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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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