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Æ Leadership-Class Computing 

Facility Construction Award and 

Vote 

• Vote to move into Executive Plenary 

Closed Session 

Plenary Board 

Closed (Executive) Session: 12:50 p.m.– 

2:05 p.m. 

• NSB Chair’s Opening Remarks 

• Approval of August 2023 Executive 

Plenary closed meeting minutes 

• NSB Honorary Awards, Discussion of 

slate of finalists for the 2024 Vannevar 

Bush and Science & Society awards 

and Vote 

• NSF Director’s Remarks 

Æ Organizational Updates 

Æ Infrastructure Planning 

• NSB Chair’s Closing Remarks 

Meeting Adjourns: 2:05 p.m. 

Portions Open to the Public 

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 

10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Plenary NSB 

Thursday, November 30, 2023 

8:30 a.m.–9:50 a.m. Plenary NSB 

Portions Closed to the Public 

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 

2:00 p.m.–2:25 p.m. Plenary NSB 

2:25 p.m.–2:55 p.m. Committee on 

Strategy 

2:55 p.m.–4:35 p.m. Plenary NSB 

4:35 p.m.–5:20 p.m. Plenary NSB 

(executive session) 

Thursday, November 30, 2023 

10:00 a.m.–12:05 p.m. Plenary NSB 

12:50 p.m.–2:05 p.m. Plenary NSB 

(executive session) 

Members of the public are advised 

that the NSB provides some flexibility 

around start and end times. A session 

may be allowed to run over by as much 

as 15 minutes if the Chair decides the 

extra time is warranted. The next 

session will start no later than 15 

minutes after the noticed start time. If a 

session ends early, the next meeting 

may start up to 15 minutes earlier than 

the noticed start time. Sessions will not 

vary from noticed times by more than 15 

minutes. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

The NSB Office contact is Christopher 

Blair, cblair@nsf.gov, 703–292–7000. 

The NSB Public Affairs contact is 

Nadine Lymn, nlymn@nsf.gov, 703– 

292–2490. Please refer to the NSB 

website for additional information: 

https://www.nsf.gov/nsb. 

Ann E. Bushmiller, 

Senior Counsel to the National Science Board. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26225 Filed 11–24–23; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2023–0195] 

Monthly Notice; Applications and 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses and Combined Licenses 

Involving No Significant Hazards 

Considerations 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Monthly notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 189.a.(2) 

of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 

amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) is 

publishing this regular monthly notice. 

The Act requires the Commission to 

publish notice of any amendments 

issued, or proposed to be issued, and 

grants the Commission the authority to 

issue and make immediately effective 

any amendment to an operating license 

or combined license, as applicable, 

upon a determination by the 

Commission that such amendment 

involves no significant hazards 

consideration (NSHC), notwithstanding 

the pendency before the Commission of 

a request for a hearing from any person. 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

December 28, 2023. A request for a 

hearing or petitions for leave to 

intervene must be filed by January 29, 

2024. This monthly notice includes all 

amendments issued, or proposed to be 

issued, from October 13, 2023, to 

November 8, 2023. The last monthly 

notice was published on October 31, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website: 

• Federal rulemaking website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0195. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, ATTN: Program Management, 

Announcements and Editing Staff. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shirley Rohrer, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–415– 

5411; email: Shirley.Rohrer@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2023– 

0195, facility name, unit number(s), 

docket number(s), application date, and 

subject when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0195. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

adams.html. To begin the search, 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, at 

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: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2023–0195, facility 

name, unit number(s), docket 

number(s), application date, and 

subject, in your comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC will post all comment 

submissions at https://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 


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comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Notice of Consideration of Issuance 

of Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses and Combined Licenses and 

Proposed No Significant Hazards 

Consideration Determination 

For the facility-specific amendment 

requests shown in this notice, the 

Commission finds that the licensees’ 

analyses provided, consistent with 

section 50.91 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) ‘‘Notice 

for public comment; State 

consultation,’’ are sufficient to support 

the proposed determinations that these 

amendment requests involve NSHC. 

Under the Commission’s regulations in 

10 CFR 50.92, operation of the facilities 

in accordance with the proposed 

amendments would not (1) involve a 

significant increase in the probability or 

consequences of an accident previously 

evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of 

a new or different kind of accident from 

any accident previously evaluated; or 

(3) involve a significant reduction in a 

margin of safety. 

The Commission is seeking public 

comments on these proposed 

determinations. Any comments received 

within 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice will be 

considered in making any final 

determinations. 

