[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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