ML091690470

Status of Decommissioning Funding Assurance

ML091690470
Person / Time
Site:	Beaver Valley
Issue date:	06/18/2009
From:	Nadiyah Morgan Plant Licensing Branch 1
To:	Sena P FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
Morgan, M, NRO/DCIP/CQVB, 415-2232
References
TAC ME0487
Download: ML091690470 (3)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 June 18, 2009 Mr. Peter P. Sena '"

Site Vice President FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Beaver Valley Power Station Mail Stop A-BV-SEB1 P.O. Box 4, Route 168 Shippingport, PA 15077

SUBJECT:

FIRSTENERGY NUCLEAR OPERATING COMPANY STATUS OF DECOMMISSIONING FUNDING ASSURANCE FOR BEAVER VALLEY POWER STATION, UNIT NO.1 (TAC NO. ME0487)

Dear Mr. Sena:

On March 27, 2009, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (licensee) biennial decommissioning funding report (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML090970287) for Beaver Valley Power Station, Unit NO.1 (BVPS-1).

Based on our internal review, the NRC staff believes that there is a decommissioning funding assurance shortfall for BVPS-1. Although a shortfall in decommissioning funding assurance does not affect safe operations, adequate decommissioning funding assurance is important to ensure a plant will eventually be decommissioned safely.

The NRC staff will conduct a telephone conference with the licensee within ten working days of the date of this letter to discuss the staff's calculations and methodology. The intent of the call will be to establish a mutual understanding and framework such that you will be able to develop a plan to resolve any decommissioning funding assurance shortfall.

If the licensee is determined to have a shortfall, it will need to submit a plan by a date to be established at the close of the telephone conference. The plan would describe how and when the licensee intends to make adjustments to its trust fund balances and/or make other adjustments or changes with respect to financial assurance mechanisms, such that it will meet the minimum amount of financial assurance consistent with NRC's regulations.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement This Letter does not contain any new or amended information collection requirements SUbject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing collection requirements under 10 CFR Part 50 were approved by the Office of Management and BUdget, control number 3150-0011, which expires June 30, 2010

P. Sena -2 Public Protection Notification The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an information collection unless the requesting document displays a currently valid OMB control number.

Sincerely, Nadiyah S. Morgan, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-334 cc: Distribution via Listserv

P. Sena - 2 Public Protection Notification The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an information collection unless the requesting document displays a currently valid OMB control number.

Sincerely, IRA!

Nadiyah S. Morgan, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-334 cc: Distribution via Listserv DISTRIBUTION:

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