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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50–295 and 50–304; NRC–
2015–0082]
Zion Solutions, LLC, Zion Nuclear
Power Station, Units 1 and 2, License
Termination Plan
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Request for comment and public
meeting.
AGENCY:
On December 19, 2014, as
supplemented on February 26, 2015, the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) received from Zion Solutions,
LLC, (ZS), the License Termination Plan
(LTP) for the Zion Nuclear Power
Station (ZNPS), Units 1 and 2. The LTP
provides details about the known
radiological information for the site, the
planned demolition and
decommissioning tasks to be completed,
and the final radiological surveys and
data that will need to be obtained to
allow termination of the NRC’s license
for ZNPS. The NRC is requesting public
comments on ZS’s LTP and will hold a
public meeting to discuss the LTP.
DATES: Submit comments by May 26,
2015. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the NRC is able to ensure
consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
SUMMARY:
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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
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0082. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 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:
O12–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: John
Hickman, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington DC
20555–0001, telephone: 301–415–3017,
email: John.hickman@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information.
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
0082 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0082.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
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‘‘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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 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
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B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2015–
0082 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure
that the NRC is able to make your
comment submission available to the
public in this docket.
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 posts all comment
submissions at https://
www.regulations.gov as well as entering
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.
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does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information
before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS.
II. Discussion
Zion Solutions is the holder of
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–39
and DPR–48. The license provides,
among other things, that the facility is
subject to all rules, regulations, and
orders of the NRC now or hereafter in
effect. The facility consists of two
pressurized-water reactors located in
Lake County, Illinois.
In September 1996, ZNPS Unit 2 was
permanently shut-down after
approximately 23 years of operation. In
February 1997, ZNPS Unit 1 was
permanently shut-down after
approximately 24 years of operation. In
early 1998, in accordance with section
50.82(a)(1)(i) and (ii) of title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
Exelon Generating Company LLC
(Exelon) notified the NRC of the
permanent cessation of operations at the
ZNPS and the permanent removal of all
spent fuel assemblies from the reactor
vessels to the spent fuel pool (ADAMS
Legacy Accession Numbers 9902200407
and 9803110251). On February 14, 2000,
Exelon submitted a Post-Shutdown
Decommissioning Activities Report
(PSDAR) for the Zion units, pursuant to
10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(i) (ML003685889).
The PSDAR was updated on March 18,
2008 (ML080840398). On September 1,
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2010, the NRC transferred Facility
Operating License Numbers DPR–39
and DPR–48 from Exelon to ZS
(ML102290437). Zion Solutions
acquired ZNPS to conduct the
decommissioning of the facility and
then return the decommissioned site
back to Exelon. The spent fuel has been
moved from the spent fuel pool to the
Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation. Decommissioning of ZNPS
is scheduled to be completed in 2018.
By letter dated December 19, 2014
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15005A336),
and supplemented on February 26, 2015
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15061A281),
ZS submitted the LTP for ZNPS in
accordance with section 50.82(a)(9). The
LTP addresses site characterization to
ensure that final radiation surveys (FRS)
cover all areas where contamination
existed, remains, or has the potential to
exist or remain, identification of
remaining dismantlement activities,
plans for site remediation, a description
of the FRS plan to confirm that ZNPS
will meet the release criteria in 10 CFR
part 20, subpart E, dose-modeling
scenarios that ensure compliance with
the radiological criteria for license
termination, an estimate of the
remaining site-specific
decommissioning costs, and a
supplement to the Defueled Safety
Analysis Report and the Environmental
Report describing any new information
or significant environmental change
associated with proposed license
termination activities.
