[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 229 (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72085-72086]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-28131]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-482]


Kansas Gas and Electric Company, Kansas City Power & Light 
Company, Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., Wolf Creek Nuclear 
Operating Corporation, Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit 1; Notice of 
Issuance of Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-42 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. NPF-
42 to Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (WCNOC), the operator of 
the Wolf Creek Generating Station (WCGS). Renewed facility operating 
license No. NPF-42 authorizes operation of WCGS at reactor core power 
levels not in excess of 3565 megawatts thermal (1228 megawatts 
electric), in accordance with the provisions of the WCGS renewed 
license and its technical specifications.
    The notice also serves as the record of decision for the renewal of 
facility operating license No. NPF-42 for WCGS, 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 WCGS, dated May 2008, the Commission considered a range of 
reasonable alternatives that included generation from coal, natural 
gas, oil, wind, solar,

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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 decision can be found 
in the supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for License 
Renewal, Supplement 32 regarding Wolf Creek Generating Station.
    WCGS Unit 1 is a PWR located 3.5 miles northeast of the town of 
Burlington, in Coffey County, Kansas. The application for the renewed 
license 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 November 30, 
2006.
    For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) WCNOC's 
license renewal application for WCGS dated September 27, 2006, as 
supplemented by letters dated through August 1, 2008; (2) the 
Commission's safety evaluation report (NUREG-1915), published in 
October 2008; (3) the updated safety analysis report; and (4) the 
Commission's final environmental impact statement (NUREG-1437, 
Supplement 32), for WCGS, published on May 8, 2008. These documents are 
available at the NRC's 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. NPF-42, 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 WCGS safety evaluation report (NUREG-1915) and 
the final environmental impact statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 32) 
may be purchased from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161 (http://www.ntis.gov), 
703-605-6000, or Attention: 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 requestor's Government 
Printing Office deposit account number or VISA or MasterCard number and 
expiration date.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of November 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. E8-28131 Filed 11-25-08; 8:45 am]
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