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0001; telephone: (301) 415–1210; email: 

marcus.voth@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Accessing Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Accessing Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2011– 

0135 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this document. You may access 

information related to this document by 

the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2011–0135. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may access publiclyavailable documents online in the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/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 draft ISG is located in ADAMS, 

as listed in the table below: 

ADAMS Document 

ADAMS 

accession 

number 

Part 1 Chapters 7–18 ..........

Part 2 Chapters 7–18 ..........

ML111570224 

ML111160065 

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purchase copies of public documents at 

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B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2011– 

0135 in the subject line of your 

comment submission, in order to ensure 

that the NRC is able to make your 

comment submission available to the 

public in this docket. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed. The NRC 

posts all comment submissions at 

http://www.regulations.gov as well as 

entering the comment submissions into 

ADAMS, and the NRC does not edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

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inform those persons not to include 

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not want to be publicly disclosed. Your 

request should state that the NRC will 

not edit comment submissions to 

remove such information before making 

the comment submissions available to 

the public or entering the comment 

submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC is issuing this notice to 

solicit public comments on NPR–ISG– 

2011–002. After the NRC staff considers 

public comments, it will make a 

determination regarding issuance of the 

final ISG. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day 

of April, 2011. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jessie F. Quichocho, 

Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing 

Branch, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8551 Filed 4–9–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 052–00027 and 052–00028; 

NRC–2008–0441] 

V. C. Summer Nuclear Station, Units 2 

and 3 Combined Licenses and Record 

of Decision 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of issuance. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Denise McGovern, Office of New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: (301) 415–0681; email: 

denise.mcgovern@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

Pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.106, the 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

is providing notice of the issuance of 

Combined Licenses (COL), NPF–93 and 

NPF–94, to South Carolina Electric and 

Gas (SCE&G) and South Carolina Public 

Service Authority (Santee Cooper). The 

(NRC) finds that the applicable 

standards and requirements of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 

and the Commission’s regulations have 

been met. The NRC finds that any 

required notifications to other agencies 

or bodies have been duly made and that 

there is reasonable assurance that the 

facility will be constructed and will 

operate in conformity with the license, 

the provisions of the Act, and the 

Commission regulations. Furthermore, 

the NRC finds that the licensees are 

technically and financially qualified to 

engage in the activities authorized, and 

that issuance of the licenses will not be 

inimical to the common defense and 

security or to the health and safety of 

the public. 

Accordingly, the COLs were issued on 

March 30, 2012, and are effective 

immediately. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC has prepared a Final Safety 

Evaluation Report (FSER) and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) 

that document the information reviewed 

and NRC’s conclusion. The Commission 

has also issued its Memorandum and 

Order documenting its final decision on 

the uncontested hearing held on 

October 12–13, 2011, which serves as 

the Record of Decision in this 

proceeding. In accordance with 10 CFR 

2.390 of the NRC’s ‘‘Rules of Practice,’’ 

details with respect to this action, 

including the FSER and accompanying 

documentation included in the 

combined license package, as well as 

the Commission’s hearing decision, are 

available online in the NRC Library at 

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

adams.html. From this site, persons can 

access the NRC’s Agencywide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The ADAMS accession 

numbers for the documents related to 

this notice are: 

ML110450305 ‘‘Final Safety 

Evaluation Report for Combined 

Licenses for Virgil C. Summer Nuclear 

Station, Units 2 and 3’’ 

ML11098A044 NUREG–1939, Vol 1, 

‘‘Final Environmental Impact 

Statement for Combined Licenses for 

Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, 

Units 2 and 3’’ 

ML11098A057 NUREG–1939, Vol 2, 

‘‘Final Environmental Impact 

Statement for Combined Licenses for 

Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, 

Units 2 and 3’’ 

ML11187A127 VCSNS COL 

Application—Revision 5 of the 

application 

ML12090A531 Memorandum and 

Order on the uncontested hearing 

(record of decision) 

ML113190371 Combined License No. 

NPF–93 

ML113190715 Combined License No. 

NPF–94 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS should contact the NRC Public 

Document Room (PDR) Reference staff 

by telephone at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The documents 


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are also available at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reactors/new-reactors/col.html. 

