Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 138 / Wednesday, July 18, 2018 / Notices 33961 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–352, 50–353, 72–65, 50– 

171, 50–277, 50–278, 72–79; NRC–2018– 

0148] 

Exelon Generation Company, LLC; 

Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 

and 2; Peach Bottom Atomic Power 

Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of amendments to licenses 

held by Exelon Generation Company, 

LLC (Exelon, the licensee) for the 

operation of Limerick Generating 

Station (Limerick), Units 1 and 2, and 

Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station 

(Peach Bottom), Units 1, 2, and 3 (the 

facilities). The proposed amendments 

would revise the emergency response 

organization (ERO) positions identified 

in the emergency plan for each facility. 

The NRC is issuing an environmental 

assessment (EA) and finding of no 

significant impact (FONSI) associated 

with the proposed license amendments. 

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in 

this document is available on July 18, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2018–0148 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly-available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0148. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, 

please contact the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in this document. In 

addition, for the convenience of the 

reader, the ADAMS accession numbers 

are provided in a table in the 

‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section of 

this document. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Blake A. Purnell, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

1380; email: Blake.Purnell@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering issuance of 

amendments to the following licenses 

held by Exelon: (1) Renewed Facility 

Operating License Nos. NPF–39 and 

NPF–85 for the operation of Limerick, 

Units 1 and 2, respectively, located in 

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; (2) 

Facility Operating License No. DPR–12 

for the possession of Peach Bottom, Unit 

1, located in York and Lancaster 

Counties, Pennsylvania; and (3) 

Renewed Facility Operating License 

Nos. DPR–44 and DPR–56 for the 

operation of Peach Bottom, Units 2 and 

3, respectively, located in York and 

Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania. 

In accordance with section 51.21 of 

title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC prepared 

the following EA that analyzes the 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

licensing action. Based on the results of 

this EA, and in accordance with 10 CFR 

51.31(a), the NRC has determined not to 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the proposed licensing 

action, and is issuing a FONSI. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would revise the 

ERO positions identified in the 

emergency plan for each facility. The 

on-shift, minimum, and fullaugmentation ERO staffing requirements 

listed in the emergency plan would be 

revised. The proposed revisions include 

eliminating ERO positions; adding ERO 

positions; changing position 

descriptions, duties, and duty locations; 

and relocating certain position 

descriptions to other parts of the 

emergency plan or to implementing 

procedures. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application dated 

May 10, 2018 (ADAMS Package 

Accession No. ML18149A290). 

Need for the Proposed Action 

Nuclear power plant owners, Federal 

agencies, and State and local officials 

work together to create a system for 

emergency preparedness and response 

that will serve the public in the unlikely 

event of an emergency. An effective 

emergency preparedness program 

decreases the likelihood of an initiating 

event at a nuclear power reactor 

proceeding to a severe accident. 

Emergency preparedness cannot affect 

the probability of the initiating event, 

but a high level of emergency 

preparedness increases the probability 

of accident mitigation if the initiating 

event proceeds beyond the need for 

initial operator actions. 

Each licensee is required to establish 

an emergency plan to be implemented 

in the event of an accident. The 

emergency plan, in part, covers 

preparation for evacuation, sheltering, 

and other actions to protect individuals 

near plants in the event of an accident. 

The NRC, as well as other Federal and 

State regulatory agencies, reviews the 

emergency plan to ensure that it 

provides reasonable assurance that 

adequate protective measures can and 

will be taken in the event of a 

radiological emergency. 

Separate from this EA, the NRC staff 

is performing a safety assessment of 

Exelon’s proposed changes to the 

emergency plan for each facility. This 

safety review will be documented in a 

safety evaluation. The safety evaluation 

will determine whether, with the 

proposed changes to the emergency plan 

for each facility, there continues to be 

reasonable assurance that adequate 

protective measures can and will be 

taken in the event of a radiological 

emergency at Limerick or Peach Bottom, 

in accordance with the standards of 10 

CFR 50.47(b) and the requirements in 

appendix E to 10 CFR part 50. 

The proposed action is needed to 

align the emergency plans for the 

facilities with draft Revision 2 to 

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, ‘‘Criteria 

for Preparation and Evaluation of 

Radiological Emergency Response Plans 

and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear 

Power Plants’’ (ADAMS Accession Nos. 

ML14163A605 and ML17083A815). 