Normally, the Commission will not 

issue the amendments until the 

expiration of 60 days after the date of 

publication of this notice. The 

Commission may issue any of these 

license amendments before expiration of 

the 60-day period provided that its final 

determination is that the amendment 

involves NSHC. In addition, the 

Commission may issue any of these 

amendments prior to the expiration of 

the 30-day comment period if 

circumstances change during the 30-day 

comment period such that failure to act 

in a timely way would result, for 

example in derating or shutdown of the 

facility. If the Commission takes action 

on any of these amendments prior to the 

expiration of either the comment period 

or the notice period, it will publish in 

the Federal Register a notice of 

issuance. If the Commission makes a 

final NSHC determination for any of 

these amendments, any hearing will 

take place after issuance. The 

Commission expects that the need to 

take action on any amendment before 60 

days have elapsed will occur very 

infrequently. 

A. Opportunity To Request a Hearing 

and Petition for Leave To Intervene 

Within 60 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, any person 

(petitioner) whose interest may be 

affected by any of these actions may file 

a request for a hearing and petition for 

leave to intervene (petition) with respect 

to that action. Petitions shall be filed in 

accordance with the Commission’s 

‘‘Agency Rules of Practice and 

Procedure’’ in 10 CFR part 2. Interested 

persons should consult a current copy 

of 10 CFR 2.309. If a petition is filed, the 

Commission or a presiding officer will 

rule on the petition and, if appropriate, 

a notice of a hearing will be issued. 

Petitions must be filed no later than 

60 days from the date of publication of 

this notice in accordance with the filing 

instructions in the ‘‘Electronic 

Submissions (E-Filing)’’ section of this 

document. Petitions and motions for 

leave to file new or amended 

contentions that are filed after the 

deadline will not be entertained absent 

a determination by the presiding officer 

that the filing demonstrates good cause 

by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR 

2.309(c)(1)(i) through (iii). 

If a hearing is requested, and the 

Commission has not made a final 

determination on the issue of no 

significant hazards consideration, the 

Commission will make a final 

determination on the issue of no 

significant hazards consideration, which 

will serve to establish when the hearing 

is held. If the final determination is that 

the amendment request involves no 

significant hazards consideration, the 

Commission may issue the amendment 

and make it immediately effective, 

notwithstanding the request for a 

hearing. Any hearing would take place 

after issuance of the amendment. If the 

final determination is that the 

amendment request involves a 

significant hazards consideration, then 

any hearing held would take place 

before the issuance of the amendment 

unless the Commission finds an 

imminent danger to the health or safety 

of the public, in which case it will issue 

an appropriate order or rule under 10 

CFR part 2. 

A State, local governmental body, 

Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or 

designated agency thereof, may submit 

a petition to the Commission to 

participate as a party under 10 CFR 

2.309(h) no later than 60 days from the 

date of publication of this notice. 

Alternatively, a State, local 

governmental body, Federally 

recognized Indian Tribe, or agency 

thereof may participate as a non-party 

under 10 CFR 2.315(c). 

For information about filing a petition 

and about participation by a person not 

a party under 10 CFR 2.315, see ADAMS 

Accession No. ML20340A053 (https://

adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/ 

main.jsp?Accession

Number=ML20340A053) and on the 

NRC’s public website at https://

www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/ 

adjudicatory/hearing.html#participate. 

B. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing) 

All documents filed in NRC 

adjudicatory proceedings, including 

documents filed by an interested State, 

local governmental body, Federally 

recognized Indian Tribe, or designated 

agency thereof that requests to 

participate under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must 

be filed in accordance with 10 CFR 

2.302. The E-Filing process requires 

participants to submit and serve all 

adjudicatory documents over the 

internet, or in some cases, to mail copies 

on electronic storage media, unless an 

exemption permitting an alternative 

filing method, as further discussed, is 

granted. Detailed guidance on electronic 

submissions is located in the ‘‘Guidance 

for Electronic Submissions to the NRC’’ 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML13031A056) 

and on the NRC’s public website at 

https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html. 

To comply with the procedural 

requirements of E-Filing, at least 10 

days prior to the filing deadline, the 

participant should contact the Office of 

the Secretary by email at 

Hearing.Docket@nrc.gov, or by 

telephone at 301–415–1677, to (1) 

request a digital identification (ID) 

certificate, which allows the participant 

(or its counsel or representative) to 

digitally sign submissions and access 

the E-Filing system for any proceeding 

in which it is participating; and (2) 

advise the Secretary that the participant 

will be submitting a petition or other 

adjudicatory document (even in 

instances in which the participant, or its 

counsel or representative, already holds 

an NRC-issued digital ID certificate). 

Based upon this information, the 

Secretary will establish an electronic 

docket for the proceeding if the 


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Secretary has not already established an 

electronic docket. 

