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the design certification (DC) and
combined license (COL) applications.
The NRC staff issues DC/COL–ISGs to
facilitate timely implementation of
current staff guidance and to facilitate
activities associated with NRC review of
applications for DCs and COLs. The
NRC staff intends to incorporate the
final approved DC/COL–ISG–018 into
the next revisions of NUREG–0800, SRP
Section 17.4 and Regulatory Guide (RG)
1.206, ‘‘Combined License Applications
for Nuclear Power Plants (LWR
Edition),’’ June 2007.
Disposition: On October 30, 2009, the
NRC staff issued proposed DC/COL–
ISG–018 on ‘‘Reliability Assurance
Program,’’ ADAMS Accession No.
ML092290791. The staff received only
editorial comments which were
incorporated. However, the ISG was
further discussed at public meetings
held at the NRC during 2010. These
public meetings primarily focused on
the Tier 1 inspections, tests, analyses,
and acceptance criteria for the COL RAP
during the design stage, which is
specified in the ISG. This final issuance
incorporates clarifications that resulted
from these public meetings. A document
comparing the version of the ISG that
was issued for public comments and the
final version of the ISG can be found
under ADAMS Accession No.
ML103010361.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
William F. Burton,
Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance
Development Branch, Division of New Reactor
Licensing, Office of New Reactor.
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Office of New Reactors; Final Interim
Staff Guidance on the Review of
Nuclear Power Plant Designs Using a
Gas Turbine Driven Standby
Emergency Alternating Current Power
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Nuclear Regulatory
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ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The NRC staff is issuing its
Final Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DC/
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Guidance on the Review of Nuclear
Power Plant Designs Using a Gas
Turbine Driven Standby Emergency
Alternating Current Power System,’’
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Accession No. ML102510119 for DC/
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DC/COL–ISG–021. This ISG provides
new guidance for applicants submitting
a combined license (COL) or design
certification (DC) application for new
nuclear power reactors under Title 10 of
the Code of Federal Regulations, part 52.
In addition, it supplements the guidance
provided to the NRC staff in NUREG–
0800, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the
Review of Safety Analysis Reports for
Nuclear Power Plants,’’ March 2007,
Standard Review Plan (SRP), Section
8.3.1 and Sections 9.5.4 through 9.5.8.
The NRC staff issues DC/COL–ISGs to
facilitate activities associated with NRC
review of applications for DCs and
COLs. The NRC staff intends to
incorporate DC/COL–ISG–021 into the
next revision of SRP Section 8.3.1 and
Sections 9.5.4 through 9.5.8 and
Regulatory Guide 1.206, ‘‘Combined
License Applications for Nuclear Power
Plants (LWR Edition),’’ June 2007.
Disposition: On February 3, 2010, the
NRC staff issued proposed DC/COL–
ISG–021 on ‘‘Review of Nuclear Power
Plant Designs Using a Gas Turbine
Driven Standby Emergency Alternating
Current Power System,’’ ADAMS
Accession No. ML092640035. The NRC
staff received comments on the
proposed guidance. This final issuance
resolves the majority of the comments.
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ADAMS, which provides text and image
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0155 or e-mail at samuel.lee@nrc.gov.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd
day of March 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
William F. Burton,
Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance
Development Branch, Division of New Reactor
Licensing, Office of New Reactor.
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Notice of Finding of No Significant
Antitrust Changes and Time for Filing
Requests for Reevaluation for
Tennessee Valley Authority, Watts Bar
Nuclear Plant, Unit 2, Spring City, TN
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Tennessee Valley Authority,
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2; Notice
of No Significant Antitrust Changes and
Time for Filing Requests for
Reevaluation.
AGENCY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Aaron Szabo, Financial Analyst,
Financial Analysis and International
Projects Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001. Telephone: 301–415–1985; fax
number: 301–415–2102; e-mail:
Aaron.Szabo@nrc.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The Director of the Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation (NRR) has made a
finding in accordance with Section
105c(2) of the Atomic Energy Act, as
amended, that no significant (antitrust)
changes in the applicant’s activities or
proposed activities have occurred
subsequent to the antitrust construction
permit review of Unit 2 of the Watts Bar
Nuclear Plant (WBN) by the U.S.
Attorney General and the Commission.
Section 105c(2) of the Atomic Energy
Act of 1954, as amended, provides for
an antitrust review of an operating
license application, filed before August
8, 2005, if the Commission determines
that significant changes in the
applicant’s activities or proposed
activities have occurred subsequent to
the previous construction permit
review. The Commission has delegated
the authority to make the ‘‘significant
change’’ determination to the Director,
NRR.
Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA)
application for construction permits and
operating licenses for the WBN Units 1
and 2 have been the subject of 4
previous antitrust reviews. In
connection with the construction permit
review in 1972, the Acting Assistant
Attorney General for Antitrust of the
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) found
no antitrust problems that would
require a hearing. In subsequent
operating license reviews in 1979, 1983
and 1991, the NRC staff found ‘‘no
significant changes’’ that would warrant
an operating license antitrust review.
Based upon an examination of the
events since the previous operating
license review of TVA’s activities
conducted in 1991, the NRC staff has
concluded, after consulting with the
Department of Justice, that the changes
that have occurred since the
construction permit review are not of
the nature to require a formal antitrust
review at the operating license stage of
the application.
II. Summary of Staff Analysis and
Recommendation
In reaching this conclusion, the NRC
staff considered the structure of the
utility industry in the Tennessee Valley
and adjacent areas, the events relevant
to the construction permit review and
the previous operating license reviews
for WBN. Due to construction delays at
the WBN facility, the staff reviewed
TVA’s activities in 1979, 1983, 1990,
and again in 2010 to determine whether
there have been changes in TVA’s
activities since the completion on the
construction permit antitrust review in
1972 that would create or maintain a
situation inconsistent with the antitrust
laws. Several types of changes were
identified in each of the earlier post
construction permit reviews; however, it
was determined that none of the
changes resulted from abuse of TVA’s
market power.
In its review of TVA’s activities in the
2010 operating license review, the staff
again found no evidence of changed
activity associated with abuse of its
market power. In relation to TVA’s
customers, TVA projected a capacity
shortfall based on previous long-term
agreements, with or without the
operation of WBN Unit 2, which would
be inconsistent with a utility using
anticompetitive behavior. In relation to
building transmission, rate schedules
and capacity additions other than from
operation of WBN Unit 2, all of the
developments were not atypical of a
large utility and did not raise significant
antitrust issues.
Further, in 1997, TVA reached a
settlement agreement that defined the
counterparties and arrangements under
which TVA can only make exchange
power arrangements with other power
generating companies consistent with
the provisions of the Tennessee Valley
Authority Act of 1933, as amended
(TVA Act). The region that TVA is
allowed to supply and sell power is still
dictated by Section 15d(a) of the TVA
Act. But, TVA may now only engage in
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construction of generating capacity or
purchase of generating capacity as it
needs to supply power demands in its
own service area and may not
knowingly exchange power if the
purchaser is procuring power for the
purpose of reselling such power at
wholesale to any third party not
authorized to exchange power with the
TVA.
As a result, the NRC staff does not
believe that any changed activity
attributed to TVA since the 1979
operating license review is ‘‘significant’’
in terms of the Commission’s V.C.
Summer decision (see Commission
Memorandum and Order CLI–80–28,
dated June 30, 1980, at 11 NRC 817).
The staff recommended that the Director
of the Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation find that ‘‘no significant
changes’’ have occurred in TVA’s
activities since the previous antitrust
operating license review completed in
1991.
III. Finding of No Significant Changes
On the basis of the staff’s analysis and
recommendation, the Director of NRR
has concluded in his decision dated
March 21, 2011, that there have been no
‘‘significant changes’’ in the applicant’s
activities or proposed activities since
the completion of the previous antitrust
review.
IV. Further Information
Documents related to this action,
including the application for an
operating license and supporting
documentation, are available
electronically at the NRC’s Electronic
Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/adams.html. From this site,
you can access the NRC’s Agencywide
Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS), which provides text
and image files of NRC’s public
documents. The ADAMS accession
numbers for the documents related to
this notice are:
Document description
If you do not have access to ADAMS
or if there are problems in accessing the
documents located in ADAMS, contact
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NRC letter to DOJ, dated August 23, 1971, forwarding antitrust review.
DOJ letter dated December 11, 1972, with no antitrust problems.
NRC letter dated September 20, 1991, No Significant Change Finding.
TVA updated application for WBN Unit 2 operating license, dated March 4, 2009.
TVA letter of May 13, 2010, Update Antitrust Review.
TVA letter of July 29, 2010, Response to request for additional information.
DOJ letter dated December 16, 2010, with no antitrust problems.
TVA letter of February 22, 2011, response to antitrust clarification questions.
the NRC Public Document Room (PDR)
Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
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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.
