[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39445-39446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-16848]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-282 and 50-306; NRC-2009-0507]
Northern States Power Company--Minnesota; Prairie Island Nuclear
Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Issuance of Renewed Facility
Operating License Nos. DPR-42 and DPR-60 for an Additional 20-Year
Period; Record of Decision
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC, the Commission) has issued Renewed Facility Operating License
Nos. DPR-42 and DPR-60 to Northern States Power Company--Minnesota
(licensee), the
[[Page 39446]]
operator of Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2
(PINGP). Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-42 and DPR-60
authorize the licensee to operate PINGP at reactor core power levels
not in excess of 1,677 megawatts thermal for each unit, in accordance
with the provisions of the PINGP renewed licenses and technical
specifications.
The notice also serves as the record of decision for Renewed
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-42 and DPR-60, consistent with
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 51.103, ``Record
of Decision--General.'' NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact
Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 39,
Regarding Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2,''
issued May 2011, discusses the Commission's consideration of a range of
reasonable alternatives, including replacement power from a new
natural-gas-fired, combined-cycle plant; a combination of natural gas,
wind, and wood-fired generation and conservation; a combination of
wind, conservation, and continued operation of one of the PINGP units;
and not renewing the licenses (the no-action alternative). The factors
considered in the record of decision appear in the supplemental
environmental impact statement (SEIS) for PINGP. Subsequent to the
issuance of the final SEIS, the NRC received two letters commenting on
the final SEIS. The first letter was from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 5, dated June 15, 2011. The second letter was
from the Prairie Island Indian Community, dated June 20, 2011. The NRC
staff has reviewed the comments and has determined that the comments
provide no new or significant information, and therefore, none of the
findings in the final SEIS are changed as a result of the comments.
The PINGP units are pressurized-water reactors located within the
city limits of Red Wing, MN, on the west bank of the Mississippi River
in southeastern Minnesota. The application for the renewed licenses
complied with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954, as amended, and the Commission's regulations. As required by
the Atomic Energy Act and the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR
chapter I, the Commission has made appropriate findings, which are set
forth in the licenses. Prior public notice of the action involving the
proposed issuance of the renewed licenses and of an opportunity for a
hearing on the proposed issuance of the renewed licenses was published
in the Federal Register on June 17, 2008 (73 FR 34335).
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) Northern
States Power Company's license renewal application for PINGP dated
April 11, 2008, as supplemented by letters dated through May 11, 2011;
(2) the Commission's safety evaluation report, issued October 16, 2009,
and supplemented on April 15, 2011; (3) the licensee's updated safety
analysis report; and (4) the Commission's final environmental impact
statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 39), issued May 2011. These documents
are available at the NRC's Public Document Room, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, and online in the NRC
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Copies of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-42 and DPR-
60, may be obtained by writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Director, Division of
License Renewal. Copies of the PINGP safety evaluation report and the
final environmental impact statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 39) may be
purchased from the National Technical Information Service, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161, (http://www.ntis.gov),
703-605-6000, or Attention: Superintendent of Documents, U.S.
Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954,
(http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys), 202-512-1800. All orders should clearly
identify the NRC publication number and the requestor's Government
Printing Office deposit account number or VISA or MasterCard number and
expiration date.
Dated at Rockville, MD, this 27th day of June 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bo M. Pham,
Chief, Projects Branch 1, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-16848 Filed 7-5-11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7590-01-P