[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 227 (Wednesday, November 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 73837]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30021]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-454 and 50-455; NRC-2013-0169]
License Renewal for Byron Station, 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 license Nos. NPF-37 and NPF-66 to Exelon
Generation Company, LLC (Exelon or the licensee), the operator of Byron
Station, Units 1 and 2 (Byron), respectively. Renewed facility
operating license Nos. NPF-37 and NPF-66 authorize operation of Byron
Units 1 and 2 by the licensee at reactor core power levels not in
excess of 3645 megawatts thermal each, in accordance with the
provisions of the Byron Units 1 and 2 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
license Nos. NPF-37 and NPF-66.
DATES: The license renewal of facility operating license Nos. NPF-37
and NPF-66 were effective on 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 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: John Daily, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-3873; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice is hereby given that the NRC has issued renewed facility
operating license Nos. NPF-37 and NPF-66 to Exelon Generation Company,
LLC, the operator of Byron. Renewed facility operating license Nos.
NPF-37 and NPF-66 authorize operation of Byron Units 1 and 2 by the
licensee at reactor core power levels not in excess of 3645 megawatts
thermal each, in accordance with the provisions of the Byron, Units 1
and 2 renewed licenses and technical specifications. The NRC's ROD that
supports the NRC's decision to renew facility operating license Nos.
NPF-37 and NPF-66 is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML15187A304. As discussed in the ROD and the final supplemental
environmental impact statement (FSEIS) for Byron Station, Supplement 54
to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Byron Station, Units 1 and 2,''
dated July 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15196A263), the NRC has
considered a range of reasonable alternatives that included new nuclear
generation, coal-integrated gasification combined cycle, natural gas
combined-cycle (NGCC), combination (NGCC, wind, and solar generation),
replacement power, and the no-action alternative. The ROD and FSEIS
document the NRC determination that the adverse environmental impacts
of license renewal for Byron are not so great that preserving the
option of license renewal for energy planning decision makers would be
unreasonable.
Byron Station, Units 1 and 2 has two pressurized water reactors and
is located in Ogle County, Illinois. The application for the renewed
licenses, ``License Renewal Application, Byron and Braidwood Stations,
Units 1 and 2,'' dated May 29, 2013 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML13155A420
and ML13155A421, respectively), as supplemented by letters dated
through April 13, 2015, with respect to Byron Station, 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 I of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, the NRC has made appropriate findings, which are
set forth in each of the licenses. A public notice of the proposed
issuance of the renewed licenses and an opportunity for a hearing was
published in the Federal Register on July 24, 2013 (78 FR 44603).
For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) Exelon
Generation Company, LLC's (Exelon) license renewal application for
Byron Station, Units 1 and 2, and Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2,
dated May 29, 2013, as supplemented by letters dated through April 13,
2015; (2) the NRC's safety evaluation report dated July 2015 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML15182A051); (3) the NRC's final environmental impact
statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 54), for Byron, Units 1 and 2,
published in July 2015; and (4) the NRC's ROD.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of November, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher G. Miller,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation .
[FR Doc. 2015-30021 Filed 11-24-15; 8:45 am]
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