Information about applying for a 

digital ID certificate is available on the 

NRC’s public website at https://

www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/ 

getting-started.html. After a digital ID 

certificate is obtained and a docket 

created, the participant must submit 

adjudicatory documents in Portable 

Document Format. Guidance on 

submissions is available on the NRC’s 

public website at https://www.nrc.gov/ 

site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A 

filing is considered complete at the time 

the document is submitted through the 

NRC’s E-Filing system. To be timely, an 

electronic filing must be submitted to 

the E-Filing system no later than 11:59 

p.m. ET on the due date. Upon receipt 

of a transmission, the E-Filing system 

time-stamps the document and sends 

the submitter an email confirming 

receipt of the document. The E-Filing 

system also distributes an email that 

provides access to the document to the 

NRC’s Office of the General Counsel and 

any others who have advised the Office 

of the Secretary that they wish to 

participate in the proceeding, so that the 

filer need not serve the document on 

those participants separately. Therefore, 

applicants and other participants (or 

their counsel or representative) must 

apply for and receive a digital ID 

certificate before adjudicatory 

documents are filed to obtain access to 

the documents via the E-Filing system. 

A person filing electronically using 

the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system 

may seek assistance by contacting the 

NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk 

through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located 

on the NRC’s public website at https:// 

www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to 

MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC 

Electronic Filing Help Desk is available 

between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., ET, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Participants who believe that they 

have good cause for not submitting 

documents electronically must file an 

exemption request, in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper 

filing stating why there is good cause for 

not filing electronically and requesting 

authorization to continue to submit 

documents in paper format. Such filings 

must be submitted in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.302(b)–(d). Participants filing 

adjudicatory documents in this manner 

are responsible for serving their 

documents on all other participants. 

Participants granted an exemption 

under 10 CFR 2.302(g)(2) must still meet 

the electronic formatting requirement in 

10 CFR 2.302(g)(1), unless the 

participant also seeks and is granted an 

exemption from 10 CFR 2.302(g)(1). 

Documents submitted in adjudicatory 

proceedings will appear in the NRC’s 

electronic hearing docket, which is 

publicly available at https://

adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded 

pursuant to an order of the presiding 

officer. If you do not have an NRCissued digital ID certificate as 

previously described, click ‘‘cancel’’ 

when the link requests certificates and 

you will be automatically directed to the 

NRC’s electronic hearing dockets where 

you will be able to access any publicly 

available documents in a particular 

hearing docket. Participants are 

requested not to include personal 

privacy information such as social 

security numbers, home addresses, or 

personal phone numbers in their filings 

unless an NRC regulation or other law 

requires submission of such 

information. With respect to 

copyrighted works, except for limited 

excerpts that serve the purpose of the 

adjudicatory filings and would 

constitute a Fair Use application, 

participants should not include 

copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

The following table provides the plant 

name, docket number, date of 

application, ADAMS accession number, 

and location in the application of the 

licensees’ proposed NSHC 

determinations. For further details with 

respect to these license amendment 

applications, see the applications for 

amendment, which are available for 

public inspection in ADAMS. For 

additional direction on accessing 

information related to this document, 

see the ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ section of this 

document. 

LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST(S) 

Constellation Energy Generation, LLC; Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, Will County, IL; Byron Station, Units 1 and 2, Ogle County, IL 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–454, 50–455, 50–456, 50–457. 

Application date .................................................. September 29, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23272A201. 

Location in Application of NSHC ........................ Pages 50–52 of Attachment 1. 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The proposed amendments would revise the Byron and Braidwood (1) Technical Specification 

(TS) 3.7.15 to increase the required spent fuel pool boron concentration to be greater or 

equal to 2000 parts per million; (2) TS 3.7.16 to update Figure 3.7.1.16–1 to include fuel 

from Framatome and Westinghouse; (3) TS 4.3.1.b to update the description and references; and (4) TS 4.3.1.c and d (Braidwood only) to update the description and references. 

Proposed Determination ..................................... NSHC. 

Name of Attorney for Licensee, Mailing Address Jason Zorn, Associate General Counsel, Constellation Energy Generation, 4300 Winfield 

Road, Warrenville, IL 60555. 

NRC Project Manager, Telephone Number ....... Joel Wiebe, 301–415–6606. 

Duke Energy Progress, LLC; H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit No. 2; Darlington County, SC 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–261. 

Application date .................................................. October 5, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23278A247. 

Location in Application of NSHC ........................ Pages 6–7 of the Enclosure. 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The proposed amendment would revise Technical Specification (TS) Section 5.7, ‘‘High Radiation Area,’’ consistent with NRC-approved TS Task Force (TSTF) Traveler 258 (TSTF– 

258–A), Revision 4, ‘‘Changes to Section 5.0, Administrative Controls.’’ 

