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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–302; NRC–2023–0174] 

Accelerated Decommissioning 

Partners Crystal River Unit 3, LLC; 

Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear 

Generating Plant; License Termination 

Plan 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt; public 

meeting, and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: On December 12, 2022, as 

supplemented on June 9, 2023, the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

received from Accelerated 

Decommissioning Partners Crystal River 

Unit 3, LLC (ADP CR3, licensee) a 

license amendment request to add a 

license condition to include the 

requirements of a License Termination 

Plan (LTP) for the Crystal River Unit 3 

Nuclear Generating Plant (CR3). The 

LTP provides details about the known 

radiological information for the site, the 

planned demolition and 

decommissioning tasks to be completed, 

and the final radiological surveys and 

data that must be obtained for 

termination of the NRC’s license for 

CR3. The NRC is requesting public 

comments on CR3’s LTP and will hold 

a public meeting to discuss the LTP. 

DATES: Submit comments by March 7, 

2024. 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. The 

public meeting will be held on 

Thursday, December 7, 2023, from 5 

p.m. until 8 p.m. eastern time (ET), at 

the Citrus County Chamber of 

Commerce, located at 915 N Suncoast 

Blvd., in Crystal River, Florida. The 

public meeting is also accessible 

through an online webinar. See Section 

IV, ‘‘Request for Comment and Public 

Meeting,’’ of this document for 

additional information. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website: 

• Federal rulemaking website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0174. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

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: 

Timothy J. Barvitskie, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone: 

301–415–2480; email: 

Timothy.Barvitskie@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2023– 

0174 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 Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0174. 

• NRC’s 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 NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. For the 

convenience of the reader, instructions 

about obtaining materials referenced in 

this document are provided in the 

‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2023–0174 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 enter 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 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Discussion 

Accelerated Decommissioning 

Partners Crystal River Unit 3, LLC (ADP 

CR3, licensee) is currently the licensed 

operator responsible for 

decommissioning of Crystal River Unit 

3 Nuclear Generating Plant (CR3). Prior 

to ADP CR3, Duke Energy Florida (DEF) 

held the licensed authority for CR3. The 

Facility Operating License No. DPR–72, 

provides, among other things, that the 

facility is subject to all rules, 

regulations, and orders of the NRC now 

or hereafter in effect. The facility is a 

pressurized water reactor located in 

Citrus County, Florida. 

By letter dated February 20, 2013, 

pursuant to paragraphs 50.82(a)(1)(i)–(ii) 

of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), DEF formally 

notified the NRC that it had determined 

to permanently cease power operations 

at CR3 and that it had permanently 

removed fuel from the reactor vessel. In 

this letter, DEF explained that CR3 had 

been safely shutdown since September 

26, 2009, and that all fuel had been 

permanently removed from the CR3 

reactor vessel as of May 28, 2011. DEF 

then placed the fuel in the CR3 spent 

fuel pool for temporary storage. After 

removing the fuel in 2011, DEF stated 

that it had determined it would retire 

CR3. 

DEF submitted its Post-Shutdown 

Decommissioning Activities Report 

(PSDAR) on December 2, 2013. The 

PSDAR described DEF’s proposed 

decommissioning activities and 

schedule. At that time, DEF decided to 

place the facility in long-term storage 

(i.e., the SAFSTOR decommissioning 

option) as described in the PSDAR. 

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decommissioning in which a nuclear 

facility is placed and maintained in a 

condition that allows the facility to be 

safely stored and subsequently 

decontaminated (deferred 

decontamination) to levels that permit 

release for unrestricted use. DEF 

planned to continue in SAFSTOR until 

2067. 

By letter dated June 14, 2019, as 

supplemented by letters dated January 

17, 2020, and March 5, 2020, DEF and 

ADP CR3 requested that the NRC 

consent to the proposed direct transfer 

of licensed authority under CR3 Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–72 from 

DEF to ADP CR3. By letter dated June 

26, 2019, ADP CR3 submitted a revised 

PSDAR contingent upon the transfer of 

the CR3 license authority to ADP CR3 

pursuant to the terms of the 

Decommissioning Services Agreement 

between DEF and ADP CR3. ADP CR3 

is a joint venture between NorthStar 

Group Services and Orano USA. The 

revised PSDAR changed the 

decommissioning approach for CR3 

from SAFSTOR to the immediate 

decontamination and dismantlement of 

the facility (i.e., the DECON 

decommissioning option). DECON is a 

method of decommissioning in which 

structures, systems, and components 

that contain radioactive contamination 

are actively removed from the site and 

safely disposed of at a commercially 

operated low-level waste disposal 

facility or decontaminated to a level that 

permits the site to be released for 

unrestricted use as soon as possible after 

removal of the spent fuel from the spent 

fuel pool. 

