[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 98 (Friday, May 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29279-29280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12447]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY

 [Docket Numbers 50-282 and 50-306; NRC-2009-0507]


Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2; Notice of 
Availability of the Final Supplement 39 to the Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding the 
License Renewal of Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plants, Units 1 
and 2

    Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) has published a final plant-specific supplement to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants 
(GEIS), NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of Operating Licenses DPR-42 
and DPR-60 for an additional 20 years of operation for Prairie Island 
Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and Unit 2 (PINGP 1 and 2). The PINGP 
1 and 2 site is located near Red Wing, Minnesota, on the west bank of 
the Mississippi River in Goodhue County. Possible alternatives to the 
proposed action (license renewal) include the no action alternative and 
other reasonable alternative energy sources.
    As discussed in Section 9.4 of the final supplement, the staff 
determined that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal 
for PINGP 1 and 2 are not so great that preserving the option

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of license renewal for energy-planning decision makers would be 
unreasonable.
    This recommendation is based on: (1) The analysis and findings in 
the GEIS; (2) information provided in the environmental report and 
other documents submitted by Northern States Power Company; (3) 
consultation with Federal, State, local, and Tribal agencies; (4) the 
staff's own independent review; and (5) consideration of public 
comments received during the scoping process and on the draft 
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.
    The final Supplement 39 to the GEIS is publicly available at the 
NRC Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 
Public File Area O-1F21, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 
20852, or from the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS). The ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room is accessible 
at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. The accession number for 
the final Supplement 39 to the GEIS is ML11133A029. Persons who do not 
have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems while accessing the 
documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC's PDR reference 
staff by telephone at (800) 397-4209 or (301) 415-4737, or by e-mail at 
[email protected]. In addition, the Red Wing Public Library, 225 
East Avenue, Red Wing, Minnesota 55066, has agreed to make the final 
supplement available for public inspection.
    For Further Information, Contact: Ms. Elaine Keegan, Projects 
Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop O-11F1, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001. Ms. Keegan may be contacted by telephone at 
(800) 368-5642, extension 8517, or by e-mail at [email protected]

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of May, 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

David J. Wrona,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-12447 Filed 5-19-11; 8:45 am]
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