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Controls.’’ Specifically, the changes 

included: 

(1) Replacement of the use of plant 

specific titles to generic titles consistent 

with TS Task Force (TSTF) Traveler 

TSTF–65, Revision 1, ‘‘Use of Generic 

Titles for Utility Positions,’’ 

(2) Changes made to more closely 

align selected TSs with the Improved 

Standard TSs, and 

(3) Administrative changes to 

specified TSs. 

Date of issuance: November 22, 2010. 

Effective date: As of the date of 

issuance to be implemented within 60 

days. 

Amendment Nos.: 296 for Unit 1 and 

272 for Unit 2. 

Renewed Facility Operating License 

Nos. DPR–53 and DPR–69: Amendments 

revised the License and Technical 

Specifications. 

Date of initial notice in Federal 

Register: June 1, 2010 (75 FR 30443). 

The Commission’s related evaluation 

of these amendments is contained in a 

Safety Evaluation dated November 22, 

2010. 

No significant hazards consideration 

comments received: No. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day 

of December 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Joseph G. Giitter, 

Director, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

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Carolina Power & Light Company 

Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, 

Unit 1; Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC, the Commission) 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 certain 

requirements of 10 CFR part 73, 

‘‘Physical protection of plants and 

materials,’’ for Renewed Facility 

Operating License No. NPF–63, issued 

to Carolina Power & Light Company (the 

licensee), now doing business as 

Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc., for 

operation of the Shearon Harris Nuclear 

Power Plant (HNP), Unit 1, located in 

New Hill, North Carolina. In accordance 

with 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC staff 

prepared an environmental assessment 

documenting its finding. The NRC staff 

concluded that the proposed actions 

will have no significant environmental 

impact. 

Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would exempt 

the licensee from the required 

implementation date of March 31, 2010, 

for one specific requirement of 10 CFR 

part 73. Specifically, HNP, Unit 1 would 

be granted a second exemption, further 

extending the date for compliance with 

one remaining item of the requirements 

contained in 10 CFR 73.55, from 

December 15, 2010, (the date specified 

in a prior exemption granted by NRC on 

February 24, 2010), until November 30, 

2011. The proposed action, an extension 

of the schedule for completion of certain 

actions required by the revised 10 CFR 

part 73, does not result in any 

additional physical changes to the 

reactor, fuel, plant structures, support 

structures, water, or land at the HNP, 

Unit 1 site. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application dated 

September 20, 2010. 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed exemption is needed to 

provide the licensee with additional 

time, beyond the date granted by the 

NRC letter dated February 24, 2010, to 

implement one remaining item of the 

three requirements in the previous 

exemption that involves important 

physical modifications to the HNP, Unit 

1 security system. There are several 

issues which have delayed the work to 

this point, and/or impacted the 

projected schedule, such as the 

existence of safety-related conduit and 

dedicated safe shut down (SSD) 

equipment of HNP, Unit 1 within the 

room in which some important security 

modifications are planned. A direct 

outside access route to the physical 

construction area has not been available 

due to design basis tornado and missile 

considerations for the safety related 

conduits and SSD equipment. These 

issues were revealed as the design 

evolved from the conceptual state to a 

detailed design state. Presently, the 

licensee is pursuing a design solution 

that will allow both temporary and 

ultimately permanent direct outside 

access to the area. Additional time, 

beyond that previously approved, is 

needed due the extensive redesign and 

review effort that was unforeseen at the 

conceptual design stage. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC staff has completed its 

environmental assessment of the 

proposed exemption. The NRC staff has 

concluded that the proposed action to 

further extend the implementation 

deadline for one item 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 hazards previously 

analyzed in the environmental 

assessment and final 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 13926). 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 MagnusonStevens 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. 

With its request to extend the 

implementation deadline, the licensee 

currently maintains a security system 

acceptable to the NRC and that will 

continue to provide acceptable physical 

protection of HNP, Unit 1 in lieu of the 

new requirements in 10 CFR part 73. 

