[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 136 (Monday, July 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 37072]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17697]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-369, 370, 413, and 414]


Duke Energy Corporation, McGuire, Units 1 and 2, and Catawba, 
Units 1 and 2; Notice of Receipt of Application for Renewal of Facility 
Operating License Nos. NPF-9, NPF-17, NPF-35, and NPF-52 for an 
Additional 20-Year Period

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received applications 
from Duke Energy Corporation, dated June 13, 2001, filed pursuant to 
section 103 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and 10 CFR 
part 54 for renewal of Operating License Nos. NPF-9, NPF-17, NPF-35, 
and NPF-52, which authorize the applicant to operate McGuire Nuclear 
Station, Units 1 and 2, and Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, 
respectively. The McGuire nuclear facility is located 17miles north-
northwest of Charlotte, NC, in Mecklenburg County. The current 
operating licenses for McGuire, Units 1 and 2, expire on June 12, 2021, 
and March 3, 2023, respectively. The Catawba nuclear facility is 
located 18 miles southwest of Charlotte, NC, in York County. The 
operating licenses for Catawba, Units 1 and 2, expire on December 6, 
2024, and February 24, 2026, respectively. All four Duke Energy 
Corporation nuclear units are four-loop pressurized-water reactors 
designed by Westinghouse. The acceptability of the tendered 
applications for docketing and other matters, including an opportunity 
to request a hearing will be the subject of a subsequent Federal 
Register notice.
    Copies of the applications are available electronically for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, located at One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland, or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of 
the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). 
The ADAMSPublic Electronic Reading Room is accessible from the NRC Web 
site at 
http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. In addition, the applications 
are available on the NRC web page at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/LR/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 (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or 
by email to [email protected].
    The staff has verified that copies of the license renewal 
applications for the McGuire and Catawba nuclear stations have been 
provided to the J. Murrey Atkins Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, 
and to the York County Library System in South Carolina.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, the 10th day of July 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher I. Grimes,
Chief, License Renewal and Standardization Branch, Division of 
Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 01-17697 Filed 7-13-01; 8:45 am]
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