GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC; Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor and the Empire State Atomic Development Agency Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor; Limited Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report, 79000-79002 [2022-27987]

Download as PDF 79000 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 246 / Friday, December 23, 2022 / Notices TKELLEY on DSK125TN23PROD with NOTICE understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the proposed reinstatement with change of the ‘‘Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS)’’ to be conducted in July 2023. A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the individual listed below in the addresses section of this notice. DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the Addresses section of this notice on or before February 21, 2023. ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room G225, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20212. Written comments also may be transmitted by email to BLS_PRA_ Public@bls.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin Good, BLS Clearance Officer, at 202– 691–7628 (this is not a toll free number). (See ADDRESSES section.) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background The purpose of this request for review is for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to obtain clearance for a reinstatement with change for the Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS), which was last conducted in May 2017. The proposed CWS questions focus on contingent workers—those who do not expect their jobs to last or who report that their jobs are temporary—and workers in alternative employment arrangements, such as independent contractors, on-call workers, temporary help agency workers, and workers provided by contract firms. Because this supplement is part of the CPS, the same detailed demographic information collected in the CPS will be available on respondents to the supplement. Comparisons will be possible across characteristics such as sex, race and ethnicity, age, and educational attainment of the respondent. The CWS will provide information on the number and characteristics of workers in contingent jobs and alternative employment arrangements. Although the CWS was fielded 5 times from 1995 to 2005 and then in May 2017, there have been no comparable and reliable statistics in recent years to show how the number and characteristics of these workers are changing over time. The July 2023 CWS VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:36 Dec 22, 2022 Jkt 259001 will allow researchers and policy makers to evaluate how the number and characteristics of these workers has evolved. Policy makers also can use these data to inform the design of regulations for different types of workers. BLS is proposing to add new questions and remove outdated questions to the CWS. New questions on task-based and app-based work are designed to provide insight into additional work arrangements like digital labor platform work. (This new content replaces the 2017 items on electronically-mediated employment.) The 2023 supplement will also ask about work arrangements on second jobs for multiple jobholders. Our data users noted the absence of information about second jobs as a particular shortcoming of prior supplements. II. Current Action Office of Management and Budget clearance is being sought for the CPS Contingent Worker Supplement to the CPS. A reinstatement with change of this previously approved collection, for which approval has expired, is needed to provide the Nation with timely information about contingent and alternative work arrangements. III. Desired Focus of Comments The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in comments that: • Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; • Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; • Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and • Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submissions of responses. Title of Collection: Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) to the Current Population Survey (CPS). OMB Number: 1220–0153. Type of Review: Reinstatement, with change. Affected Public: Households. Total Respondents: 47,000. PO 00000 Frm 00088 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Frequency: Once. Total Responses: 47,000. Average Time per Response: 6 minutes. Estimated Total Burden Hours: 4,700 hours. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget approval of the information collection request; they also will become a matter of public record. Signed at Washington, DC, on December 16, 2022. Leslie A. Bennett, Chief, Division of Management Systems. [FR Doc. 2022–27949 Filed 12–22–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–24–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50–18 and 50–185; NRC–2022– 0210] GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC; Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor and the Empire State Atomic Development Agency Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor; Limited Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice of receipt; availability; request for comment. AGENCY: By letter dated September 21, 2022, as supplemented by letter dated November 22, 2022, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC (GEH, the licensee) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a ‘‘limited’’ post-shutdown decommissioning activities report (LPSDAR) for the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR) and the Empire State Atomic Development Agency Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor (EVESR). The LPSDAR provides an overview of GEH’s planned activities, schedule, projected costs, and environmental impacts for the decommissioning of the VBWR and EVESR. Accordingly, the NRC is noticing receipt of the LPSDAR and making it available for public comment. DATES: Submit comments by April 24, 2023. 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. See section III, ‘‘Request for Comment,’’ of this document for additional information. SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\23DEN1.SGM 23DEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 246 / Friday, December 23, 2022 / Notices You may submit comments by any of the following methods; however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal rulemaking website: • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2022–0210. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301–415–0624; email: Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff. 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: Jack D. Parrott, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–415–6634; email: Jack.Parrott@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ADDRESSES: TKELLEY on DSK125TN23PROD with NOTICE I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2022– 0210 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2022–0210. • 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 ‘‘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 this document. • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents, by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR, Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:36 Dec 22, 2022 Jkt 259001 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. B. Submitting Comments The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking website (https:// www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC–2022–0210 in your comment submission. 