Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 112 / Friday, June 12, 2009 / Notices 28071 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Equal Opportunities in 

Science and Engineering (CEOSE); 

Notice of Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, as amended), the National Science 

Foundation announces the following 

meeting: 

Name: Committee on Equal Opportunities 

in Science and Engineering (1173). 

Dates/Time: June 29, 2009, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 

p.m. June 30, 2009, 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m. 

Place: National Science Foundation (NSF), 

4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1235 

Arlington, VA 22230. 

To help facilitate your access into the 

building, please contact the individual listed 

below prior to the meeting so that a visitors 

badge may be prepared for you in advance. 

Type of Meeting: Open. 

Contact Person: Dr. Margaret E.M. Tolbert, 

Senior Advisor and CEOSE Executive 

Liaison, Office of Integrative Activities, 

National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. 

Telephone Numbers: (703) 292–4216, (703) 

292–8040, mtolbert@nsf.gov. 

Minutes: Minutes may be obtained from 

the Executive Liaison at the above address or 

the Web site at http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/ 

activities/ceose/index.jsp. 

Purpose of Meeting: To study NSF 

programs and policies and provide advice 

and recommendations concerning 

broadening participation in science and 

engineering. 

Agenda 

Monday, June 29, 2009 

Opening Statement by the CEOSE Chair. 

Presentations and Discussions: 

✓ The Intersection of Science and 

Engineering with Diversity and 

Inclusion; 

✓ Women and Underrepresented 

Minorities in STEM: a Science Policy 

Perspective; 

✓ A Conversation with the Deputy 

Director of the National Science 

Foundation; 

✓ Plans for the CEOSE Mini-Symposium 

on Women of Color in Science and 

Engineering; 

✓ Key Points from the ‘‘Understanding 

Interventions that Broaden Participation 

in Research Careers Conference’’; 

✓ Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability 

in China—A CEOSE Member’s 

Perspective; 

✓ The 2007–2008 CEOSE Biennial Report 

to Congress; 

✓ Concurrent Meetings of CEOSE Ad Hoc 

Subcommittees; 

✓ Reports by Ad Hoc Subcommittee 

Chairs. 

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 

Opening Statement by the CEOSE Chair. 

Presentations and Discussions: 

✓ NSF Program Management Curriculum, 

Program Directors’ Seminar With a Focus 

on Broadening Participation Aspects; 

✓ Broadening Participation at the National 

Science Foundation and the Impact of 

the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act and America 

Competes Act; 

✓ Reports by CEOSE Liaisons to Various 

NSF Advisory Committees; 

✓ Completion of Unfinished Business. 

Dated: June 9, 2009. 

Susanne Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

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[Dockets 50–0416 and 72–0050; NRC–2009– 

0230] 

Notice of Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact; Entergy 

Operations, Inc., Grand Gulf Nuclear 

Station, Independent Spent Fuel 

Storage Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Goshen, Project Manager, Division of 

Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555. 

Telephone: (301) 492–3325; fax number: 

(301) 492–3342; e-mail: 

john.goshen@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Environmental Assessment (EA) 

Identification of Proposed Action: By 

letter dated December 22, 2008, as 

supplemented March 20, 2009, Entergy 

Operations, Inc. (Entergy) submitted to 

the United States Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) a one-time 

exemption request from the 

requirements of 10 CFR 72.212(a)(2) and 

(b)(7) for four HI–STORM 100 System 

Model 68 Multi-Purpose Canisters 

(MPCs) at the Grand Gulf Nuclear 

Station (GGNS) Independent Spent Fuel 

Storage Facility (ISFSI) due to noncompliance with two of the terms and 

conditions of Certificate of Compliance 

(CoC)–1014, Amendment No. 2 at the 

time of cask loading. Section 

72.212(a)(2) limits the general license 

issued by 10 CFR 72.210 to the storage 

of spent fuel in casks approved under 

the provisions of Part 72. Section 

72.212(b)(7) requires that the general 

licensee to comply with the terms and 

conditions of the applicable CoC. 

