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Consolidated Emergency Operations Facilities Consolidated Emergency Operations Facilities Consolidated U.S. Nuclear Emergency Regulatory NRC Papers and Associated Utility Operations Included Sites Commission Approval(s) Facility (EOF) (NRC) Region Location NRC Letter, dated 8/18/83 (Agencywide Documents and Access Management System (ADAMS) Legacy No. 8308290269) SECY-05-0172 –"Duke Power Company's Request to Incorporate the Oconee Emergency Operations Facility into the EOF Shared by Catawba and Catawba Nuclear Station McGuire Nuclear Stations,” dated William B. McGuire Nuclear 9/27/2005 (ADAMS Accession No. Station ML051880303) Oconee Nuclear Station Duke Energy William States Lee III Nuclear SRM-SECY-05-0172, dated 11/2/2005 Progress, LLC and Station (site not yet constructed) 2 Charlotte, NC (ADAMS Accession No. ML053070025) Duke Energy Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Carolinas, LLC (consolidation proposed) SECY-16-0094 – “Staff Statement in H. B. Robinson Steam Electric Support of the Uncontested Plant (consolidation proposed) Hearing for Issuance of Combined Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Licenses for the William States Lee III Plant (consolidation proposed) Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2 (Docket Nos. 52-018 and 52-019),” dated 8/8/2016 (ADAMS Accession No. ML16123A064) Commission Memorandum and Order (CLI-16-19), dated 12/15/16 (ADAMS Accession No. ML16350A070) 1 of 3 Enclosure 1 Consolidated Emergency Operations Facilities Consolidated U.S. Nuclear Emergency Regulatory NRC Papers and Associated Utility Operations Included Sites Commission Approval(s) Facility (EOF) (NRC) Region Location SECY-98-274 –"Commonwealth Edison Company's Proposal to Centralize its Emergency Operations Facilities at its Corporate Offices," dated 11/23/1998 (ADAMS Accession No. ML020430397) SRM-SECY-98-274, dated 1/29/1999 Braidwood Station (ADAMS Accession No. ML003750972) Byron Station Clinton Power Station Exelon Corporation, SECY-02-0033 – “AmerGen's Request 3 Warrenville, Illinois Dresden Nuclear Power Station LLC to Consolidate the Clinton Power LaSalle County Station Station Emergency Operations Facility Quad Cities Nuclear Power (EOF) into the Centralized EOF Station Operated by Exelon Generation Co.,” dated 2/27/2002 (ADAMS Accession No. ML020430397) SRM-SECY-02-0033, dated 3/15/2002 (ADAMS Accession No. ML020740504) SECY-03-0033 –“Revised AmerGen's Request to Consolidate Three Mile Island Unit 1 Emergency Operations Facility (EOF) into Combined EOF for Three Mile Island, Unit 1 Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station Peach Bottom Atomic Power Exelon Corporation, 1 Coatesville, PA (PBAPS) & Limerick Generating Station Station LLC (LGS),” dated 3/7/2003 (ADAMS Limerick Generating Station Accession Number ML030650225) SRM-SECY-03-0033, dated 3/18/2003 (ADAMS Accession No. ML030780051) 2 of 3 Consolidated Emergency Operations Facilities Consolidated U.S. Nuclear Emergency Regulatory NRC Papers and Associated Utility Operations Included Sites Commission Approval(s) Facility (EOF) (NRC) Region Location EDO Memorandum, “Action Plan III.A.1.2 – EOF,” dated November 12, 1980 Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley 2 Chattanooga, TN Sequoyah Nuclear Plant SECY Memorandum, COMJA-80-37, Authority Watts Bar Nuclear Plant “Action Plan III.A.1.2-EOF,” dated January 21, 1981 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110340232) SECY-04-0236 – “Southern Nuclear Operating Company's Proposal to Establish a Common Emergency Operating Facility at its Corporate Farley Nuclear Plant Southern Nuclear Headquarters,” dated 12/23/2004 2 Birmingham, AL Hatch Nuclear Plant Operating Company (ADAMS Accession No. ML043270471) Vogtle Electric Generating Plant SRM-SECY-04-0236, dated 2/23/2005 (ADAMS Accession No. ML050550131) 3 of 3 .
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