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 will post 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 The VBWR, NRC License No. DPR–1, and EVESR, NRC License No. DR–10, are licensed as nuclear power reactors under part 50 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities.’’ The reactors are located at the GEH Vallecitos Nuclear Center (VNC) in Alameda County, California. The VBWR is considered to have permanently ceased operations on September 9, 1965, upon issuance of a possession-only license by NRC. Likewise, EVESR was considered permanently shut-down upon issuance of its possession-only license on April 15, 1970. The spent nuclear fuel from each reactor has been permanently removed from the VNC site. The regulations in 10 CFR 50.82, ‘‘Termination of license,’’ govern the decommissioning of nuclear reactor facilities licensed by the NRC. Documents equivalent to decommissioning plans for the VBWR and EVESR were submitted to the NRC PO 00000 Frm 00089 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 79001 on March 21, 1991 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML20021A155 and ML20021A144, respectively). Paragraph (a)(4)(i) of 10 CFR 50.82, ‘‘Termination of license,’’ states that a Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) shall be submitted prior to or within 2 years following permanent cessation of operations. However, since the decommissioning plans for the VBWR and EVESR were submitted before the regulations in 10 CFR 50.82 were first promulgated in 1996, the licensee was exempted from submitting PSDARs. The first paragraph of 10 CFR 50.82 describes that decommissioning plans submitted before the effective date of the rule, August 28, 1996 (61 FR 39278), are considered to be the PSDAR submittals for those reactors. However, on September 21, 2022, as supplemented on November 22, 2022 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML22326A351), GEH submitted a LPSDAR, for the VBWR and EVESR. A PSDAR is a description of the planned decommissioning activities along with a schedule for their accomplishment, a discussion that provides the reasons for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with site-specific decommissioning activities will be bounded by appropriate previously issued environmental impact statements, and a site-specific decommissioning cost estimate. Although not required to submit PSDARs for the VBWR and EVESR because of the previously submitted decommissioning plans, GEH prepared a LPSDAR according to the requirements of 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(i) and the NRC’s guidance for PSDARs in Regulatory Guide 1.185, Revision 1, ‘‘Standard Format and Content for PostShutdown Decommissioning Activities Report,’’ (ADAMS Accession No. ML13140A038) and submitted to the NRC on September 21, 2022. This was done to demonstrate how GEH would comply with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.82(a)(6) and 10 CFR 50.82(a)(7) which do apply to the decommissioning of the VBWR and EVESR. The requirements of 10 CFR 50.82(a)(6) and 10 CFR 50.82(a)(7) restrict the decommissioning activities that can be performed and require GEH to notify NRC of any changes to the decommissioning activities that are inconsistent with those described in the PSDAR. While the requirements of a PSDAR submittal do not apply to the LPSDAR submittal for the VBWR and EVESR, including the requirements for NRC to notice receipt of the PSDAR, make it available for public comment, and to hold a public meeting in the vicinity of E:\FR\FM\23DEN1.SGM 23DEN1 79002 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 246 / Friday, December 23, 2022 / Notices the site, NRC is noticing receipt of the LPSDAR and making it available for public comment to enhance transparency and provide for public participation in our regulatory activities in accordance with NRC’s approach to open government. While NRC will not be holding a public meeting in conjunction with this LPSDAR submittal, there will be public meetings held when GEH submits a License Termination Plan (LTP) for the VBWR by September 8, 2023, and by April 15, 2028, for the EVESR in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(i) which requires LTPs to be submitted at least 2 years before termination of the license, and 10 CFR 50.82(a)(3) which requires that power reactor decommissioning be complete within 60 years of the permanent cessation of operations. An LTP must include a site characterization, identification of remaining dismantlement activities, plans for site remediation and the final radiation survey, an updated sitespecific estimate of remaining decommissioning costs, a supplement to the environmental report describing any new information or significant environmental change associated with the proposed license termination activities, and identification of any parts of the site that were released for use before approval of the LTP. III. Request for Comment The VBWR and EVESR LPSDAR is available in ADAMS under Package Accession No. ML22264A324. The NRC is requesting public comments on the LPSDAR for the VBWR and EVESR by April 24, 2023. The NRC will review the LPSDAR to the requirements of a PSDAR and send a letter to GEH with the results of our evaluation, and the consideration of any public comments. Dated: December 20, 2022. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Shaun M. Anderson, Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2022–27987 Filed 12–22–22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P TKELLEY on DSK125TN23PROD with NOTICE PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION Privacy Act of 1974; Systems of Records Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. ACTION: Notice of modified system of records. AGENCY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:36 Dec 22, 2022 Jkt 259001 Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is proposing changes to a system of records notice (SORN). PBGC is updating the Official Address to reflect PBGC’s new headquarters location, adding a routine use and modifying other routine uses, updating categories of records, sources of records, and other administrative changes. 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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Shawn Hartley, Chief Privacy Officer, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Office of the General Counsel, 445 12th SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00090 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Street SW, Washington, DC 20024–2101, 202–229–6321. For access to any of PBGC’s systems of records, contact D. Camilla Perry, Disclosure Officer, Office of the General Counsel, Disclosure Division, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20024–2101, or by calling 202–229–4040, or go to https:// www.pbgc.gov/about/policies/pg/ privacy-at-pbgc/system-of-recordsnotices. If you are deaf or hard of hearing or have a speech disability, please dial 7–1–1 to access telecommunications relay services. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (1) PBGC is proposing to update the Official Addresses, the citation to the Contesting Records Procedures section, and to clarify the Policies and Practices for Retention and Disposal of Records section. 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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 246 (Friday, December 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 79000-79002]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-27987]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-18 and 50-185; NRC-2022-0210]


GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC; Vallecitos Boiling Water 
Reactor and the Empire State Atomic Development Agency Vallecitos 
Experimental Superheat Reactor; Limited Post-Shutdown Decommissioning 
Activities Report

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of receipt; availability; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: By letter dated September 21, 2022, as supplemented by letter 
dated November 22, 2022, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC (GEH, 
the licensee) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
a ``limited'' post-shutdown decommissioning activities report (LPSDAR) 
for the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor (VBWR) and the Empire State 
Atomic Development Agency Vallecitos Experimental Superheat Reactor 
(EVESR). The LPSDAR provides an overview of GEH's planned activities, 
schedule, projected costs, and environmental impacts for the 
decommissioning of the VBWR and EVESR. Accordingly, the NRC is noticing 
receipt of the LPSDAR and making it available for public comment.

DATES: Submit comments by April 24, 2023. 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. See section III, ``Request for Comment,'' of this document 
for additional information.

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; 
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal rulemaking website:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0210. Address 
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual listed in the For Further Information 
Contact section of this document.
     Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
    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: Jack D. Parrott, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-6634; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0210 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0210.
     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 ``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 [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number for each 
document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first 
time that it is mentioned in this document.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make 
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to 
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.

B. Submitting Comments

    The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please 
include Docket ID NRC-2022-0210 in your comment submission.
    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 will post 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

