[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 90 (Tuesday, May 10, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28905-28906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-10950]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-391; NRC-2008-0369]


Issuance of Operating License and Record of Decision; Tennessee 
Valley Authority; Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Operating license and record of decision; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued 
operating license No. NPF-96 to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the 
operator of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN), Unit 2. Operating license 
No. NPF-96 authorizes full power operation of WBN, Unit 2. In addition, 
the NRC has prepared a Record of Decision (ROD) that supports the NRC's 
decision to issue operating license No. NPF-96.

DATES: Operating license No. NPF-96 was effective on October 22, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0369 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-2008-0369. 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]. For 
the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided 
in a table in the ``Availability of Documents'' section of this 
document.
     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: Robert Schaaf, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6020; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction

    Notice is hereby given that the NRC issued operating license No. 
NPF-96 to TVA, the operator of WBN, Unit 2. Operating license No. NPF-
96 authorizes full power operation of WBN, Unit 2. The NRC's ROD that 
supports its decision to issue operating license No. NPF-96 is 
available in ADAMS. The NRC staff's safety analysis of TVA's 
application for the operating license is documented in NUREG-0847, 
``Safety Evaluation Report Related to the Operation of Watts Bar 
Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2'', as supplemented through Supplement 29. 
The NRC staff's updated assessment of the environmental impacts of 
operation is documented in NUREG-0498, ``Final Environmental Statement 
Related to the Operation of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2,'' 
Supplement 2. The NRC finds that the updated application for the 
operating license filed by TVA on March 4, 2009, complies with the 
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the 
NRC's regulations.
    The NRC originally intended for this notice to be published in the 
Federal Registerimmediately following issuance of the WBN, Unit 2, 
operating license on October 22, 2015; however, during recent 
verification of operating license documentation the NRC identified that 
the notice had not been forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register 
for publication as intended.

II. Further Information

    The NRC prepared a ``Safety Evaluation Report Related to the 
Operation of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2'' (NUREG-0847), 
that was published in June 1982, and Supplements 1 through 29 that were 
published between September 1982 and October 2015. In Supplements 1 
through 20 the NRC staff concluded that WBN, Unit 1, met all applicable 
regulations and regulatory guidance. In Supplement 21, the NRC staff 
reported on the WBN, Unit 2, open items remaining to be resolved, which 
were outstanding at the time that TVA deferred construction of WBN, 
Unit 2. In Supplements 22 through 29, the NRC staff documented its 
evaluation and closure of the open items in response to TVA's updated 
application for a license to operate WBN Unit 2, filed on March 4, 
2009. The NRC staff also prepared a ``Final Environmental Statement 
Related to the Operation of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2'' (NUREG-
0498), Supplement 2, dated May 2013. NUREG-0847 and its supplements and 
NUREG-0498, Supplement 2, document the information reviewed and the 
NRC's conclusions. The NRC also prepared a ROD in accordance with the 
Commission's regulations to accompany its action on the operating 
license application. The ROD incorporates by reference the materials 
contained in NUREG-0498, Supplement 2.

III. Availability of Documents

    The documents identified in the following table are available to 
interested persons, as indicated.

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                Document                       ADAMS accession No.
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``Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN) Unit 2-- ML090700378.
 Operating License Application Update''.

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``Safety Evaluation Report Related to    ML072060490, ML072060500,
 the Operation of Watts Bar Nuclear       ML072060518,
 Plant, Units 1 and 2'' (NUREG-0847),    ML072060520, ML072060524,
 and Supplement 21 through Supplement     ML072060527,
 29.                                     ML072060464, ML072060471,
                                          ML072060478,
                                         ML072060469, ML072060473,
                                          ML072060476,
                                         ML072060479, ML072060484,
                                          ML072060486,
                                         ML072060488, ML072060493,
                                          ML072060496,
                                         ML070530364, ML070530539,
                                          ML072060498,
                                         ML090570741, ML110390197,
                                          ML11206A499,
                                         ML11277A148, ML12011A024,
                                          ML13205A136,
                                         ML15033A041, ML15229A195,
                                          ML15282A051.
``Final Environmental Statement Related  ML13144A092.
 to the Operation of Watts Bar Nuclear
 Plant, Unit 2'' (NUREG-0498),
 Supplement 2.
Letter transmitting Operating License    ML15251A587.
 No. NPF-96 and accompanying
 documentation.
Record of Decision.....................  ML15257A130.
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of April 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anne T. Boland,
Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-10950 Filed 5-9-16; 8:45 am]
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