NRC ISSUES FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR INDIAN POINT NUCLEAR PLANT LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION

December 3, 2010 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has issued its final supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for the proposed renewal of the operating license for Indian Point Nuclear Generating Units 2 and 3 located in Buchanan, N.Y., located 24 miles north of New York City.

The report concluded there are no environmental impacts that would preclude license renewal for an additional 20 years of operation. Indian Point Units 2 and 3 are two pressurized-water reactors whose current operating licenses expire Sept. 28, 2013, and Dec. 12, 2015, respectively.

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., submitted an application to the NRC on April 23, 2007, to extend Indian Point's Unit 2 and 3 licenses by 20 years. Under NRC regulations, the original operating license for a nuclear power plant has a term of 40 years. The license may be renewed for up to an additional 20 years if NRC would be extended until 2033 and 2035, respectively. As part of its environmental review of the application, the NRC held public meetings near the plant to discuss the review process and the draft version of the environmental impact statement. The agency solicited comments from members of the public, local officials, representatives of state and federal agencies and tribal governments. Indian Point's draft environmental impact statement received the most comments of any license renewal application received by the NRC.

 The final publication encompasses three volumes - with Volume 2, discussing the public comments, in three separate parts - and totals more than 2,200 pages. The average SEIS for a license renewal application totals about 480 pages in a single volume. The NRC staff has completed both its environmental and safety reviews for the license renewal application. The agency staff documented its safety review in its safety evaluation report on Aug. 11, 2009, and NRC's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) reviewed it on Sept. 10, 2009. Following the issuance and publication of the Indian Point final SEIS, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel (ASLBP) , NRC's independent adjudicatory body, will establish a hearing schedule and conduct a public hearing concerning contested issues for the Indian Point license renewal application. Indian Point's final SEIS is available on the NRC's website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1437/supplement38/ and can be viewed in the NRC's ADAMS online documents system at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams/web-based.html by entering the following corresponding accession numbers for Vol. 1, ML103350405; Vol. 2, ML103350438, ML103360209, ML103360212 and Vol. 3, ML103350442 in the search window. Help in using ADAMS is available by contacting the NRC's Public Document Room at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at PDR.Resource@nrc.gov . Indian Point's license renewal application is posted at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications/indian-point.html. Additional information about the license renewal process is available at: http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal.html. Documents related to Indian Point's license renewal application are also located at the following locations: The White Plains Public Library, 100 Martine Ave., White Plains, N.Y. ; the Hendrick Hudson Free Library, 185 Kings Ferry Road, Montrose, N.Y., and the Field Library, 4 Nelson Ave., Peekskill, N.Y. More information on the ASLBP is located on the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/organization/aslbpfuncdesc.html.

