[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 208 (Thursday, October 27, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 74828]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25988]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-373 and 50-374; NRC-2014-0268]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC.; LaSalle County Station, Units 1
and 2; License Renewal
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-11 and NPF-18 to Exelon
Generation Company, LLC (Exelon or the licensee), the operator of
LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2. Renewed facility operating
license Nos. NPF-11 and NPF-18 authorize the operation of LaSalle
County Station, Units 1 and 2 by the licensee at reactor core power
levels not in excess of 3546 megawatts thermal in accordance with the
provisions of the renewed licenses and technical specifications until
April 17, 2042 and December 16, 2043, respectively. The NRC prepared a
safety evaluation report, a final supplemental environmental impact
statement (FSEIS), and a record of decision (ROD) that support its
decision to issue renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-11 and
NPF-18.
DATES: Renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-11 and NPF-18 were
issued and effective on October 19, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0268 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-2014-0268. 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 it is available
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in 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: Jeffrey Mitchell, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3019; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the NRC has
issued renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-11 and NPF-18 to
Exelon Generation Company, LLC, the operator of LaSalle County Station,
Units 1 and 2. Renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-11 and NPF-
18 authorize the operation of LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2 by
the licensee at reactor core power levels not in excess of 3546
megawatts thermal in accordance with the provisions of the renewed
licenses and technical specifications until April 17, 2042 and December
16, 2043, respectively.
LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, are boiling-water reactors
located in Brookfield Township, LaSalle County, Illinois. The NRC
determined that the application for the renewed licenses, ``License
Renewal Application, LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, Facility
Operating License Nos. NPF-11 and NPF-18,'' dated December 9, 2014
(ADAMS Accession No. ML14343A849), as supplemented by letters dated
through June 8, 2016, complied with the standards and requirements of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the NRC's
regulations set forth in Chapter I of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR). As required by the Act and the NRC's regulations,
the NRC has made the appropriate findings, which are set forth in the
renewed licenses. A public notice of the proposed issuance of the
renewed licenses and an opportunity to request a hearing was published
in the Federal Register on February 3, 2015 (80 FR 5822).
The NRC's FSEIS, NUREG-1437, Supplement 57, ``Generic Environmental
Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding
LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2,'' and ROD that support the NRC's
issuance of renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-11 and NPF-18
are available in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML16264A222 and
ML16238A029, respectively. As discussed in the FSEIS and ROD, the NRC
considered a range of reasonable alternatives to the issuance of the
renewed licenses that included new nuclear power generation, coal-
integrated gasification combined-cycle, natural gas combined-cycle
(NGCC), a combination of wind, solar, and NGCC, purchased power, and
the no-action alternative. The FSEIS and ROD document the NRC's
decision with respect to its environmental review that the adverse
environmental impacts of issuing the renewed licenses are not so great
that preserving the option of license renewal for energy-planning
decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) The
Exelon Generation Company, LLC license renewal application for LaSalle
County Station, Units 1 and 2, dated December 9, 2014, as supplemented
by letters dated through June 8, 2016; (2) the NRC safety evaluation
report dated September 2016 (ADAMS Accession No. ML16271A039); (3) the
NRC FSEIS dated August 2016; and (4) the NRC ROD dated October 2016.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of October, 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jane E. Marshall,
Acting Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-25988 Filed 10-26-16; 8:45 am]
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