RIS 2006-09, Nrc'S Procedures For Review of Decommissioning Funding Assurance Reports

Nrc'S Procedures For Review of Decommissioning Funding Assurance Reports

ML061100154
Person / Time
Issue date:	06/21/2006
Revision:	0
From:	Ho Nieh NRC/NRR/ADRA/DPR
To:
Pittiglio C L, NRR/DPR/PFPB, 415-1435
References
RIS-06-009
Download: ML061100154 (4)

June 21, 2006

REGULATORY ISSUE SUMMARY 2006-09NRC'S PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW OF DECOMMISSIONINGFUNDING ASSURANCE REPORTS

ADDRESSEES

All holders of operating licenses for nuclear power reactors, except those who havepermanently ceased operations and certified that fuel has been permanently removed from the reactor vessel.

INTENT

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing this regulatory issue summary(RIS) to inform all licensees that the staff developed NRR Office Instruction LIC-205(Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No.

ML060940529), ?Procedures for NRC's Independent Analysis of Decommissioning FundingAssurance for Operating Nuclear Power Reactors." LIC-205 defines and documents how the staff conducts its timely independent analysis of thereports required to be submitted every 2 years (biennial) pursuant to Title 10 of the Code ofFederal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 50.75(f)(1) on the status of decommissioning fundingassurance for each nuclear power reactor or part of a reactor owned by a license These biennial reports (which were initially submitted by March 31, 1999, and are to be submitted at least once every 2 years thereafter by March 31) reflect funding data as of the end of the preceding calendar yea The NRC staff performs an independent analysis of each of thesereports to determine whether licensees have provided reasonable assurance that sufficient funding for radiological decommissioning of the reactor will be available at the time permanenttermination of operations is expecte This RIS requires no action or written response on the part of the addressee.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.75(f)(1), each power reactor licensee is required to report on the status of its decommissioning funding assurance to the NRC every 2 years, with the first reportsbeing submitted by March 31, 1999. Based on the staff's lessons learned exercise conducted following the analysis of the initialbiennial reports submitted by March 31, 1999, and subsequent biennial reports submitted by the end of March 2001, March 2003, and March 2005, the staff developed LIC-20 LIC-205defines and documents how the staff performs its independent analysis of each biennial report ML061100154 RIS 2006-09