[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 142 (Friday, July 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 44158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18110]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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


Exelon Generating Company, LLC; Byron Station, Units 1 and 2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Supplemental environmental impact statement; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a 
final plant-specific supplement, Supplement 54, to NUREG-1437, 
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear 
Plants'' (GEIS), regarding the renewal of Exelon Generating Company, 
LLC (Exelon) operating licenses NPF-37 and NPF-66 for Byron Station, 
Units 1 and 2 (Byron), respectively, for an additional 20 years of 
operation.

DATES: The final Supplement 54 to the GEIS is available as of July 24, 
2015.

ADDRESSES: 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 
using any of the following methods:
      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: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual 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 
final Supplement 54 to the GEIS is in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML15196A263.
      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: Lois James, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-3306; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    In accordance with Sec.  51.118 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, the NRC is making available final Supplement 54 to the 
GEIS regarding the renewal of Exelon operating licenses NPF-37 and NPF-
66 for an additional 20 years of operation for Byron. Draft Supplement 
54 to the GEIS was noticed by the NRC in the Federal Register on 
January 2, 2015 (80 FR 55), and noticed by the Environmental Protection 
Agency on January 2, 2015 (80 FR 41). The public comment period on 
draft Supplement 54 to the GEIS ended on February 20, 2015, and the 
comments received are addressed in final Supplement 54 to the GEIS. 
Final Supplement 54 to the GEIS is available as indicated in the 
ADDRESSES section of this document.

II. Discussion

    As discussed in chapter 5 of the final Supplement 54 to the GEIS, 
the NRC determined that the adverse environmental impacts of license 
renewal for Byron are not so great that preserving the option of 
license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers would be 
unreasonable. This recommendation is based on: (1) The analysis and 
findings in the GEIS; (2) information provided in the environmental 
report and other documents submitted by Exelon; (3) consultation with 
Federal, State, local, and Tribal agencies; (4) the NRC staff's 
independent environmental review; and (5) consideration of public 
comments received during the scoping process and on the Draft 
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of July 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James G. Danna,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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