Any person whose interest may be
affected by this finding, may file, with
full particulars, a request for
reevaluation with the Director of the
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555 within 30 days
of the initial publication of this notice
for the Federal Register. Request for
reevaluation of the no significant change
determination shall be accepted after
the date when the Director’s finding
becomes final, but before the issuance of
the operating license only if they
contain new information, such as
information about facts or events of
antitrust significance that have occurred
since that date or information that could
not reasonably have been admitted prior
to that date.
A copy of the director’s decision will
be filed with the Secretary of the
Commission for the Commission’s
review. The director’s decision will
constitute the final action of the
Commission 30 days after the date of the
decision, unless the Commission, on its
own motion, institutes a review of the
director’s decision in that time.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd
day of March 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen J. Campbell,
Chief, Watts Bar Special Projects Branch,
Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power
Station; Notice of Issuance of
Renewed Facility Operating License
No. DPR–28 for an Additional 20-Year
Period; Record of Decision
Notice is hereby given that the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC
of the Commission) has issued Renewed
Facility Operating License No. DPR–28
to Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee,
LLC (Entergy VY), and Entergy Nuclear
Operations, Inc. (ENO), (licensee), the
operator of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear
Power Station (VYNPS). Renewed
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Facility Operating License No. DPR–28
authorizes operation of VYNPS by the
licensee at reactor core power levels not
in excess of 1912 megawatts thermal
(650 megawatts electric), in accordance
with the provisions of the VYNPS
renewed license and its technical
specifications.
The notice also serves as the record of
decision for the renewal of Facility
Operating License No. DPR–28,
consistent with Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations Section 51.103 (10
CFR 51.103). As discussed in the final
supplemental environmental impact
statement for VYNPS, dated August
2007, the Commission has considered a
range of reasonable alternatives that
included the no-action alternative. The
factors considered in the record of
decision can be found in the
supplemental environmental impact
statement (SEIS) for VYNPS.
VYNPS is a boiling water reactor
located five miles south of Brattleboro,
Vermont. The application for the
renewed license 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 1, the Commission has made
appropriate findings, which are set forth
in the renewed license. Prior public
notice of the Commission considering
the license renewal application (LRA)
and of an opportunity for a hearing
regarding the LRA was published in the
Federal Register on March 27, 2006
(71 FR 15220).
For further details with respect to this
action, see: (1) Entergy VY and ENO,
LRA for VYNPS dated January 25, 2006,
as supplemented by letters dated
through February 21, 2008; (2) the
Commission’s safety evaluation report
(SER) (NUREG–1907), published in May
2008; (3) Supplements 1 and 2 to the
SER, published in September 2009 and
March 2011; (4) the licensee’s updated
safety analysis report; and (5) the
Commission’s final environmental
impact statement (NUREG–1437,
Supplement 30), for VYNPS, published
on August 1, 2007. These documents are
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Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
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Public Electronic Reading Room at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
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Copies of the Renewed Facility
Operating License No. DPR–28, may be
obtained by writing to the U.S. Nuclear
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Division of License Renewal. Copies of
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supplemental SER, and the final
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purchased from the National Technical
Information Service, U.S. Department of
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(https://www.ntis.gov), 703–605–6000, or
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day
of March, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bo M. Pham,
Chief, Projects Branch 1, Division of License
Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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[Docket No. 50-391; NRC-2008-0369]
Notice of Finding of No Significant Antitrust Changes and Time
for Filing Requests for Reevaluation for Tennessee Valley Authority,
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2, Spring City, TN
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Tennessee Valley Authority, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 2;
Notice of No Significant Antitrust Changes and Time for Filing Requests
for Reevaluation.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Szabo, Financial Analyst,
Financial Analysis and International Projects Branch, Division of
Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Telephone:
301-415-1985; fax number: 301-415-2102; e-mail: Aaron.Szabo@nrc.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) has
made a finding in accordance with Section 105c(2) of the Atomic Energy
Act, as amended, that no significant (antitrust) changes in the
applicant's activities or proposed activities have occurred subsequent
to the antitrust construction permit review of Unit 2 of the Watts Bar
Nuclear Plant (WBN) by the U.S. Attorney General and the Commission.
Section 105c(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,
provides for an antitrust review of an operating license application,
filed before August 8, 2005, if the Commission determines that
significant changes in the applicant's activities or proposed
activities have occurred subsequent to the previous construction permit
review. The Commission has delegated the authority to make the
``significant change'' determination to the Director, NRR.
Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) application for construction
permits and operating licenses for the WBN Units 1 and 2 have been the
subject of 4 previous antitrust reviews. In connection with the
construction permit review in 1972, the Acting Assistant Attorney
General for Antitrust of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) found no
antitrust problems that would require a hearing. In subsequent
operating license reviews in 1979, 1983 and 1991, the NRC staff found
``no significant changes'' that would warrant an operating license
antitrust review.
