[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 206 (Friday, October 24, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63650-63651]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-25365]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-352 and 50-353; NRC-2011-0166]


Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Limerick Generating Station, 
Units 1 and 2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License renewal and record of decision; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued 
renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-39 and NPF-85 to Exelon 
Generation Company, LLC (the licensee), the operator of the Limerick 
Generating Station, Units 1 and 2 (Limerick). Renewed facility 
operating license Nos. NPF-39 and NPF-85 authorize operation of 
Limerick by the licensee at reactor core power levels not in excess of 
3515 megawatts thermal for each unit, in accordance with the provisions 
of the Limerick renewed licenses and technical specifications. In 
addition, the NRC has prepared a record of decision (ROD) that supports 
the NRC's decision to renew facility operating license Nos. NPF-39 and 
NPF-85.

DATES: The license renewal referenced in this document is effective on 
October 20, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0166 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2011-0166. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 
of this document.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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 document 
(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: Richard Plasse, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-1427; email: 
[email protected], U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the NRC has 
issued renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-39 and NPF-85 to 
Exelon Generation Company, LLC, the operator of Limerick. Renewed 
facility operating license Nos. NPF-39 and NPF-85 authorize operation 
of Limerick by the licensee at reactor core power levels not in excess 
of 3515 megawatts thermal for each unit, in accordance with the 
provisions of the Limerick renewed licenses and technical 
specifications. The NRC's ROD that supports the NRC's decision to renew 
facility operating license Nos. NPF-39 and NPF-85 is available in ADAMS 
under Accession No. ML14281A259. As discussed in the ROD and the final 
supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS) for LGS, Supplement 
49 to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License 
Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Limerick Generating Station, Units 
1 and 2,'' dated August 2014 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML14238A284 and 
ML14238A290), the NRC has considered

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a range of reasonable alternatives that included natural gas combined-
cycle, supercritical pulverized coal, new nuclear, wind power, purchase 
power, and the no action alternative. The ROD and FSEIS documents the 
NRC decision for the environmental review that the adverse 
environmental impacts of license renewal for Limerick are not so great 
that preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning 
decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
    Limerick Units 1 and 2 are boiling water reactors located in 
Limerick Township, Pennsylvania. The application for the renewed 
licenses, ``Limerick Generating Station License Renewal Application,'' 
dated June 22, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML111790800), complied with 
the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended (the Act), and the NRC's regulations. As required by the Act 
and the NRC's regulations in 10 CFR Chapter 1, the NRC has made 
appropriate findings, which are set forth in the licenses. A public 
notice of the proposed issuance of the renewed licenses and an 
opportunity for a hearing was published in the Federal Register on 
August 24, 2011 (76 FR 52992).
    For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) Exelon 
Generation Company, LLC, license renewal application for Limerick 
Generating Station, Units 1 and 2 dated June 22, 2011, as supplemented 
by letters dated through June 4, 2014; (2) the NRC's safety evaluation 
report published in January 2013, and supplemented in August 2014, 
(ADAMS Accession Nos. ML12354A349 and ML14190B070); (3) the licensee's 
Final Safety Analysis Report; (4) the NRC's final environmental impact 
statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 49), for the LGS, Units 1 and 2, 
published in August 2014; and (5) the NRC's ROD.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of October, 2014.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher G. Miller,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2014-25365 Filed 10-23-14; 8:45 am]
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