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{{#Wiki_filter:June 15, 2021 Mr. Pierre Paul Oneid Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Holtec International Krishna P. Singh Technology Campus 1 Holtec Blvd.
Camden NJ 08104 Ms. Pamela B. Cowan Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC Krishna P. Singh Technology Campus 1 Holtec Blvd.
Camden NJ 08104
 
==SUBJECT:==
INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING, UNIT NOS. 1, 2, AND 3 - NOTIFICATION OF THE AVAILABILITY OF THE POST-SHUTDOWN DECOMMISSIONING ACTIVITIES REPORT IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER (EPID L-2021-LRO-0031)
 
==Dear Mr. Oneid and Ms. Cowan:==
 
On December 19, 2019, Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a letter enclosing the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) and the Site-Specific Decommissioning Cost Estimate (DCE) for Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC)), contingent upon the transfer of the IPEC licenses to HDI. The PSDAR and DCE have been made publicly available in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at Accession No. ML19354A698. The IPEC license transfer transaction closed on May 28, 2021 (ADAMS Accession No. ML21147A553). Accordingly, the purpose of this letter is to inform you that the NRC staff will publish a notice in the Federal Register of receipt and availability of the PSDAR and DCE and informing the public of a meeting to discuss and accept comments on the PSDAR and DCE. It is the NRC staffs intention to hold this meeting in person and in the vicinity of the IPEC site during the 120-day public comment period. The date, time, and location of the meeting will be provided in a future Federal Register notice.
 
P. Oneid and P. Cowan                          A copy of the Federal Register notice is enclosed. If you have any questions, please contact me at 301-415-1030, or by e-mail at Richard.Guzman@nrc.com.
Sincerely,
                                            /RA/
Richard V. Guzman, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch I Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-003, 50-247, 50-286, and 72-051
 
==Enclosure:==
 
Federal Register notice cc: Listserv
 
ENCLOSURE FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE HOLTEC DECOMMISSIONING INTERNATIONAL, LLC INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING, UNIT NOS. 1, 2, AND 3 DOCKET NOS. 50-003, 50-247, 50-286, AND 72-051
 
[7590-01-P]
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-003, 50-247, 50-286, and 72-051; NRC-2021-0125]
Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of receipt; availability; public meeting; and request for comment.
 
==SUMMARY==
: On December 19, 2019, Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a letter enclosing the post-shutdown decommissioning activities report (PSDAR) for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC)), contingent upon the transfer of the IPEC licenses to HDI. The PSDAR, which includes the site-specific decommissioning cost estimate (DCE), provides an overview of HDIs planned activities, schedule, projected costs, and environmental impacts for the decommissioning of the IPEC. The IPEC license transfer transaction closed on May 28, 2021. Accordingly, the NRC is noticing receipt of the PSDAR and making it available for public comment. The NRC will hold a public meeting in the vicinity of the IPEC to discuss the PSDARs content and receive comments. The date, time, and location of the meeting will be provided in a future Federal Register notice.
DATES: Submit comments by [INSERT DATE 120 DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION IN FEDERAL REGISTER]. Comments received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.
 
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking Web Site:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0125. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; e-mail:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting comments, see Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard V. Guzman, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-1030; e-mail: Richard.Guzman@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0125 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly available information related to this action by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0125.
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NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The IPEC PSDAR is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19354A698.
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via e-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking Web Site (https://www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC-2021-0125 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment 3
 
submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
II. Discussion HDI has the authority to conduct licensed activities under Provisional License No.
DPR-5, Renewed Facility License No. DPR-26, and Renewed Facility License No. DPR-64 for the IPEC and the general license for the IPEC independent spent fuel storage installation. These licenses provide, among other things, that the respective facilities are subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC now or hereafter in effect. The facilities consist of three pressurized-water reactors located in Buchanan, New York, in Westchester County, all of which are permanently shutdown.
On December 19, 2019, HDI submitted to the NRC the PSDAR for the IPEC, contingent upon the transfer of the IPEC licenses to HDI (ADAMS Accession No. ML19354A698). Paragraph 50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) states that a PSDAR must contain a description of the planned decommissioning activities along with a schedule for their accomplishment, a discussion that provides the reasons for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with site-specific decommissioning activities will be bounded by appropriate previously issued environmental impact statements, and a site-specific DCE, including the projected cost of managing irradiated fuel. The IPEC license transfer transaction closed on May 28, 2021. Accordingly, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(ii), the NRC is noticing receipt of the PSDAR and making it available for public comment.
III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR, including the DCE, for the IPEC. The NRC will hold a public meeting in the vicinity of the IPEC to discuss the PSDARs content and receive comments. The date, time, and location of the meeting 4
 
will be provided in a future Federal Register notice. The NRC requests that comments that are not provided during the meeting be submitted as noted in section I, Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments, of this document in writing by [INSERT DATE 120 DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION IN FEDERAL REGISTER].
Dated: June 15, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
                                              /RA/
James G. Danna, Chief, Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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ML21162A000 (Package)
ML21162A001 (Letter)
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Transmittal Letter, Notification of the Availability of the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report in the Federal Register
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June 15, 2021 Mr. Pierre Paul Oneid Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Holtec International Krishna P. Singh Technology Campus 1 Holtec Blvd.

Camden NJ 08104 Ms. Pamela B. Cowan Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC Krishna P. Singh Technology Campus 1 Holtec Blvd.

