ML23062A737

Letter - Three Mile Island, Unit 2 - Acceptance and Review Schedule Historical and Cultural Resources License Amendment Request - EPID: 2023-LLA-0026

ML23062A737
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	03/31/2023
From:	Amy Snyder Reactor Decommissioning Branch
To:	Sauger J TMI-2 Solutions
Snyder A
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ML23082A342	List: ML23062A737 ML23082A343
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EPID L-2023-LLA-0026
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March 31, 2023 John T. Sauger President and Chief Nuclear Officer TMI-2 Solutions, LLC 121 West Trade Street, Suite 2700 Charlotte, NC 28202

SUBJECT:

THREE MILE ISLAND, UNIT 2 - ACCEPTANCE REVIEW AND REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE HISTORIC AND CULTURAL RESOURCES LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST- EPID: 2023-LLA-0026

Dear John Sauger:

By letter dated February 22, 2023, TMI-2 Solutions submitted a license amendment request (LAR) (Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML23058A064). In its request, TMI-2 Solutions stated that this LAR is intended to support applicable historic and cultural reviews regarding the TMI-2 owned National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-eligible buildings in anticipation of the eventual and necessary physical demolition of the facility to be performed in accordance with the TMI-2 decommissioning project schedule described in the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report, Revision 5 (PSDAR), (ML22306A051).

TMI-2 Solutions explains in the LAR that physical demolition of the TMl-2 Solutions owned buildings previously deemed eligible for the NRHP could result in an environmental impact not bounded by the conclusions in the Decommissioning Generic Environmental Impact Statement (NUREG-0586, Supplement 1, Vol. 1) (ML023470304) with regard to cultural, historic, and archaeological resources if appropriate mitigation is not developed in consultation with the State Historic Preservation Office.

The purpose of this letter is to provide the results of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff's acceptance review. The acceptance review was performed to determine if there is sufficient technical information in scope and depth in the LAR to allow the NRC staff to complete its technical review. The acceptance review is also intended to identify whether the amendment request has any readily apparent information insufficiencies in its characterization of the regulatory requirements or the licensing basis of the facility. The NRC determined that the LAR is acceptable. In order for the NRC to conduct its review and to allow appropriate mitigation to be developed, the NRC plans to initiate consultation for this undertaking under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).

The NRC is unable to establish a review schedule at this time because the LAR review cannot be completed until after the NHPA Section 106 process concludes. The Section 106 process may include development of either a Programmatic Agreement (PA) or Memorandum of

J. Sauger Agreement (MOA)1, which can take several months to several years to complete based on site specific factors.

Regarding resource estimates, the NRC staff estimates approximately 100 hours0.00116 days <br />0.0278 hours <br />1.653439e-4 weeks <br />3.805e-5 months <br /> would be needed for the safety evaluation and approximately 400 hours0.00463 days <br />0.111 hours <br />6.613757e-4 weeks <br />1.522e-4 months <br /> for the EA. These estimates could change, due to several factors including requests for additional information, unanticipated addition of scope to the review, and hearing-related activities. If there are emergent complexities or challenges in our review that would cause significant changes in the forecasted hours, the reasons for the changes, along with the new estimates, will be communicated by the assigned project manager during routine interactions.

There may be instances in which issues that impact the NRC staffs ability to complete the technical review of the LAR are identified despite completion of an adequate acceptance review.

You will be advised of any further information needed through RAIs to support the NRC staff's technical review by separate correspondence.

Please find, enclosed, the NRC staffs request for additional information (RAI). Please respond to the RAI within 30-calendar days from the date of this letter.

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.390 of the NRCs Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure, a copy of this letter will be available electronically for public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room or from the Publicly Available Records component of NRCs ADAMS. ADAMS is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

1 An MOA or PA is a legally binding document that commits an agency both by statute and by federal regulation to carry out the undertaking in accordance with the terms of the agreement in satisfaction of its responsibilities under Section 106. The MOA or PA serves three main purposes: (1) to specify the alternatives or mitigation agreed to by the signatories; (2) to identify who is responsible for carrying out the specified measures; and (3) to serve, along with its implementation, as evidence of the agency's compliance with Section 106 of the NHPA.

J. Sauger If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 415-6822 or via e-mail at Amy.Snyder@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Amy M. Snyder, Senior Project Manager Reactor Decommissioning Branch Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and Waste Programs Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

Enclosure:

RAI Docket No. 50-0320 cc: TMI-2 ListServ Amy C. Hazelhoff, Energy Solutions, Achazelhoff@energysolutions.com Frank H. Eppler III, Energy Solutions, Fheppler@energysolutions.com Tim Devik, TMI-2 Solutions,Trdevik@energysolutions.com Hannah Pell, TMI-2 Solutions, Hepell@energysolutions.com

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