    The VBWR, NRC License No. DPR-1, and EVESR, NRC License No. DR-10, 
are licensed as nuclear power reactors under part 50 of title 10 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Domestic Licensing of 
Production and Utilization Facilities.'' The reactors are located at 
the GEH Vallecitos Nuclear Center (VNC) in Alameda County, California. 
The VBWR is considered to have permanently ceased operations on 
September 9, 1965, upon issuance of a possession-only license by NRC. 
Likewise, EVESR was considered permanently shut-down upon issuance of 
its possession-only license on April 15, 1970. The spent nuclear fuel 
from each reactor has been permanently removed from the VNC site.
    The regulations in 10 CFR 50.82, ``Termination of license,'' govern 
the decommissioning of nuclear reactor facilities licensed by the NRC. 
Documents equivalent to decommissioning plans for the VBWR and EVESR 
were submitted to the NRC on March 21, 1991 (ADAMS Accession Nos. 
ML20021A155 and ML20021A144, respectively). Paragraph (a)(4)(i) of 10 
CFR 50.82, ``Termination of license,'' states that a Post-Shutdown 
Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) shall be submitted prior to 
or within 2 years following permanent cessation of operations. However, 
since the decommissioning plans for the VBWR and EVESR were submitted 
before the regulations in 10 CFR 50.82 were first promulgated in 1996, 
the licensee was exempted from submitting PSDARs. The first paragraph 
of 10 CFR 50.82 describes that decommissioning plans submitted before 
the effective date of the rule, August 28, 1996 (61 FR 39278), are 
considered to be the PSDAR submittals for those reactors.
    However, on September 21, 2022, as supplemented on November 22, 
2022 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML22326A351), GEH submitted a LPSDAR, 
for the VBWR and EVESR. A PSDAR is a description of the planned 
decommissioning activities along with a schedule for their 
accomplishment, a discussion that provides the reasons for concluding 
that the environmental impacts associated with site-specific 
decommissioning activities will be bounded by appropriate previously 
issued environmental impact statements, and a site-specific 
decommissioning cost estimate. Although not required to submit PSDARs 
for the VBWR and EVESR because of the previously submitted 
decommissioning plans, GEH prepared a LPSDAR according to the 
requirements of 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(i) and the NRC's guidance for PSDARs 
in Regulatory Guide 1.185, Revision 1, ``Standard Format and Content 
for Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report,'' (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML13140A038) and submitted to the NRC on September 21, 2022. This 
was done to demonstrate how GEH would comply with the requirements of 
10 CFR 50.82(a)(6) and 10 CFR 50.82(a)(7) which do apply to the 
decommissioning of the VBWR and EVESR. The requirements of 10 CFR 
50.82(a)(6) and 10 CFR 50.82(a)(7) restrict the decommissioning 
activities that can be performed and require GEH to notify NRC of any 
changes to the decommissioning activities that are inconsistent with 
those described in the PSDAR.
    While the requirements of a PSDAR submittal do not apply to the 
LPSDAR submittal for the VBWR and EVESR, including the requirements for 
NRC to notice receipt of the PSDAR, make it available for public 
comment, and to hold a public meeting in the vicinity of

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the site, NRC is noticing receipt of the LPSDAR and making it available 
for public comment to enhance transparency and provide for public 
participation in our regulatory activities in accordance with NRC's 
approach to open government. While NRC will not be holding a public 
meeting in conjunction with this LPSDAR submittal, there will be public 
meetings held when GEH submits a License Termination Plan (LTP) for the 
VBWR by September 8, 2023, and by April 15, 2028, for the EVESR in 
accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(i) which requires LTPs to be 
submitted at least 2 years before termination of the license, and 10 
CFR 50.82(a)(3) which requires that power reactor decommissioning be 
complete within 60 years of the permanent cessation of operations. An 
LTP must include a site characterization, identification of remaining 
dismantlement activities, plans for site remediation and the final 
radiation survey, an updated site-specific estimate of remaining 
decommissioning costs, a supplement to the environmental report 
describing any new information or significant environmental change 
associated with the proposed license termination activities, and 
identification of any parts of the site that were released for use 
before approval of the LTP.

III. Request for Comment

    The VBWR and EVESR LPSDAR is available in ADAMS under Package 
Accession No. ML22264A324. The NRC is requesting public comments on the 
LPSDAR for the VBWR and EVESR by April 24, 2023. The NRC will review 
the LPSDAR to the requirements of a PSDAR and send a letter to GEH with 
the results of our evaluation, and the consideration of any public 
comments.

    Dated: December 20, 2022.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Shaun M. Anderson,
Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning, 
Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
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