[Federal Register: November 14, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 220)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-331]

 
Nuclear Management Company, LLC; Notice of Issuance of Amendment 
to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 243 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-49 issued to 
Nuclear Management Company, LLC (the licensee), which revised the 
Operating License and Technical Specifications (TS) for operation of 
the Duane Arnold Energy Center (DAEC) located in Linn County, Iowa. The

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amendment is effective as of the date of issuance.
    The amendment modified the Operating License and TS to allow an 
increase of the authorized operating power level from 1658 megawatts 
thermal (MWt) to 1912 MWt at DAEC. The change represents an increase of 
15.3 percent above the current rated thermal power and is considered an 
extended power uprate.
    The application for the amendment 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 
amendment.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action was published in the Federal Register on September 27, 2001 (66 
FR 49426). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene 
was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of the amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (66 FR 
55703).
    Further details with respect to the action see (1) the application 
for amendment dated November 16, 2000, as supplemented April 16 (two 
letters) and 17; May 8 (two letters), 10, 11 (two letters), 22, and 29; 
June 5, 11, 18, 21, and 28; July 11, 19, and 25; August 1, 10, 16, and 
21; and October 17, 2001, (2) Amendment No. 243 to License No. DPR-49, 
(3) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the 
Commission's Environmental Assessment. Documents may be examined, and/
or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room, located at One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 
Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically 
from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) 
Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, 
http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. Persons who do not have access 
to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located 
in ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff 
by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to 
pdr@nrc.gov.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of November 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
 Brenda L. Mozafari,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate III, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 01-28510 Filed 11-13-01; 8:45 am]
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