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training plan for the mine as responsible 

for health and safety training, that states 

‘‘I certify that the above training has 

been completed.’’ 

Under 30 CFR 46.9(f), when a miner 

leaves the operator’s employment, the 

operator must provide each miner with 

a copy of his or her training records and 

certificates upon request. 

Under 30 CFR 46.9(g), the operator 

must make available at the mine a copy 

of each miner’s training records and 

certificates for inspection by MSHA and 

for examination by miners and their 

representatives. If training certificates 

are not maintained at the mine, the 

operator must be able to provide the 

certificates upon request to MSHA, 

miners, or their representatives. 

Under 30 CFR 46.9(h), the operator 

must maintain copies of training 

certificates and training records for each 

currently employed miner during his or 

her employment, except for records and 

certificates of annual refresher training 

which must be maintained for only two 

years. The operator must maintain 

copies of training certificates and 

training records for at least 60 calendar 

days after a miner terminates 

employment. 

Under 30 CFR 46.9(i), the operator is 

not required to make records of sitespecific hazard awareness training to 

persons who are not miners. However, 

the operator, must be able to provide 

evidence to MSHA, upon request, that 

the training was provided, such as the 

training materials that are used; copies 

of written information distributed to 

persons upon their arrival at the mine, 

or visitor log books that indicate that 

training has been provided. 

The information collection request 

under a currently approved OMB 

Control Number 1219–0009, Certificate 

of Training, covers the mandatory 

requirements for submitting and 

obtaining approval of programs for 

training and retraining miners working 

in underground mines (30 CFR part 48 

Subpart A). The request also covers 

similar requirements for miners working 

at surface mines and surface areas of 

underground mines (30 CFR part 48 

Subpart B). That information collection 

request under does not apply to training 

and retraining of miners at shell 

dredging, sand, gravel, surface stone, 

surface clay, colloidal phosphate, and 

surface limestone mines. The provisions 

of 30 CFR part 46 set forth the 

mandatory requirements for training 

and retraining miners and other persons 

for these miners. 

II. Desired Focus of Comments 

MSHA is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed information 

collection related to Training Plans, 

New Miner Training, Newly-Hired 

Experienced Miner Training. MSHA is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• Evaluate whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Agency, including whether the 

information has practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of MSHA’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

• Suggest methods to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

The information collection request 

will be available on https://

www.regulations.gov. MSHA cautions 

the commenter against providing any 

information in the submission that 

should not be publicly disclosed. Full 

comments, including personal 

information provided, will be made 

available on https://

www.regulations.gov and https://

www.reginfo.gov. 

The public may also examine publicly 

available documents at DOL–MSHA, 

Office of Standards, Regulations and 

Variances, 201 12th Street South, 4th 

Floor West, Arlington, VA 22202–5452. 

Sign in at the receptionist’s desk on the 

4th Floor via the West elevator. Before 

visiting MSHA in person, call 202–693– 

9455 to make an appointment. 

Questions about the information 

collection requirements may be directed 

to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

notice. 

III. Current Actions 

This information collection request 

concerns provisions for Training Plans, 

New Miner Training, Newly-Hired 

Experienced Miner Training. MSHA has 

updated the data with respect to the 

number of respondents, responses, time 

burden, and burden costs supporting 

this information collection request from 

the previous information collection 

request. 

Type of Review: Extension, without 

change, of a currently approved 

collection. 

Agency: Mine Safety and Health 

Administration. 

OMB Number: 1219–0131. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Number of Annual Respondents: 

10,872. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Number of Annual Responses: 

2,275,623. 

Annual Time Burden: 157,458 hours. 

Annual Other Burden Costs: 

$351,967. 

MSHA Form: Electronic Training Plan 

Advisor. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

proposed information collection 

request; they will become a matter of 

public record and be available at https:// 

www.reginfo.gov. 

Song-ae Aromie Noe, 

Certifying Officer, Mine Safety and Health 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–26113 Filed 11–8–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–397; NRC–2024–0160] 

Energy Northwest; Columbia 

Generating Station; Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an amendment to Renewed 

Facility Operating License No. NPF–21, 

issued on May 22, 2012, held by Energy 

Northwest for the operation of Columbia 

Generating Station (Columbia) located 

in Benton County, Washington, on land 

leased from the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE). The proposed 

amendment would revise the Columbia 

Emergency Plan by changing the 

emergency response organization (ERO) 

staffing plan. The NRC staff evaluated 

the potential environmental effects of 

the proposed action (license amendment 

request) and is issuing an environmental 

assessment (EA) and finding of no 

significant impact (FONSI). 

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in 

this document are available on 

November 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2024–0160 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 


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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–2024–0160. 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. 

