ML20034E148
| ML20034E148 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 02/13/2020 |
| From: | Balwant Singal NRC/NRR/DORL/LPL4 |
| To: | Welsch J Pacific Gas & Electric Co |
| Singal B | |
| References | |
| EPID L-2019-LRL-0004, NRC-2020-0054 | |
| Download: ML20034E148 (8) | |
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February 13, 2020 Mr. James M. Welsch Senior Vice President, Generation and Chief Nuclear Officer Pacific Gas and Electric Company Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant P.O. Box 56, Mail Code 104/6 Avila Beach, CA 93424
SUBJECT:
DIABLO CANYON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 -
NOTIFICATION OF THE AVAILABILITY OF THE POST-SHUTDOWN DECOMMISSIONING ACTIVITIES REPORT IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER (EPID L-2019-LRL-0004)
Dear Mr. Welsch:
On December 4, 2019, Pacific Gas and Electric Company submitted a letter enclosing the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) including the Cost Summary from the Site-Specific Decommissioning Cost Estimate for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2.
The PSDAR has been made publicly available in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissions (NRCs) Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) under Accession No. ML19338F173.
The purpose of this letter is to inform you that the NRC staff will publish a notice in the Federal Register informing the public of a meeting to discuss and accept comments on the PSDAR. It is the NRC staffs intention to hold the public meeting on March 19, 2020, at the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Government Center, 1055 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408.
A copy of the Federal Register notice is enclosed. If you have any questions, please contact me at 301-415-3016, or by e-mail at Balwant.Singal@nrc.gov.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Balwant K. Singal, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch IV Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323
Enclosure:
Federal Register Notice cc: Listserv
ENCLOSURE FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY DIABLO CANYON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 DOCKET NOS. 50-275 AND 50-323
[7590-01-P]
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323; NRC-2020-0054]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2 AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of receipt; public meeting; and request for comment.
SUMMARY
- On December 4, 2019, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (Diablo Canyon), Units 1 and 2. The PSDAR, which includes the Cost Summary from the Site-Specific Decommissioning Cost Estimate (DCE), provides an overview of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E, the licensee) planned decommissioning activities, schedule, projected costs, and environmental impacts for Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2. The NRC will hold a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR and receive comments.
DATES: Submit comments by [INSERT DATE 120 DAYS FROM DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]. 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 before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0054. Address questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-9127; e-mail:
Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
2 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: Balwant K. Singal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3016; e-mail: Balwant.Singal@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0054 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-2020-0054.
NRCs 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 NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this document.
3 NRCs PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRCs PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC-2020-0054 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 PG&E is the holder of Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-80 and DPR-82 for Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2, respectively. 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 a pair of Westinghouse four-loop pressurized-water reactors located in San Luis Obispo County, California. By letter dated November 27, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18331A553), the licensee informed the NRC that it will permanently cease power operations at Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2, on November 2, 2024 and August 26, 2025, respectively.
4 On December 4, 2019, PG&E submitted the PSDAR containing the Cost Summary from Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2 DCE in accordance with section 50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (ADAMS Accession No. ML19338F173). The PSDAR includes a description of the planned decommissioning activities, a proposed schedule for their accomplishment, cost summary from the DCE, and a discussion that provides the basis for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with the site-specific decommissioning activities will be bounded by appropriate, previously issued generic and plant-specific environmental impact statements.
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR for Diablo Canyon, Units 1 and 2. The NRC will conduct a public meeting to discuss the PSDAR and receive comments on Thursday, March 19, 2020, from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., at the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Government Center, 1055 Monterey Street, San Luis Obispo, California 93408. The NRC requests that comments that are not provided during the meeting be submitted as noted in the ADDRESSES section of this document in writing by [INSERT DATE 120 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of February 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
/RA/
Jennifer L. Dixon-Herrity, Chief, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
Letter: ML20034E148 FRN: ML20034E072
- via email OFFICE NRR/DORL/LPL4/PM NRR/DORL/LPL4/LA NMSS/DUWP/RDB/PM*
NAME BSingal PBlechman JHickman DATE 02/11/2020 02/11/2020 02/12/2020 OFFICE NMSS/DUWP/RDB/BC*
NRR/DORL/LPL4/BC NRR/DORL/LPL4/PM NAME BWatson* (JParrott for)
JDixon-Herrity BSingal DATE 02/12/2020 02/13/2020 02/13/2020