[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 36722]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17192]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-245]
Northeast Nuclear Energy Company, et al., Millstone Nuclear Power
Station, Unit 1; Notice of Receipt and Availability for Comment of
Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is in
receipt of and is making available for public comment, the Post-
Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for the Millstone
Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 (Millstone Unit 1), located in Waterford,
Connecticut.
Millstone Unit 1 has been shut down since November 4, 1995, and the
reactor has been defueled since November 19, 1995. By letter dated July
21, 1998, Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (the licensee) certified to
the Commission that power operations at Millstone Unit 1 had been
permanently ceased and fuel had been permanently removed from the
reactor vessel. By letter dated June 14, 1999, the licensee submitted
its PSDAR to the Commission in accordance with the requirements of
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 50.82.
In the PSDAR, the licensee has identified the planned
decommissioning activities and schedule for the Millstone Unit 1
facility, provided an estimate of expected costs, and discussed the
reasons for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with
site-specific decommissioning activities are bounded by the appropriate
previously issued environmental impact statements. The licensee has
chosen to decontaminate and dismantle selected portions of the facility
and leave other portions in a safe storage status until decommissioning
programs are developed for Unit 2 and Unit 3. The licensee stated,
however, that it is conceivable that upon further evaluation, it may be
preferable to decontaminate and dismantle Unit 1 without placing
portions of the facility in safe storage. The licensee is also
evaluating the feasibility of constructing an independent spent fuel
storage facility on site until the fuel can be permanently transferred
offsite to a Department of Energy facility.
The PSDAR is available for public inspection at the Commission's
public document room located at The Gelman Building, 2120 L Street,
NW., Washington, DC, and at the local public document room located at
the Learning Resources Center, Three Rivers Community-Technical
College, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich, Connecticut, and at the
Waterford Library, ATTN: Vince Juliano, 49 Rope Ferry Road, Waterford,
Connecticut. The NRC has also placed the PSDAR on the Internet at
[http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/reports/ms1061499.htm] (cover letter) and
[http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/reports/1061499a.htm] (attached report).
The Commission will schedule a public meeting in the vicinity of
the Millstone Unit 1 facility to solicit public comments on the
Millstone Unit 1 PSDAR. A notice will be placed in the Federal Register
and in the local media announcing the date, time, and location of the
public meeting.
Comments regarding the Millstone Unit 1 PSDAR should be submitted
in writing to Mr. Louis L. Wheeler, Senior Project Manager, Mail Stop
O11 D-19, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, within 30 days after the date of this notice.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th of June 1999.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Louis L. Wheeler,
Senior Project Manager, Decommissioning Section, Project Directorate IV
& Decommissioning Division of Licensing Project Manager, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-17192 Filed 7-6-99; 8:45 am]
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