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day 

of April, 2012. 

For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Mark Tonacci, 

Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of New 

Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8548 Filed 4–9–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–269, 50–270, and 50–28; 

NRC–2012–0088] 

Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact, 

Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 

3 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an exemption to Renewed 

Facility Operating Licenses DPR–38, 

DPR–47, and DPR–55, issued to Duke 

Energy Carolinas, LLC (the licensee), for 

operation of the Oconee Nuclear 

Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, located in 

Oconee County in South Carolina, in 

accordance with Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.12. 

Therefore, as required by 10 CFR 51.21, 

the NRC performed an environmental 

assessment. Based on the results of the 

environmental assessment, the NRC is 

issuing a finding of no significant 

impact. 

Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

Part 50, Appendix G requires that 

fracture toughness requirements for 

ferritic materials of pressure-retaining 

components of the reactor coolant 

pressure boundary of light-water 

nuclear power reactors provide 

adequate margins of safety during any 

condition of normal operation, 

including anticipated operational 

occurrences and system hydrostatic 

tests, to which the pressure boundary 

may be subjected over its service 

lifetime, 10 CFR 50.61 provides fracture 

toughness requirements for protection 

against pressurized thermal shock (PTS) 

events. 

The proposed action would grant an 

exemption from certain requirements of 

10 CFR 50.61, ‘‘Fracture Toughness 

Requirements for Protection Against 

Pressurized Thermal Shock Events,’’ 

and 10 CFR part 50 Appendix G, 

‘‘Fracture Toughness Requirements.’’ 

The exemption would allow use of 

alternate initial reference nil ductility 

temperature (RTNDT) as described in the 

NRC approved topical reports, BAW– 

2308, Revisions 1–A and 2–A, for 

determining the adjusted RTNDT of 

Linde 80 weld materials present in the 

beltline region of the Oconee Nuclear 

Station, (ONS) Units 1, 2, and 3 reactor 

pressure vessels. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application dated 

August 3, 2011 (Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS) Accession No. 

ML11223A010). 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is needed to 

allow the licensee to use alternate initial 

RTNDT (reference nil ductility 

temperature), as described in the NRCapproved topical reports (TRs), BAW– 

2308, ‘‘Initial RTNDT of Linde 80 Weld 

Materials,’’ Revisions 1–A and 2–A, for 

determining the adjusted RTNDT of 

Linde 80 weld materials present in the 

beltline region of the ONS, Units 1, 2, 

and 3 reactor vessels (RVs). 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC has completed its 

environmental assessment of an 

exemption. The staff has concluded that 

the proposed action to allow the use of 

alternate initial reference nil ductility 

temperature (RTNDT) as described in the 

NRC approved topical reports BAW– 

2308, Revisions 1–A and 2–A for 

determining the adjusted RTNDT of 

Linde 80 weld materials present in the 

beltline region of the ONS, Units 1, 2, 

and 3 reactor pressure vessels, 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 

updated final safety analysis report for 

ONS, Units 1, 2, and 3. There will be no 

change to radioactive effluents that 

effect radiation exposures to plant 

workers and members of the public. No 

changes will be made to plant buildings 

or the site property. The proposed 

action does not involve a change to 

plant building or land areas on the ONS 

site. 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 

noticeable effect on socioeconomic 

conditions in the region. Therefore, no 

changes to or different types of nonradiological environmental impacts are 

expected as a result of the proposed 

action. Accordingly, the NRC concludes 

that there are no significant 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

The details of the staff’s safety 

evaluation will be provided as part of 

the letter to the licensee approving 

issuance of the license amendment. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the staff considered denial of the 

proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘no-action’’ 

alternative). Denial of the application 

would result in no change in current 

environmental impacts. The 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

action and the alternative action are 

similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

previously considered in the Final 

Environmental Statement for the ONS, 

Units 1, 2, and 3, dated March 1972, and 

Final Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement (NUREG–1437, 

Supplement 2) dated December 1999 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML003770518). 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on February 27, 2012, the staff 

consulted with the South Carolina State 

official, Mr. Mark Yeager of the South 

Carolina Department of Health and 

Environmental Control, 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 


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