Proposed Determination ..................................... NSHC. 

Name of Attorney for Licensee, Mailing Address Tracey Mitchell LeRoy, Deputy General Counsel, Duke Energy Corporation, 4720 Piedmont 

Row Dr., Charlotte, NC 28210. 


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LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST(S)—Continued 

NRC Project Manager, Telephone Number ....... Luke Haeg, 301–415–0272. 

Nebraska Public Power District; Cooper Nuclear Station; Nemaha County, NE 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–298. 

Application date .................................................. September 6, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23249A134. 

Location in Application of NSHC ........................ Pages 15–17 of Attachment 1. 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The proposed amendment would revise Cooper Nuclear Station Technical Specification (TS) 

Section 3.8.3, ‘‘Diesel Fuel Oil, Lube Oil, and Starting Air,’’ to allow the use of temporary 

fuel oil storage tanks to supplement the required fuel oil storage inventory used by the 

emergency diesel generators. The proposed TS change would be applicable during the 

2024 Refueling Outage 33 while in Modes 4 or 5 to allow cleaning, inspection, and any 

needed repairs of the permanent diesel generator fuel oil storage tanks. 

Proposed Determination ..................................... NSHC. 

Name of Attorney for Licensee, Mailing Address John C. McClure, Vice President, Governmental Affairs & General Counsel Nebraska Public 

Power District, P.O. Box 499, Columbus, NE 68601. 

NRC Project Manager, Telephone Number ....... Thomas Wengert, 301–415–4037. 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Units 1 and 2; San Luis Obispo County, CA 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–275, 50–323. 

Application date .................................................. September 27, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23270B909. 

Location in Application of NSHC ........................ Pages 15 to 17 of the Enclosure. 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The proposed amendments would permit Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, to adopt 

10 CFR 50.69, ‘‘Risk-Informed Categorization and Treatment of Structures, Systems and 

Components for Nuclear Power Reactors.’’ 

Proposed Determination ..................................... NSHC. 

Name of Attorney for Licensee, Mailing Address Jennifer Post, Esq., Pacific Gas and Electric Co., 77 Beale Street, Room 3065, Mail Code 

B30A, San Francisco, CA 94105. 

NRC Project Manager, Telephone Number ....... Samson Lee, 301–415–3168. 

Tennessee Valley Authority; Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2; Hamilton County, TN; Tennessee Valley Authority; Watts Bar 

Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2; Rhea County, TN 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–327, 50–328, 50–390, 50–391. 

Application date .................................................. August 2, 2023, as supplemented by letter(s) dated September 20, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23214A385, ML23264A006. 

Location in Application of NSHC ........................ Enclosure 1 of the Supplement dated September 20, 2023. 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... On September 5, 2023, the NRC staff published a proposed no significant hazards consideration (NSHC) determination in the Federal Register (88 FR 60714) for the proposed 

amendments. Subsequently, by letter dated September 20, 2023, the licensee clarified the 

NSHC of the August 2, 2023, amendment request as originally noticed in the Federal Register. The clarified NSHC is Enclosure 1 to the September 20, 2023, letter. 

Proposed Determination ..................................... NSHC. 

Name of Attorney for Licensee, Mailing Address David Fountain, Executive VP and General Counsel, Tennessee Valley Authority, 6A West 

Tower, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902. 

NRC Project Manager, Telephone Number ....... Perry Buckberg, 301–415–1383. 

Vistra Operations Company LLC; Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Somervell County, TX 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–445, 50–446. 

Application date .................................................. September 14, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23257A172. 

Location in Application of NSHC ........................ Pages 30–32 of the Enclosure. 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The proposed amendments would modify the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 

1 and 2, Technical Specification Required Action 3.8.1.B.4 to extend the allowed outage 

time for an inoperable emergency diesel generator from 72 hours to 14 days. 

Proposed Determination ..................................... NSHC. 

Name of Attorney for Licensee, Mailing Address Timothy P. Matthews, Esq., Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20004. 

NRC Project Manager, Telephone Number ....... Dennis Galvin, 301–415–6256. 

III. Notice of Issuance of Amendments 

to Facility Operating Licenses and 

Combined Licenses 

During the period since publication of 

the last monthly notice, the Commission 

has issued the following amendments. 

The Commission has determined for 

each of these amendments that the 

application complies with the standards 

and requirements of the Atomic Energy 

Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and 

the Commission’s rules and regulations. 

The Commission has made appropriate 

findings as required by the Act and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations in 

10 CFR chapter I, which are set forth in 

the license amendment. 