Based upon an examination of the events since the previous
operating license review of TVA's activities conducted in 1991, the NRC
staff has concluded, after consulting with the Department of Justice,
that the changes that have occurred since the construction permit
review are not of the nature to require a formal antitrust review at
the operating license stage of the application.
II. Summary of Staff Analysis and Recommendation
In reaching this conclusion, the NRC staff considered the structure
of the utility industry in the Tennessee Valley and adjacent areas, the
events relevant to the construction permit review and the previous
operating license reviews for WBN. Due to construction delays at the
WBN facility, the staff reviewed TVA's activities in 1979, 1983, 1990,
and again in 2010 to determine whether there have been changes in TVA's
activities since the completion on the construction permit antitrust
review in 1972 that would create or maintain a situation inconsistent
with the antitrust laws. Several types of changes were identified in
each of the earlier post construction permit reviews; however, it was
determined that none of the changes resulted from abuse of TVA's market
power.
In its review of TVA's activities in the 2010 operating license
review, the staff again found no evidence of changed activity
associated with abuse of its market power. In relation to TVA's
customers, TVA projected a capacity shortfall based on previous long-
term agreements, with or without the operation of WBN Unit 2, which
would be inconsistent with a utility using anticompetitive behavior. In
relation to building transmission, rate schedules and capacity
additions other than from operation of WBN Unit 2, all of the
developments were not atypical of a large utility and did not raise
significant antitrust issues.
Further, in 1997, TVA reached a settlement agreement that defined
the counterparties and arrangements under which TVA can only make
exchange power arrangements with other power generating companies
consistent with the provisions of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of
1933, as amended (TVA Act). The region that TVA is allowed to supply
and sell power is still dictated by Section 15d(a) of the TVA Act. But,
TVA may now only engage in construction of generating capacity or
purchase of generating capacity as it needs to supply power demands in
its own service area and may not knowingly exchange power if the
purchaser is procuring power for the purpose of reselling such power at
wholesale to any third party not authorized to exchange power with the
TVA.
As a result, the NRC staff does not believe that any changed
activity attributed to TVA since the 1979 operating license review is
``significant'' in terms of the Commission's V.C. Summer decision (see
Commission Memorandum and Order CLI-80-28, dated June 30, 1980, at 11
NRC 817). The staff recommended that the Director of the Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation find that ``no significant changes'' have
occurred in TVA's activities since the previous antitrust operating
license review completed in 1991.
III. Finding of No Significant Changes
On the basis of the staff's analysis and recommendation, the
Director of NRR has concluded in his decision dated March 21, 2011,
that there have been no ``significant changes'' in the applicant's
activities or proposed activities since the completion of the previous
antitrust review.
IV. Further Information
Documents related to this action, including the application for an
operating license and supporting documentation, are available
electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), which
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS
accession numbers for the documents related to this notice are:
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Accession No. Document description
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ML073130086............................ NRC letter to DOJ, dated August 23, 1971, forwarding antitrust review.
ML073130092............................ DOJ letter dated December 11, 1972, with no antitrust problems.
ML073380454............................ NRC letter dated September 20, 1991, No Significant Change Finding.
ML090700378............................ TVA updated application for WBN Unit 2 operating license, dated March 4, 2009.
ML101400184............................ TVA letter of May 13, 2010, Update Antitrust Review.
ML102160085............................ TVA letter of July 29, 2010, Response to request for additional information.
ML110691059............................ DOJ letter dated December 16, 2010, with no antitrust problems.
ML110550652............................ TVA letter of February 22, 2011, response to antitrust clarification questions.
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If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in
accessing the documents 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.resource@nrc.gov.
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These documents 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.
Any person whose interest may be affected by this finding, may
file, with full particulars, a request for reevaluation with the
Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555 within 30 days of the
initial publication of this notice for the Federal Register. Request
for reevaluation of the no significant change determination shall be
accepted after the date when the Director's finding becomes final, but
before the issuance of the operating license only if they contain new
information, such as information about facts or events of antitrust
significance that have occurred since that date or information that
could not reasonably have been admitted prior to that date.
A copy of the director's decision will be filed with the Secretary
of the Commission for the Commission's review. The director's decision
will constitute the final action of the Commission 30 days after the
date of the decision, unless the Commission, on its own motion,
institutes a review of the director's decision in that time.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of March 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen J. Campbell,
Chief, Watts Bar Special Projects Branch, Division of Operating Reactor
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-7213 Filed 3-25-11; 8:45 am]
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