[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 4249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-1859]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-277 and 50-278]


Exelon Generating Company, LLC; Peach Bottom Atomic Power 
Station, Units 2 and 3; Notice of Availability of the Final Supplement 
10 to the Generic Environmental Impact Statement Regarding License 
Renewal for the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has published a final plant-specific Supplement 10 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the 
renewal of operating licenses DPR-44 and DPR-56 for the Peach Bottom 
Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3, for an additional 20 years of 
operation. The Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station units are operated by 
Exelon Generating Company, LLC and PSEG Nuclear, LLC (Exelon). Peach 
Bottom Atomic Power Station is located primarily in Peach Bottom 
Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Possible alternatives to the 
proposed action (license renewal) include no action and reasonable 
alternative methods of power generation.
    It is stated in section 9.3 of the report:

    Based on (1) the analysis and findings in the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear 
Plants, NUREG-1437; (2) the Environmental Report submitted by 
Exelon; (3) consultation with Federal, State, and local agencies; 
(4) the staff's own independent review; and (5) the staff's 
consideration of public comments, the staff recommends that the 
Commission determine that the adverse environmental impacts of 
license renewal for Peach Bottom Units 2 and 3 are not so great that 
preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning 
decision makers would be unreasonable.

    The final Supplement 10 to the GEIS is available electronically for 
public inspection in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) located at One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland, or from the Publicly Available Records (PARS) component of 
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). ADAMS 
is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov (the Public 
Electronic Reading Room). Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or 
who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, 
should contact the PDR reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, 
or by e-mail to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Louis L. Wheeler, License Renewal 
and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement 
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Mr. 
Wheeler may be contacted at 301-415-1444 or by writing to: Louis L. 
Wheeler, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, MS O-12D3, Washington, DC 
20555.

    Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of January, 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts Program, 
Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-1859 Filed 1-27-03; 8:45 am]
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