[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 130 (Thursday, July 8, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 41311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-15481]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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


Exelon Generation Company, LLC, Dresden Nuclear Power Station, 
Units 2 and 3; Notice of Availability of the Final Supplement 17 to 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement for the License Renewal of 
Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 2 and 3

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has published a final plant-specific supplement to the 
Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding 
the renewal of operating licenses DPR-19 and DPR-25 for an additional 
20 years of operation at Dresden Nuclear Power Station (DNPS). DNPS is 
located in Goose Lake Township, Grundy County, Illinois, adjacent to 
the Illinois River at the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee 
Rivers. Possible alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) 
include no action and reasonable alternative energy sources.
    Section 9.3 of the final supplement 17 states:

    Based on (1) the analysis and findings in the GEIS (NRC 1996; 
1999); (2) the ER [Environmental Report] submitted by Exelon (Exelon 
2003b); (3) consultation with Federal, State, and local agencies; 
(4) the staff's own independent review; and (5) the staff's 
consideration of the public comments, the recommendation of the 
staff is that the Commission determine that the adverse 
environmental impacts of license renewal for Dresden 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 17 to the GEIS is available 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/reading-rm/adams.html (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]. In addition, 
the Morris Area Public Library, located at 604 West Liberty Street, 
Morris, Illinois; and the Coal City Public Library District, located at 
85 North Garfield Street, Coal City, Illinois, have agreed to make the 
final plant-specific supplement to the GEIS available for public 
inspection.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James H. Wilson, License Renewal 
and Environmental Impacts Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement 
Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Mr. 
Wilson may be contacted at 301-415-1108 or [email protected].

    Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of June, 2004.

    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. 04-15481 Filed 7-7-04; 8:45 am]
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