[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 247 (Tuesday, December 23, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78857-78858]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-30477]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-400]


Carolina Power & Light Company; Shearon Harris Nuclear Power 
Plant, Unit 1; Notice of Issuance of Renewed Facility Operating License 
No. NPF-63 for an Additional 20-Year Period; Record of Decision

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(the Commission or NRC) has issued Renewed Facility Operating License 
No. NPF-63 to the Carolina Power & Light Company (the licensee), now 
doing business as Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc., the operator of the 
Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant (HNP), Unit 1. Renewed Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-63 authorizes operation of HNP by the 
licensee at reactor core power levels not in excess of 2900 megawatts 
thermal (900 megawatts electric), in accordance with the provisions of 
the HNP renewed license and its Technical Specifications.
    This notice also serves as the record of decision for the renewal 
of Facility Operating License No. NPF-63 for HNP, consistent with Title 
10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 51.103. As 
discussed in the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 
(FSEIS) for HNP, dated August 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 for License 
Renewal, Supplement 33 regarding HNP, Unit 1.
    HNP is a pressurized-water reactor designed by the Westinghouse 
Electric Corporation that is located in Wake County, North Carolina, 
approximately twenty miles southwest of Raleigh, North Carolina. 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

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issuance of the renewed license was published in the Federal Register 
on March 20, 2007 (72 FR 13139). For further details with respect to 
this action, see (1) The Carolina Power & Light Company, license 
renewal application for HNP, dated November 14, 2006, as supplemented 
by letters dated through July 21, 2008; (2) the Commission's Safety 
Evaluation Report (NUREG-1916 Volumes 1 and 2), published in December 
2008; (3) the licensee's updated safety analysis report; and (4) the 
Commission's FSEIS (NUREG-1437, Supplement 33), published in August 
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 the Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-63 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 HNP, Unit 1, Safety Evaluation Report (NUREG-
1916 Volumes 1 and 2) and the FSEIS (NUREG-1437, Supplement 33) may be 
purchased from the National Technical Information Service, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Springfield, Virginia 22161-0002 (http://www.ntis.gov), 703-605-6000, or the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. 
Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
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 17th day of December 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Brian E. Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. E8-30477 Filed 12-22-08; 8:45 am]
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