[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 20, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 16278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6666]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-247 and 50-286; NRC-2008-0672]
License Renewal Application for Indian Point Nuclear Generating
Units 2 and 3; Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License renewal application; intent to prepare supplement to
final SEIS.
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SUMMARY: On April 23, 2007, Entergy Operations, Inc. (Entergy),
submitted to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) an
application for renewal of Facility Operating Licenses DPR-26 and DPR-
64 for an additional 20 years of operation at Indian Point Nuclear
Generating Units 2 and 3 (IP2 and IP3). The current operating licenses
for IP2 and IP3 expire on September 28, 2013, and December 12, 2015,
respectively. The purpose of this document is to inform the public that
the NRC will be preparing a supplement to the final Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to address information on aquatic
impacts in accordance with the NRC's regulations.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0672, when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may access information related to this document, which the NRC
possesses and is publicly available, using the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0672. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected].
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is
referenced.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Kimberly Green, Division of
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
1627; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Discussion
Entergy submitted an application for renewal of Facility Operating
Licenses DPR-26 and DPR-64 for an additional 20 years of operation at
IP2 and IP3. Approximately 24 miles north of New York City, IP2 and IP3
are located in Westchester County in the Village of Buchanan, New York.
The current operating licenses for IP2 and IP3 expire on September
28, 2013, and December 12, 2015, respectively. The application for
renewal, dated April 23, 2007, was submitted pursuant to Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 54, which included an
environmental report (ER).
On December 3, 2010, the NRC staff issued its final SEIS,
documenting its final analysis and recommendation on the proposed
action--renewal of the operating licenses for IP2 and IP3. The final
SEIS is available in ADAMS under package Accession No. ML103360205.
This document is being published in accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act and the NRC's regulations found at 10 CFR Part
51. The purpose of this document is to inform the public that the NRC
will be preparing a supplement to the final SEIS to address information
on aquatic impacts in accordance with the NRC's regulations found at 10
CFR 51.92.
Subsequent to the issuance of the final SEIS, the NRC staff
identified three types of new information regarding aquatic impacts
that necessitate changes to the staff's findings in the final SEIS. The
new information consists of (1) entrainment and impingement field data
units of measure; (2) a new thermal study that characterizes the
thermal plume of cooling water discharges from IP2 and IP3; and (3) new
developments concerning the staff's section 7 consultation under the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, with the National Marine
Fisheries Service regarding endangered species.
In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) and 10 CFR 54.23, Entergy
submitted the ER as part of the application. The ER was prepared
pursuant to 10 CFR Part 51 and is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML071210530. In addition, the ER is available for public inspection
at the White Plains Public Library located at 100 Martine Avenue, White
Plains, NY 10601; the Hendrick Hudson Free Library located at 185 Kings
Ferry Road, Montrose, NY 10548; and the Field Library located at 4
Neslon Avenue, Peekskill, NY 10566.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of March, 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David J. Wrona,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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