[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 26, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42421-42422]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11918]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-334 and 50-412]


FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company, FirstEnergy Nuclear 
Generation Corp., Ohio Edison Company, The Toledo Edison Company, 
Beaver Valley Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Notice of Issuance of 
Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 275 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-66 and 
Amendment No. 156 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-73 issued to 
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (the licensee), which revised the 
Technical Specifications (TSs) and licenses for operation of the Beaver 
Valley Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 (BVPS-1 and 2) located in 
Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The amendments are effective as of the 
date of issuance.
    The amendments modified the TSs and licenses to increase the 
maximum authorized rated thermal power from 2689 megawatts thermal 
(MWt) to 2900 MWt for each unit. Additionally, the amendments approved 
full implementation of an alternative source term in accordance with 
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 50.67, using the 
guidance in Regulatory Guide 1.183, ``Alternative Radiological Source 
Terms for Evaluating Design Basis Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants.'' 
The amendments also approved deletion of the power range neutron-flux 
high-negative rate trip, removal of the boron injection tank boron 
concentration and renaming the boron injection flow path for BVPS-1, 
the addition of a footnote to Table 3.3-3 for BVPS-1, and correction of 
an inconsistency regarding a referenced permissive for BVPS-1.
    The application for the amendment complies 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 
amendment.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments to Facility 
Operating Licenses and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with 
this action was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 2005 
(70 FR 48443). The supplemental letters dated February 23, May 26, June 
14, July 8 and 28, August 26, September 6, October 7, 28, and 31, 
November 8, 18, and 21, December 2, 6, 9, 16, and 30, 2005, and January 
25, February 14 and 22, March 10 and 29, May 12, and July 6, 2006, 
provided additional clarifying information that did not expand the 
scope of the initial application as published in the Federal Register. 
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 amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (71 FR 
40162).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated October 4, 2004, as supplemented by 
letters dated February 23, May 26, June 14, July 8 and 28, August 26, 
September 6, October 7, 28, and 31, November 8, 18, and 21, December 2, 
6, 9, 16, and 30, 2005, and January 25, February 14 and 22, March 10 
and 29, May 12, and July 6, 2006, (2) Amendment No. 275 to License No. 
DPR-66, (3) Amendment No. 156 to License No. NPF-73, (4) the 
Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and (5) 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, Public File Area O1 F21, 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/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do 
not have access to

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ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in 
ADAMS should contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff by 
telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of July 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Timothy G. Colburn,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I-1, Division of 
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E6-11918 Filed 7-25-06; 8:45 am]
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