[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 173 (Wednesday, September 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46470-46471]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-21697]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0289; NRC-2009-0292; NRC-2009-0293; NRC-2009-0290; NRC-2009-
0291; NRC-2009-0287; NRC-2009-0286; NRC-2009-0285; NRC-2009-0294; NRC-
2009-0288; NRC-2009-0284; NRC-2009-0295]


Notice of Withdrawal of an Application for Indirect License 
Transfer Resulting From the Proposed Merger Between Exelon Corporation 
and NRG Energy, Inc., and Opportunity for a Hearing

    Exelon Generation Company, LLC, Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 
2, Docket Nos. 50-456 and 50-457; [NRC-2009-0289], Byron Station, 
Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-454 and 50-455; [NRC-2009-0292],

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Clinton Power Station, Docket No. 50-461; [NRC-2009-0293], Dresden 
Nuclear Power Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, Docket Nos. 50-10, 50-237, 
and 50-249; [NRC-2009-0290], Lasalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, 
Docket Nos. 50-373 and 50-374; [NRC-2009-0291], Limerick Generating 
Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-352 and 50-353; [NRC-2009-
0287], Oyster Creek Generating Station, Docket No. 50-219; [NRC-
2009-0286], Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, 
Docket Nos. 50-171, 50-277, and 50-278; [NRC-2009-0285], Quad Cities 
Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-254 and 50-265; 
[NRC-2009-0294], Salem Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket 
Nos. 50-272 and 50-311; [NRC-2009-0288], Three Mile Island Nuclear 
Station, Unit 1, Docket No. 50-289; [NRC-2009-0284], Zion Nuclear 
Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-295 and 50-304 [NRC-
2009-0295].

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission, NRC) has 
granted the request of Exelon Corporation (the applicant, Exelon), the 
parent company to Exelon Generation Company, LLC (hereafter, EGC; the 
licensee for the subject plants), to withdraw its January 29, 2009, 
application, as supplemented by letter dated March 18, 2009, for the 
proposed indirect transfer of the Facility Operating Licenses for the 
following reactor units:

    Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, Facility Operating License 
Nos. NPF-72 and NPF-77;
    Byron Station, Units 1 and 2, Facility Operating License Nos. 
NPF-37 and NPF-66;
    Clinton Power Station, Facility Operating License No. NPF-62;
    Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Units 1, 2 and 3, Facility 
Operating License No. DPR-2 and Renewed Facility Operating License 
Nos. DPR-19 and DPR-25;
    LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, Facility Operating 
License Nos. NPF-11 and NPF-18;
    Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Facility Operating 
License Nos. NPF-39 and NPF-85;
    Oyster Creek Generating Station, Facility Operating License No. 
DPR-16;
    Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 1, 2 and 3, Facility 
Operating License No. DPR-12 and Renewed Facility Operating License 
Nos. DPR-44 and DPR-56;
    Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Renewed 
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-29 and DPR-30;
    Salem Generating Station, Units 1 and 2, Facility Operating 
License Nos. DPR-70 and DPR-75;
    Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Facility Operating 
License No. DPR-50; and
    Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Facility Operating 
License Nos. DPR-39 and DPR-48.

    The application sought the Commission's consent to the indirect 
transfer to NRG Energy Inc. (NRG), of control of the subject licenses, 
to the extent held by EGC.
    The Commission had previously issued notices of consideration of 
approval of an application for indirect license transfer for each of 
the above-referenced facilities as published in the Federal Register on 
July 9, 2009 (74 FR 32975, 74 FR 32962, 74 FR 32976, 74 FR 32981, 74 FR 
32978, 74 FR 32965, 74 FR 32971, 74 FR 32973, 74 FR 32968, 74 FR 32963, 
74 FR 32979, and 74 FR 32970). However, by letter dated July 30, 2009, 
the applicant withdrew the request for approval.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application dated January 29, 2009, as supplemented by letter dated 
March 18, 2009, and the applicant's letter dated July 30, 2009, which 
withdrew the request for NRC approval of the indirect license transfer. 
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 
O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 
Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the 
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (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 by e-mail to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2c5c485e025e495f43595e4f496c425e4f024b435a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="334357411d4156405c46415056735d41501d545c45">[email protected]</span></a>.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of August 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher Gratton,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III-2, Division of 
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E9-21697 Filed 9-8-09; 8:45 am]
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