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[Docket No. 50–285; NRC–2017–0202] 

Omaha Public Power District; Fort 

Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing 

exemptions in response to a May 4, 

2017, request, as supplemented by letter 

dated June 5, 2017, from Omaha Public 

Power District (OPPD or the licensee). 

The licensee requested that Fort 

Calhoun Station (FCS), Unit No. 1, be 

granted a permanent partial exemption 

from regulations that require retention 

of records for certain systems, 

structures, and components (SSCs) until 

the termination of the operating license. 

DATES: The exemption was issued on 

October 4, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2017–0202 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly-available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

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for Docket ID NRC–2017–0202. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

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email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

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‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

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• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Kim, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, telephone: 301–415–4125; 

email: James.Kim@nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The FCS is a single unit Combustion 

Engineering pressurized-water reactor 

located in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. The 

FCS was granted Renewed Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–40 under 

part 54 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), on November 4, 

2003. The operating license for FCS is 

held by OPPD. 

On November 13, 2016, OPPD 

submitted the certifications, pursuant to 

10 CFR 50.82(a)(1), of permanent 

cessation of operations and permanent 

removal of fuel from the reactor 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML16319A254). 

Decommissioning activities will be 

carried out by OPPD, and are described 

in the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning 

Activities Report submitted to the NRC 

on March 30, 2017 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML17089A759). The SSCs that 

supported the generation of electric 

power are being prepared to enter the 

SAFSTOR phase. SAFSTOR, often 

considered ‘‘delayed DECON,’’ involves 

initially removing all fuel and 

radioactive wastes and liquids, 

maintaining the facility in a condition 

that allows the decay of radioactivity to 

reduce radiation levels at the facility, 

and then decontaminating and 

dismantling the facility. 

Completion of fuel transfer from the 

spent fuel pool (SFP) to an independent 

spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) is 

scheduled for 2023. Preparation for 

dismantlement and license termination 

are scheduled to begin in 2059. 

II. Request/Action 

By letter dated May 4, 2017 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML17125A073), as 

supplemented by letter dated June 5, 

2017 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML17186A327), OPPD filed a request 

for NRC approval of a permanent 

exemption from the following 

recordkeeping requirements: 10 CFR 

part 50, appendix B, Criterion XVII; 10 

CFR 50.59(d)(3); and 10 CFR 50.71(c). 

The request was made pursuant to 10 

CFR 50.12, ‘‘Specific exemptions.’’ 

The licensee is requesting NRC 

approval of an exemption from 10 CFR 

part 50, appendix B, Criterion XVII, 

which requires certain records be 

retained consistent with regulatory 

requirements for a duration established 

by the licensee; 10 CFR 50.59(d)(3), 

which requires records to be maintained 

‘‘until the termination of an operating 

license’’; and 10 CFR 50.71(c) where 

records required by license condition or 

technical specifications (TSs) are to be 

retained until termination of the license. 

The licensee is proposing to 

eliminate: (1) The records when the 

licensing basis requirements previously 

applicable to the nuclear power unit 

and associated structures, and 

components (SSCs) are no longer 

effective (e.g., removed from the Final 

Safety Analysis Report (FSAR), as 

updated, and/or TSs by appropriate 

change mechanisms); and (2) the 

records for SSCs associated with safe 

storage of the fuel in the SFP, when 

spent nuclear fuel has been completely 

transferred from the SFP to dry storage, 

and the SFP is ready for demolition and 

the associated licensing bases are no 

longer effective. 

The licensee cites precedents for 

records retention exemptions granted to 

Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 

2 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML111260277); Millstone Power 

Station, Unit 1 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML070110567); Rancho Seco Nuclear 

Generating Station (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML043310155); Haddam Neck Plant 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML052160088); 

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML15344A243); 

and San Onofre Nuclear Generating 

Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML15355A055). 