• 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. For the 

convenience of the reader, information 

for obtaining materials referenced in 

this document are provided in the 

‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section. 

• 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: 

Mahesh L. Chawla, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

8371; email: Mahesh.Chawla@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

By letter dated January 30, 2024, as 

supplemented by letters dated March 

20, September 10, and September 24, 

2024, Energy Northwest submitted a 

request to amend Renewed Facility 

Operating License No. NPF–21, issued 

to Energy Northwest, for the operation 

of Columbia Generating Station 

(Columbia), which is located in Benton 

County, Washington, on land leased 

from the DOE. If approved, the proposed 

amendment would revise the emergency 

plan to be consistent with the guidance 

of the Federal Emergency Management 

Agency (FEMA) Radiological Emergency 

Preparedness (REP) document in 

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, ‘‘Criteria 

for Preparation and Evaluation of 

Radiological Emergency Response Plans 

and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ Revision 2, December 

2019. The proposed changes would 

revise the Columbia Emergency Plan by 

changing the ERO staffing plan to align 

staff functions and major task 

delineations, specifically, the on-shift 

and augmenting positions assigned 

within certain functional areas and 

remove references to non-minimum 

augmented ERO positions from the 

Columbia Emergency Plan while 

retaining appropriate positions in the 

applicable implementing procedures. 

Each licensee for a nuclear power 

plant is required to establish an 

emergency plan to be implemented in 

the event of an accident in accordance 

with part 50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of 

Production and Utilization Facilities,’’ 

section 50.47, ‘‘Emergency plans,’’ and 

appendix E, ‘‘Emergency Planning and 

Preparedness for Production and 

Utilization Facilities,’’ of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). 

The emergency plan covers preparation 

for evacuation, sheltering, and other 

actions to protect people living near the 

nuclear power plant in the event of an 

accident. An effective emergency 

preparedness program decreases the 

likelihood of an initiating event at a 

nuclear facility 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. 

The regulations in 10 CFR 50.54(q)(2) 

require licensees for nuclear power 

plants to follow and maintain the 

effectiveness of an emergency plan that 

meets the standards in 10 CFR 50.47(b) 

and the requirements in 10 CFR part 50, 

appendix E. Sections 50.54(q)(3) and (4) 

of 10 CFR specify the process by which 

a licensee may make changes to its 

emergency plan. In accordance with 10 

CFR 50.54(q)(4), Energy Northwest 

submitted the January 30, 2024, license 

amendment request, pursuant to 10 CFR 

50.90, to obtain NRC approval of the 

proposed changes to the Columbia 

Emergency Plan prior to 

implementation. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.21, 

‘‘Criteria for and identification of 

licensing and regulatory actions 

requiring environmental assessments,’’ 

the NRC prepared the following 

environmental assessment (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 finding of no significant impact 

(FONSI). 

In addition to this EA, the NRC is 

conducting a safety evaluation of Energy 

Northwest’s proposed changes to the 

Columbia Emergency Plan, which will 

be documented separately. The safety 

evaluation of the proposed changes to 

the emergency plan will determine 

whether Columbia would continue to 

meet the requirements in 10 CFR 

50.47(b) and the requirements in 10 CFR 

part 50, appendix E with the requested 

amendment. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would revise the 

ERO staffing plan identified in the 

Columbia Emergency Plan, including 

the on-shift and augmenting ERO 

staffing requirements. The proposed 

revisions would remove reference to 

non-minimum augmenting ERO 

positions from the Columbia Emergency 

Plan while retaining appropriate 

positions in implementing procedures. 

The proposed action would also align 

the ERO staffing plan with the functions 

and major task delineations related to 

on-shift and augmenting ERO positions 

assigned within certain functional areas. 

The NRC staff notes that Energy 

Northwest’s request referred to on-shift 

and minimum augmenting ERO 

positions. Although NUREG–0654/ 

FEMA–REP–1 does not refer to 

minimum augmenting ERO positions, 

the NRC staff understands phrases like 

minimum augmenting ERO positions to 

refer to those positions described in 

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1. Similarly, 

the NRC staff understands phrases like 

non-minimum augmented ERO 

positions to refer to positions described 

by the Columbia Emergency Plan 

beyond those described in NUREG– 

0654/FEMA–REP–1. For clarity, this 

environmental assessment will refer to 

augmenting ERO positions instead of 

minimum augmenting ERO positions 

when discussing the positions described 

in NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1 but will 

refer to non-minimum augmenting ERO 

positions when discussing positions 

beyond those described in NUREG– 

0654/FEMA–REP–1. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with Energy Northwest’s request for a 

license amendment, to revise the 

Columbia Emergency Plan dated 

January 30, 2024, notice of which the 

NRC published in the Federal Register 

(89 FR 49238). 