A notice of consideration of issuance 

of amendment to facility operating 

license or combined license, as 

applicable, proposed NSHC 

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hearing in connection with these 

actions, were published in the Federal 

Register as indicated in the safety 

evaluation for each amendment. 

Unless otherwise indicated, the 

Commission has determined that these 

amendments satisfy the criteria for 

categorical exclusion in accordance 

with 10 CFR 51.22. Therefore, pursuant 

to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental 

impact statement or environmental 

assessment need be prepared for these 

amendments. If the Commission has 

prepared an environmental assessment 

under the special circumstances 

provision in 10 CFR 51.22(b) and has 

made a determination based on that 

assessment, it is so indicated in the 

safety evaluation for the amendment. 

For further details with respect to 

each action, see the amendment and 

associated documents such as the 

Commission’s letter and safety 

evaluation, which may be obtained 

using the ADAMS accession numbers 

indicated in the following table. The 

safety evaluation will provide the 

ADAMS accession numbers for the 

application for amendment and the 

Federal Register citation for any 

environmental assessment. All of these 

items can be accessed as described in 

the ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ section of this 

document. 

LICENSE AMENDMENT ISSUANCE(S) 

Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2; York County, SC; Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; McGuire Nuclear 

Station, Units 1 and 2; Mecklenburg County, NC; Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3; Oconee 

County, SC; Duke Energy Progress, LLC; H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit No. 2; Darlington County, SC; Duke Energy 

Progress, LLC; Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1; Wake and Chatham Counties, NC 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–413, 50–414, 50–369, 50–370, 50–269, 50–270, 50–287, 50–261, 50–400. 

Amendment Date ................................................ October 24, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23241A987. 

Amendment No(s) ............................................... Catawba 318 (Unit 1), 314 (Unit 2), Harris 200 (Unit 1), McGuire 329 (Unit 1), 308 (Unit 2), 

Oconee 429 (Unit 1), 431 (Unit 2), 430 (Unit 3), Robinson 278 (Unit 2). 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The amendments revised surveillance requirements for reactor coolant system pressure isolation valve operational leakage testing and removed restrictive surveillance frequencies related to the reactor trip system instrumentation. 

Public Comments Received as to Proposed 

NSHC (Yes/No).

No. 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.; Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2; Houston County, AL; Southern Nuclear 

Operating Company, Inc.; Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2; Burke County, GA 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–348, 50–364, 50–424, 50–425. 

Amendment Date ................................................ October 23, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23187A148. 

Amendment No(s) ............................................... Farley 248 (Unit 1), 245 (Unit 2); Vogtle 222 (Unit 1), 205 (Unit 2). 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The amendments revised Technical Specification (TS) 3.2.1, ‘‘Heat Flux Hot Channel Factor 

(FQ(Z)),’’ to adopt the TS changes for the Relaxed Axial Offset Control (RAOC) methodology described in Appendix A of Westinghouse topical report WCAP–17661–P–A, Revision 

1, ‘‘Improved RAOC and CAOC [Constant Axial Offset Control] FQ Surveillance Technical 

Specifications’’ (ML19225C081), to address the issues identified in Westinghouse Nuclear 

Safety Advisory Letter (NSAL)-09–5, Revision 1, ‘‘Relaxed Axial Offset Control FQ Technical 

Specification Actions,’’ dated September 23, 2009, and NSAL–15–1, ‘‘Heat Flux Hot Channel Factor Technical Specification Surveillance,’’ dated February 3, 2015. The amendments 

include adoption of several technical specification task force (TSTF) change travelers to 

align the Vogtle, Units 1 and 2, and Farley, Units 1 and 2, TSs with the FQ formulations and 

required actions of TS 3.2.1B, ‘‘Heat Flux Hot Channel Factor (FQ(Z)) (RAOC–W(Z) Methodology),’’ of NUREG–1431, ‘‘Standard Technical Specifications Westinghouse Plants,’’ Volume 1, Revision 5 (ML21259A155). The TSTFs are (1) TSTF–99–A, Revision 0, ‘‘Extend 

the Completion Time for Fq(w) not within limits from 2 hours to 4 hours;’’ (ML040480063); 

(2) TSTF–241–A, Revision 4, ‘‘Allow time for stabilization after reducing power due to QPTR 

[quadrant power tilt ratio] out of limit;’’ (ML040611034); and (3) TSTF–290–A, Revision 0, 

‘‘Revisions to hot channel factor specifications,’’ (ML040630063). Additionally, the amendments revised the Vogtle, Units 1 and 2, and Farley, Units 1 and 2, TS 5.6.5, ‘‘Core Operating Limits Report (COLR),’’ to include WCAP–17661–P–A, Revision 1, in the list of the 

NRC approved methodologies used to develop the cycle specific COLR. 

