[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 227 (Wednesday, November 25, 2015)]
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[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 .
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