ML20212M229
| ML20212M229 | |
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| Issue date: | 01/24/1986 |
| From: | Minogue R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
| To: | Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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| References | |
| FOIA-86-126, FOIA-86-127, FOIA-86-131, FOIA-86-166, FOIA-86-201, FOIA-86-209, FOIA-86-263, FOIA-86-80, FOIA-86-82 NUDOCS 8608250418 | |
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JAN 2 4 E86 MEMORANDUM FOR: Victor Stello, Jr.
Acting Executive Director for Operations t
FROM: Robert B. Minogue, Director Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
SUBJECT:
OPTIONS PAPER OH DEC0tHISSIONING RULEMAKING
Background:
l In a memorandum from T. A. Rehm to me, dated December 4,1985, Mr. Rehm relayed i a request that RES prepare an options paper on decomissioning rulemaking. It I
Mas indicated that this paper should explore a role for the Federal Energy I
Regulatory Comission (FERC) and state Public Utility Comissions (PUC's) in dealing with.the economic issues involved in order to relieve NRC from dealing any more than necessary in an area with which we are not familiar. We have
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considered this question, have discussed it with the Office of State Programs, since they play a major role at NRC in evaluating utility financial issues, and ,
have also discussed it with FERC staff and with the Chairman of the Comittee ,
i on Electricity of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners l (NARUC) which is an association of state public utility comissi on those activi l
l The question of the roles of NRC, FERC, and the PUC's in this area should first '
consider the responsibilities of each of these entities. NRC is, of course, responsible for protecting the public health and safety during the construction, operation, and decomissioning of nuclear facilities.. As part of assuring public health and safety, the NRC has issued a number of rules in the general area of financial criteria: Part 40 Appendix A. Criterion 9 (on assuring that sufficient funds will be available to carry out decomissioning and decontamination of uranium mills and for reclamation of any tailings or waste disposal areas); Part 50.33f (on demonstrating to the Comission the -
financial qualification for licensed activities); Part 50.54w (on obtaining -
onsite property damage insurance to assure adequate funds for decontamination after an accident); Part 61, Subpart E, section 61.62 (on providing assurance that sufficient funds will be available to carry out closure and stabilization i
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Victor Stello, Jr. JAN 2 41986 of low level waste dispos.:1 facilities); and Part 72.18 (on the decomissioning i
- plan and financial arrangements to provide reasonable assurance that
, decontamination and decommissioning will be carried out for independent spent l fuel storage installations).
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i The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has the responsibility for setting l rates for the transmission and sale (wholesale) of electricity by investor owned utilities in interstate commerce and au+horizes the conditions, rates, I and charges for interconnections among electric utilities. The sales of I electricity for which FERC would set rates are small, comprising about 13 percent of total U.S. electricity sales. State public utility commissions have the responsibility for setting rates for retail sales of electricity to l homeowners and companies doing business in their states. Municipally-owned, state-owned, or Federally-owned utilities, and rural electric cooperatives generally do not come under the jurisdiction of FERC or the state PUC's and thus set thcir own rates, including collections for decommissioning funding.
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