[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31895-31896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13041]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-397; NRC-2010-0029]
Energy Northwest, Columbia Generating Station; Record of Decision
and Issuance of Renewed Facility Operating License for an Additional
20-Year Period
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License renewal application; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
has issued renewed facility operating license No. NPF-21 to Energy
Northwest (the licensee), the operator of the Columbia Generating
Station (Columbia). Renewed facility operating license No. NPF-21
authorizes operation of Columbia by the licensee at reactor core power
levels not in excess of 3,486 megawatts thermal in accordance with the
provisions of the Columbia renewed operating license and its technical
specifications. This also serves as the record of decision for the
renewal of facility operating license No. NPF-21, consistent with the
NRC's regulations.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2010-0029 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 are publicly available, using any of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2010-0029. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
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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: Mr. Arthur Cunanan, Project Manager,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3897; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Notice is hereby given that the NRC has issued renewed facility
operating license No. NPF-21 to Energy Northwest, the operator of
Columbia. Renewed facility operating license No. NPF-21 authorizes
operation of Columbia by the licensee at reactor core power levels not
in excess of 3,486 megawatts thermal in accordance with the provisions
of the Columbia renewed operating license and its technical
specifications.
The notice also serves as the record of decision for the renewal of
facility operating license No. NPF-21, consistent with Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 51.103. As discussed in the final
supplemental environmental impact statement for Columbia, Supplement 47
to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants (GEIS) Regarding Columbia Generating
Station,'' dated April 2012 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML12096A334 and
ML12096A336), the Commission has considered a range of reasonable
alternatives that included: (1) Natural gas-fired combined cycle
(NGCC); (2) new nuclear; (3) combination alternative (NGCC),
hydroelectric, wind, and conservation and efficiency); (4) offsite new
nuclear and NGCC; (5) coal-fired power; (6) energy conservation and
energy efficiency; (7) purchased power; (8) solar power; (9) wind
power; (10) biomass waste; (11) hydroelectric power; (12) ocean wave
and current energy; (13) geothermal power; (14) municipal solid waste;
(15) biofuels; (16) oil-fired power; (17) fuel cells; (18) delayed
retirement; and (19) the no-action alternative. The factors considered
in the record of decision can be found in the final supplemental
environmental impact statement for Columbia.
Columbia is a boiling-water reactor located in Benton County,
Richland, Washington. The application for the renewed license,
``Columbia Generating Station License Renewal Application,'' dated
January 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML100250656), 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 issuance of the renewed license was published in the Federal
Register on March 11, 2010 (75 FR 11576).
For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) Energy
Northwest's license renewal application for Columbia Generating Station
dated January 19, 2010, as supplemented by letters dated through April
23, 2012; (2) the Commission's safety evaluation report NUREG-2123,
``Safety Evaluation Report Related to the License Renewal of Columbia
Generating Station,'' dated May 2012 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML12139A300
and ML12139A302); (3) the licensee's Final Safety Analysis Report; and
(4) the Commission's final environmental impact statement (NUREG-1437,
Supplement 47), for the Columbia Generating Station, published April
2012.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of May, 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dennis Morey,
Chief, Projects Branch 1, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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