This change would provide Exelon with 

greater flexibility in staffing ERO 

positions, and reflects changes in NRC 

regulations and guidance and advances 

in technologies and best practices that 

have occurred since NUREG–0654/ 

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published in 1980. The Commonwealth 

of Pennsylvania reviewed a draft of the 

licensee’s application and had no 

concerns. The State of Maryland 

reviewed a draft of the license 

amendment request for Peach Bottom 

and found the proposed changes 

acceptable. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC staff has completed its 

evaluation of the environmental impacts 

of the proposed action. 

The proposed action consists mainly 

of changes related to the staffing levels 

and positions specified in the 

emergency plans for Limerick and Peach 

Bottom. The on-shift, minimum, and 

full-augmentation ERO staffing 

requirements listed in the emergency 

plan would be revised. The revisions 

include eliminating ERO positions; 

adding ERO positions; changing 

position descriptions, duties, and duty 

locations; and relocating certain 

position descriptions to other parts of 

the emergency plan or to implementing 

procedures. 

With regard to potential 

nonradiological environmental impacts, 

the proposed changes would have no 

direct impacts on land use or water 

resources, including terrestrial and 

aquatic biota, as they involve no new 

construction or modification of plant 

operational systems. There would be no 

changes to the quality or quantity of 

nonradiological effluents and no 

changes to the plants’ National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System permits 

would be needed. Changes in staffing 

levels could result in minor changes in 

vehicular traffic and associated air 

pollutant emissions, but no significant 

changes in ambient air quality would be 

expected from the proposed changes. In 

addition, there would be no noticeable 

effect on socioeconomic conditions in 

the region, no environment justice 

impacts, and no impacts to historic and 

cultural resources from the proposed 

changes. Therefore, there are no 

significant nonradiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

With regard to potential radiological 

environmental impacts, if the NRC 

staff’s safety review of the proposed 

changes to the licensee’s emergency 

plans determines that, with the 

proposed changes, the emergency plans 

continue to meet the standards of 10 

CFR 50.47(b) and the requirements in 

appendix E to 10 CFR part 50, then the 

proposed action would not increase the 

probability or consequences of 

radiological accidents. Additionally, the 

NRC staff has concluded that the 

proposed changes would have no direct 

radiological environmental impacts. 

There would be no change to the types 

or amounts of radioactive effluents that 

may be released and, therefore, no 

change in occupational or public 

radiation exposure from the proposed 

changes. Moreover, no changes would 

be made to plant buildings or the site 

property from the proposed changes. 

Therefore, there are no significant 

radiological environmental impacts 

associated with the proposed action. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC staff considered denial 

of the license amendment request (i.e., 

the ‘‘no-action’’ alternative). Denial of 

the license amendment request would 

result in no change in current 

environmental impacts. Accordingly, 

the environmental impacts of the 

proposed action and the no-action 

alternative are similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

There are no unresolved conflicts 

concerning alternative uses of available 

resources under the proposed action. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

No additional agencies or persons 

were consulted regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The licensee has requested license 

amendments pursuant to 10 CFR 

50.54(q) to revise the ERO positions 

identified in the emergency plans for 

Limerick and Peach Bottom by 

eliminating ERO positions; adding ERO 

positions; changing position 

descriptions, duties, and duty locations; 

and relocating certain position 

descriptions to other parts of the 

emergency plan or to implementing 

procedures. The NRC is considering 

issuing the requested amendments. The 

proposed action would not significantly 

affect plant safety, would not have a 

significant adverse effect on the 

probability of an accident occurring, 

and would not have any significant 

radiological or nonradiological impacts. 

The reason the environment would not 

be significantly affected is because the 

proposed changes would only result in 

minor changes in staffing levels and a 

small change in air pollutant emissions 

associated with vehicular traffic. This 

FONSI incorporates by reference the EA 

in Section II of this notice. Therefore, 

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. 

Previous considerations regarding the 

environmental impacts of operating 

Limerick, Units 1 and 2, and Peach 

Bottom, Units 2 and 3, in accordance 

with their renewed operating licenses, 

are described in the following 

documents: 

• NUREG–1437, Supplement 49, 

Volumes 1 and 2, ‘‘Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

License Renewal of Nuclear Plants: 

Regarding Limerick Generating Station, 

Units 1 and 2,’’ Final Report, dated 

August 2014 (ADAMS Accession Nos. 

ML14238A284 and ML14238A290 

(package)). 

• NUREG–1437, Supplement 10, 

‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants: Regarding Peach Bottom 

Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3,’’ 

Final Report, dated January 2003 

(ADAMS Package Accession No. 

ML030270059). 

