81 FR 5792 - Exelon Generation Company, LLC, Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 22 (February 3, 2016)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-72 and NPF-77 to Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon or the licensee), the operator of Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2 (Braidwood), respectively. Renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-72 and NPF-77 authorize the operation of Braidwood Units 1 and 2 at reactor core power levels not in excess of 3645 megawatts thermal each, in accordance with the provisions of the 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-72 and NPF-77.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 3, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5792-5793]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02070]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-456 and 50-457; NRC-2013-0169]


Exelon Generation Company, LLC, Braidwood 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-72 and NPF-77 to Exelon 
Generation Company, LLC (Exelon or the licensee), the operator of 
Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2 (Braidwood), respectively. Renewed 
facility operating license Nos. NPF-72 and NPF-77 authorize the 
operation of Braidwood Units 1 and 2 at reactor core power levels not 
in excess of 3645 megawatts thermal each, in accordance with the 
provisions of the 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-72 and 
NPF-77.

DATES: The license renewal of facility operating license Nos. NPF-72 
and NPF-77 were effective on January 27, 2016.

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: Lois James, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-

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0001, telephone: 301-415-3306; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the NRC has 
issued renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-72 and NPF-77 to 
Exelon Generation Company, LLC, the operator of Braidwood Station. 
Renewed facility operating license Nos. NPF-72 and NPF-77 authorizes 
the operation of Braidwood Units 1 and 2 at reactor core power levels 
not in excess of 3645 megawatts thermal each, in accordance with the 
provisions of the Braidwood, Units 1 and 2 renewed licenses and 
technical specifications. The NRC's ROD that supports the decision to 
renew facility operating license Nos. NPF-72 and NPF-77 is available in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML15322A317.
    As discussed in the ROD and the final supplemental environmental 
impact statement (FSEIS) for Braidwood Station, Supplement 55 to NUREG-
1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants Regarding Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2,'' issued in 
November 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15314A814), the NRC 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's determination that the adverse environmental impacts of license 
renewal for Braidwood are not so great that preserving the option of 
license renewal for energy planning decision makers would be 
unreasonable.
    Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, has two pressurized water 
reactors and is located in Will 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), as supplemented by letters 
dated through April 13, 2015, with respect to Braidwood Station, 
complied with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 
of 1954, as amended (AEA) 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, as 
required by the AEA and its regulations. 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 55), for Braidwood, Units 1 and 2, 
published in November 2015; and (4) the NRC's ROD.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27 day of January 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Christopher G. Miller,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
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