Public Comments Received as to Proposed 

NSHC (Yes/No).

No. 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.; Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2; Burke County, GA 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–424, 50–425. 

Amendment Date ................................................ October 12, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23263A985. 

Amendment No(s) ............................................... 221 (Unit 1), 205 (Unit 2). 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The amendments revised Technical Specification 5.5.11, ‘‘Ventilation Filter Testing Program 

(VFTP).’’ Specifically, the amendments revised the acceptance criteria for the charcoal absorber penetration for the Control Room Emergency Filtration System item number 5.5.11.c 

from 0.2-percent to 0.5-percent. 

Public Comments Received as to Proposed 

NSHC (Yes/No).

No. 


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LICENSE AMENDMENT ISSUANCE(S)—Continued 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.; Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and 4; Burke County, GA 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 52–025, 52–026. 

Amendment Date ................................................ November 7, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23268A057. 

Amendment No(s) ............................................... 194 (Unit 3), 191 (Unit 4). 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The amendments relocated Technical Specification 3.7.9, ‘‘Spent Fuel Pool Makeup Water 

Sources,’’ to the Vogtle Technical Requirements Manual (TRM) as ‘‘UFSAR [Updated Final 

Safety Analysis Report] Standard Content,’’ which is controlled in accordance with 10 CFR 

50.59, ‘‘Changes, tests and experiments.’’ The amendments also changed to plant-specific 

design control document Tier 2 information affected by the relocation. 

Public Comments Received as to Proposed 

NSHC (Yes/No).

No. 

STP Nuclear Operating Company; South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2; Matagorda County, TX 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–498, 50–499. 

Amendment Date ................................................ November 1, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23298A000. 

Amendment No(s) ............................................... 226 (Unit 1) and 211 (Unit 2). 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The NRC staff approved conforming administrative license amendments regarding the indirect 

transfer of the NRG South Texas LP 44-percent possession-only non-operating interests in 

South Texas Project (STP), Units 1 and 2, from NRG South Texas LP to Constellation Energy Generation, LLC. The amendments revised Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. 

NPF–76 and NPF–80 to reflect the renaming of NRG South Texas LP to Constellation 

South Texas, LLC. 

Public Comments Received as to Proposed 

NSHC (Yes/No).

No. 

Virginia Electric and Power Company; Surry Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Surry County, VA 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–280, 50–281. 

Amendment Date ................................................ November 2, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23200A262. 

Amendment No(s) ............................................... 314 (Unit 1), 314 (Unit 2). 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The amendments revised the following technical specifications (TSs), as part of a criticality 

safety analysis for fuel assembly storage in the Surry Power Station, Units 1 and 2, spent 

fuel pool storage racks and new fuel storage racks; TS 5.3.1.1, Spent Fuel Pool Storage 

Racks; TS 5.3.1.2, New Fuel Storage Racks; TS 5.3.1.3, Two Region Spent Fuel Pool Layout; and adds new Figure 5.3–1, New Fuel Storage Racks Empty Cells, and Figure 5.3–2, 

Region 1 Burnup Curve. 

Public Comments Received as to Proposed 

NSHC (Yes/No).

Yes. 

Virginia Electric and Power Company; Surry Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Surry County, VA 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–280, 50–281. 

Amendment Date ................................................ November 7, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23242A229. 

Amendment No(s) ............................................... 315 (Unit 1); 315 (Unit 2). 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The amendments revised the Surry Emergency Plan to allow the relocation of the Technical 

Support Center from its current location, adjacent to the Main Control Room, to a building 

that was used previously as the Local Emergency Operations Facility. 

Public Comments Received as to Proposed 

NSHC (Yes/No).

No. 

IV. Notice of Issuance of Amendments 

to Facility Operating Licenses and 

Combined Licenses and Final 

Determination of No Significant 

Hazards Consideration and 

Opportunity for a Hearing (Exigent 

Circumstances or Emergency Situation) 

Since publication of the last monthly 

notice, the Commission has issued the 

following amendment. The Commission 

has determined for this amendment that 

the application for the amendment 

complies with the standards and 

requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations. 

The Commission has made appropriate 

findings as required by the Act and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations in 

10 CFR, chapter I, which are set forth in 

the license amendment. 

Because of exigent circumstances or 

emergency situation associated with the 

date the amendment was needed, there 

was not time for the Commission to 

publish, for public comment before 

issuance, its usual notice of 

consideration of issuance of 

amendment, proposed NSHC 

determination, and opportunity for a 

hearing. 

