[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 186 (Friday, September 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 57885]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24311]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-282 and 50-306; NRC-2014-0028]


Northern States Power Company--Minnesota; Prairie Island Nuclear 
Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the 
request of Northern States Power Company--Minnesota, doing business as 
Xcel Energy, to withdraw its application dated December 20, 2013, as 
supplemented by letters dated October 15, 2014, and May 28, 2015, for a 
proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating Licenses DPR-42 and 
DPR-60. The proposed amendment would have revised the Prairie Island 
Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2, Emergency Plan to increase 
staff augmentation times for certain emergency response organization 
positions.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0028 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-2014-0028. 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 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (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: Terry A. Beltz, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3049, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    The NRC has granted the request of Northern States Power Company--
Minnesota (the licensee) to withdraw its application dated December 20, 
2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13358A405), as supplemented by two letters 
dated October 15, 2014, and May 28, 2015 (ADAMS Accession Nos. 
ML14288A543 and ML15148A775, respectively) for a proposed amendment to 
Renewed Facility Operating Licenses DPR-42 and DPR-60 for the Prairie 
Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2, located in Goodhue 
County, Minnesota.
    The proposed amendment sought to revise the Emergency Plan for the 
Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2, to increase the 
staff augmentation times for certain emergency response organization 
positions.
    The NRC published a Biweekly Notice in the Federal Register on 
February 19, 2014 (79 FR 9497), that gave notice that this proposed 
amendment was under consideration by the NRC. The licensee submitted 
its request to withdraw the proposed amendment on August 28, 2015 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15240A089).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of September, 2015.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Terry A. Beltz,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III-1, Division of 
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-24311 Filed 9-24-15; 8:45 am]
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