[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 179 (Monday, September 15, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53285-53286]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-21430]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-333]


Entergy Nuclear Fitzpatrick, LLC, and Entergy Nuclear Operations, 
Inc.; The James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant; Notice of Issuance 
of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-59 for an Additional 20-
Year Period Record of Decision

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission) has issued Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-
59 to the Entergy Nuclear FitzPatrick, LLC and Entergy Nuclear 
Operations, Inc. (the licensee), the operator of the James A. 
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant (JAFNPP). Renewed Facility Operating 
License No. DPR-59 authorizes operation of JAFNPP, by the licensee at 
reactor core power levels not in excess of 2536 megawatts thermal (881 
megawatts electric), in accordance with the provisions of the JAFNPP 
renewed license and its Technical Specifications.
    This notice also serves as the record of decision for the renewal 
of Facility Operating License No. DPR-59 for JAFNPP, consistent with 
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Section 51.103 (10 CFR 
51.103). As discussed in the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement (FSEIS) for JAFNPP, dated January 2008, the Commission 
considered a range of reasonable alternatives that included generation 
from coal, natural gas, oil, wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, wood 
waste, municipal solid waste, other biomass-derived fuels, delayed 
retirement, utility-sponsored conservation, a combination of 
alternatives, and a no-action alternative. The factors considered in 
the record of decision can be found in the supplemental environmental 
impact statement (SEIS) for License Renewal, Supplement 31 regarding 
James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant.
    JAFNPP is a boiling water reactor located along the shore of Lake 
Ontario, Oswego County, New York. The site is approximately seven miles 
north-northeast of the city of Oswego. The application 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 the license.
    Prior public notice of the action involving the proposed issuance 
of the renewed license and of an opportunity for a hearing regarding 
the proposed issuance of the renewed license was published in the 
Federal Register on September 20, 2006 (71 FR 55032). For further 
details with respect to this action, see (1) The Entergy Nuclear 
FitzPatrick, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., license renewal 
application for James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant dated July 31, 
2006, as supplemented by letters dated through November 5, 2007; (2) 
the Commission's safety evaluation report (NUREG-1905), published in 
April 2008; (3) the licensee's updated safety analysis report; and (4) 
the Commission's final environmental impact statement (NUREG-1437, 
Supplement 31), published in January 2008. These documents are 
available at the NRC Public Document Room, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, and can be viewed from the 
NRC Public Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
    Copies of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-59 may be 
obtained by writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Director, Division of License 
Renewal. Copies of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, Safety 
Evaluation Report (NUREG-1905) and

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the Final Environmental Impact Statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 31) 
may be purchased from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161-0002 (http://www.ntis.gov), 703-605-6000, or the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. 
Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954 
(http://www.gpoaccess.gov), 202-512-1800. All orders should clearly 
identify the NRC publication number and the requester's Government 
Printing Office deposit account number or a VISA or MasterCard number 
and expiration date.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of September 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. E8-21430 Filed 9-12-08; 8:45 am]
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