[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 92 (Tuesday, May 13, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25644-25645]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11839]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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


Exelon Generation Company, LLC, PSEG Nuclear, LLC, Peach Bottom 
Atomic Power Station, Unit Nos. 2 and 3; Notice of Issuance of Renewed 
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-44, and DPR-56 for an Additional 
20-Year Period

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has issued Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. 
DPR-44, and DPR-56 to Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon) and PSEG 
Nuclear, LLC (the licensees) of the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, 
Units 2 and 3 (Peach Bottom, Units 2 and 3). Exelon is the operator of 
Peach Bottom, Units 2 and 3. Renewed Facility Operating License No. 
DPR-44 authorizes operation of Peach Bottom, Unit 2, by Exelon at 
reactor core power levels not in excess of 3514 megawatts thermal in 
accordance with the provisions of the Peach Bottom, Unit 2, renewed 
license and the Technical Specifications. Renewed Facility Operating 
License No. DPR-56 authorizes operation of Peach Bottom, Unit 3, by 
Exelon at reactor core power levels not in excess of 3514 megawatts 
thermal in accordance with the provisions of the Peach Bottom, Unit 3, 
renewed license and the Technical Specifications.
    Peach Bottom, Units 2 and 3, are boiling water nuclear reactors 
located partly in Peach Bottom Township, York County, partly in Drumore 
Township, Lancaster County and partly in Fulton Township, Lancaster 
County in southeastern Pennsylvania.
    The applications for the renewed licenses complied with the 
standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 
(the Act), and the Commission's regulations. As required by the Act and 
the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, the Commission has 
made appropriate findings, which are set forth in each license. Prior 
public notice of the action involving the proposed issuance of these 
renewed licenses and of an opportunity for a hearing regarding the 
proposed issuance of these renewed licenses was published in the 
Federal Register on August 31, 2001 (66 FR 46036).
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the Exelon 
Generation Company's license renewal applications for Peach Bottom, 
Units 2 and 3, dated July 2, 2001, as supplemented by letters dated 
November 26 and December 19,

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2002, and January 14, January 29, January 31, and February 5, 2003; (2) 
the Commission's Safety Evaluation Report (SER), dated February 5, 2003 
(NUREG-1769); (3) the licensee's Updated Final Safety Analysis Report; 
and (4) the Commission's Final Environmental Impact Statement, NUREG-
1437, Supplement 10, dated January 22, 2003. These documents are 
available at the NRC's Public Document Room, One White Flint North, 
Public File Area 01 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland. Publicly available records will be available electronically 
from the Agency wide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). 
Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site 
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have 
access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents 
located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR Reference Staff by 
telephone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].
    Copies of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-44 and DPR-56 
may be obtained by writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Director, Division of Regulatory 
Improvement Programs. Copies of the Safety Evaluation Report, NUREG-
1769, and the Final Environmental Impact Statement, NUREG-1437, 
Supplement 10) may be purchased from the National Technical Information 
Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161-0002 (http://www.ntis.gov), 1-800-
553-6847, or the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing 
Office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954 (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs), 202-512-1800. All orders should clearly 
identify the NRC publication number and the requestor's Government 
Printing Office deposit account number or VISA or MasterCard number and 
expiration date.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of May 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
Program Director, License Renewal and Environmental Impacts, Division 
of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-11839 Filed 5-12-03; 8:45 am]
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