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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50–295 and 50–304; NRC–
2015–0265]
ZionSolutions, LLC, Zion Nuclear
Power Station, Units 1 and 2; Partial
Site Release
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Request for comment and public
meeting.
AGENCY:
On August 27, 2015, the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
received from ZionSolutions, LLC, (ZS),
a request for approval to remove a
portion of the site from the operating
licenses for Zion Nuclear Power Station
(ZNPS), Units 1 and 2. Specifically, ZS
intends to remove and release the
radiologically non-impacted portions of
the site from its license. The NRC is
requesting public comments on ZS’s
partial site release and will hold a
public meeting to discuss the request.
DATES: Submit comments by December
24, 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.
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–2015–0265. 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.
SUMMARY:
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• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
OWFN–12–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
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A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
0265 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
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B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2015–
0265 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure
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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
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Your request should state that the NRC
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entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS.
II. Discussion
ZionSolutions, LLC, (ZS) 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 Nos. 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) (ADAMS
Accession No. ML003685889). The
PSDAR was updated on March 18, 2008
(ADAMS Accession No. ML080840398).
On September 1, 2010, the NRC
transferred Facility Operating License
Numbers DPR–39 and DPR–48 from
Exelon to ZS (ADAMS Accession No.
ML102290437). ZionSolutions, LLC,
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.
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By letter dated December 19, 2014
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15005A336),
and supplemented on February 26, 2015
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15061A281),
ZS submitted the License Termination
Plan (LTP) for ZNPS in accordance with
10 CFR 50.82(a)(9). The LTP includes a
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. The Zion LTP is
currently being reviewed by the NRC.
By letter dated August 27, 2015
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15243A029),
ZS submitted a request for approval to
remove a portion of the site from the
part 50 License Nos. DPR–39 and DPR–
48. Specifically, ZS intends to remove
and release the radiologically nonimpacted portions of the site from its
part 50 licenses in accordance with 10
CFR 50.83(b), ‘‘Release of part of a
power reactor facility or site for
unrestricted use.’’ This request is the
subject of this notice.
III. Request for Comment and Public
Meeting
The NRC is requesting public
comments on the ZNPS partial site
release. The NRC will conduct a public
meeting to discuss the partial site
release and receive comments on
Tuesday, December 1, 2015, from 7:00
p.m. until 8:30 p.m., Central Time, at
the Courtyard Chicago Waukegan/
Gurnee, located at 3800 Northpoint
Boulevard, Waukegan, IL 60085. 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 17th day
of November, 2015.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John Clements,
Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning
Branch, Division of Decommissioning,
Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
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ACTION: Biweekly notice.
Pursuant to Section 189a. (2)
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
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issue and make immediately effective
any amendment to an operating license
or combined license, as applicable,
upon a determination by the
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involves no significant hazards
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for Docket ID NRC–2015–0261. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
OWFN–12–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:
Lynn M. Ronewicz, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
1927, email: Lynn.Ronewicz@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
0261 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–2015–0261.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-295 and 50-304; NRC-2015-0265]
ZionSolutions, LLC, Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2;
Partial Site Release
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Request for comment and public meeting.
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SUMMARY: On August 27, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) received from ZionSolutions, LLC, (ZS), a request for approval to
remove a portion of the site from the operating licenses for Zion
Nuclear Power Station (ZNPS), Units 1 and 2. Specifically, ZS intends
to remove and release the radiologically non-impacted portions of the
site from its license. The NRC is requesting public comments on ZS's
partial site release and will hold a public meeting to discuss the
request.
DATES: Submit comments by December 24, 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.
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-2015-0265. 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.
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Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-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-2015-0265 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-2015-0265.
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-2015-0265 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
ZionSolutions, LLC, (ZS) 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 Nos. 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) (ADAMS
Accession No. ML003685889). The PSDAR was updated on March 18, 2008
(ADAMS Accession No. ML080840398). On September 1, 2010, the NRC
transferred Facility Operating License Numbers DPR-39 and DPR-48 from
Exelon to ZS (ADAMS Accession No. ML102290437). ZionSolutions, LLC,
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 License Termination Plan (LTP) for
ZNPS in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9). The LTP includes a 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. The Zion LTP is currently
being reviewed by the NRC.
By letter dated August 27, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15243A029),
ZS submitted a request for approval to remove a portion of the site
from the part 50 License Nos. DPR-39 and DPR-48. Specifically, ZS
intends to remove and release the radiologically non-impacted portions
of the site from its part 50 licenses in accordance with 10 CFR
50.83(b), ``Release of part of a power reactor facility or site for
unrestricted use.'' This request is the subject of this notice.
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting
The NRC is requesting public comments on the ZNPS partial site
release. The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss the partial
site release and receive comments on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, from
7:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., Central Time, at the Courtyard Chicago
Waukegan/Gurnee, located at 3800 Northpoint Boulevard, Waukegan, IL
60085. 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 17th day of November, 2015.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John Clements,
Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-29881 Filed 11-23-15; 8:45 am]
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