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[Docket Nos. 50–334 and 50–412; NRC– 

2010–0049] 

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating 

Company, FirstEnergy Nuclear 

Generation Corp., Ohio Edison 

Company, the Toledo Edison 

Company, Beaver Valley Power 

Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an exemption, pursuant to 

Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) Section 73.5, 

‘‘Specific exemptions,’’ from the 

implementation date for a certain new 

requirement of 10 CFR Part 73, 

‘‘Physical protection of plants and 

materials,’’ for Renewed Facility 

Operating License Nos. DPR–66 and 

NPF–73, issued to FirstEnergy Nuclear 

Operating Company (licensee), for 

operation of the Beaver Valley Power 

Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 (BVPS–1 and 

2), located in Shippingport, 

Pennsylvania. In accordance with 10 

CFR 51.21, the NRC prepared an 

environmental assessment documenting 

its finding. The NRC concluded that the 

proposed actions will have no 

significant environmental impact. 

Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would exempt 

BVPS–1 and 2 from the required 

implementation date of March 31, 2010, 

for a certain new requirement of 10 CFR 

part 73. Specifically, BVPS–1 and 2 

would be granted an exemption from 

being in full compliance with a certain 

new requirement contained in 10 CFR 

73.55 by the March 31, 2010, 

implementation deadline. The licensee 

has proposed an alternate full 

compliance implementation date of 

December 17, 2010, approximately 9 

months beyond the date required by 10 

CFR part 73. The proposed action, an 

extension of the schedule for 

completion of certain actions required 

by the revised 10 CFR part 73, does not 

involve any physical changes to the 

reactor, fuel, plant structures, support 

structures, water, or land at the BVPS– 

1 and 2 site. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application dated 

November 30, 2009 (Agencywide 

Document and Management System 

(ADAMS) Accession No. 

ML093370152), as supplemented by 

letter dated December 23, 2009 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML093650293). 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is needed to 

provide the licensee with additional 

time to design the necessary 

modifications, procure equipment and 

material, and implement upgrades to 

comply with a specific aspect of 10 CFR 

73.55. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC has completed its 

environmental assessment of the 

proposed exemption. The NRC staff has 

concluded that the proposed action to 

extend the implementation deadline 

would not significantly affect plant 

safety and would not have a significant 

adverse effect on the probability of an 

accident occurring. 

The proposed action would not result 

in an increased radiological hazard 

beyond those previously analyzed in the 

environmental assessment and finding 

of no significant impact made by the 

Commission in promulgating its 

revisions to 10 CFR part 73 as discussed 

in a Federal Register notice dated 

March 27, 2009 (74 FR 13967). There 

will be no change to radioactive 

effluents that affect radiation exposures 

to plant workers and members of the 

public. Therefore, no changes or 

different types of radiological impacts 

are expected as a result of the proposed 

exemption. 

The proposed action does not result 

in changes to land use or water use, or 

result in changes to the quality or 

quantity of non-radiological effluents. 

No changes to the National Pollution 

Discharge Elimination System permit 

are needed. No effects on the aquatic or 

terrestrial habitat in the vicinity of the 

plant, or to threatened, endangered, or 

protected species under the Endangered 

Species Act, or impacts to essential fish 

habitat covered by the MagnusonSteven’s Act are expected. There are no 

impacts to the air or ambient air quality. 

There are no impacts to historical and 

cultural resources. There would be no 

impact to socioeconomic resources. 

Therefore, no changes to or different 

types of non-radiological environmental 

impacts are expected as a result of the 

proposed exemption. 

Accordingly, the NRC concludes that 

there are no significant environmental 

impacts associated with the proposed 

action. In addition, in promulgating its 

revisions to 10 CFR part 73, the 

Commission prepared an environmental 

assessment and published a finding of 

no significant impact [Part 73, Power 

Reactor Security Requirements, 74 FR 

13926, 13967 (March 27, 2009)]. 

The licensee currently maintains 

security plans acceptable to the NRC. 

The new 10 CFR part 73 security 

measures that would be implemented by 

March 31, 2010, would continue to 

provide acceptable onsite physical 

protection of BVPS–1 and 2. Therefore, 

the extension of the implementation 

date of a certain new requirement of 10 

CFR part 73, to September 27, 2010, 

would not have any significant 

environmental impacts. 

The NRC staff’s safety evaluation will 

be provided in the exemption that will 

be issued as part of the letter to the 

licensee approving the exemption to the 

regulation, if granted. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

actions, the NRC staff considered denial 

of the proposed actions (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the 

exemption request would result in no 

change in current environmental 

impacts. If the proposed action was 

denied, the licensee would have to 

comply with the March 31, 2010, 

implementation deadline. The 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

exemption and the ‘‘no action’’ 

alternative are similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

considered in the Final Environmental 

Statement for BVPS–1, dated July 1973, 

and for BVPS–2, NUREG–1094, dated 

September 1985, as supplemented 

through the ‘‘Generic Environmental 

Impact Statement for License Renewal 

of Nuclear Plants Regarding Beaver 

Valley Power Station, Units 1 and 2, 

Supplement 36, Final Report’’ (NUREG– 

1437). 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on January 20, 2010, the NRC staff 

consulted with Larry Ryan of the 

Pennsylvania Department of 

Environmental Protection, regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. The State official had no 

comments. 