Previous considerations regarding the 

environmental impacts of 

decommissioning Peach Bottom, Unit 1, 

are described in NUREG–0586, 

Supplement 1, Volumes 1 and 2, 

‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement on Decommissioning of 

Nuclear Facilities: Regarding the 

Decommissioning of Nuclear Power 

Reactors,’’ Final Report, dated 

November 2002 (ADAMS Package 

Accession Nos. ML023470327 and 

ML023500228). 

This FONSI and other related 

environmental documents may be 

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

NRC’s PDR, located at One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. Publicly-available 

records are also accessible online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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’s PDR reference staff by telephone 

at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or 

by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

IV. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons through one or more 

of the following methods, as indicated. 


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Document ADAMS accession No. 

Exelon, License Amendment Request for Approval of Changes to Emergency Plan Staffing Requirements, dated May 10, 2018.ML18149A290 (package). 

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, draft Revision 2, ‘‘Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power 

Plants.’’.

ML14163A605 and ML17083A815. 

NUREG–1437, Supplement 49, Volumes 1 and 2, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Statement 

for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants: Regarding Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 and 

2,’’ Final Report, dated August 2014.

ML14238A284 and ML14238A290 (package). 

NUREG–1437, Supplement 10, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal 

of Nuclear Plants: Regarding Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3,’’ Final Report, dated January 2003.

ML030270059 (package). 

NUREG–0586, Supplement 1, Volumes 1 and 2, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Statement on 

Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities: Regarding the Decommissioning of Nuclear Power 

Reactors,’’ Final Report, dated November 2002.

ML023470327 (package) and ML023500228 

(package). 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day 

of July, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Blake A. Purnell, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III, 

Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15282 Filed 7–17–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 52–012 and 52–013; NRC– 

2008–0091] 

Nuclear Innovation North America, 

LLC; South Texas Project, Units 3 and 

4 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Termination of licenses. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is terminating the 

South Texas Project (STP) Units 3 and 

4 Combined Licenses (COLs) designated 

as NPF–97 and NPF–98, and their 

included licenses to manufacture, 

produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, 

possess, or use byproduct material. By 

letter dated June 22, 2018, Nuclear 

Innovation North America, LLC (NINA) 

requested that the NRC terminate the 

STP Units 3 and 4 COLs. Construction 

was not initiated for STP Units 3 and 4, 

and nuclear materials were never 

procured or possessed under these 

licenses. Consequently, the STP Units 3 

and 4 site is approved for unrestricted 

use. 

DATES: The termination was issued on 

July 13, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2008–0091 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly-available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2008–0091. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges, telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, 

please contact the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in this document. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Shea, Office of New Reactors, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–1388, email: James.Shea@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The NRC issued STP Units 3 and 4 

COLs, NPF–97 and NPF–98, to NINA 

and its co-applicants STP Nuclear 

Operating Company, NINA Texas 3 LLC, 

NINA Texas 4 LLC, and the City of San 

Antonio, Texas, acting by and through 

the City Public Service Board, for the 

STP Units 3 and 4 on February 12, 2016 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML16033A010). 

Since issuance of the licenses, NINA has 

not begun construction of Units 3 and 

4 or procured nuclear materials for use 

under the licenses. In NINA’s letter 

dated June 14, 2018 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML18176A019), NINA informed the 

NRC that it no longer plans to move 

forward with building STP Units 3 and 

4 and would consequently submit an 

application for termination of the 

licenses. By subsequent letter dated 

June 22, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML18184A338), NINA requested 

termination of COLs NPF–97 and NPF– 

98 and their included title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

parts 30, 40, and 70 licenses for STP 

Units 3 and 4. 

II. License Termination 

Termination of COLs issued under 10 

CFR part 52 is controlled by 10 CFR 

52.110, ‘‘Termination of license.’’ As 

discussed in ‘‘Current NRC Staff Views 

on Applying the 1987 Policy Statement 

on Deferred Plants’’ (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML18065B257), the NRC staff does 

not apply the requirements for 

termination in 10 CFR 52.110 to plants 

that have not begun operation. 

Requirements for termination of the 

included licenses under sections 30.36, 

40.42, and 70.38 of 10 CFR include the 

submission of NRC Form 314 or 

equivalent information. The staff finds 

that NINA met these requirements 

through the information provided as 

part of its June 22, 2018, submission. 

Further, as there was no construction 

associated with the STP Unit 3 and 4 

licenses and nuclear materials have 

never been procured or possessed under 

these licenses, there is no need for a site 

radiation survey to be conducted under 

10 CFR parts 30, 40, or 70. With no 

radiological contamination associated 

with the licenses, the STP Unit 3 and 4 

site may be released for unrestricted use 

pursuant to 10 CFR 20.1402. 


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