[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 191 (Friday, October 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59831-59832]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-25128]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-327 and 50-328; NRC-2013-0037]
License Renewal for Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, 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 licenses Nos. DPR-77 and DPR-79 to Tennessee
Valley Authority, the operator of the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1
and 2 (SQN). Renewed facility operating licenses Nos. DPR-77 and DPR-79
authorize operation of SQN by the licensee at reactor core power levels
not in excess of 3455 megawatts thermal, in accordance with the
provisions of the SQN 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 licenses Nos. DPR-77 and
DPR-79.
DATES: The license renewal of facility operating licenses Nos. DPR-77
and DPR-79 were effective on September 28, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0037 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-2013-0037. 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: Emmanuel Sayoc, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555; telephone: 301-415-4084; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the NRC has
issued renewed facility operating licenses Nos. DPR-77 and DPR-79 to
Tennessee Valley Authority, the operator of SQN. Renewed facility
operating licenses Nos. DPR-77 and DPR-79 authorize operation of SQN by
the licensee at reactor core power levels not in excess of 3455
megawatts thermal, in accordance with the provisions of the SQN renewed
licenses and technical specifications. The NRC's ROD that supports the
NRC's decision to renew facility operating licenses Nos. DPR-77 and
DPR-79 is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15104A689. As
discussed in the ROD and the final supplemental environmental impact
statement (FSEIS) for SQN, Supplement
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53 to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and
2,'' dated March 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15075A438), the NRC has
considered a range of reasonable alternatives that included natural gas
combined-cycle, supercritical pulverized coal, new nuclear, wind and
solar power, and the no action alternative. The ROD and FSEIS document
the NRC's determination in its environmental review that the adverse
environmental impacts of license renewal for SQN are not so great that
preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning decision
makers would be unreasonable.
SQN is a dual pressurized water reactor nuclear steam supply
system, with four coolant loops for each unit, and located
approximately 9.5 miles northeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The
application for the renewed license, ``Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1
and 2, License Renewal Application,'' dated January 7, 2013 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML130240007), as supplemented by letters dated through
August 17, 2015, 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
Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, the NRC has
made appropriate findings, which are set forth in the license. A public
notice of acceptance for docketing of the application and an
opportunity for a hearing was published in the Federal Register on
March 5, 2013 (78 FR 14362).
For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) Tennessee
Valley Authority license renewal application for Sequoyah Nuclear
Plant, Units 1 and 2, dated January 7, 2013, as supplemented by letters
dated through August 17, 2017; (2) the NRC's safety evaluation report
published in January 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15021A356); (3) the
NRC's final environmental impact statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 53)
for Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, published in March 2015; and
(4) the NRC's ROD.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of September, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher G. Miller,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-25128 Filed 10-1-15; 8:45 am]
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