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Ltr to Wisconsin Shpo Regarding the Lacrosse Boiling Water Reactor License Termination Plan
ML17067A442
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Site: La Crosse File:Dairyland Power Cooperative icon.png
Issue date: 06/25/2018
From: Roman C
Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review
To: Draeger J
State of WI, Historical Society
Muir-Quintero J
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J. Draege UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 June 25, 2018 Mr. Jim Draeger State Historic Preservation Officer Wisconsin Historic Society 815 State Street Madison, WI 53706

SUBJECT:

NOTIFICATION AND REQUEST FOR CONSULTATION REGARDING THE LACROSSE BOILING WATER REACTOR LICENSE TERMINATION PLAN (DOCKET NUMBER: 50-409)

Dear Mr. Draeger:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is reviewing a license amendment request from LaCrosseSolutions, LLC (Solutions) related to the LaCrosse Boiling Water Reactor (LACBWR). Solutions is requesting NRCs approval of its License Termination Plan (LTP) for LACBWR. The LTP was submitted as part of the license amendment request in June 2016.

The LTP describes the process Solutions will use to meet the NRC requirements for terminating the operating license and to release the site for unrestricted use.

The NRC will complete a technical review of the LTP, consisting of both an environmental and safety review. The environmental review will be conducted in accordance with the regulatory provisions in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 51, Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions, which implement the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA). In accordance with 36 CFR Part 800.8, Coordination with the National Environmental Policy Act, the NRC staff is using the NEPA process to comply with its obligations under Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). The environmental review will also include analyses of potential impacts to historic and cultural resources.

PROJECT NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION Solutions submitted the LTP in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9). The NRC, when it approves an LTP, is approving the following: (a) the adequacy of the licensees decommissioning funding plan to assure that sufficient funding is available to complete the remaining radiological remediation activities; (b) the radiation-release criteria for license termination; and (c) the adequacy of the design of the final status survey to verify that the radiological release criteria have been met. The final status survey is the radiological survey performed after an area has been fully characterized, remediation has been completed, and the area is ready to be released. In accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(11), the NRC shall terminate the LACBWR reactor operating license (except for the independent spent fuel storage installation [ISFSI]) upon Solutions demonstration, through its final radiological survey, that it has met the radiological release criteria of 10 CFR 20.1402. The portion of the site associated with the ISFSI will remain under restricted use.

J. Draeger 2 LACBWR has not operated since 1987 and has been undergoing decommissioning since 2007.

All spent nuclear fuel was transferred in 2012 to onsite dry cask storage at the ISFSI, which will remain after decommissioning. Also located onsite is the Genoa-3 fossil fuel generating station, which is still in operation.

Solutions, the licensee, is completing the remaining decommissioning and license termination activities. Those activities involve the demolition of buildings, waste and debris removal, and soil surveys and excavations. These activities will occur on previously disturbed land, within the site boundary. These activities are to ensure that Solutions can meet the radiological release criteria for license termination.

AREA OF POTENTIAL EFFECT The LACBWR is located in Vernon County, Wisconsin, along the eastern shore of the Mississippi River. It lies about 1 mile south of the Village of Genoa and approximately 19 miles south of the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Enclosure 1 contains figures indicating the general location of the site and the areas of potential effect (APE). The direct APE for this proposed action is the current site boundary and includes approximately 75 acres. The indirect APE is the extent of the original LACBWR site, approximately 163 acres.

EFFORTS TO IDENTIFY HISTORIC PROPERTIES The NRC issued a Final Environment Statement (FES) in April 1980, evaluating the environmental impacts of the operation of LACBWR, which can be located in the Agency Wide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) by the accession number ML17038A257. Included in the FES is a letter, dated July 28, 1976, from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin that states:

There are no sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places that would be adversely affected by this project. Furthermore, there are no sites known to us of archeological, architectural, or historical significance in the project area that would be eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

Solutions, in its LTP, noted they conducted searches of the National Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin Historical Society, through May 2015. There are no structures in the village of Genoa or within 5 miles of LACBWR. Solutions identified the closest historical site as the Goose Island Archeological Site, seven miles from LACBWR near Stoddard, Wisconsin. The LTP also identifies three historical markers along Highway 35 in Vernon County denoting the Upper Mississippi River locks system, the Battle of Bad Axe, and the LACBWR itself which was the first nuclear generating plant in Wisconsin.

The NRC has requested input from the fourteen Federally-recognized Tribes, listed below, as to whether historic resources, specifically those of religious and cultural significance to their tribe could be affected by this project:

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  • Ho-Chunk Nation
  • Menominee Indian Tribe of
  • Lac due Flambeau Band of Lake
  • Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Superior Chippewa Indians of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of Lac du Flambeau Reservation of South Dakota Wisconsin
  • Fort Belknap Indian Community of
  • Lake Traverse Reservation, South
  • Lower Sioux Indian Community in Dakota the State of Minnesota
  • Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma Through this letter, the NRC staff initiates consultation under NHPA Section 106 with the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Officer regarding the LTP for the LACBWR site. To support the environmental review and implementation of the NHPA Section 106 process through NEPA, the NRC requests that your office provide information, comments or concerns you consider appropriate with regard to cultural, historic or archaeological resources of interest that may be affected.

For additional information regarding the proposed action, Solutions license amendment application is publicly available from the NRC's ADAMS, which can be accessed online at:

http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. The ADAMS Accession Number for the LTP is ML17053A162. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Ms.

Jessie Muir Quintero via e-mail at Jessie.Quintero@nrc.gov or by telephone at (301) 415-7476.

Sincerely,

/RA JCaverly for/

Cinthya I. Román, Chief Environmental Review Branch Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket No. 50-409 License No. DPR-45

Enclosure:

Figures of LACBWR Site and APEs

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SUBJECT:

NOTIFICATION AND REQUEST FOR CONSULTATION REGARDING THE LACROSSE BOILING WATER REACTOR LICENSE TERMINATION PLAN (DOCKET NUMBER: 50-409)

DATED: June 25, 2018 DISTRIBUTION: FCSE r/f ADAMS Package Accession Number: ML17067A467 (* via e-mail)

OFC FSCE/ERB FSCE/ERB OGC FCSE/ERB NAME JQuintero AWalker-Smith ASilvia* JCaverly for CRomán DATE 06/12/18 06/19/18 06/22/18 06/25/18 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

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