III. Request for Comment and Public
Meeting
The NRC is requesting public
comments on the ZNPS LTP. The NRC
will conduct a public meeting to discuss
the LTP and receive comments on
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, from 6 p.m.
until 9 p.m., Central Time, at the Illinois
Beach Resort & Conference Center, 1
Lake Front Drive., Zion, IL. For
additional information regarding the
meeting, see the NRC’s Public Meeting
Schedule Web site at https://meetings.
nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. The agenda will be
posted no later than 10 days prior to the
meeting.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day
of March, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bruce Watson,
Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch,
Division of Decommissioning, Uranium
Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-295 and 50-304; NRC-2015-0082]
Zion Solutions, LLC, Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2,
License Termination Plan
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Request for comment and public meeting.
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SUMMARY: On December 19, 2014, as supplemented on February 26, 2015,
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received from Zion
Solutions, LLC, (ZS), the License Termination Plan (LTP) for the Zion
Nuclear Power Station (ZNPS), Units 1 and 2. The LTP provides details
about the known radiological information for the site, the planned
demolition and decommissioning tasks to be completed, and the final
radiological surveys and data that will need to be obtained to allow
termination of the NRC's license for ZNPS. The NRC is requesting public
comments on ZS's LTP and will hold a public meeting to discuss the LTP.
DATES: Submit comments by May 26, 2015. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is
able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date.
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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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0082. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 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: O12-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: John Hickman, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3017, email:
John.hickman@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information.
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0082 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0082.
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 ``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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0082 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
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 posts all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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 submissions into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
Zion Solutions is the holder of Facility Operating License Nos.
DPR-39 and DPR-48. The license provides, among other things, that the
facility is subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC
now or hereafter in effect. The facility consists of two pressurized-
water reactors located in Lake County, Illinois.
In September 1996, ZNPS Unit 2 was permanently shut-down after
approximately 23 years of operation. In February 1997, ZNPS Unit 1 was
permanently shut-down after approximately 24 years of operation. In
early 1998, in accordance with section 50.82(a)(1)(i) and (ii) of title
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Exelon Generating
Company LLC (Exelon) notified the NRC of the permanent cessation of
operations at the ZNPS and the permanent removal of all spent fuel
assemblies from the reactor vessels to the spent fuel pool (ADAMS
Legacy Accession Numbers 9902200407 and 9803110251). On February 14,
2000, Exelon submitted a Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities
Report (PSDAR) for the Zion units, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(i)
(ML003685889). The PSDAR was updated on March 18, 2008 (ML080840398).
On September 1, 2010, the NRC transferred Facility Operating License
Numbers DPR-39 and DPR-48 from Exelon to ZS (ML102290437). Zion
Solutions acquired ZNPS to conduct the decommissioning of the facility
and then return the decommissioned site back to Exelon. The spent fuel
has been moved from the spent fuel pool to the Independent Spent Fuel
Storage Installation. Decommissioning of ZNPS is scheduled to be
completed in 2018.
By letter dated December 19, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML15005A336), and supplemented on February 26, 2015 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML15061A281), ZS submitted the LTP for ZNPS in accordance with
section 50.82(a)(9). The LTP addresses site characterization to ensure
that final radiation surveys (FRS) cover all areas where contamination
existed, remains, or has the potential to exist or remain,
identification of remaining dismantlement activities, plans for site
remediation, a description of the FRS plan to confirm that ZNPS will
meet the release criteria in 10 CFR part 20, subpart E, dose-modeling
scenarios that ensure compliance with the radiological criteria for
license termination, an estimate of the remaining site-specific
decommissioning costs, and a supplement to the Defueled Safety Analysis
Report and the Environmental Report describing any new information or
significant environmental change associated with proposed license
termination activities.
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting
The NRC is requesting public comments on the ZNPS LTP. The NRC will
conduct a public meeting to discuss the LTP and receive comments on
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., Central Time, at the
Illinois Beach Resort & Conference Center, 1 Lake Front Drive., Zion,
IL. For additional information regarding the meeting, see the NRC's
Public Meeting Schedule Web site at https://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
The agenda will be posted no later than 10 days prior to the meeting.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of March, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bruce Watson,
Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning,
Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety
and Safeguards.
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