NRC: News Release - 2001-092 - NRC Announces Availability of License Renewal Application for Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station

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No. 01-092

July 26, 2001

NRC ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION FOR PEACH BOTTOM ATOMIC POWER STATION

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is announcing the availability for public inspection of an application for a 20-year renewal of the operating licenses for Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3. Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon), operator of the units, submitted the application on July 2.

The Peach Bottom Station is a two-unit boiling water reactor located in York and Lancaster Counties in southeastern Pennsylvania. The current operating licenses for Units 2 and 3 expire on August 8, 2013, and July 2, 2014, respectively.

Copies of the application are being made available electronically. They are located on the NRC web site at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/LR/index.html , and are also available through the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). Help in using ADAMS is available by contacting the NRC Public Document Room staff at 301-415-4737 or 1-800-397-4209, or by sending a message to pdr@nrc.gov via e-mail.

The application is available for public inspection at the NRC's Public Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. In addition, copies of the license renewal application for the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station are available to local residents at the Collinsville Community Library in Brogue, Pennsylvania, and at the Harford County Public Library in Whiteford, Maryland.

The NRC staff is currently conducting an initial review of the application to determine whether it contains enough information for the required formal review. If the application has sufficient information, the NRC will formally "docket," or file, the application and will announce an opportunity to request a hearing in the Federal Register, in about a month.

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