related. Docket No. CP2008–
6 establishes, in essence, a shell
classification, while Docket No.
CP2008–7 is a specific agreement
negotiated pursuant to the conditions of
the shell classification.3 Given this
interrelationship, the Commission will
consolidate these proceedings for
purposes of review.4
In Order No. 43, the Commission
issued regulations establishing a
modern system of rate regulation,
including identifying a list of
competitive products. PRC Order No.
43, October 29, 2007, paras. 3061, 4013.
Among other things, the Commission
determined that each negotiated service
agreement would initially be classified
as a separate product. The Commission
also acknowledged, however, the
possibility of grouping functionally
equivalent agreements as a single
product if they exhibit similar cost and
market characteristics. Id. paras. 2177
and 3001. Thus, the EMS agreement
filed in Docket No. CP2008–7,
representing the first bilateral/
multilateral agreement presented to the
Commission, will be classified as a new
product.
2 Notice of United States Postal Service of Filing
an Agreement for Inbound Express Mail
International (EMS) Prices, May 20, 2008 (Pricing
Notice).
3 The Postal Service notes that it previously
suggested proposed language for inclusion in the
draft Mail Classification Schedule (MCS) applicable
to Inbound EMS. United States Postal Service
Submission of Additional Mail Classification
Schedule Information in Response to Order No. 43,
November 20, 2007 (November 20 Filing). Its filings
entail no changes to the previously proposed
language. The draft MCS remains under review. The
Commission anticipates providing interested
persons an opportunity to comment on the draft
MCS in the near future.
4 All future filings in the consolidated docket
shall be made under Docket No. CP2008–7.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos.: 50-295 and 50-304]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units
1 and 2; Notice of Public Meeting on the Proposed License Transfer and
Draft Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mr. John B. Hickman, Mail Stop T-8F5,
Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate, Division of
Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: (301) 415-
3017 or via e-mail: john.hickman@nrc.gov.
SUMMARY: The NRC is providing notice that the NRC staff will conduct a
meeting to discuss and accept public comments on the Zion Nuclear Power
Station, Units 1 and 2 (Zion) proposed license transfer and Zion
Solutions (ZS) draft Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
(PSDAR) on Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at 7 p.m. in a meeting room at the
Illinois Beach Resort and Conference Center, 1 Lake Front Drive, Zion,
Illinois (https://www.ilresorts.com/).
Zion began commercial operation in December 1973 for Unit 1, and
September 1974 for Unit 2. Unit 1 permanently shut down on February 21,
1997, and Unit 2 permanently shut down on September 19, 1996. All fuel
was removed from the reactor and placed in the spent fuel pool on April
27, 1997, for Unit 1 and February 25, 1998, for Unit 2. In accordance
with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(1)(i), the licensee certified in a letter dated
February 13, 1998, that operations have ceased at Zion. In accordance
with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(1)(ii), the licensee certified in a letter dated
March 9, 1998, that all fuel had been removed from the Zion reactor
vessels
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and committed to maintain them permanently defueled. The NRC
acknowledged the certification of permanent cessation of power
operation and permanent removal of fuel from the reactor vessels in a
letter dated May 4, 1998. Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(2), the 10 CFR 50
facility operating licenses for Zion no longer authorize operation of
the reactors or emplacement or retention of fuel in the reactor
vessels. Also, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.51(b), ``Continuation of
license,'' the facility licenses remain in effect until the NRC
notifies the licensee that the licenses have been terminated.
On January 25, 2008, Exelon, the Zion licensee, submitted a request
for a license transfer. The proposal is to transfer the licensed
ownership, management authorities, and decommissioning trust fund of
the facility to ZS a subsidiary of Energy Solutions. ZS was formed for
the purpose of decommissioning the Zion site. The title to the site
real estate and the spent nuclear fuel will remain with Exelon. ZS will
construct and transfer the spent fuel to an ISFSI as part of the
decommissioning. Following the decommissioning, currently scheduled for
10 years, the license for the spent fuel will be transferred back to
Exelon.
On March 18, 2008, ZS submitted an amended PSDAR for Zion. The
PSDAR represents the ZS plan of activities to become effective if the
application for license transfer is approved. The PSDAR describes the
planned decommissioning activities, provides a schedule for the planned
decommissioning activities, includes a cost estimate for the
decommissioning, and assesses the environmental impacts.
Further Information
The application for license transfer and the draft PSDAR are
available for public viewing at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) or
electronically through the NRC Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) at accession numbers ML080310521 for the
transfer request and ML080840398 for the PSDAR. Documents may be
examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the PDR, located at One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland.
Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the
ADAMS Public Library component on the NRC Web site, https://www.nrc.gov
(the Public Electronic Reading Room). Persons who do not have access to
ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in
ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-
(800) 397-4209, or (301) 415-4737, or by e-mail at
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of June 2008.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Branch Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Decommissioning and
Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate, Division of Waste Management
and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and
Environmental Management Programs.
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