[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 67 (Friday, April 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18320-18321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-8500]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-237 AND 50-249]


Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Notice of Issuance of Amendment 
to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 185 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-19 and 
Amendment No. 180 to Facility Operating License DPR-25, issued to 
Exelon Generation Company, LLC (the licensee), which revised the 
operating licenses and the Technical Specifications for operation of 
the Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 3, respectively, located 
in Grundy County, Illinois. The amendments are effective as of the date 
of issuance.
    The amendments revise the current Technical Specifications (TS, 
Appendix A of the operating licenses) in their entirety with a set of 
improved TS (ITS) based on NUREG-1433, Revision 1, ``Standard Technical 
Specifications, General Electric Plants BWR/4,'' dated April 1995, and 
on guidance provided in the Commission's ``Final Policy Statement on 
Technical Specifications Improvements for Nuclear Power Reactors,'' 
published on July 22, 1993 (58 FR 39132). In addition, the amendments 
add new conditions to the operating licenses regarding (1) the 
relocation of current TS requirements into licensee-controlled 
documents as

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part of the implementation of the ITS, (2) the schedule for the first 
performance of new and revised surveillance requirements (four 
conditions), and (3) continued operation with a current TS setpoint 
until an outage of sufficient duration permits a change to the setpoint 
(Unit 2 only).
    The application for the amendment 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 
amendment.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action was published in the Federal Register on February 16, 2001 (66 
FR 10756). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene 
was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
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 amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (66 FR 
16689).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated March 3, 2000, and supplemented by 
letters dated March 24, June 5 (two letters), July 18, July 31, 
September 1, September 22, October 5, October 9, November 20, and 
December 18, 2000; and February 15 and February 28, 2001, (2) Amendment 
No. 185 to License No. DPR-19 and Amendment No. 180 to License No. DPR-
25, (3) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the 
Commission's Environmental Assessment. Documents may be examined, and/
or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room, located at One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland, and accessible electronically through the ADAMS Public 
Electronic Reading Room link at the NRC Web site (http://www.nrc.gov).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of March 2001.

    For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stewart N. Bailey,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate III, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 01-8500 Filed 4-5-01; 8:45 am]
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