[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 237 (Monday, December 11, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 71586]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-20954]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-400]


Carolina Power & Light Company; Notice of Receipt and 
Availability of Application for Renewal of Shearon Harris Nuclear Power 
Plant, Unit 1 Facility Operating License No. NPF-63 for an Additional 
20-Year Period

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) has 
received an application, dated November 14, 2006, from Carolina Power & 
Light Company, (doing business as Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.), 
filed pursuant to Section 103 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended, and Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 54 (10 
CFR Part 54), to renew the operating license for the Shearon Harris 
Nuclear Power Plant (HNP), Unit 1. Renewal of the license would 
authorize the applicant to operate the facility for an additional 20-
year period beyond the period specified in the current operating 
license. The current operating license for HNP, Unit 1, (NPF-63), 
expires on October 24, 2026. HNP, Unit 1, is a pressurized water 
reactor designed by Westinghouse Electric Corporation that is located 
in Wake County, North Carolina. The acceptability of the tendered 
application for docketing, and other matters including an opportunity 
to request a hearing, will be the subject of subsequent Federal 
Register Notices.
    Copies of the application are available to the public at the 
Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint 
North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852 or through the 
internet from the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room under Accession Number 
ML063350262. The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible 
from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. In 
addition, the application is available at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications.html. Persons who do not have 
access to the Internet or who encounter problems in accessing the 
documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC's PDR reference staff 
at 1-800-397-4209, extension 4737, or via e-mail to [email protected].
    A copy of the license renewal application for the HNP, Unit 1, is 
also available to local residents near the site at the Eva. H. Perry 
Library, 2100 Shepherd's Vineyard Drive, Apex, North Carolina 27502.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of December, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pao-Tsin Kuo,
Acting Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
 [FR Doc. E6-20954 Filed 12-8-06; 8:45 am]
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