[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 56 (Monday, March 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 13900]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7334]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[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]
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