[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 182 (Friday, September 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 49261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24918]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-309]
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Maine Yankee Atomic Power
Company, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station; Notice of Receipt of 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 inspection and comment,
the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for the
Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station (Maine Yankee) located in Lincoln
County, Maine.
Maine Yankee has been shut down since December 6, 1996, and the
reactor has been defueled since June 20, 1997. By letter dated August
7, 1997, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company (the licensee) certified to
the Commission permanent cessation of power operation at Maine Yankee
and that fuel had been permanently removed from the reactor. By letter
dated August 27, 1997, the licensee submitted its PSDAR to the
Commission in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.82.
In the PSDAR the licensee has described the planned decommissioning
activities and schedule for the Maine Yankee 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 the facility in a manner that results in
the prompt removal of the existing nuclear plant. This approach is
referred to as the DECON alternative. The licensee intends to complete
the decontamination and dismantlement of the majority of plant
structures within approximately seven years of cessation of operations.
The licensee intends to construct an independent facility to store the
spent fuel 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 local public
document room located at the Wiscasset Public Library, High Street,
Wiscasset, Maine and at the Commission's public document room located
at The Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC.
The Commission will schedule a public meeting in the vicinity of
the Maine Yankee facility to solicit public comments on the Maine
Yankee PSDAR. A notice will be published in the Federal Register and in
the local media announcing the date, time and location of this meeting.
Comments regarding the Maine Yankee PSDAR should be submitted in
writing to Mr. Singh Bajwa, Mail Stop 11-B-20, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555 within 30 days after the date of this
notice.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of September 1997.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Albert W. DeAgazio,
Acting Director, Project Directorate I-3, Division of Reactor Projects
I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 97-24918 Filed 9-18-97; 8:45 am]
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