13900 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 56 / Monday, March 24, 1997 / Notices

[Docket Nos. 50–424 and 50–425]

Georgia Power Company, et al.; Notice

of Issuance of Amendments to Facility

Operating Licenses and Final

Determination of No Significant

Hazards Consideration

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (Commission) has issued

Amendment No. 97 to Facility

Operating License No. NPF–68 and

Amendment No. 75 to Facility

Operating License No. NPF–81, issued

to the Georgia Power Company, et al.,

which revised the Technical

Specifications, Licenses, Environmental

Protection Plans and Antitrust

conditions for operation of the Vogtle

Electric Generating Plant (the facility),

Units 1 and 2, located in Burke County,

Georgia. The amendments were effective

as of the date of issuance and shall be

implemented within 60 days of the date

of issuance and upon the official

transfer of responsibilities between

Georgia Power Company and Southern

Nuclear.

The amendments modify the Facility

Operating Licenses, Technical

Specifications, Environmental

Protection Plans, and Antitrust

conditions to add Southern Nuclear

Operating Company, Inc., as operator of

the facility, with exclusive

responsibility and control over its

physical construction, operation, and

maintenance. The Antitrust license

conditions divorce Southern Nuclear

from marketing or brokering power or

energy from the Vogtle plant and holds

Georgia Power Company accountable for

the actions of its agent, Southern

Nuclear, to the extent Southern

Nuclear’s actions contravene the Vogtle

Antitrust license conditions. An Order

Approving Southern Nuclear Operating

Company, Incorporated, As Exclusive

Operator was included along with the

issuance of the amendments.

The application for the amendments

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 amendments.

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of

Amendments and Proposed No

Significant Hazards Consideration

Determination and Opportunity for

Hearing in connection with this action

was published in the Federal Register

on October 14, 1992 (57 FR 47135). A

request for a hearing was filed on

October 22, 1992, by Allen L. Mosbaugh

and Marvin B. Hobby.

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 no significant hazards

consideration is involved.

The Commission has applied the

standards of 10 CFR 50.92 and has made

a final determination that the

amendments involve no significant

hazards consideration. The basis for this

determination is contained in the Safety

Evaluation related to this action.

Accordingly, as described above, the

amendments have been issued and

made immediately effective and any

hearing will be held after issuance.

The Commission has prepared an

Environmental Assessment (57 FR

49724), published on November 3, 1992,

related to the action and has concluded

that an environmental impact statement

is not warranted because there will be

no environmental impact attributable to

the action beyond that which has been

predicted and described in the

Commission’s Final Environmental

Statement for the facility dated March

1985.

For further details with respect to the

action see (1) the application for

amendments dated September 18, 1992,

as supplemented by letters dated

October 7 (two letters), 15, 23, and

November 13, 1992, March 5, May 21,

June 14, and December 17, 1993, April

6 and July 27, 1995, and September 11,

October 1, December 12, 19, 23 and 30,

1996, (2) Amendment No. 97 to Facility

Operating License No. NPF–68 and

Amendment No. 75 to Facility

Operating License No. NPF–81, and (3)

the Commission’s related Safety

Evaluation and Order. All of these items

are available for public inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room,

2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC,

and at the Burke County Library, 412

Fourth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia. A

copy of items (2) and (3) may be

obtained upon request addressed to the

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention:

Director, Division of Reactor Projects—

I/II.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day

of March 1997.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Herbert N. Berkow,

Director, Project Director II–2, Division of

Reactor Projects—I/II, Office of Nuclear

Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 97–7334 Filed 3–21–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

[Docket Nos. 50–424 and 50–425]

Georgia Power Company, et al., (Vogtle

Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and

2); Order Approving Southern Nuclear

Operating Company, Inc., as Exclusive

Operator

I.

Georgia Power Company (GPC),

Oglethorpe Power Corporation,

Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia,

and City of Dalton, Georgia (the

Owners), are the holders of Facility

Operating License No. NPF–68 for

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant (Vogtle)

Unit 1 and Facility Operating License

No. NPF–81 for Vogtle Unit 2. These

licenses generally authorize GPC to

possess, use, and operate—and the other

Owners to possess but not operate—the

Vogtle facility in accordance with the

standards and requirements of the

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,

and the rules and regulations of the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

In its capacity as licensed operator, GPC

acts for itself and on behalf of the

Owners. The Vogtle facility is located in

Burke County, Georgia.

II.

By letter dated September 18, 1992, as

supplemented by letters dated October 7

(two letters), 15, 23, and November 13,

1992, March 5, May 21, June 14, and

December 17, 1993, April 6 and July 27,

1995, and September 11, October 1,

December 12, 19, 23 and 30, 1996, GPC

requested approval, and amendments to

the licenses for Southern Nuclear

Operating Company, Inc. (Southern

Nuclear), to become the operator of the

Vogtle facility, and to have exclusive

responsibility and control over its

physical construction, operation, and

maintenance. Southern Nuclear and

GPC are wholly owned subsidiaries of

The Southern Company. Southern

Nuclear was formed in December 1990

for the purpose of consolidating into a

single organization personnel within

The Southern Company’s electric

system engaged in nuclear operation.

Southern Nuclear is the exclusive

operator of the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear

Plant, Units 1 and 2, located near

Dothan, Alabama.

On October 14, 1992, the NRC noticed

the proposed transfer of operating