[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 2, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5353-5354]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-2175]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0029; Docket No. 50-397]


Energy Northwest; Notice of Receipt and Availability of 
Application for Renewal of Columbia Generating Station Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-21 for an Additional 20-Year Period

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) has 
received an application, dated January 19, 2010, from Energy Northwest 
(EN), 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 Columbia 
Generating Station (CGS). 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 CGS (NPF-21), expires on December 20, 
2023. CGS is a boiling-water reactor designed by Burns & Roe. CGS is 
located 12 miles north of Richland, WA. 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, MD 20852 or through

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the Internet from the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room under Accession Number 
ML100250668. 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 by e-mail to 
[email protected].
    A copy of the license renewal application for CGS is also available 
to local residents near the site at the Richland Public Library, 955 
Northgate Drive, Richland, WA 99352 and at the Kennewick Branch of Mid-
Columbia Libraries, 1620 South Union Street, Kennewick, WA 99338.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of January 2010.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2010-2175 Filed 2-1-10; 8:45 am]
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