[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 178 (Tuesday, September 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49370-49371]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24717]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-260 and 50-296]


Tennessee Valley Authority; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to 
Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has 
issued Amendment Nos. 254 and 214 to Facility Operating License Nos. 
DPR-52 and DPR-68 issued to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA or the 
licensee) for operation of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant (BFN), Units 
2 and 3, respectively, located in Limestone County, Alabama.
    The amendments allow operation of BFN Units 2 and 3 at 3458 
Megawatts thermal and approve changes to the TS to implement uprated 
power operation. The application for the amendments complies with the 
standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 
(the Act) and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission 
has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the 
Commission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set 
forth in the license amendments.
    Notices of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments to facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for Hearing in connection with this 
action were published in the Federal Register on June 9, 1998 (63 FR 
31533), and July 28, 1998 (63 FR 40323). The licensee provided 
additional details by letters dated March 20, May 22, June 12 and 17, 
and July 24 and 31, and September 1, 1998, which did not affect the 
staff's proposed action described in the above-cited FR notices. No 
request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed 
following these notices.
    The Commission has prepared an environmental assessment of the 
action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of the amendments will not have a 
significant impact on the quality of the human environment (63 FR 
46491).

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    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendments dated October 1, 1997, as supplemented 
October 14, 1997, March 16 and 20, April 1 and 28, May 1, 20 and 22, 
June 12, 17 and 26, and July 17, 24 and 31, and September 1, 1998, 
which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public 
Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC 
and at the local public document room located at the Athens Public 
Library, 405 E. South Street, Athens, Alabama.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of September 1998.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Frederick J. Hebdon,
Project Director, Project Directorate II-3, Division of Reactor 
Projects--I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-24717 Filed 9-14-98; 8:45 am]
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