For exigent circumstances, the 

Commission has either issued a Federal 

Register notice providing opportunity 

for public comment or has used local 

media to provide notice to the public in 

the area surrounding a licensee’s facility 

of the licensee’s application and of the 

Commission’s proposed determination 

of NSHC. The Commission has provided 

a reasonable opportunity for the public 

to comment, using its best efforts to 

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respond quickly, and in the case of 

telephone comments, the comments 

have been recorded or transcribed as 

appropriate and the licensee has been 

informed of the public comments. 

In circumstances where failure to act 

in a timely way would have resulted, for 

example, in derating or shutdown of a 

nuclear power plant or in prevention of 

either resumption of operation or of 

increase in power output up to the 

plant’s licensed power level, the 

Commission may not have had an 

opportunity to provide for public 

comment on its NSHC determination. In 

such case, the license amendment has 

been issued without opportunity for 

comment prior to issuance. If there has 

been some time for public comment but 

less than 30 days, the Commission may 

provide an opportunity for public 

comment. If comments have been 

requested, it is so stated. In either event, 

the State has been consulted by 

telephone whenever possible. 

Under its regulations, the Commission 

may issue and make an amendment 

immediately effective, notwithstanding 

the pendency before it of a request for 

a hearing from any person, in advance 

of the holding and completion of any 

required hearing, where it has 

determined that NSHC is involved. 

The Commission has applied the 

standards of 10 CFR 50.92 and has made 

a final determination that the 

amendments involve NSHC. The basis 

for this determination is contained in 

the documents related to each action. 

Accordingly, the amendment has been 

issued and made effective as indicated. 

For those amendments that have not 

been previously noticed in the Federal 

Register, within 60 days after the date 

of publication of this notice, any 

persons (petitioner) whose interest may 

be affected by this action may file a 

request for a hearing and petition for 

leave to intervene (petition) with respect 

to the action. Petitions shall be filed in 

accordance with the guidance 

concerning the Commission’s ‘‘Agency 

Rules of Practice and Procedure’’ in 10 

CFR part 2 as discussed in section II.A 

of this document. 

Unless otherwise indicated, the 

Commission has determined that the 

amendment satisfies the criteria for 

categorical exclusion in accordance 

with 10 CFR 51.22. Therefore, pursuant 

to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental 

impact statement or environmental 

assessment need be prepared for this 

amendment. If the Commission has 

prepared an environmental assessment 

under the special circumstances 

provision in 10 CFR 51.12(b) and has 

made a determination based on that 

assessment, it is so indicated in the 

safety evaluation for the amendment. 

For further details with respect to 

these actions, see the amendment and 

associated documents such as the 

Commission’s letter and safety 

evaluation, which may be obtained 

using the ADAMS accession numbers 

indicated in the following table. The 

safety evaluation will provide the 

ADAMS accession number(s) for the 

application for amendment and the 

Federal Register citation for any 

environmental assessment. All of these 

items can be accessed as described in 

the ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ section of this 

document. 

LICENSE AMENDMENT ISSUANCE(S)—EXIGENT/EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES

DTE Electric Company; Fermi, Unit 2; Monroe County, MI 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–341. 

Amendment Date ................................................ October 30, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23297A051. 

Amendment No(s) ............................................... 226. 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... This exigent amendment revised Technical Specification (TS) 3.8.1, ‘‘AC [alternating current] 

Sources—Operating,’’ to allow for a one-time extension of the Required Action B.4 Completion Time, from 72 hours to 7 days, to perform online repairs of Division I Mechanical Draft 

Cooling Tower A and C fan pedestals. In addition, the amendment also approved an editorial correction to the one-time footnote on TS 3.7.2, ‘‘Emergency Equipment Cooling water 

(EECW)/Emergency Equipment service Water (EESW) System and Ultimate Heat sink 

(UHS).’’ The temporary one-time extension will expire at 11:59 pm on November 19, 2023. 

Local Media Notice (Yes/No) .............................. No. 

Public Comments Requested as to Proposed 

NSHC (Yes/No).

No. 

V. Previously Published Notice of 

Consideration of Issuance of 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses and Combined Licenses, 

Proposed No Significant Hazards 

Consideration Determination, and 

Opportunity for a Hearing 

The following notice was previously 

published as separate individual notice. 

It was published as an individual notice 

either because time did not allow the 

Commission to wait for this monthly 

notice or because the action involved 

exigent circumstances. It is repeated 

here because the monthly notice lists all 

amendments issued or proposed to be 

issued involving NSHC. 

For details, including the applicable 

notice period, see the individual notice 

in the Federal Register on the day and 

page cited. 

LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST(S)—REPEAT OF INDIVIDUAL FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation; Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit 1; Coffey County, KS 

Docket No(s) ....................................................... 50–482. 

Application Date .................................................. October 19, 2023. 