Records associated with residual 

radiological activity and with 

programmatic controls necessary to 

support decommissioning, such as 

security and quality assurance, are not 

affected by the exemption request 

because they will be retained as 

decommissioning records until the 

termination of the FCS license. Also, the 

licensee did not request an exemption 

associated with any other record 

keeping requirements for the storage of 

spent fuel at its ISFSI under 10 CFR part 

50 or the general license requirements of 

10 CFR part 72. No exemption was 

requested from the decommissioning 

records retention requirements of 10 

CFR 50.75, or any other requirements of 

10 CFR part 50 applicable to 

decommissioning and dismantlement. 

III. Discussion 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, the 

Commission may, upon application by 

any interested person or upon its own 

initiative, grant exemptions from the 

requirements of 10 CFR part 50 when (1) 

the exemptions are authorized by law, 

will not present an undue risk to public 

health or safety, and are consistent with 

the common defense and security, and 

(2) when special circumstances are 

present. 

The FCS permanently ceased power 

operations on October 24, 2016, and 

subsequently removed the spent fuel 

from the reactor to the SFP. The nuclear 

reactor and SSCs associated with the 

nuclear steam supply system and 

balance of plant that had supported 

power generation have been drained as 

necessary and retired in place. The 

licensee’s general justification for 

eliminating records associated with FCS 

SSCs that have been or will be removed 

from service under the NRC license, 

dismantled, or demolished, is that these 

SSCs will not, in the future, serve any 

FCS functions regulated by the NRC. 

Subsequently, these SSCs can be 

removed from NRC licensing basis 

documents, such as TSs or the FSAR, as 

updated, by appropriate change 

mechanisms (e.g., 10 CFR 50.59 or via 

NRC-approved TS changes, as 

applicable). 

While OPPD intends to retain the 

records required by FCS license, as the 

project transitions from current plant 

conditions to fully dismantled with the 

fuel in dry storage, the regulatory and 

business needs for maintenance of most 

of the records will be obviated. As the 

SSCs are removed from the licensing 

basis and the need for the associated 

records is, on a practical basis, 

eliminated, the licensee proposes that 

they be exempted from the records 

retention requirements for SSCs and 

historical activities that are no longer 

relevant, thereby eliminating the 

associated regulatory and economic 

burdens of creating alternative storage 

locations, relocating records, and 

retaining irrelevant records. 

The SSCs supporting the continued 

operation of the SFP must remain 

operable at FCS and will be configured 

for operational efficiency until the fuel 

is removed to permanent dry storage. 

The records associated with the SFP 

SSCs must be retained through the 

SFP’s functional life. Similar to other 

plant records, when the SFP is emptied 

of fuel, drained, and prepared for 

demolition, there will be no safetysignificant function or other regulatory 

need for retaining SFP SSCs related 

records. The SSCs that support the SFP 

will be removed from licensing basis 

documents by appropriate change 

mechanisms. 

In addition, the FCS site will continue 

to be under NRC regulation until license 

termination, primarily due to residual 


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radioactivity. The operational, 

radiological, and other necessary 

programmatic controls (such as security 

and quality assurance) for the facility, as 

well as the implementation of controls 

for the defueled condition and 

decommissioning activities, will 

continue to be appropriately addressed 

through the 10 CFR part 50 licenses and 

current decommissioning plan 

documents such as the FSAR, as 

updated, and plant TSs. 

The Exemption Is Authorized by Law 

Paragraph 50.71(d)(2) allows for the 

granting of specific exemptions to the 

retention of records required by 

regulations. Paragraph 50.71(d)(2) states, 

in part, ‘‘. . . the retention period 

specified in the regulations in this part 

for such records shall apply unless the 

Commission, pursuant to § 50.12 of this 

part, has granted a specific exemption 

from the record retention requirements 

specified in the regulations in this part.’’ 

