[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 142 (Friday, July 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 44158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18110]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-454 and 50-455; NRC-2013-0178]
Exelon Generating Company, LLC; Byron 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 54, 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-37 and NPF-66 for Byron Station,
Units 1 and 2 (Byron), respectively, for an additional 20 years of
operation.
DATES: The final Supplement 54 to the GEIS is available as of July 24,
2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0178 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-2013-0178. 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
final Supplement 54 to the GEIS is in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML15196A263.
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 James, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-3306; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In accordance with Sec. 51.118 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, the NRC is making available final Supplement 54 to the
GEIS regarding the renewal of Exelon operating licenses NPF-37 and NPF-
66 for an additional 20 years of operation for Byron. Draft Supplement
54 to the GEIS was noticed by the NRC in the Federal Register on
January 2, 2015 (80 FR 55), and noticed by the Environmental Protection
Agency on January 2, 2015 (80 FR 41). The public comment period on
draft Supplement 54 to the GEIS ended on February 20, 2015, and the
comments received are addressed in final Supplement 54 to the GEIS.
Final Supplement 54 to the GEIS is available as indicated in the
ADDRESSES section of this document.
II. Discussion
As discussed in chapter 5 of the final Supplement 54 to the GEIS,
the NRC determined that the adverse environmental impacts of license
renewal for Byron are not so great that preserving the option of
license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers 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
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of July 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James G. Danna,
Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-18110 Filed 7-23-15; 8:45 am]
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