Need for the Proposed Action 

If granted, the proposed action would 

align the Columbia Emergency Plan 


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with the NRC’s guidance for EROs in 

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, Revision 

2. The application states that Energy 

Northwest shared the proposed 

Columbia Emergency Plan changes with 

offsite response organizations for the 

State of Washington, Benton County, 

and Franklin County, and these 

organizations had no concerns. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The proposed action consists of 

changes related to staffing positions, 

position descriptions, titles, duties, duty 

locations, and response times specified 

in the Columbia Emergency Plan. The 

on-shift and augmenting ERO staffing 

requirements listed in the emergency 

plan would be revised. The proposed 

revisions include eliminating ERO 

positions; adding ERO positions; 

changing position descriptions, titles, 

duties, and duty locations; changing 

response times, and relocating certain 

position descriptions to other parts of 

the emergency plan or to implementing 

procedures. 

The proposed changes would have no 

direct impacts on land use or water 

resources, including terrestrial and 

aquatic biota, as the proposed action 

involves no new construction, ground 

disturbing activities, or modification of 

nuclear power plant operational 

systems. For the same reasons, there 

would also be no changes to the quality 

or quantity of non-radiological effluents 

and no changes to the nuclear plant’s 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System permits. Overall 

staffing levels are not expected to 

increase; therefore, worker vehicle air 

emissions are not expected to increase. 

In addition, for the reasons stated 

previously in this notice, there would be 

no noticeable effect on socioeconomic 

conditions in the region, no 

environment justice impacts, and no 

impacts to historic properties and 

cultural resources from the proposed 

licensing action. Therefore, there would 

be no significant non-radiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed agency action. 

In addition, the proposed licensing 

action would not have a significant 

effect on the probability or 

consequences of radiological accidents 

because the emergency plan must 

continue to meet the standards of 10 

CFR 50.47(b) and the requirements in 10 

CFR part 50, appendix E. For the same 

reasons there would be no change to the 

types or amounts of non-radioactive 

effluents, there would also be no change 

to the types or amounts of radioactive 

effluents released into the environment 

and, therefore, no change in 

occupational or public radiation 

exposure from the proposed changes. 

Therefore, there would be no significant 

radiological impacts associated with the 

proposed agency action. 

The NRC staff therefore concludes 

that the proposed licensing action 

would not significantly affect plant 

safety and would not have a significant 

adverse effect on the probability of or 

consequences from an accident. 

Accordingly, the NRC staff concludes 

that the proposed agency action would 

have no significant environmental effect 

on the quality of the human 

environment. 

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 at Columbia. As 

determined above, the proposed action 

would have no significant 

environmental effect on the quality of 

the human environment. Accordingly, 

the environmental impacts of the 

proposed action and the no action 

alternative would be similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

There are no unresolved conflicts 

concerning alternative uses of available 

environmental resources under the 

proposed action. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

No additional agencies or persons 

were consulted regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. Because the proposed action is 

not a type of activity that has the 

potential to cause effects on historic 

properties, the NRC has no further 

obligations under section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act. 

Similarly, the proposed action would 

not affect threatened or endangered 

species. Therefore, consultation under 

section 7 of the Endangered Species Act 

is not required. However, in accordance 

with 10 CFR 50.91(b), the licensee 

provided copies of its application to the 

State of Washington, and the NRC staff 

will consult with the State prior to 

issuance of the amendment. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

Energy Northwest has requested a 

license amendment pursuant to 10 CFR 

50.90, consistent with the requirements 

of 10 CFR 50.54(q), ‘‘Emergency plans,’’ 

to revise the Columbia Emergency Plan 

by removing references to nonminimum augmenting ERO positions 

from the Emergency Plan while 

retaining appropriate positions in 

implementing procedures. The 

amendment would also revise the 

Columbia Emergency Plan by changing 

ERO staffing requirements to align staff 

functions and major task delineations, 

specifically, the on-shift and 

augmenting positions assigned within 

certain functional areas. 

The environmental effects of the 

proposed license request are described 

in the EA, presented in Section II of this 

notice, and incorporated by reference in 

this FONSI. In the EA, the NRC staff 

determined the proposed licensing 

action would not have a significant 

adverse effect on the probability of or 

consequences from an accident, and 

would not have any significant 

radiological or non-radiological 

environmental effects. Based on 

information presented in the EA, the 

NRC concludes that the proposed 

agency action would not have a 

significant impact on the quality of the 

human environment. Accordingly, there 

is no need to prepare an environmental 

impact statement for this proposed 

action. 

