[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55-56]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-30756]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-454 and 50-455; NRC-2013-0178]


License Renewal Application for Byron Station Units 1 and 2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement, 
issuance, public meetings, request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment a draft plant-specific Supplement 54 to the Generic 
Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear 
Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating license NPF-37 
and NPF-66 for an additional 20 years of operation for Byron Station, 
Units 1 and 2 (Byron). Byron is located in Byron, Illinois. Possible 
alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action 
and reasonable alternative energy sources. The NRC staff plans to hold 
two public meetings during the public comment period to present an 
overview of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to 
accept public comments on the document.

DATES: Submit comments by February 20, 2015. Comments received after 
this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 
staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or 
before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0178. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lois James, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, telephone: 301-415-3306, email to [email protected]; U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0178 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
obtain publicly-available information related to this document by any 
of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0178.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may access 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. The draft plant-specific Supplement 54 
to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, is 
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14357A042.
     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.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0178 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make 
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly 
disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment 
submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment 
submissions into ADAMS, and the NRC does not routinely edit comment 
submissions to remove identifying or contact information.

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    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft plant-specific 
Supplement 54 to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-
1437, regarding the renewal of operating license NPF-37 AND NPF-66 for 
an additional 20 years of operation for Byron. Supplement 54 to the 
GEIS includes the preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental 
impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action. 
The NRC's preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental 
impacts of license renewal for Byron are not great enough to deny the 
option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers.

III. Public Meetings

    The NRC staff will hold public meetings prior to the close of the 
public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comment on the 
document. Two meetings will be held at the Byron Forrest Preserve, 7993 
North River Road, Byron, Illinois 61010, on Tuesday, February 3, 2015. 
The first session will convene at 2 p.m. and will continue until 4 
p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7 p.m. and will 
continue until 9 p.m., as necessary. The meetings will be transcribed 
and will include: (1) A presentation of the contents of the draft 
plant-specific supplement to the GEIS; and (2) the opportunity for 
interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to 
provide comments on the draft report. Additionally, the NRC staff will 
host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session 
at the same location. No comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS 
will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered in 
the final supplement to the GEIS, comments must be provided either at 
the transcribed public meeting or submitted in writing by the comment 
deadline identified above. Persons may pre-register to attend or 
present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. Lois James, the 
NRC project manager, at 1-800-368-5642, extension 3306, or by email at 
[email protected] no later than Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Members of 
the public may also register to provide oral comments within 15 minutes 
of the start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited 
by the time available, depending on the number of persons who register. 
If special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present 
information at the public meeting, the need should be brought to Ms. 
James' attention no later than Tuesday, January 20, 2015, to provide 
the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be 
accommodated.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23 day of December, 2014.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Elaine Keegan,
Acting Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2014-30756 Filed 12-31-14; 8:45 am]
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