ML19137A036

Email to State of New Jersey, Notification-And-Request-Oyster Creek License Transfer Application L-2018-LLM-0002

ML19137A036
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	05/16/2019
From:	Amy Snyder Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and Waste Programs
To:	Gubbi V, Orlando P, Schwartz P State of NJ
Snyder A
References
L-2018-LLM-0002
Download: ML19137A036 (2)

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From:

Snyder, Amy To:

Gubbi, Veena; "Schwartz, Paul"; "Orlando, Paul"

Subject:

FOR YOUR COMMENTS-STATE OF NEW JERSEY-OYSTER CREEK-CONFORMING AMENDMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE OYSTER CREEK GENERATING STATION LICENSE TRANSFER APPLICATION Date:

Thursday, May 16, 2019 8:59:00 AM Ms. Gubbi, Mr. Schwartz, and Mr. Orlando:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff plans to issue an amendment to Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (Oyster Creek) at end of June 2019.

By application dated August 31, 2018 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML18243A489), including proprietary financial information provided as Enclosure 2A, Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement By and Between Exelon Generation Company, LLC, Oyster Creek Environmental Protection, LLC, and Holtec International, Exelon Generation Company, LLC (EGC), Oyster Creek Environmental Protection, LLC (OCEP) and Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI) (together, Applicants), requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) consent to the proposed direct transfer of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS)

Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-16 and the OCNGS Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) general license (collectively referred to as the facility or Oyster Creek). Enclosure 2A of the application contains sensitive unclassified non-safeguards information (proprietary commercial and financial information) that is being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.390.

Specifically, the Applicants requested that the NRC consent to the direct transfer of EGCs currently licensed authority (licensed owner and operator for decommissioning) to OCEP as the licensed owner and to HDI as the licensed operator for decommissioning. In addition, the Applicants requested that the NRC approve a conforming amendment to the facility licenses to reflect this transfer from EGC to OCEP and HDI.

Exelon permanently ceased power operations at Oyster Creek on September 17, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18263A163). On September 25, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18268A258), Exelon permanently removed fuel from the Oyster Creek reactor vessel.

The proposed amendment would be a conforming amendment to reflect the license transfer from Exelon to OCEP, as the owner, and HDI, as the operator, should the NRC approve the license transfer request.

The subject application is for approval of a transfer of a license issued by the NRC and an associated conforming amendment required to reflect the approval of the transfer.

Accordingly, the actions involved meet the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(21). Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental impact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection with the approval of the transfer application and conforming license amendment.

If the State of New Jersey has comments on the conforming amendment, please provide the comments by June 3, 2019.

Thank you

A

Amy

Amy Snyder, Senior Project Manager Reactor Decommissioning Branch (RDB)

Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs (DUWP)

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS)

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

Washington, D.C. 20555

( Office: (301) 415-6822 7 Fax: (301) 415-5369

- Mail Stop: T5-A10

¶ Location: T5-D48 8E-mail: amy.snyder@nrc.gov