[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 1001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-248]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Consumers Power Company, Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant; 
Notice of Receipt and Availability for Comment of Post Shutdown 
Decommission Activities Report and Notice of Public Meeting

[Docket No. 50-155]
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is in receipt of and 
is making available for pubic inspection and comment the Post-Shutdown 
Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for the Big Rock Point 
Nuclear Power Plant (BRP) located 4 miles northeast of Charlevoix, 
Michigan. A public meeting on the BRP PSDAR will be held in the 
Charlevoix Town Hall on Tuesday, March 4, 1997, at 7:00 p.m.
    The operating license for BRP will expire on May 31, 2000. 
Consumers Power Company (CPC) submitted the BRP Decommissioning Plan 
(DP) dated February 27, 1995, to the NRC in accordance with NRC 
regulations in effect at that time. The NRC conducted a public meeting 
regarding the BRP DP on May 11, 1995, at which CPC presented its plan 
for decommissioning BRP. By letter dated February 14, 1996, the 
licensee requested that the review of the DP be delayed pending further 
notice by CPC. Amendments to the NRC's decommissioning regulations were 
published in the Federal Register on July 29, 1996 (61 FR 39278) and 
became effective on August 28, 1996. By letter dated September 5, 1996, 
to the NRC, CPC discussed the effect of the amended regulations and 
acknowledged that the BRP DP, as supplemented, was considered to be the 
BRP PSDAR pursuant to 10 CFR 50.82, as amended.
    The public meeting, required by 10 CFR 50.82(a)(4)(ii), is 
informational and will include a presentation by the NRC staff on the 
changes to the decommissioning regulations resulting from the final 
rule published on July 29, 1996. The meeting will also provide an 
opportunity for the licensee to update it's planned decommissioning 
activities for BRP. A question and answer period will follow the 
presentations.
    The BRP PSDAR is available for public inspection at the BRP local 
public document room (LPDR), located at the North Central Michigan 
College, 1515 Howard Street, Petosky, Michigan 49770, and at the 
Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, 
NW., Washington, DC 20037. The BRP PSDAR is filed as the BRP 
Decommissioning Plan (NUDUCS microfiche accession number 9503020323). A 
transcript of the May 11, 1996, public meeting regarding the BRP DP is 
also available as NUDOCS microfiche accession number 9506210181.
    Comments regarding the BRP PSDAR may be submitted in writing and 
addressed to Mr. Paul W. Harris, Project Manager, Non-Power Reactors 
and Decommissioning Project Directorate, Division of Reactor Program 
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 telephone number (301) 
415-1169. Comments previously submitted in writing regarding the BRP DP 
will be considered by the NRC and need not be resubmitted.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of December 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael T. Masnik,
Acting Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project 
Directorate, Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 97-248 Filed 1-6-97; 8:45 am]
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