Government Contracts

CONTRACTSDEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Meridian Medical Technologies, Columbia, Md., is being awarded a maximum $116,180,667 firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract for nerve agent antidotes. Other location of performance is in Missouri. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. There was originally one proposal solicited with one response. The date of performance completion is Dec. 31, 2011. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity (SPM2DP-11-D-0002). Hess Corp., Woodbridge, N.J., is being awarded a maximum $70,199,170 firm-fixed-price contract for electricity. Other locations of performance include Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Using service is Navy. There were originally 97 proposals solicited with 13 responses. The date of performance completion is Jan. 31, 2013. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-11-D-8017). Direct Energy Business, LLC, Pittsburgh, Pa., is being awarded a maximum $10,728,624 firm-fixed-price contract for electricity. Other location of performance is in Illinois. Using service is Navy. There were originally 97 proposals solicited with 13 responses. The date of performance completion is Dec. 31, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy, Fort Belvoir, Va., is the contracting activity (SP0600-11-D-8018).NAVY Lockheed Martin Corp., Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a $45,779,349 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of two cargo unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and pre-deployment readiness activities in support of cargo UAS services in Afghanistan. In addition, this contract provides for required modifications of the UAS's. Work will be performed in Owego, N.Y. (90 percent), and Bloomfield, Conn. (10 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2011. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals, with two offers received. Contract funds in the amount of $45,779,349 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-11-C-0013). Frontier Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., Irvine, Calif., is being awarded a $29,935,037 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of two cargo unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and pre-deployment readiness activities in support of cargo UAS services in Afghanistan. In addition, this contract provides for required modifications of the UAS's. Work will be performed in Irvine, Calif. (50 percent), and Mesa, Ariz. (50 percent), and is expected to be completed in August 2011. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals, with two offers received. Contract funds in the amount of $29,935,037 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-11-C-0014). U.S. Information Technologies Corp.*, Chantilly, Va., is being awarded a one-year $12,452,120 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price and/or firm fixed-price level-of-effort task orders for information technology technical support services for the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC). This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $63,659,512. At this time, $351,710 has been obligated. Work will be performed primarily at the contractor's location; MSC headquarters in Washington, D.C.; and Military Sealift Fleet Support Command in Norfolk, Va., as required. Work is expected to be completed by Nov. 21, 2011. If all options are exercised, work could continue until Nov. 21, 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via a small business set-aside solicitation, and five offers were received. The solicitation was posted to the Military Sealift Command, Navy Electronic Commerce Online and Federal Business Opportunities websites. The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting authority (N00033-11-D-6505). Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded a $9,500,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-02-C-6324) for continued post-delivery technical support for Rapid Airborne Mine Clearance System (RAMICS) units. This contract will be used to modify and/or repair delivered hardware; modify or build new RAMICS system components to resolve producibility, obsolescence, and end-of-life issues and update the technical data package with respect to the changes implemented; provide maintenance of delivered hardware as well as provide software maintenance required and provide the software upgrades and modifications required to optimize the performance of RAMICS; and provide required engineering services consisting of systems engineering; configuration and data management; quality assurance; manufacturing; test and evaluation; generating of presentations, white papers, trade studies; and development, tracking and updating of metrics. Work will be performed in Melbourne, Fla., and is expected to be completed by September 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City, Fla., is the contracting activity. BAE Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a $6,898,595 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-06-C-4408) for the USS Port Royal (CG 73) repair availability. This repair availability modification will consist of repairs to numbers 1A and 1B gas turbine intake bulkhead and deck, fuel oil storage tank top repair, superstructure cracks repair, and 06-level deck crack repair. Work will be performed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and is expected to completed by February 2011. Contract funds in the amount of $142,467 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity.AIR FORCE United Launch Services, Littleton, Colo., was awarded a $21,226,443 contract modification which adds the fleet standardization program core effort to the evolved expendable launch vehicles launch capability contract. At this time, $1,300,000 has been obligated. SMC/LRK, El Segundo, Calif., is the contracting activity (FA8816-06-C-0002; P00219). Boeing Aerospace Operations, Oklahoma City, Okla., was awarded a $20,000,000 contract for engineering sustainment support for the C/KC-135 series aircraft fleet. At this time, zero dollars have been obligated. OC-ALC/GKCK, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is the contracting activity (FA8105-11-D-0002). Hawker Beechcraft Corp., Wichita, Kan., was awarded a $15,209,720 contract which will provide two Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350ER. At this time, $15,209,720 has been obligated. 645 AESG/SYK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-11-C-4008). Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, Va., was awarded a $10,805,781 contract modification which will provide an additional year of systems engineering and integration support of the launch and test range system. At this time, $6,800,000 has been obligated. SMC/LR, El Segundo, Calif., is the contracting activity (FA8811-10-C-0006; P00012). Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., was awarded an $8,806,988 contract modification which will incorporate the dual operations capability into the existing engineering, manufacturing and development contract for the space-based infrared system high component. At this time, $8,806,988 has been obligated. SMC/ISK, El Segundo, Calif., is the contracting activity (F04701-95-C-0017; P00659).*Small businessU.S. Department of DefenseOffice of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)