[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 182 (Friday, September 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 49261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24918]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-309]


Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Maine Yankee Atomic Power 
Company, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station; Notice of Receipt of and 
Availability for Comment of Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities 
Report

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is in 
receipt of and is making available for public inspection and comment, 
the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report (PSDAR) for the 
Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station (Maine Yankee) located in Lincoln 
County, Maine.
    Maine Yankee has been shut down since December 6, 1996, and the 
reactor has been defueled since June 20, 1997. By letter dated August 
7, 1997, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company (the licensee) certified to 
the Commission permanent cessation of power operation at Maine Yankee 
and that fuel had been permanently removed from the reactor. By letter 
dated August 27, 1997, the licensee submitted its PSDAR to the 
Commission in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.82.
    In the PSDAR the licensee has described the planned decommissioning 
activities and schedule for the Maine Yankee facility, provided an 
estimate of expected costs and discussed the reasons for concluding 
that the environmental impacts associated with site-specific 
decommissioning activities are bounded by the appropriate previously 
issued environmental impact statements. The licensee has chosen to 
decontaminate and dismantle the facility in a manner that results in 
the prompt removal of the existing nuclear plant. This approach is 
referred to as the DECON alternative. The licensee intends to complete 
the decontamination and dismantlement of the majority of plant 
structures within approximately seven years of cessation of operations. 
The licensee intends to construct an independent facility to store the 
spent fuel on site until the fuel can be permanently transferred 
offsite to a Department of Energy facility.
    The PSDAR is available for public inspection at the local public 
document room located at the Wiscasset Public Library, High Street, 
Wiscasset, Maine and at the Commission's public document room located 
at The Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC.
    The Commission will schedule a public meeting in the vicinity of 
the Maine Yankee facility to solicit public comments on the Maine 
Yankee PSDAR. A notice will be published in the Federal Register and in 
the local media announcing the date, time and location of this meeting.
    Comments regarding the Maine Yankee PSDAR should be submitted in 
writing to Mr. Singh Bajwa, Mail Stop 11-B-20, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555 within 30 days after the date of this 
notice.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of September 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Albert W. DeAgazio,
Acting Director, Project Directorate I-3, Division of Reactor Projects 
I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 97-24918 Filed 9-18-97; 8:45 am]
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