[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 223 (Thursday, November 19, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72452-72453]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-29538]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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


Exelon Generating Company, LLC; Braidwood 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 55, 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-72 and NPF-77 for Braidwood 
Station, Units 1 and 2 (Braidwood), respectively, for an additional 20 
years of operation.

DATES: The final Supplement 55 to the GEIS is available as of November 
19, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0169 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-2013-0169. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For

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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 55 to the GEIS is in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML15314A814.
     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: Richard Baum, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0018; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with Sec.  51.118 of title 10 
of the Code of Federal Regulations, the NRC is making available final 
Supplement 55 to the GEIS regarding the renewal of Exelon operating 
licenses NPF-72 and NPF-77 for an additional 20 years of operation for 
Braidwood. Draft Supplement 55 to the GEIS was noticed by the NRC in 
the Federal Register on March 25, 2015 (80 FR 15827), and noticed by 
the Environmental Protection Agency on March 27, 2015 (80 FR 16384). 
The public comment period on draft Supplement 55 to the GEIS ended on 
May 12, 2015, and the comments received are addressed in final 
Supplement 55 to the GEIS. Final Supplement 55 to the GEIS is available 
as indicated in the ADDRESSES section of this document.
    As discussed in Chapter 5 of the final Supplement 55 to the GEIS, 
the NRC determined that the adverse environmental impacts of license 
renewal for Braidwood are not so great that preserving the option of 
license renewal for energy-planning decision makers 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 
Supplement 55 to the GEIS.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13 day of November 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James G. Danna,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-29538 Filed 11-18-15; 8:45 am]
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