[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 191 (Wednesday, October 4, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 46311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-21253]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-498 & 50-499; NRC-2010-0375]
STP Nuclear Operating Company; South Texas Project, 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-76 and NPF-80 to STP
Nuclear Operating Company (licensee), the operator of the South Texas
Project (STP), Units 1 and 2. Renewed Facility Operating License Nos.
NPF-76 and NPF-80 authorize operation of STP by the licensee at reactor
core power levels not in excess of 3,853 megawatts thermal for each
unit, in accordance with the provisions of the STP 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-76 and NPF-80.
DATES: The renewal of Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-80
was issued on September 28, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2010-0375 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-2010-0375. 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: Lois M. James, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555; telephone: 301-415-3306; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the NRC has
issued renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-80 to STP
Nuclear Operating Company (licensee), the operator of STP, Units 1 and
2. Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-80 authorize
operation of STP by the licensee at reactor core power levels not in
excess of 3,853 megawatts thermal for each unit, in accordance with the
provisions of the STP renewed license and technical specifications. The
NRC's ROD that supports the NRC's decision to renew Facility Operating
License Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-80 is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML17138A276 and was published in the Federal Register (FR) on
September 25, 2017 (82 FR 44666). As discussed in the ROD and the final
supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS) for STP, Supplement
48 to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2,
Final Report'' dated November 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13322A890),
the NRC has considered a range of reasonable alternatives that included
natural gas combined-cycle (NGCC); supercritical pulverized coal;
combination of wind, solar, and NGCC; and the no action alternative.
The FSEIS documents the environmental review, including the
determination that the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal
for STP are not so great that preserving the option of license renewal
for energy planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2, are pressurized water reactors
located in Bay City, TX (90 miles SW of Houston, TX). The application
for the renewed licenses, ``License Renewal Application, South Texas
Project, Unit 1 and Unit 2, Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-76 and
NPF-80,'' dated October 25, 2010 (ADAMS Package Accession No.
ML103010256), as supplemented by letters dated through May 2, 2017,
complies 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 title10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC has made appropriate
findings, which are set forth in the license. A public notice of the
proposed issuance of the renewed license and an opportunity for a
hearing was published in the Federal Register on January 13, 2011 (76
FR 2426). No adjudicatory matters are pending before the Commission or
the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel regarding the STP license
renewal application.
For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) STP
Nuclear Operating Company license renewal application for STP dated
October 25, 2010 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML103010256), as
supplemented by letters through May 2, 2017; (2) the NRC's safety
evaluation report published on June 8, 2017 (ADAMS Package Accession
No. ML17142A263); (3) the NRC's final environmental impact statement
(NUREG-1437, Supplement 48) for STP published on November 30, 2013
(ADAMS Accession No. ML13322A890); and (4) the NRC's ROD (ADAMS
Accession No. ML17138A276).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of September 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph E. Donoghue,
Deputy Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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