ADAMS Accession No ........................................ ML23292A359. 

Brief Description of Amendment(s) .................... The proposed amendment would modify the implementation date of License Amendment No. 

237 for Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit 1. Amendment No. 237 allows the use of hard 

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LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST(S)—REPEAT OF INDIVIDUAL FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE—Continued 

Date & Cite of Federal Register Individual Notice.October 26, 2023; 88 FR 73628. 

Expiration Dates for Public Comments & Hearing Requests.November 27, 2023 (comments); December 26, 2023 (hearing requests). 

Dated: November 16, 2023. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jamie M. Heisserer, 

Deputy Director, Division of Operating 

Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2023–25746 Filed 11–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 99902056; NRC–2023–0186] 

Tennessee Valley Authority; Clinch 

River Nuclear Site 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an 

exemption in response to an August 17, 

2023, request from Tennessee Valley 

Authority from certain requirements of 

NRC regulations pertaining to the 

submission of a construction permit 

application. 

DATES: The exemption was issued on 

November 21, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2023–0186 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 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0186. Address 

questions about Docket IDs to Stacy 

Schumann; telephone: 301–415–0624; 

email: Stacy.Schumann@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 publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

adams.html. To begin the search, 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, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The NRC’s 

response letter to TVA on the request for 

exemption from certain requirements of 

paragraph 2.101(a)(5) of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

and NRC’s supporting safety evaluation 

are available in ADAMS under 

Accession Nos. ML23045A008 and 

ML23114A098, respectively. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Allen Fetter, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–8556; email: 

Allen.Fetter@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of 

the exemption is attached. 

Dated: November 21, 2023. 

Brian W. Smith, 

Director, Division of New and Renewed 

Licenses, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

Attachment—Exemption 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Docket No. 99902056 

Tennessee Valley Authority Clinch 

River Nuclear Site, Construction Permit 

Application Submittal Exemption 

I. Background 

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is 

currently the holder of an early site 

permit (ESP) for the Clinch River 

Nuclear (CRN) Site in Oak Ridge, 

Tennessee. ESP–006 was issued to TVA 

on December 19, 2019 (Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) Accession No. 

ML1919352D341). Prior to the issuance 

of ESP–006, the NRC prepared a final 

environmental impact statement (FEIS) 

to support the agency’s licensing 

decision. Subsequently, TVA completed 

a programmatic environmental impact 

statement (PEIS) for the CRN Site 

Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technology 

Park (published in the Federal Register 

on July 29, 2022). TVA intends to 

submit a construction permit (CP) 

application for a license to construct a 

small modular reactor (SMR) at the CRN 

Site and intends to submit the CP 

application in two parts, in accordance 

with the provisions of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations 2.101(a)(5). 

Because of the extent and recency of 

environmental information gathered for 

the ESP and the PEIS at the CRN site, 

TVA anticipates the CP application 

environmental report (ER) could be 

available for submittal in advance of the 

preliminary safety analysis report 

(PSAR). 

II. Request/Action 

TVA submitted an exemption request 

to the NRC via a letter on August 17, 

2023, titled ‘‘Request for Exemption 

from Certain Requirements of 10 CFR 

2.101(a)(5),’’ (ML23229A569). 

Specifically, TVA requested an 

exemption from the portion of 10 CFR 

2.101(a)(5) which states, ‘‘[w]hichever 

part [of the application] is filed first 

shall also include the fee required by 

§§ 50.30(e) and 170.21 of this chapter 

and the information required by 

§§ 50.33, 50.34(a)(1), or 52.79(a)(1), as 

applicable, and § 50.37 of this chapter.’’ 

TVA specifically requests that the 

information required by 10 CFR 

50.34(a)(1) (i.e., a portion of the PSAR) 

be deferred to the second part of the 

submittal. TVA intends to submit the ER 

required by 10 CFR 50.30(f) as the first 

part of the CP application, preceding the 

portion of the PSAR required by 10 CFR 

50.34(a)(1), which would be submitted 

as the second part of the CP application. 

III. Discussion 

The requirements of both parts of a 

two-part application are delineated in 

10 CFR 2.101(a)(5), which states that 

‘‘[o]ne part shall be accompanied by the 

information required by 10 CFR 50.30(f) 

[ER],’’ while ‘‘[t]he other part shall 

include information required by 10 CFR 

50.34(a) [PSAR] and, if applicable, 10 

CFR 50.34a.’’ 

In addition to these requirements, 10 

CFR 2.101(a)(5) also requires that 

whichever part is filed first shall 

contain the following as part of the 

submittal: 

• the filing fee required by 10 CFR 

50.30(e) and 10 CFR 170.21; 

• the general information required by 

10 CFR 50.33; 


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