[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 57 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15827-15829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-06878]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-456 and 50-457; NRC-2013-0169]


Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement; 
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 to NUREG-1437, 
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement [GEIS] for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants Regarding Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, Supplement 
55,'' regarding the renewal of operating licenses NPF-72 and NPF-77 for 
an additional 20 years of operation for Braidwood Station (Braidwood), 
Units 1 and 2. Braidwood

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is located in Will County, Illinois. Possible alternatives to the 
proposed action 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 May 12, 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-2013-0169. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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: OWFN-12-H08, 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: Tam Tran, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-3617; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0169 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0169.
     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 
draft plant-specific supplement to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding 
Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, Supplement 55,'' is available in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML15062A428.
     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-2013-0169 in your comment submission.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove 
identifying or contact information.
    If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons 
for submission to the NRC, then 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 submissions into ADAMS.

II. Discussion

    The NRC is issuing for public comment draft plant-specific 
Supplement 55 to the GEIS for license renewal of nuclear plants, NUREG-
1437, regarding the renewal of operating licenses NPF-72 and NPF-77 for 
an additional 20 years of operation for Braidwood. Supplement 55 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 Braidwood 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 Godley Park District, 500 S. 
Kankakee Street, Godley, Illinois 60407, on Tuesday, April 21, 2015. 
The first session will convene at 2:00 p.m. and will continue until 
4:00 p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7:00 p.m. 
and will continue until 9:00 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 in the DATES section of this notice. Persons may 
pre-register to attend or present oral comments at the meeting by 
contacting Mr. Tam Tran, the NRC project manager, at 1-800-368-5642, 
extension 3617, or by email at [email protected] no later than Tuesday, 
April 14, 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 Mr. Tran's attention no later than Tuesday, 
April 14, 2015, in order to provide the NRC staff with adequate notice 
to determine whether the request can be accommodated. Additional 
details regarding the meeting will be posted at least 10 days prior to 
the public meeting on the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site at 
http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/index.cfm.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of March, 2015.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian Wittick,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of Licenses Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-06878 Filed 3-24-15; 8:45 am]
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