Assuring the Availability of Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors, 65541 [2011-27338]
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Assuring the Availability of Funds for
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responses to the public comments on
DG–1229 are available under ADAMS
Accession Number ML112160035.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day
of October, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development
Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of
Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC or Commission) is
issuing a revision to Regulatory Guide
1.159, ‘‘Assuring the Availability of
Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear
Reactors.’’ This guide provides guidance
to applicants and licensees of nuclear
power, research, and test reactors
concerning methods acceptable to the
staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) for complying with
requirements in the rules regarding the
amount of funds for decommissioning.
It also provides guidance on the content
and form of the financial assurance
mechanisms in those rule amendments.
ADDRESSES: You can access publicly
available documents related to this
regulatory guide using the following
methods:
• NRC’s Public Document Room
(PDR): The public may examine and
have copied, for a fee, publicly available
documents at the NRC’s PDR, O1–F21,
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents
created or received at the NRC are
available online in the NRC Library at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. From this page, the public
can gain entry into ADAMS, which
provides text and image files of the
NRC’s public documents. If you do not
have access to ADAMS or if there are
problems in accessing the documents
located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s
PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209,
301–415–4737, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The regulatory
guide is available electronically under
ADAMS Accession Number
ML112160012. The regulatory analysis
may be found in ADAMS under
Accession Number ML112160013.
• Federal Rulemaking Web Site:
Public comments and supporting
SUMMARY:
materials related to this notice can be
found at https://www.regulations.gov by
searching on Docket ID NRC–2009–
0263.
Regulatory guides are not
copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Edward O’Donnell, Regulatory Guide
Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–251–
7655; e-mail:
Edward.Odonnell@nrc.gov.
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The NRC is issuing a revision to an
existing guide in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory
Guide’’ series. This series was
developed to describe and make
available to the public information such
as methods that are acceptable to the
NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the agency’s regulations,
techniques that the staff uses in
evaluating specific problems or
postulated accidents, and data that the
staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
As a guidance document, this
regulatory guide and its provisions are
not designed to be restrictive or to
represent binding requirements. The
guide presents methods acceptable to
the NRC staff for complying with the
decommissioning regulations. The NRC
staff recognizes that, in certain
circumstances (e.g., to meet
requirements established by Federal or
state economic regulatory agencies or to
comply with other applicable laws),
other approaches may be necessary. As
a point of clarification, it is the NRC’s
position that licensees who have
existing license conditions relating to
topics covered by the final rule,
‘‘Decommissioning Trust Provisions,’’
dated December 24, 2002 (67 FR 78332),
will have the option of maintaining
their existing license conditions or
submitting to the new requirements.
II. Further Information
Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.159
was issued with a temporary
identification as Draft Regulatory Guide,
DG–1229. DG–1229, was published in
the Federal Register on June 30, 2009
(74 FR 31317) for a 60 days public
comment period. The public comment
period closed on September 9, 2009.
The Commission approved RG 1.159
subject to changes which are spelled out
in a Staff Requirements Memorandum
dated October 25, 2010
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Environmental Assessment and
Finding of No Significant Impact
Related to Exemption From Certain
Requirements for the Zion Nuclear
Power Station, Units 1 and 2, License
DPR–039 and DPR–048, Lake
County, IL
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Environmental assessment and
finding of no significant impact.
AGENCY:
John
Hickman, Division of Waste
Management and Environmental
Protection, Office of Federal and State
Materials and Environmental
Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–00001; telephone: 301–415–
3017; e-mail: John.Hickman@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) staff is considering a
request dated December 2, 2010, by
ZionSolutions, LLC (ZS, the licensee)
requesting exemptions from certain
security requirements in Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
73.55 for the Zion Nuclear Power
Station (ZNPS) Units 1 and 2.
This Environmental Assessment (EA)
has been developed in accordance with
the requirements of 10 CFR 51.21.
II. Environmental Assessment
Identification of Proposed Action
The proposed action would eliminate
certain security plan requirements from
the 10 CFR Part 50 licensed site because
the ZNPS Units 1 and 2 are permanently
shut-down and defueled.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0263]
Assuring the Availability of Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear
Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is
issuing a revision to Regulatory Guide 1.159, ``Assuring the
Availability of Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors.'' This
guide provides guidance to applicants and licensees of nuclear power,
research, and test reactors concerning methods acceptable to the staff
of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for complying with
requirements in the rules regarding the amount of funds for
decommissioning. It also provides guidance on the content and form of
the financial assurance mechanisms in those rule amendments.
ADDRESSES: You can access publicly available documents related to this
regulatory guide using the following methods:
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine
and have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's
PDR, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC
are available online in the NRC Library at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS,
which provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. If
you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing
the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR reference staff
at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
The regulatory guide is available electronically under ADAMS Accession
Number ML112160012. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under
Accession Number ML112160013.
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and
supporting materials related to this notice can be found at https://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2009-0263.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward O'Donnell, Regulatory Guide
Development Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-251-7655; e-mail: Edward.Odonnell@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and
make available to the public information such as methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
agency's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff
needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
As a guidance document, this regulatory guide and its provisions
are not designed to be restrictive or to represent binding
requirements. The guide presents methods acceptable to the NRC staff
for complying with the decommissioning regulations. The NRC staff
recognizes that, in certain circumstances (e.g., to meet requirements
established by Federal or state economic regulatory agencies or to
comply with other applicable laws), other approaches may be necessary.
As a point of clarification, it is the NRC's position that licensees
who have existing license conditions relating to topics covered by the
final rule, ``Decommissioning Trust Provisions,'' dated December 24,
2002 (67 FR 78332), will have the option of maintaining their existing
license conditions or submitting to the new requirements.
II. Further Information
Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.159 was issued with a temporary
identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1229. DG-1229, was
published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2009 (74 FR 31317) for a
60 days public comment period. The public comment period closed on
September 9, 2009. The Commission approved RG 1.159 subject to changes
which are spelled out in a Staff Requirements Memorandum dated October
25, 2010 (ML1029805650). Because of the nature of the changes, the
draft guide was reissued for comment on January 13, 2011 (76 FR 2425).
The NRC staff's responses to the public comments on DG-1229 are
available under ADAMS Accession Number ML112160035.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of October, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-27338 Filed 10-20-11; 8:45 am]
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