Camden NJ 08104

SUBJECT:

INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING, UNIT NOS. 1, 2, AND 3 - NOTIFICATION OF THE AVAILABILITY OF THE POST-SHUTDOWN DECOMMISSIONING ACTIVITIES REPORT IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER (EPID L-2021-LRO-0031)

Dear Mr. Oneid and Ms. Cowan:

On December 19, 2019, Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a letter enclosing the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) and the Site-Specific Decommissioning Cost Estimate (DCE) for Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC)), contingent upon the transfer of the IPEC licenses to HDI. The PSDAR and DCE have been made publicly available in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at Accession No. ML19354A698. The IPEC license transfer transaction closed on May 28, 2021 (ADAMS Accession No. ML21147A553). Accordingly, the purpose of this letter is to inform you that the NRC staff will publish a notice in the Federal Register of receipt and availability of the PSDAR and DCE and informing the public of a meeting to discuss and accept comments on the PSDAR and DCE. It is the NRC staffs intention to hold this meeting in person and in the vicinity of the IPEC site during the 120-day public comment period. The date, time, and location of the meeting will be provided in a future Federal Register notice.

P. Oneid and P. Cowan A copy of the Federal Register notice is enclosed. If you have any questions, please contact me at 301-415-1030, or by e-mail at Richard.Guzman@nrc.com.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Richard V. Guzman, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch I Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos.50-003, 50-247, 50-286, and 72-051

Enclosure:

Federal Register notice cc: Listserv

ENCLOSURE FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE HOLTEC DECOMMISSIONING INTERNATIONAL, LLC INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR GENERATING, UNIT NOS. 1, 2, AND 3 DOCKET NOS.50-003, 50-247, 50-286, AND 72-051

[7590-01-P]

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos.50-003, 50-247, 50-286, and 72-051; NRC-2021-0125]

Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of receipt; availability; public meeting; and request for comment.

SUMMARY

On December 19, 2019, Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC (HDI) submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a letter enclosing the post-shutdown decommissioning activities report (PSDAR) for the Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC)), contingent upon the transfer of the IPEC licenses to HDI. The PSDAR, which includes the site-specific decommissioning cost estimate (DCE), provides an overview of HDIs planned activities, schedule, projected costs, and environmental impacts for the decommissioning of the IPEC. The IPEC license transfer transaction closed on May 28, 2021. Accordingly, the NRC is noticing receipt of the PSDAR and making it available for public comment. The NRC will hold a public meeting in the vicinity of the IPEC to discuss the PSDARs content and receive comments. The date, time, and location of the meeting will be provided in a future Federal Register notice.

DATES: Submit comments by [INSERT DATE 120 DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION IN FEDERAL REGISTER]. Comments received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking Web Site:

Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0125. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; e-mail:

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.

Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.

For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting comments, see Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard V. Guzman, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-1030; e-mail: Richard.Guzman@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0125 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly available information related to this action by any of the following methods:

Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0125.

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NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The IPEC PSDAR is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19354A698.

Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via e-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

B. Submitting Comments The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking Web Site (https://www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC-2021-0125 in your comment submission.

The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information.

If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment 3

submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

II. Discussion HDI has the authority to conduct licensed activities under Provisional License No.

DPR-5, Renewed Facility License No. DPR-26, and Renewed Facility License No. DPR-64 for the IPEC and the general license for the IPEC independent spent fuel storage installation. These licenses provide, among other things, that the respective facilities are subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the NRC now or hereafter in effect. The facilities consist of three pressurized-water reactors located in Buchanan, New York, in Westchester County, all of which are permanently shutdown.

On December 19, 2019, HDI submitted to the NRC the PSDAR for the IPEC, contingent upon the transfer of the IPEC licenses to HDI (ADAMS Accession No. ML19354A698). Paragraph 50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) states that a PSDAR must contain a description of the planned decommissioning activities along with a schedule for their accomplishment, a discussion that provides the reasons for concluding that the environmental impacts associated with site-specific decommissioning activities will be bounded by appropriate previously issued environmental impact statements, and a site-specific DCE, including the projected cost of managing irradiated fuel. The IPEC license transfer transaction closed on May 28, 2021. Accordingly, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(ii), the NRC is noticing receipt of the PSDAR and making it available for public comment.

III. Request for Comment and Public Meeting The NRC is requesting public comments on the PSDAR, including the DCE, for the IPEC. The NRC will hold a public meeting in the vicinity of the IPEC to discuss the PSDARs content and receive comments. The date, time, and location of the meeting 4

will be provided in a future Federal Register notice. The NRC requests that comments that are not provided during the meeting be submitted as noted in section I, Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments, of this document in writing by [INSERT DATE 120 DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION IN FEDERAL REGISTER].

Dated: June 15, 2021.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

/RA/

James G. Danna, Chief, Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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OFFICE NRR/DORL/LPL1/PM NRR/DORL/LPL1/LAiT NRR/DORL/LPL1/LA NAME RGuzman KEntz JBurkhardt DATE 06/14/2021 06/15/2021 06/01/2021 OFFICE NMSS/DUWP/RDB/BC OGC - NLO NRR/DORL/LPL1/BC NAME TSmith for BWatson JWachutka JDanna DATE 06/15/2021 06/14/2021 06/15/2021 OFFICE NRR/DORL/LPL1/PM NAME RGuzman DATE 06/15/2021

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