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6/4/04 - Memo to M. Lesar, Yankee Nuclear Power Station - Notice of Public Meeting on License Termination Plan (TAC No.L52095)
ML041560557
Person / Time
Site: Yankee Rowe
Issue date: 06/04/2004
From: Gillen D
NRC/NMSS/DWMEP
To: Lesar M
NRC/ADM/DAS/RDB
References
-RFPFR, TAC L52095
Download: ML041560557 (4)


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June 4, 2004 MEMORANDUM TO: Michael T. Lesar, Chief Rules and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services Office of Administration FROM: Daniel M. Gillen /RA/

Deputy Director for the Decommissioning Directorate Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

SUBJECT:

YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION - NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING ON LICENSE TERMINATION PLAN (TAC NO. L52095)

Attached is an original signed copy of a Federal Register notice of a public meeting on the Yankee Rowe license termination plan. Five copies of the notice and a diskette containing an electronic version of the notice are also attached. Please transmit the Federal Register notice to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Attachments:

1. Signed original FRN
2. 5 copies of FRN
3. Diskette CONTACT: John B. Hickman, NMSS/DWMEP (301) 415-3017

June 4, 2004 MEMORANDUM TO: Michael T. Lesar, Chief Rules and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services Office of Administration FROM: Daniel M. Gillen /RA/

Deputy Director for the Decommissioning Directorate Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

SUBJECT:

YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION - NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING ON LICENSE TERMINATION PLAN (TAC NO. L52095)

Attached is an original signed copy of a Federal Register notice of a public meeting on the Yankee Rowe license termination plan. Five copies of the notice and a diskette containing an electronic version of the notice are also attached. Please transmit the Federal Register notice to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Attachments:

1. Signed original FRN
2. 5 copies of FRN
3. Diskette CONTACT: John B. Hickman, NMSS/DWMEP (301) 415-3017 DISTRIBUTION:

PUBLIC Central File DWMEP r/f NMSS r/f Docket File 50-29 ACRS/ACNW OPA OGC (Smith/Kannler)

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7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY YANKEE ATOMIC POWER STATION (ROWE)

DOCKET NO.50-029 NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING ON THE LICENSE TERMINATION PLAN The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing notice that the NRC staff will conduct a meeting to discuss and accept public comments on the Yankee (Rowe) Atomic Power Station (Yankee-Rowe) License Termination Plan (LTP) on Thursday, June 24, 2004, at 7:00 p.m. at Mohawk Trail Regional High School, 26 Ashfield Road, Shelborne Falls, Massachusetts.

Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YAEC, or the licensee) informed the NRC by letter dated February 27, 1992, that Yankee-Rowe was permanently shut down and that decommissioning would commence. YAEC submitted a decommissioning plan on December 20, 1993, which included an environmental report. The decommissioning plan was approved by Order on February 14, 1995, and the plant is undergoing dismantlement under 10 CFR 50.59.

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9), all power reactor licensees must submit an application for termination of their license. The application for termination of license must be accompanied or preceded by an LTP to be submitted for NRC approval. If found acceptable by the NRC staff, the LTP is approved by license amendment, subject to such conditions and limitations as the NRC staff deems appropriate and necessary. YAEC submitted the proposed LTP for Yankee-Rowe by applications dated November 24, 2003, December 10, 2003, December 16, 2003, January 19, 2004, January 20, 2004, February 2, 2004, February 10, 2004, and March 4, 2004. In accordance with 10 CFR 20.1405 and 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii), the

NRC is providing notice to individuals in the vicinity of the site that the NRC is in receipt of the Yankee-Rowe LTP, will hold a public meeting, and will accept comments from affected parties.

An electronic version of the Yankee-Rowe LTP may be viewed through the NRC ADAMS system at accession numbers ML033450398, ML033530147, ML041110261, ML040280024, ML040280028, ML040280031, ML040280036, ML040280140, ML040330777, ML040420388, ML041100639, and ML040690034, or at the Yankee Atomic Power Company site closure web site, http://www.yankee.com/siteclosure/index.htm.

Comments or questions regarding the Yankee-Rowe LTP or the public meeting may be addressed to Mr. John B. Hickman, Mail Stop T-7-F27, Decommissioning Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, telephone (301) 415-3017 or via e-mail jbh@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of June 2004.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

Claudia Craig, Chief Reactor Decommissioning Section Decommissioning Directorate Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards