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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 111 (Wednesday, June 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 32980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14209]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-285 and 50-298; NRC-2012-0014]


Omaha Public Power District, Nebraska Public Power District

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Director's decision under 10 CFR 2.206; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a 
director's decision with regard to petitions dated June 26 and July 3, 
2011, filed by Mr. Thomas Saporito (the petitioner), requesting that 
the NRC take action with regard to Fort Calhoun Station (FCS), Unit 1 
and Cooper Nuclear Station (CNS), respectively. The petitioner's 
requests and the director's decision are included in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document.

DATES: June 10, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0014 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0014. 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.
     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 available in 
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.
     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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Lyon, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-2296, email: Fred.Lyon@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the Director, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, has issued a director's decision 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML14128A141) on petitions filed by the petitioner 
on June 26 and July 3, 2011 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML11182B029 and 
ML11192A285, respectively). The petitioner supplemented the petitions 
by teleconference on August 29, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11256A036).
    The petitioner requested that the NRC issue a confirmatory order 
against Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), the licensee for FCS, 
prohibiting the licensee from restarting FCS, and issue a confirmatory 
order to Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD), the licensee for CNS, 
requiring the licensee to bring CNS to a cold shutdown mode of 
operation, until: (1) The floodwaters subside to an appreciably lower 
level or to sea level, (2) the licensee upgrades its flood protection 
plan, (3) the licensee repairs and enhances its current flood 
protection berms, and (4) the licensee upgrades its station blackout 
procedures to meet a challenging extended loss of offsite power because 
of floodwaters and other natural disasters or terrorist attacks.
    On August 29, 2011, the petitioner participated in a teleconference 
with the NRC's Petition Review Board. The meeting provided the 
petitioner an opportunity to provide additional information and to 
clarify issues cited in the petition. The transcript for that meeting 
is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML11256A036.
    The NRC sent a copy of the proposed director's decision to the 
petitioner, NPPD, and OPPD for comment on April 15, 2015 (ADAMS 
Accession Nos. ML15062A354, ML15062A362, and ML15062A366, 
respectively). The petitioner and the licensees were asked to provide 
comments within 14 days on any part of the proposed director's decision 
that was considered to be erroneous or any issues in the petition that 
were not addressed. The staff did not receive any comments on the 
proposed director's decision.
    The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation has 
determined that the requests, to prevent the restart of FCS or to bring 
CNS to cold shutdown, be denied. The reasons for this decision are 
explained in the director's decision DD-15-05 pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 
of the Commission's regulations.
    The NRC will file a copy of the director's decision with the 
Secretary of the Commission for the Commission's review in accordance 
with 10 CFR 2.206. As provided by this regulation, the director's 
decision will constitute the final action of the Commission 25 days 
after the date of the decision unless the Commission, on its own 
motion, institutes a review of the director's decision in that time.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of June 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michele G. Evans,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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