By Order dated April 1, 2020, the 

NRC provided its consent to the direct 

transfer of licensed authority. On 

October 1, 2020, the licensed authority 

was transferred from DEF to ADP CR3 

pursuant to the terms of the 

Decommissioning Services Agreement 

between DEF and ADP CR3. Per the 

agreement, DEF remains the NRClicensed owner of the plant, property, 

and decommissioning trust fund but not 

the spent fuel. ADP CR3 became the 

NRC-licensed operator responsible for 

decommissioning and maintaining the 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation (ISFSI) under a service 

agreement with ADP SF1, and ADP SF1 

became the owner of the spent nuclear 

fuel, high-level waste, and GreaterThan-Class C waste stored in the ISFSI. 

On December 12, 2022, ADP CR3 

submitted its LTP to the NRC as 

supplemented by letter dated June 9, 

2023. Paragraph 50.82(a)(9), 

‘‘Termination of license,’’ specifies that 

an application for license termination 

must be accompanied or preceded by a 

LTP, which is subject to NRC review 

and approval. The LTP addresses site 

characterization to ensure that the scope 

of final status surveys (FSS) of the site 

cover all areas where contamination 

existed, remains, or has the potential to 

exist or remain, identification of 

remaining dismantlement activities, 

plans for site remediation, a description 

of the FSS plans to confirm that CR3 

will meet the release criteria in 10 CFR 

part 20, subpart E, ‘‘Radiological Criteria 

for License Termination,’’ dosemodeling scenarios that ensure 

compliance with the radiological 

criteria for license termination, an 

estimate of the remaining site-specific 

decommissioning costs and an updated 

assessment of the environmental effects 

of decommissioning CR3. Once 

approved, the LTP would become a 

supplement to the CR3 Defueled Safety 

Analysis Report. 

According to 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii), 

after the licensee submits an LTP the 

NRC must hold a public meeting near 

the site. The purpose of the meeting is 

for the NRC staff to discuss the NRC’s 

review of the LTP and to request public 

comments on the LTP. In addition, in 

accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(a)(9)(iii) 

and 20.1405, upon the receipt of an LTP 

from a licensee, NRC must publish a 

notice in the Federal Register and 

solicit comments from affected parties. 

III. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons through one or more 

of the following methods, as indicated. 

Document description ADAMs accession number 

DEF notification of its intent to permanently cease operations at Crystal River 

Unit 3, dated February 20, 2013.

ML13056A005. 

DEF submittal of PSDAR for Crystal River Unit 3, dated December 2, 2013 ......... ML13340A009. 

DEF submittal of updated PSDAR for Crystal River Unit 3 to reflect the change 

from SAFSTOR to DECON, dated June 26, 2019.

ML19177A080. 

DEF and ADP CR3 proposed direct transfer of CR3 Facility Operating License 

No. DPR–72 from DEF to ADP CR3 dated June 14, 2019, and supplemented 

on January 17, 2020, and March 5, 2020.

ML19170A209 (Package). 

ML20017A216. 

ML20065K737. 

NRC Order providing consent to the direct license direct transfer of CR3 Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–72 from DEF to ADP CR3, dated April 1, 2020.

ML20069A028 (Package). 

ADP CR3 submittal of their LTP to the NRC, dated December 12, 2022 ............... ML22355A441. 

ADP CR3 supplement to the LTP, dated June 9, 2023 ........................................... ML23180A051 (Package). 

The NRC may post materials related 

to this document, including public 

comments, on the Federal rulemaking 

website at https://www.regulations.gov 

under Docket ID NRC–2023–0174. In 

addition, the Federal rulemaking 

website allows members of the public to 

receive alerts when changes or additions 

occur in a docket folder. To subscribe: 

(1) navigate to the docket folder (NRC– 

2023–0174); (2) click the ‘‘Subscribe’’ 

link; and (3) enter an email address and 

click on the ‘‘Subscribe’’ link. 