Based on 10 CFR 50.71(d)(2), if the 

requirements of 10 CFR 50.12 are 

satisfied, an exemption from the 

recordkeeping requirements in 10 CFR 

part 50, appendix B, Criterion XVII; 10 

CFR 50.59(d)(3); and 10 CFR 50.71(c), as 

requested by the licensee, is authorized 

by law. 

Specific Exemption Presents No Undue 

Risk to Public Health and Safety 

As SSCs are prepared for SAFSTOR 

and eventual decommission and 

dismantlement, they may be removed 

from NRC licensing basis documents 

through appropriate change 

mechanisms, such as through the 

process stipulated by 10 CFR 50.59 or 

through a license amendment request 

approved by the NRC. These change 

processes involve either a determination 

by the licensee or an approval by the 

NRC that the affected SSC no longer 

serves any safety purpose regulated by 

the NRC. Therefore, the removal of the 

SSC would not present an undue risk to 

the public health and safety. In turn, 

removal of the records associated with 

the affected SSC would not cause any 

additional impact to public health and 

safety. 

The exemptions from the requested 

requirements of 10 CFR part 50, 

appendix B, Criterion XVII; 10 CFR 

50.59(d)(3); and 10 CFR 50.71(c) are 

administrative in nature and will have 

no impact on future decommissioning 

activities or radiological effluents. The 

partial exemptions will only advance 

the schedule for the removal of the 

records. Because the content of the 

records pertains to SSCs that have 

already been removed from licensing 

basis documents, elimination of the 

records on an advanced timetable will 

have no reasonable potential to present 

any undue risk to the public health and 

safety. 

The Exemption Is Consistent With the 

Common Defense and Security 

The elimination of records associated 

with SSCs, which have already been 

removed from the NRC’s licensing basis 

documents, is administrative in nature, 

and does not involve information or 

involve activities that could potentially 

impact the common defense or security. 

After the SSCs are removed from the 

NRC’s licensing basis documents by 

appropriate change mechanisms, they 

are determined to no longer serve the 

purpose of safe operation or maintain 

conditions that would affect the ongoing 

health and safety of workers or the 

public. Therefore, removal of the 

associated records will also present no 

potential for impacting the safe 

operation of the plant or the defense or 

security of the workers or the public. 

The exemptions requested are 

administrative in nature and will merely 

advance the current schedule for 

removal of the specified records. 

Therefore, the partial exemptions from 

the recordkeeping requirements of 10 

CFR part 50, appendix B, Criterion XVII; 

10 CFR 50.59(d)(3); and 10 CFR 

50.71(c), and for the types of records as 

specified above, are consistent with the 

common defense and security. 

Special Circumstances 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, the 

Commission will consider granting an 

exemption if special circumstances are 

present. Paragraph 50.12(a)(2) states, in 

part, ‘‘special circumstance are present 

whenever— . . . (ii) Application of the 

regulation in the particular 

circumstances would not serve the 

underlying purpose of the rule or is not 

necessary to achieve the underlying 

purpose of the rule.’’ 

Appendix B of 10 CFR part 50, 

Criterion XVII, states, in part, ‘‘sufficient 

records shall be maintained to furnish 

evidence of activities affecting quality. 

. . . Records shall be identifiable and 

retrievable.’’ 

Paragraph 50.59(d)(3) states, in part, 

‘‘The records of changes in the facility 

must be maintained until the 

termination of an operating license 

under this part . . . .’’ 

Paragraph 50.71(c), states, in part, 

‘‘Records that are required by the 

regulations in this part or 10 CFR part 

52 of this chapter, by license condition, 

or by TSs must be retained for the 

period specified by the appropriate 

regulation, license condition, or TS. If a 

retention period is not otherwise 

specified, these records must be 

retained until the Commission 

terminates the facility license . . . .’’ 

