The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its regulations on the environmental information required in applications to renew the operating licenses of nuclear power plants. This amendment expands the generic findings about the environmental impacts due to transportation of fuel and waste to and from a single nuclear power plant. Specifically, this amendment adds to findings concerning the cumulative environmental impacts of convergence of spent fuel shipments on a single destination, rather than multiple destinations, and the environmental impact of transportation of higher enriched and higher burnup spent fuel during the renewal term. The effect of this amendment is to permit the NRC to make a generic finding regarding the impacts so that an analysis of these impacts will not have to be repeated for each individual license renewal application. This action reduces the regulatory burden on applicants for license renewal by replacing individual plant operating license renewal reviews with a generic review of these topics. Also, this amendment incorporates rule language to be consistent with the findings in NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants'' (May 1996), which addresses local traffic impacts attributable to continued operation of the nuclear power plant during the license renewal term. In analyzing the environmental impact of transporting spent fuel and waste in the vicinity of a single repository, the NRC evaluated the impact in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain and specifically the impacts in the vicinity of Las Vegas, NV. The NRC elected to evaluate the impacts in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain because Yucca Mountain is the only location currently being evaluated for a repository under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. The NRC's analysis of the impacts in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain in this instance does not prejudge the eventual licensing of Yucca Mountain as a repository. Rather, it reflects NRC's exis