IV. Request for Comment and Public 

Meeting 

The NRC is requesting public 

comments on the CR3 LTP. The NRC 

will conduct a public meeting to discuss 

the LTP and receive comments on 

Thursday, December 7, 2023, from 5 

p.m. until 8 p.m. ET, at the Citrus 

County Chamber of Commerce, located 

at 915 N Suncoast Blvd., in Crystal 

River, Florida. Please contact Mr. 

Timothy Barvitskie no later than 

Tuesday, December 5, 2023, if 

accommodations or special equipment 

is needed for you to attend or to provide 

comments, so that the NRC staff can 

determine whether the request can be 

accommodated. For additional 

information regarding the meeting, see 

the NRC’s Public Meeting Schedule 

website at https://meetings.nrc.gov/ 

pmns/mtg. The agenda will be posted 

no later than 10 days prior to the 

meeting. 

Dated: November 2, 2023. 


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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Marlayna V. Doell, 

Acting Chief, Reactor Decommissioning 

Branch, Division of Decommissioning, 

Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24620 Filed 11–7–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–18, 50–70, 50–73, 50–183, 

and 70–754; NRC–2023–0191] 

Vallecitos Nuclear Center; 

Consideration of Approval of Transfer 

of Licenses and Conforming 

Amendments 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Application for direct transfer of 

licenses; opportunity to comment, 

request a hearing, and petition for leave 

to intervene. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC, the Commission) 

received and is considering approval of 

an application filed by GE-Hitachi 

Nuclear Energy Americas, LLC (GEHA) 

and NorthStar Vallecitos, LLC 

(NorthStar Vallecitos) on September 1, 

2023, as supplemented by letters dated 

September 5, 2023, October 19, 2023, 

and November 1, 2023. The application 

seeks NRC approval of the direct 

transfer of NRC license numbers DPR– 

1, TR–1, R–33, DR–10, and SNM–960 

for the Vallecitos Nuclear Center from 

the current holder, GEHA, to NorthStar 

Vallecitos. The NRC is also considering 

amending the licenses for 

administrative purposes to reflect the 

proposed transfer. The application 

contains sensitive unclassified nonsafeguards information (SUNSI). 

DATES: Submit comments by December 

8, 2023. A request for a hearing or 

petition for leave to intervene must be 

filed by November 28, 2023. Any 

potential party as defined in § 2.4 of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR), who believes access to SUNSI 

is necessary to respond to this notice 

must follow the instructions in section 

VI of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section of this notice. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0191. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Email comments to: 

Hearing.Docket@nrc.gov. If you do not 

receive an automatic email reply 

confirming receipt, then contact us at 

301–415–1677. 

• Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission at 301– 

415–1101. 

• Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, ATTN: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff. 

• Hand deliver comments to: 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. 

eastern time (ET) Federal workdays; 

telephone: 301–415–1677. 

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: 

Chris Allen, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

6877; email: William.Allen@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2023– 

0191 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 Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0191. 

• NRC’s 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 NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The application 

is available in ADAMS under Accession 

Nos. ML23244A247, ML23248A232, 

ML23292A336, and ML23305A052. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2023–0191 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 enter 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 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Introduction 

The NRC is considering the issuance 

of an order under 10 CFR 50.80 and 10 

CFR 70.36 approving the direct transfer 

of control of NRC license numbers DPR– 

1, TR–1, R–33, DR–10, and SNM–960 

for the Vallecitos Nuclear Center that 

are currently held by GEHA. The 

licenses would be transferred to 

NorthStar Vallecitos. The NRC is also 

considering amending the licenses for 

administrative purposes to reflect the 

proposed transfer. 

Following approval of the proposed 

direct transfer of control of the licenses, 

NorthStar Vallecitos would acquire 

ownership of the Vallecitos Nuclear 

Center. No physical changes to the 

Vallecitos Nuclear Center are being 

proposed in the application. The 

application stated that, at the time of the 

transfer to NorthStar Vallecitos, none of 

the licenses will authorize reactor 

operation. Since NRC license number 

R–33 is currently authorized to operate, 

the application requested that the NRC 

condition any order authorizing the 

transfer such that the transfer may not 


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