In the statements of consideration for 

the final rulemaking, ‘‘Retention Periods 

for Records,’’ effective July 26, 1988 (53 

FR 19240; May 27, 1988), as a response 

to public comments during the 

rulemaking process, the NRC states that 

records must be retained ‘‘. . . so they 

will be available for examination by the 

Commission in any analysis following 

an accident, incident, or other problem 

involving public health and safety . . . 

[and] for NRC to ensure compliance 

with the safety and health aspects of the 

nuclear environment and for the NRC to 

accomplish its mission to protect the 

public health and safety.’’ 

The statements of consideration 

express that the underlying purpose of 

the recordkeeping rule is to ensure that, 

in the event of an accident, incident, or 

condition that could impact public 

health and safety, the NRC has access to 

information in the records that would 

assist in the recovery from the event and 

prevent similar events or conditions, 

which would impact health and safety. 

These regulations do not consider the 

nature of the decommissioning process, 

in which safety-related SSCs are retired 

or disabled, and subsequently removed 

from the NRC’s licensing basis 

documents by appropriate change 

mechanisms prior to the termination of 

the license. 

Appropriate removal of an SSC from 

the licensing basis requires either a 

determination by the licensee or an 

approval by the NRC of whether the SSC 

has the potential to cause an accident, 

event, or other problem, which would 

adversely impact the public health and 

safety. It follows that at a nuclear power 

generation plant in the 

decommissioning stage, SSCs that have 

been retired from service and removed 

from licensing basis documents have 

already been determined, through that 

evaluation, to no longer have an adverse 

impact on public health and safety. 

The records subject to removal under 

this exemption are associated with SSCs 

that are important to safety during 

power operation and operation of the 

SFP, but after permanent cessation of 

operations are not capable of causing an 

event, incident, or condition that would 

adversely impact public health and 

safety, as evidenced by their appropriate 

removal from the licensing basis 

documents. If the SSCs no longer have 

the potential to cause these scenarios, 

then it is reasonable to conclude that the 

records associated with these SSCs 

would not reasonably be necessary to 

assist the NRC in determining 

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action on possible noncompliance, and 

examining facts following an incident. 

Therefore, their retention would not 

serve the underlying purpose of the 

rule. Once removed from licensing basis 

documents, SSCs are no longer 

governed by the NRC’s regulations, and 

therefore, are not subject to compliance 

with the safety and health aspects of the 

nuclear environment. Therefore, 

retention of these records does not serve 

the underlying purpose of the rule of 

maintaining compliance with the safety 

and health aspects of the nuclear 

environment or to accomplish the NRC’s 

mission. 

Records, which continue to serve the 

underlying purpose of the rule, that is, 

to maintain compliance and to protect 

public health and safety, will continue 

to be retained under regulations in 10 

CFR part 50 and 10 CFR part 72. These 

retained records not subject to the 

exemption include those associated 

with programmatic controls, such as 

those pertaining to residual 

radioactivity, security, quality 

assurance, etc., and records associated 

with the ISFSI and spent fuel 

assemblies. 

Paragraph 50.12(a)(2) states, in part, 

‘‘Special circumstance are present 

whenever—. . . (iii) Compliance would 

result in undue hardship or other costs 

that are significantly in excess of those 

contemplated when the regulation was 

adopted . . . .’’ 

The retention of records required by 

10 CFR part 50, appendix B, Criterion 

XVII, 10 CFR 50.59(d)(3), and 10 CFR 

50.71(c) provides assurance that records 

associated with SSCs will be captured, 

indexed, and stored in an 

environmentally suitable and retrievable 

condition. Given the volume of records 

associated with the SSCs, compliance 

with the records retention rules results 

in a considerable cost to the licensee. 

Retention of the volume of records 

associated with these SSCs during the 

operations phase is appropriate to serve 

the underlying purpose of providing 

information to the Commission for 

examination in the case of an event, 

incident, or other problem involving the 

public health and safety, as discussed 

above. However, the cost effect of 

retaining operations phase records 

beyond the operations phase until the 

termination of the license was not fully 

considered or understood. Therefore, 

compliance with the rule would result 

in an undue cost in excess of that 

contemplated when the rule was 

adopted. 

