[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 134 (Thursday, July 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 36606]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17449]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-361 AND 50-362]


Southern California Edison Company, San Onofre Nuclear Generating 
Station, Unit Nos. 2 and 3; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment Nos. 180 and 171 to Facility Operating Licenses Nos. NPF-10 
and NPF-15, Southern California Edison Company (SCE or the licensee), 
which revised the Operating License and Technical Specifications for 
operation of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), Units 
Nos. 2 and 3, located in San Diego County, California. The amendments 
are effective as of the date of issuance.
    The amendments modified the Technical Specifications and Operating 
License for SONGS Units 2 and 3, to allow SCE to increase the maximum 
reactor core power level for each unit from 3390 megawatts thermal 
(MWt) to 3438 MWt, which is an increase of 1.42 percent of rated core 
thermal power for SONGS Units 2 and 3.
    The proposed action is in accordance with the licensee's 
application for amendment dated April 3, 2001, and supplemented by 
letters dated April 23, May 11, May 25, May 31, and June 25, 2001.
    The application for the amendments comply 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.
    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 April 18, 2001 (66 FR 
19996). 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 amendments will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (66 FR 
32964, and corrected in 66 FR 33982).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated April 3, 2001, (and supplemented by 
letters dated April 23, May 11, May 25, May 31, and June 25, 2001), (2) 
Amendments No. 180 to License No. NPF-10, and No. 171 to License No. 
NPF-15, (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. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically 
from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) 
Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web site, 
http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. If you do not have access to 
ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the documents located in 
ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff at 1-800-
397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by email to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of July 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph E. Donoghue,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate IV, Section 2, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 01-17449 Filed 7-11-01; 8:45 am]
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