PPL Susquehanna and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1600 received an award from the Northeastern Pennsylvania Labor Management Council at a ceremony today (9/10).

The Council presents the award to labor and management in northeastern Pennsylvania that best exemplify cooperation, achievement and productivity.

"We are proud to receive this award because it pays tribute to the culture of teamwork that management and labor have worked to achieve at PPL Susquehanna," said Rich Anderson, vice president-Nuclear Operations. "The work that we've completed at PPL Susquehanna over the past two years could only have been accomplished within a spirit of mutual respect and cooperation. Hurdles are overcome and results are achieved when management and labor work together."

"This award is well-deserved," said Frank Graboski, the business representative for Nuclear Department employees for IBEW Local 1600. "Labor and management at PPL Susquehanna have forged a strong relationship that resolves issues and keeps the plant moving forward. ‘One team, one commitment' is more than a saying at PPL Susquehanna."

Labor and management achievements at PPL Susquehanna over the past two years include earning the top federal safety award for outstanding health and safety programs and completing the largest improvement project in the plant's 20-year history.

PPL Susquehanna became one of five nuclear power plants in the nation to earn the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's "Star" certification in the agency's Voluntary Protection Program in 2002. Sites participating in VPP are considered role models in occupational safety and health, and the Star designation is the highest recognition given within the program.

The largest improvement project involved replacing the station's steam turbines to increase efficiency, extend service life and add 50 megawatts of capacity to each of the two reactors — enough electricity to power a total of 100,000 average U.S. homes. Workers also installed new main transformers to handle the increased electrical load and made other component and system improvements to increase the safety and reliability of the plant.

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Labor Management Council is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving labor-management relations throughout northeastern Pennsylvania. It is funded largely by a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and through the support of its member organizations.

The Susquehanna plant, located in Luzerne County about seven miles north of Berwick, is owned jointly by PPL Susquehanna LLC and Allegheny Electric Cooperative Inc. and is operated by PPL Susquehanna.

PPL Susquehanna is one of PPL Corporation's generating facilities. Headquartered in Allentown, Pa., PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) controls more than 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to nearly 5 million customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America. More information is available at www.pplweb.com .