text: Federal Register :: Notice of Consideration of Approval of Transfer of Facility Operating License for Zion Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 and Conforming Amendment and Opportunity for a Hearing
  A request for a hearing must be filed by June 10, 2008.
  https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E8-11353 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/E8-11353
  Notice of application for approval of a license transfer and conforming amendment and opportunity for a hearing and to provide written comments.
  John B. Hickman, Project Manager, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: (301) 415-3017; Fax number: (301) 415-5370; e-mail: jbh@nrc.gov.
  The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) is considering the issuance of an Order under 10 CFR 50.80 approving the direct transfer of Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-39 and DPR-48 for Zion Nuclear Power Station Units 1 and 2 (Zion) currently held by Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon), as owner and licensed operator of Zion. The transfer would be to ZionSolutions, LLC (ZS), a wholly owned subsidiary of EnergySolutions (ES). The Commission is also considering amending the license for administrative purposes to reflect the proposed transfer. Such amendment would replace references to Exelon in the license with references to ZS and remove references to a prior license transfer from ComEd to Exelon.
  The application now being considered is dated January 25, 2008, and was filed by Exelon, ZS, and ES. According to the application, ZS would acquire ownership of the facility following approval of the proposed license transfer, and ZS would possess, use and maintain the permanently shut down and defueled Zion Station. Exelon would retain title to the real estate upon which Zion is sited, ownership of the spent nuclear fuel and Class C radioactive waste, and other improvements specified in the Asset Sale Agreement. After the transfer, ZS intends to decommission the Zion units. The application for transfer does not propose any physical or operational changes to the Zion facility. An NRC administrative review, documented in a letter sent to Exelon on February 21, 2008, found the application acceptable to begin a more detailed technical review.
  Before issuance of the proposed conforming license amendment, the Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's regulations. An Environmental Assessment (EA) will not be performed because, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(c)(21), license transfer approvals and associated license amendments are categorically excluded from the requirements to perform an EA.
  A request for hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule, which the NRC promulgated on August 28, 2007 (72 FR 49139). The E-Filing rule requires participants to submit and serve documents over the internet or in some cases to mail copies on electronic storage media. Participants may not submit paper copies of their filings unless they seek a waiver in accordance with the procedures described below.
  To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least five (5) days prior to the filing deadline, the petitioner/requestor must contact the Office of the Secretary by e-mail at HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV, or by calling (301) 415-1677, to request (1) a digital identification (ID) certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or representative) to digitally sign documents and access the E-Submittal server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and/or (2) creation of an electronic docket for the proceeding (even in instances in which the petitioner/requestor (or its counsel or representative) already holds an NRC-issued digital ID certificate). Each petitioner/requestor will need to download the Workplace Forms ViewerTM to access the Electronic Information Exchange (EIE), a component of the E-Filing system. The Workplace Forms ViewerTM is free and is available at http://www.nrc.gov/​site-help/​e-submittals/​install-viewer.html. Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is available on NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/​site-help/​e-submittals/​apply-certificates.html. Start Printed Page 29541
  For further details with respect to this license transfer application, see the application dated January 25, 2008, available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly-available records will be accessible electronically from the Agency-Wide Documents Access and Management System's (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web site http://www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
  Deputy Director, Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery Licensing Directorate Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs.