[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 239 (Monday, December 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77380-77381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31418]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-346; NRC-2010-0298]
License Renewal for Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1
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 No. NPF-3 to FirstEnergy Nuclear
Operating Company (FENOC or the licensee), the operator of the Davis-
Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1. Renewed facility operating license
No. NPF-3 authorizes operation of Davis-Besse by the licensee at
reactor core power levels not in excess of 2817 megawatts thermal, in
accordance with the provisions of the Davis-Besse renewed license 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 No. NPF-3.
DATES: The license renewal of facility operating license No. NPF-3 was
effective on December 8, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2010-0298 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-2010-0298. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463;
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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: Richard Plasse, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555; telephone: 301-415-1427; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the NRC has
issued renewed facility operating license No. NPF-3 to FirstEnergy
Nuclear Operating Company, the operator of Davis-Besse. Renewed
facility operating license No. NPF-3 authorizes operation of Davis-
Besse by the licensee at reactor core power levels not in excess of
2817 megawatts thermal, in accordance with the provisions of the Davis-
Besse renewed license and technical specifications. The NRC's ROD that
supports the NRC's decision to renew facility operating license No.
NPF-3 is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15295A319. As
discussed in the ROD and the final supplemental environmental impact
statement (FSEIS) for Davis-Besse, Supplement 52 to NUREG-1437,
``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear
Plants Regarding Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station'' dated April 2015
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15112A098 for Volume 1 and ML15113A187 for
Volume 2), 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 ROD and FSEIS document the NRC decision for the
environmental review that the adverse environmental impacts of license
renewal for Davis-Besse are not so great that preserving the option of
license renewal for energy planning decisionmakers would be
unreasonable.
Davis-Besse, is a pressurized water reactor located in Carroll
Township, Ottawa County, Ohio. The application for the renewed license,
``License Renewal Application, Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station,''
dated August 30, 2010, as supplemented by letters dated through June
29, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15180A252), 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 1 of title 10 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 October 25, 2010 (75 FR 65528).
For further details with respect to this action, see: (1)
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company license renewal application for
Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 dated August 20, 1010, as
supplemented by letters dated through June 29, 2015; (2) the NRC's
safety evaluation report published on September 3, 2013 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML13248A267); (3) the NRC's supplemental safety
evaluation report published on August 10, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML15196A429); (4) the NRC's final environmental impact statement
(NUREG-1437, Supplement 52), for Davis-Besse published in April 2014;
and (5) the NRC's ROD.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of December 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher G. Miller,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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