Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.; Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2; Subsequent License Renewal

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Choosing an item from suggestions will bring you directly to the content. The NRC issued Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-57 and NPF-5 on June 11, 2026. Table of Contents Enhanced Content - Table of Contents This table of contents is a navigational tool, processed from the headings within the legal text of Federal Register documents. This repetition of headings to form internal navigation links has no substantive legal effect. This PDF is FR Doc. 2026-12339 as it appeared on Public Inspection on 06/17/2026 at 8:45 am. It was viewed 2 times while on Public Inspection. If you are using public inspection listings for legal research, you should verify the contents of the documents against a final, official edition of the Federal Register. Only official editions of the Federal Register provide legal notice of publication to the public and judicial notice to the courts under 44 U.S.C. 1503 & 1507. Learn more here. Published Document: 2026-12339 (91 FR 36885) This document has been published in the Federal Register. Use the PDF linked in the document sidebar for the official electronic format. AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice; issuance. SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-57 and NPF-5 to Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. (Southern) for Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant (Hatch), Units 1 and 2, respectively. DATES: The NRC issued Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License ( printed page 36886) Nos. DPR-57 and NPF-5 on June 11, 2026. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2025-0091 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly available information related to this document using any of the following methods: Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2025-0091. 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To make an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Harris, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2277; email: Brian.Harris2@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Discussion Notice is hereby given that the NRC has issued Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-57 and NPF-5 to Southern for Hatch, Units 1 and 2, respectively. Southern is the operator of the facility. Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-57 and NPF-5 authorize Southern to operate Hatch, Units 1 and 2 at reactor core power levels not in excess of 2,804 megawatts thermal, in accordance with the provisions of the Hatch licenses and technical specifications. The NRC staff documented the results of its environmental review of the Hatch subsequent license renewal (SLR) application in an environmental assessment (EA) and finding of no significant impact (FONSI), which was issued and made publicly available in March 2026 as “Environmental Assessment for Subsequent License Renewal of Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2.” On the basis of its EA and its determination that the environmental impacts would be SMALL for each potentially affected resource area, the NRC staff concluded that Hatch SLR will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment; accordingly, the NRC staff determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement for that proposed action. The EA included the NRC staff's recommendation that the adverse environmental impacts of SLR for Hatch are not so great that preserving the option of SLR for energy-planning decision-makers would be unreasonable. The NRC staff based this recommendation on (1) the analysis and findings in the NRC's Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, which the EA supplemented, (2) the applicant's environmental report, (3) the NRC staff's consultations with Federal, State, and local agencies and Indian Tribes, and (4) the NRC staff's independent environmental review. Hatch Units 1 and 2 are boiling-water reactors located near Baxley, Georgia. Southern submitted its SLR application for Hatch on May 15, 2025, as supplemented by letters through February 26, 2026 (see the “Availability of Documents” section of this document). The NRC staff has determined that Southern's SLR application complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the NRC's regulations. As required by the Act and NRC regulations in title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Chapter I, “Nuclear Regulatory Commission,” the NRC has made appropriate findings, which are set forth in the subsequent renewed licenses. Notice of the NRC's acceptance for docketing of the Hatch SLR application and an opportunity to request a hearing was published in the Federal Register on June 20, 2025 (90 FR 26331). In May 2026, the NRC staff issued its safety evaluation concerning the Hatch SLR application. In March 2026, the NRC staff published the EA and FONSI, and a notice of issuance of the EA and FONSI was published in the Federal Register on April 2, 2026 (91 FR 16756). For further details with respect to this action, see (1) Southern's SLR application for Hatch, dated May 15, 2025, as supplemented by letters dated through February 26, 2026, (2) the NRC's safety evaluation, dated May 20, 2026, and (3) the NRC's EA and FONSI, dated March 31, 2026. II. 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