Crystal River Unit 3 -- UPDATED IRRADIATED FUEL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM- 10 CFR 50.54(bb) and SITE-SPECIFIC DECOMMISSIONING COST ESTIMATE FOR THE CRYSTAL RIVER UNIT 3 NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT

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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">The Attachment to this letter includes a discussion on financial </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">assurance </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">for </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">spent </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">fuel </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">management </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">and site restoration. An element of the financial </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">assurance </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">demonstration includes relying on decommissioning trust funds for </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">spent </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">fuel </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">management </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">and site restoration. Use of decommissioning trust funds for </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">spent </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">fuel </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">management </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">is </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">based </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">upon the Declaratory </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Statement </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">issued by </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">the </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) (Reference 5) establishing the </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">FPSC&#39;s </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">intention </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">that </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">decommissioning funds collected from </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'; font-weight: 700">DEF </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">customers </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">be </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">used </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">for license termination, </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">spent </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">fuel </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">management, </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">and site restoration </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">purposes. </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">DEF recognizes that </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">use </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">of the decommissioning funds for </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">spent </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">fuel </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">management necessitates </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">further interactions with the NRC Staff.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family: 'Times'">This report also contains Crystal River shutdown cost estimates.</span></p>
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