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Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the environmental 

assessment, the NRC concludes that the 

proposed action will not have a 

significant effect on the quality of the 

human environment. Accordingly, the 

NRC has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. 

For further details with respect to the 

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter 

dated November 30, 2009, as 

supplemented by letter dated December 

23, 2009. Portions of the submittals 

contain proprietary and security 

information and, accordingly, are not 

available to the public, pursuant to 10 

CFR 2.390. The public documents may 

be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at 

the NRC’s Public Document Room 

(PDR), located at One White Flint North, 

Public File Area O–1F21, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. Publicly available 

records will be accessible electronically 

from the ADAMS Public Electronic 

Reading Room on the Internet at the 

NRC Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day 

of February 2010. 

For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Nadiyah S. Morgan, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I– 

1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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[Docket No. 50–331; NRC–2010–0048] 

FPL Energy Duane Arnold, LLC; Notice 

of Availability of the Draft Supplement 

42 to the Generic Environmental 

Impact Statement for License Renewal 

of Nuclear Plants, and Public Meeting 

for the License Renewal of Duane 

Arnold Energy Center 

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC 

or Commission) has published a draft 

plant-specific supplement 42 to the 

Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG–1437, 

‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants,’’ regarding the renewal 

of Operating License No. DPR–49 for an 

additional 20 years of operation for 

Duane Arnold Energy Center (DAEC). 

DAEC is located near Cedar Rapids, 

Iowa. Potential alternatives to the 

proposed action (license renewal) 

include no action and reasonable 

alternative energy sources. 

The draft Supplement 42 to the GEIS 

is publicly available at the NRC Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, or 

from the NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS). The ADAMS Public 

Electronic Reading Room is accessible at 

http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/ 

dologin.htm. The ADAMS Accession 

Number for the draft Supplement 42 to 

the GEIS is ML100310027. Persons who 

do not have access to ADAMS, or who 

encounter problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, should 

contact the NRC’s PDR reference staff by 

telephone at 1–800–397–4209, or 301– 

415–4737, or by e-mail at 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. In addition, the 

Hiawatha Public Library, located at 150 

West Willman Street, Hiawatha, Iowa, 

has agreed to make the draft supplement 

available for public inspection. 

Any interested party may submit 

comments on the draft supplement to 

the GEIS for consideration by the NRC 

staff. To be considered, comments on 

the draft supplement to the GEIS and 

the proposed action must be received by 

April 19, 2010; the NRC staff is able to 

ensure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

Comments received after the due date 

will be considered only if it is practical 

to do so. Written comments on the draft 

supplement to the GEIS should be sent 

to: Chief, Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch, Division of Administrative 

Services, Office of Administration, 

Mailstop T–6D59, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

Electronic comments may be 

submitted to the NRC by e-mail at 

DuaneArnoldEIS@nrc.gov. All 

comments received by the Commission, 

including those made by Federal, State, 

local agencies, Native American Tribes, 

or other interested persons, will be 

made available electronically at the 

Commission’s PDR in Rockville, 

Maryland, and through ADAMS. 

The NRC staff will hold a public 

meeting to present an overview of the 

draft plant-specific supplement to the 

GEIS and to accept public comments on 

the document. The public meeting will 

be held on March 31, 2010 at the 

Hiawatha City Hall at 101 Emmons 

Street, Hiawatha, Iowa 52233. There 

will be two sessions to accommodate 

interested parties. The first session will 

convene at 1:30 p.m. and will continue 

until 4:30 p.m., as necessary. The 

second session will convene at 7 p.m. 

with a repeat of the overview portions 

of the meeting and will continue until 

10 p.m., as necessary. Both meetings 

will be transcribed and will include: (1) 

a presentation of the contents of the 

draft plant-specific supplement to the 

GEIS, and (2) the opportunity for 

interested government agencies, 

organizations, and individuals to 

provide comments on the draft report. 

Additionally, the NRC staff will host 

informal discussions one hour prior to 

the start of each session at the same 

location. No comments on the draft 

supplement to the GEIS will be accepted 

during the informal discussions. To be 

considered, comments must be provided 

either at the transcribed public meeting 

or in writing. Persons may pre-register 

to attend or present oral comments at 

the meeting by contacting Mr. Charles 

Eccleston, the Environmental Project 

Manager at 1–800–368–5642, extension 

8537, or by e-mail at 

Charles.Eccleston@nrc.gov, no later than 

March 24, 2010. Members of the public 

may also register to provide oral 

comments within 15 minutes of the start 

of each session. Individual oral 

comments may be limited by the time 

available, depending on the number of 

persons who register. If special 

equipment or accommodations are 

needed to attend or present information 

at the public meeting, the need should 

be brought to Mr. Eccleston’s attention 

no later than March 24, 2010, to provide 

the NRC staff adequate notice to 

determine whether the request can be 

accommodated. 

For Further Information Contact: Mr. 

Charles Eccleston, Projects Branch 1, 

Division of License Renewal, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail 

Stop O–11F1, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. Mr. Eccleston may also be 

contacted at the aforementioned 

telephone number or e-mail address. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day 

of February, 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Brian E. Holian, 

Director, Division of License Renewal, Office 

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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