[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 179 (Monday, September 15, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53285-53286]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-21430]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-333]
Entergy Nuclear Fitzpatrick, LLC, and Entergy Nuclear Operations,
Inc.; The James A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant; Notice of Issuance
of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-59 for an Additional 20-
Year Period Record of Decision
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(the Commission) has issued Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-
59 to the Entergy Nuclear FitzPatrick, LLC and Entergy Nuclear
Operations, Inc. (the licensee), the operator of the James A.
FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant (JAFNPP). Renewed Facility Operating
License No. DPR-59 authorizes operation of JAFNPP, by the licensee at
reactor core power levels not in excess of 2536 megawatts thermal (881
megawatts electric), in accordance with the provisions of the JAFNPP
renewed license and its Technical Specifications.
This notice also serves as the record of decision for the renewal
of Facility Operating License No. DPR-59 for JAFNPP, consistent with
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Section 51.103 (10 CFR
51.103). As discussed in the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (FSEIS) for JAFNPP, dated January 2008, the Commission
considered a range of reasonable alternatives that included generation
from coal, natural gas, oil, wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, wood
waste, municipal solid waste, other biomass-derived fuels, delayed
retirement, utility-sponsored conservation, a combination of
alternatives, and a no-action alternative. The factors considered in
the record of decision can be found in the supplemental environmental
impact statement (SEIS) for License Renewal, Supplement 31 regarding
James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant.
JAFNPP is a boiling water reactor located along the shore of Lake
Ontario, Oswego County, New York. The site is approximately seven miles
north-northeast of the city of Oswego. The application for the renewed
licenses complied with the standards and requirements of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's
regulations. As required by the Act and the Commission's regulations in
10 CFR Chapter I, the Commission has made appropriate findings, which
are set forth in the license.
Prior public notice of the action involving the proposed issuance
of the renewed license and of an opportunity for a hearing regarding
the proposed issuance of the renewed license was published in the
Federal Register on September 20, 2006 (71 FR 55032). For further
details with respect to this action, see (1) The Entergy Nuclear
FitzPatrick, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., license renewal
application for James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant dated July 31,
2006, as supplemented by letters dated through November 5, 2007; (2)
the Commission's safety evaluation report (NUREG-1905), published in
April 2008; (3) the licensee's updated safety analysis report; and (4)
the Commission's final environmental impact statement (NUREG-1437,
Supplement 31), published in January 2008. These documents are
available at the NRC Public Document Room, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, and can be viewed from the
NRC Public Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Copies of Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-59 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 James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, Safety
Evaluation Report (NUREG-1905) and
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the Final Environmental Impact Statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 31)
may be purchased from the National Technical Information Service, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161-0002 (http://www.ntis.gov), 703-605-6000, or the Superintendent of Documents, U.S.
Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954
(http://www.gpoaccess.gov), 202-512-1800. All orders should clearly
identify the NRC publication number and the requester's Government
Printing Office deposit account number or a VISA or MasterCard number
and expiration date.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of September 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. E8-21430 Filed 9-12-08; 8:45 am]
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