The granted exemptions apply to 

records that are associated with SSCs 

that had supported the operations phase 

of electricity generation and wet storage 

of spent fuel assemblies, and that have 

been, or will be, retired in place, 

prepared for dismantlement, and 

removed from licensing basis 

documents. Records that continue to 

apply to retired SSCs during the 

SAFSTOR and decommissioning phase, 

such as records associated with 

programmatic controls pertaining to 

residual radioactivity, security, quality 

assurance, etc., and records associated 

with the ISFSI and spent fuel 

assemblies, will continue to be 

maintained in an environmentally 

suitable and retrievable condition. 

Environmental Considerations 

Under 10 CFR 51.22(c)(25), granting 

of an exemption from the requirements 

of any regulation in 10 CFR Chapter I is 

a categorical exclusion provided that (i) 

there is no significant hazards 

consideration; (ii) there is no significant 

change in the types or significant 

increase in the amounts of any effluents 

that may be released offsite; (iii) there is 

no significant increase in individual or 

cumulative public or occupational 

radiation exposure; (iv) there is no 

significant construction impact; (v) 

there is no significant increase in the 

potential for or consequences from 

radiological accidents; and (vi) the 

requirements from which an exemption 

is sought are among those identified in 

10 CFR 51.22(c)(25)(vi). 

The Director, Division of Operating 

Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, has determined that 

approval of the exemption request 

involves no significant hazards 

consideration because allowing the 

licensee exemption from the 

recordkeeping requirements of 10 CFR 

part 50, appendix B, Criterion XVII; 10 

CFR 50.59(d)(3); and 10 CFR 50.71(c), at 

the permanently shutdown and 

defueled FCS does not (1) involve a 

significant increase in the probability or 

consequences of an accident previously 

evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of 

a new or different kind of accident from 

any accident previously evaluated; or 

(3) involve a significant reduction in a 

margin of safety. Accordingly, there is 

no significant change in the types or 

significant increase in the amounts of 

any effluents that may be released 

offsite, and no significant increase in 

individual or cumulative public or 

occupational radiation exposure. The 

exempted regulation is not associated 

with construction, so there is no 

significant construction impact. The 

exempted regulation does not concern 

the source term (i.e., potential amount 

of radiation in an accident), nor 

mitigation. Therefore, there is no 

significant increase in the potential for, 

or consequences from radiological 

accidents. 

Allowing the licensee partial 

exemption from record retention 

requirements from which the exemption 

is sought involve recordkeeping 

requirements, reporting requirements of 

an administrative, managerial, or 

organizational nature. 

Therefore, pursuant to 10 CFR 

51.22(b) and 51.22(c)(25), no 

environmental impact statement or 

environmental assessment need be 

prepared in connection with the 

approval of this exemption request. 

IV. Conclusions 

Accordingly, the Commission has 

determined that, pursuant to 10 CFR 

50.12, part 50, appendix B, Criterion 

XVII; 10 CFR 50.59(d)(3); and 10 CFR 

50.71(c) are authorized by law, will not 

present an undue risk to the public 

health and safety, and are consistent 

with the common defense and security. 

Also, special circumstances are present. 

Therefore, the Commission hereby 

grants OPPD’s partial exemptions from 

10 CFR part 50, appendix B, Criterion 

XVII; 10 CFR 50.59(d)(3); and 10 CFR 

50.71(c) to advance the schedule to 

remove records associated with SSCs 

that have been removed from the NRC’s 

licensing basis documents by 

appropriate change mechanisms. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day 

of October 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Anne T. Boland, 

Director, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

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Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses and Combined Licenses 

Involving No Significant Hazards 

Considerations 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

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ACTION: Biweekly notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 189a. (2) 

of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 

amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) is 

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