Therefore, the extension of the 

implementation date for one element of 

the new requirements of 10 CFR part 73 

to November 30, 2011, would not have 

any significant environmental impacts. 

The NRC staff’s safety evaluation will 

be provided in the exemption that will 


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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 action (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 existing 

implementation deadline of December 

15, 2010, for one remaining item of the 

three requirements, as granted on 

February 24, 2010. 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 HNP, Unit 1, NUREG– 

0972, dated October 31, 1983, as 

supplemented through the ‘‘Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

License Renewal of Nuclear Plants: 

Regarding Shearon Harris Nuclear 

Power Plant, Unit 1—Final Report 

(NUREG–1437, Supplement 33).’’ 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on December 2, 2010, the NRC staff 

consulted with the North Carolina State 

official, lee.cox@ncdenr.gov of the North 

Carolina Department of Environment 

and Natural Resources, regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. The State official had no 

comments. 

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 September 20, 2010. Portions of 

the September 20, 2010, submittal 

contain security-related information 

and, accordingly, a redacted version of 

this letter is available for public review 

in the Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS), 

Accession No. ML102650191. This 

document 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. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR 

Reference staff by telephone at 1–800– 

397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or send an 

e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day 

of December, 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Farideh E. Saba, 

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing 

Branch II–2, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

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[Docket Nos. 50–247 and 50–286; NRC– 

2008–0672] 

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; 

Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit 

Nos. 2 and 3; Notice of Availability of 

the Final Supplement 38 to the Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

License Renewal of Nuclear Plants 

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

has published a final plant-specific 

supplement to the Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

License Renewal of Nuclear Plants 

(GEIS), NUREG–1437, regarding the 

renewal of Operating Licenses DPR–26 

and DPR–64 for an additional 20 years 

of operation for Indian Point Nuclear 

Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3 (IP2 and 

IP3). The IP2 and IP3 site is located 

approximately 24 miles north of New 

York, NY. Possible alternatives to the 

proposed action (license renewal) 

include no action and reasonable 

alternative energy sources. 

As discussed in Section 9.3 of the 

final supplement, the staff determined 

that the adverse environmental impacts 

of license renewal for IP2 and IP3 are 

not so great that preserving the option 

of license renewal for energy-planning 

decision makers would be unreasonable. 

This recommendation is based on: (1) 

The analysis and findings in the GEIS; 

(2) information provided in the 

environmental report and other 

documents submitted by Entergy 

Nuclear Operations, Inc.; (3) 

consultation with Federal, State, local, 

and tribal agencies; (4) the staff’s own 

independent review; and (5) 

consideration of public comments 

received during the scoping process and 

on the draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

The final Supplement 38 to the GEIS 

is publicly available at the NRC Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, Public File Area O– 

1F21, 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:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

The accession numbers for the final 

Supplement 38 to the GEIS are 

ML103350405 (Volume 1), 

ML103350438, ML103360209, 

ML103360212 (Volume 2), and 

ML103350442 (Volume 3). Persons who 

do not have access to ADAMS or who 

encounter problems while accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, should 

contact the NRC’s PDR reference staff by 

telephone at (800) 397–4209 or (301) 

415–4737, or by e-mail at 

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

White Plains Public Library (White 

Plains, NY), Hendrick Hudson Free 

Library (Montrose, NY), and the Field 

Library (Peekskill, NY), have all agreed 

to make the final supplement available 

for public inspection. 

For Further Information, Contact: Mr. 

Andrew Stuyvenberg, Projects Branch 2, 

Division of License Renewal, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail 

Stop O–11F1, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. Mr. Stuyvenberg may be contacted 

by telephone at (800) 368–5642, 

extension 4006, or by e-mail at 

andrew.stuyvenberg@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day 

of December, 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David J. Wrona, 

Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License 

Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

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[NRC–2010–0002] 

Notice of Sunshine Act Meetings 

DATE: Weeks of December 13, 20, 27, 

2010, January 3, 10, 2011. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 


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