In December 2006, due to a database 

error, Entergy loaded four MPCs with 

individual fuel assemblies (IFAs) that 

exceeded the maximum burnup limits 

and maximum decay heat limits 

specified in the CoC–1014, Amendment 

No. 2, Appendix B, Section 2.1. 

Additionally, the supplemental cooling 

required by the CoC–1014, Amendment 

No. 2, Appendix A, Section 3.1.4 for the 

four MPCs had not been implemented. 

Entergy identified the non-compliances 

on June 18, 2008, in an event report to 

the NRC, along with a preliminary 

evaluation that determined that fuel 

cladding temperatures had not exceeded 

thermal limits during any time during 

the affected period. The proposed action 

before the NRC is whether to grant this 

exemption request pursuant to 10 CFR 

72.7. 

Need for the Proposed Action: Entergy 

requested the exemption from 10 CFR 

72.212(a)(2) and 10 CFR 72.212(b)(7) to 

allow continued, non-compliant storage 

of the IFAs in the affected MPCs. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Proposed Action: The proposed action 

under consideration would allow 

Entergy a one-time exemption from 10 

CFR 72.212(a)(2) and 10 CFR 

72.212(b)(7) for the four affected MPCs 

at GGNS ISFSI. Entergy’s evaluation and 

a thermal analysis by Holtec, the 

fabricator of the cask system, 

determined that the fuel cladding was 

intact, and therefore, the integrity of the 

affected MPCs and the contained IFAs 

was not compromised. The heat loads in 

the affected casks have decreased to 

within the limits set by CoC–1014. 

The NRC staff concludes that the 

requested exemption has low safety 

significance and that, in accordance 

with 10 CFR 72.7, approval of the 

requested exemption will not endanger 

life or property or the common defense 

and security and is otherwise in the 

public interest. The NRC staff further 

concludes that approving the exemption 

request would have no significant 

impact on the environment. 

Alternative to the Proposed Action: 

The no-action alternative to the 

proposed action would be to deny 

approval of the exemption. Denial of the 

exemption request would require 

Entergy to unload the affected MPCs. 

Unloading the MPCs would expose 

Entergy’s personnel to additional 

radiation, generate contaminated waste, 

and run the risks of a possible fuel 

handling accident and a possible heavy 

load handling accident. 

Given the risks associated with 

unloading the casks and that there are 

no significant radiological or nonradiological environmental impacts 

arising from the continued storage of the 

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IFAs in the affected MPCs, the NRC 

concludes that the preferred alternative 

is to grant the exemption request. 

II. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The environmental impacts of the 

proposed action have been reviewed in 

accordance with the requirements set 

forth in 10 CFR Part 51. Based upon the 

foregoing Environmental Assessment, 

the Commission finds that the proposed 

action of granting an exemption from 10 

CFR 72.212(a)(2) and 10 CFR 

72.212(b)(7) will not significantly 

impact the quality of the human 

environment. Accordingly, the 

Commission has determined not to 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the proposed exemption. 

III. Further Information 

The document related to this action is 

available electronically at the NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. A 

copy of the exemption request, dated 

December 22, 2008, can be found on this 

site using the Agencywide Document 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS), accession number 

ML091470104. If you do not have access 

to ADAMS or if there are problems in 

accessing the document located in 

ADAMS, contact the NRC Public 

Document Room (PDR) Reference staff 

at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737 or 

by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

This document may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s Public Document 

Room (PDR), O1 F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

MD 20852. The PDR reproduction 

contractor will copy documents for a 

fee. 

Dated at Rockville, MD, this 3rd day of 

June 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Eric Benner, 

Chief, Licensing Branch, Division of Spent 

Fuel Storage and Transportation, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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[Docket Nos. 50–424 and 50–425; NRC– 

2009–0237] 

Southern Nuclear Operating Co., Inc., 

Georgia Power Company, Oglethorpe 

Power Corporation, Municipal Electric 

Authority of Georgia: City of Dalton, 

Georgia Vogtle Electric Generating 

Plant, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Issuance 

of Renewed Facility Operating License 

Nos. NPF–68 and NPF–81 for an 

Additional 20-Year Period Record of 

Decision 

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC 

or the Commission) has issued Renewed 

Facility Operating License Nos. NPF–68 

and NPF–81 to Southern Nuclear 

Operating Company, Inc. (licensee), 

Georgia Power Company, Oglethorpe 

Power Corporation, Municipal Electric 

Authority of Georgia, and City of Dalton, 

Georgia, co-owners of the Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant (VEGP), Units 1 and 2. 

