ML25129A137
| ML25129A137 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 06/11/2025 |
| From: | Amy Snyder Reactor Decommissioning Branch |
| To: | Trice K Holtec Decommissioning International |
| References | |
| EPID L-2024-LLA-0107 | |
| Download: ML25129A137 (1) | |
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Kelly Trice, President Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC Krishna P. Singh Technology Campus 1 Holtec Boulevard Camden, NJ 08104
SUBJECT:
OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION - ACCEPTANCE OF LICENSE TERMINATION PLAN LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST (EPID L-2024-LLA-0107)
Dear Kelly Trice:
By letter dated August 1, 2024 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML24214A037), as supplemented by letters dated October 10, 2024 (ML25119A267 (Pkg)), and May 13, 2025 (ML25133A131), Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI) requested approval of a proposed amendment to the Renewed Facility Operating License DPR-16 for Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station to include license termination plan (LTP) requirements.
The purpose of this letter is to provide the results of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staffs acceptance review of this proposed LTP amendment request. The acceptance review was performed to determine if there is sufficient technical information in scope and depth to allow the NRC staff to complete their detailed technical review. The acceptance review is also intended to identify whether the application has any readily apparent information insufficiencies in its characterization of the regulatory requirements or the licensing basis of the plant.
The NRC staff reviewed your application, as supplemented, and concludes that it does provide technical information in sufficient detail to enable the NRC to initiate its detailed technical review in support of making an independent assessment regarding the acceptability of this request in terms of regulatory requirements and the protection of public health and safety and the environment. Given the lesser scope and depth of the acceptance review as compared to the detailed technical review, there may be instances in which issues that impact the NRCs ability to complete the detailed technical review are identified despite completion of an adequate acceptance review. You will be advised of any further information needed to support the NRC staffs detailed technical review by separate correspondence.
To support a more efficient process, the NRC is developing a schedule based on the information provided, as supplemented. The NRC staff estimates that this license amendment request review, to include the completion of an environmental assessment, will take approximately 2200 hours0.0255 days <br />0.611 hours <br />0.00364 weeks <br />8.371e-4 months <br /> This includes administrative activities associated with the required public meeting but excludes hours associated with acceptance review activities. The NRC staff expects to complete this review in approximately 12 months, which is June, 2026. This estimate is significantly shorter than the estimates based on historical data, where the technical review may require approximately 3200 hours0.037 days <br />0.889 hours <br />0.00529 weeks <br />0.00122 months <br /> and up to 24 months. If there are emergent complexities June 11, 2025
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or challenges in the review that would cause changes to the initial estimated completion date, the reasons for the change, along with a new estimate, will be communicated during the routine interactions with the project manager. This estimate is based on the NRC staffs initial review of the application, as supplemented, and it could change, due to several factors including requests for additional information, unanticipated addition of scope to the review, and review by NRC advisory committees or hearing-related activities. The NRC staff currently considers dose assessment to be the most technically challenging area, as the HDI application, as supplemented, does not yet fully address concerns previously identified by the NRC staff during the pre-license application engagement and the subsequent clarification calls conducted during the acceptance review. The NRC staffs review schedule relies on your responses to the NRC staff's requests for additional information, if needed, being of high quality and provided in a timely manner.
Finally, the NRC staff plans to notice in the Federal Register, within approximately a month, a notice of the acceptance of the application for detailed technical review. That notice will announce the opportunity to request a hearing and to file a petition for leave to intervene and the NRC staffs draft decision on the no significant hazards consideration analysis for a license amendment request, as required by Sections 50.91 and 50.92.
In addition, the NRC staff reviewed the proposed LTP and compared the licensees proposed cleanup levels to the trigger values for soil and groundwater in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the NRC on Consultation and Finality on Decommissioning and Decontamination of Contaminated Sites (ML022830208). The staff concluded that the trigger values for soil and/or groundwater were met or exceeded. Thus, in accordance with Section V.C.2 of the MOU, consultation is required.
The NRC staff will be contacting EPA in the near future and will inform HDI of the results of this consultation with EPA.
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.
If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 415-6822 or Amy.Snyder@nrc.gov.
Sincerely, Amy M. Snyder, Senior Project Manager Reactor Decommissioning Branch Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and Waste Programs Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Docket Nos.: 50-219 and 72-15 Renewed License No.: DPR-16 Signed by Snyder, Amy on 06/11/25
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cc: Oyster Creek Listserv Jeffrey Dostal, HDI j.dostal@holtec.com Jean Fleming, HDI J.Fleming@holtec.com Bill Noval, HDI W.Noval@holtec.com Steve Johnston, HDI s.johnston@holtec.com Kevin Wolf, HDI kg.wolf@holtec.com Lawrence Berlinski l.berlinski@holtec.com
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