As required by 10 CFR 51.32(a)(5), the 

most recent document describing the 

environmental effects of ongoing reactor 

operations and a description of 

environmental conditions at Columbia 

is the ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants: Regarding Columbia 

Generating Station, Final Report,’’ 

NUREG–1437, Supplement 47, April 

2012. 

This FONSI and other related 

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 

accessible electronically from ADAMS 

Public Electronic Reading Room on the 

internet at the NRC’s website: 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 ADAMS. 


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Document description ADAMS accession No. 

Energy Northwest, Columbia Generating Station, Docket No. 50–397, License Amendment Request to Revise 

Columbia Generating Station Emergency Plan, dated January 30, 2024.

ML24030A844. 

Energy Northwest, Columbia Generating Station, Docket No. 50–397, Supplement to License Amendment Request to Revise Columbia Generating Station Emergency Plan, dated March 20, 2024.ML24081A193. 

Energy Northwest, Columbia Generating Station, Docket No. 50–397, Response to Request for Additional Information Regarding License Amendment Request to Revise Columbia Emergency Plan, dated September 10, 

2024.

ML24254A366. 

Energy Northwest, Columbia Generating Station, Docket No. 50–397, Supplement to Response to Request for 

Additional Information Regarding License Amendment Request to Revise Columbia Emergency Plan, dated 

September 24, 2024.

ML24269A254. 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Federal Emergency Management Agency, ‘‘Criteria for Preparation 

and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness,’’ NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, 

Revision 2, dated December 2019.

ML19347D139. 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, letter to Nuclear Energy Institute, ‘‘Alternative Guidance for Licensee 

Emergency Response Organizations,’’ dated June 12, 2018.

ML18022A352. 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear 

Plants: Regarding Columbia Generating Station,’’ NUREG–1437, Supplement 47, Volume 1, dated April 2012.

ML12096A334. 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear 

Plants: Regarding Columbia Generating Station,’’ NUREG–1437, Supplement 47, Volume 2, dated April 2012.

ML12096A336 (Package). 

Dated: November 5, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Mahesh Chawla, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, 

Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2024–26109 Filed 11–8–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–352; 50–353; NRC–2024– 

0194] 

Constellation Energy Generation LLC; 

Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 

and 2; Exemption 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an 

exemption in response to letter dated 

February 17, 2023, as supplemented by 

letters dated July 21, 2023, July 31, 

2023, August 16, 2023, and May 28, 

2024. Constellation Energy Generation 

LLC (Constellation, the licensee) has 

requested exemption from specific 

requirements for reduction of risk from 

anticipated transients without scram 

(ATWS) events for light-water-cooled 

nuclear power plants. Constellation is 

the holder of the Renewed Facility 

Operating License Nos. NPF–39 and 

NPF–85, which authorize the operation 

of Limerick Generating Station, Units 1 

and 2 (Limerick). 

DATES: This document was published in 

the Federal Register on November 12, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2024–0194 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–2024–0194. 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. 

• 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Marshall, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–415– 

2871; email: Michael.Marshall@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Constellation is the holder of the 

Renewed Facility Operating License 

Nos. NPF–39 and NPF–85, which 

authorize the operation of Limerick 

Generating Station, Units 1 and 2. The 

facilities consist of boiling water 

reactors (BWRs) located in Montgomery 

County, Pennsylvania and is located 

next to the Schuylkill River. 

By letter dated February 17, 2023, as 

supplemented by letters dated July 21, 

2023, July 31, 2023, August 16, 2023, 

and May 28, 2024, Constellation has 

requested exemption from specific 

requirements of section 50.62 of title 10 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), ‘‘Requirements for reduction of 

risk from anticipated transients without 

scram (ATWS) events for light-watercooled nuclear power plants.’’ A 

publicly available version of each letter 

is in ADAMS under Accession Nos. 

ML23052A023, ML23202A219, 

ML23212B105, ML23228A094, and 

ML24149A211, respectively. 

Constellation specifically requests an 

exemption from the requirements of 10 

CFR 50.62(c)(3) and the automatic 

activation requirements of 10 CFR 

50.62(c)(4) and (c)(5) for a period of 30 

days before the calendar year 2027 

refueling outage for Unit 2 and for a 

period of 30 days before the calendar 

year 2026 refueling outage for Unit 1. In 

conjunction with this exemption request 

the licensee submitted an associated 

license amendment request (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML23052A023) to add 

operational constraints to the limiting 

conditions of operations in the technical 

specifications (TSs) for each Limerick 

unit to be in effect during each 

respective exemption period to ensure 

that there is no increase in the potential 


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