Renewed Facility Operating License 

Nos. NPF–68 and NPF–81 authorize 

operation of VEGP by the licensee at 

reactor core power levels not in excess 

of 3,625.6 megawatts thermal for each 

unit, in accordance with the provisions 

of the VEGP renewed licenses and their 

technical specifications. 

This notice also serves as the record 

of decision for the renewal of Facility 

Operating License Nos. NPF–68 and 

NPF–81 for VEGP, consistent with Title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR) Section 51.103, ‘‘Record of 

Decision-General.’’ As discussed in the 

final supplemental environmental 

impact statement for VEGP (NUREG– 

1437, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants,’’ Supplement 34, 

‘‘Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 

1 and 2,’’ issued December 2008), the 

Commission considered a range of 

reasonable alternatives that included 

power generation from coal, natural gas, 

oil, wind, solar, hydropower, 

geothermal, wood waste, municipal 

solid waste, and other biomass-derived 

fuels; delayed retirement; utilitysponsored conservation, and a 

combination of alternatives, including a 

no-action alternative. The factors 

considered in the record of decision 

appear in Supplement 34. 

VEGP is a dual-unit pressurized-water 

reactor designed by Westinghouse 

Electric Corporation that is located in 

Wayne County, GA. The site is located 

approximately 25 miles south of 

Augusta, GA. The application for the 

renewed licenses complied with the 

standards and requirements of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 

(the Act), and the Commission’s 

regulations. As required by the Act and 

the Commission’s regulations in 10 CFR 

Chapter I, the Commission has made 

appropriate findings, which the license 

sets forth. 

Prior public notice of the action 

involving the proposed issuance of the 

renewed license and of an opportunity 

for a hearing regarding the proposed 

issuance of the renewed license was 

published in the Federal Register on 

August 21, 2007 (72 FR 46680). For 

further details with respect to this 

action, see (1) the Southern Nuclear 

Operating Company, Inc., Oglethorpe 

Power Corporation, Municipal Electric 

Authority of Georgia, and City of Dalton, 

Georgia, license renewal application for 

VEGP, Units 1 and 2, dated June 29, 

2007, as supplemented by letters dated 

through February 16, 2009, (2) the 

Commission’s safety evaluation report 

(NUREG–1920, ‘‘Safety Evaluation 

Report Related to the License Renewal 

of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, 

Units 1 and 2,’’ Volumes 1 and 2, issued 

April 2009), (3) the licensee’s updated 

safety analysis report, and (4) the 

Commission’s final environmental 

impact statement (NUREG–1437, 

Supplement 34). These documents are 

available at the NRC Public Document 

Room, One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, 

and can be viewed from the NRC Public 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

Copies of Renewed Facility Operating 

License Nos. NPF–68 and NPF–81 may 

be obtained by writing to the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: 

Director, Division of License Renewal. 

Copies of the safety evaluation report for 

VEGP Units 1 and 2 (NUREG–1920, 

Volumes 1 and 2) and the final 

environmental impact statement 

(NUREG–1437, Supplement 34) may be 

purchased from the National Technical 

Information Service, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161–0002 

(http://www.ntis.gov), 703–605–6000; or 

from the Superintendent of Documents, 

U.S. Government Printing Office, P.O. 

Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7954 

(http://www.gpoaccess.gov), 202–512– 

1800. All orders should clearly identify 

the NRC publication number and the 

requester’s Government Printing Office 

deposit account number or a VISA or 

MasterCard number and expiration date. 

Dated at Rockville, MD, this 3rd day of 

June 2009.