[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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