ML20332A032

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Unable to Submit Decommissioning Plan by December 5, 2020 Due to COVID-19
ML20332A032
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Site: Aerotest
Issue date: 11/18/2020
From: Slaughter D
Aerotest
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Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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AEROTEST OPERATION-S, INC.

3455 FOSTORIA WAY

  • SAN RAMON, CA 94583 * (925) 866-1212
  • FAX (925) 866-1716 November 1_8; 2020 ATIN: Docum~ Control Desk U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen:

RE: License# R98 Docket Number 50-228 Due to COVID-19, we will not be able to submit our Decommissioning Plan by the December 5, 2020 due date.

We have a preliminary decommissioning plan from 2017 that needs to be updated. However do COVID-19 restrictions in California and our County being limited to only essential business, we've been unable to have contractors come into our facilities to give us an updated bid. Additionally, most contractors have limited their employees travel in 2020 based on COVID-19 restrictions.

Our County started its shelter in place in March 2020 before California started their shelter in place. Just as our County was beginning progress on meeting California Guidelines to start reopening some non-essential business, increases in new COVID-19 cases in California and our .County knocked us back to the most restrictive reopening tier (purple) in California. The purple tier allows only essential business.

Decommissioning is not considered an essential business as we need to ship out the fuel before the actual decommissioning_ can begin. Currently we are on the waiting list to be able to ship our spent and new fuel. Once the fuel is shipped out, decommissioning could be considered an essential business function.

We don't know when COVID-19 restrictions in California or our County will lesson. With a vaccine on the horizon, many states limiting business to essential business -only and the mask mandate, we're hoping business will be back to usual in the spring of 2021. If that's the case, we'd be ab1e to update the **

decommission plan by July 31, 2021. But if business doesn't open back up in the spring of2021 we'd again need to extend the due date.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the statements above are correct and truthful.

~fully, J~laughter, PhD President, Reactor Administrator, General Manager and Manager