80 FR 51326 - In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC; Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 163 (Monday, August 24, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 51326-51328] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-20869] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 50-382; License No. NPF-38; NRC-2014-0258] In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC; Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Direct and indirect transfer of license; order. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an order to permit the direct transfer of Facility Operating License No. NPF-38 for Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 (Waterford), to a newly formed limited liability company named Entergy Louisiana, LLC. The new owner licensee has the same name as the previous owner licensee. In addition, the applicants requested the NRC's consent to approve an associated indirect license transfer of Waterford to the extent that such indirect transfer would be affected by a new intermediary holding company. Entergy Corporation will remain as the ultimate parent company, but a new intermediate company, Entergy Utility Holding Company, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, will be the direct parent company of the newly formed Entergy Louisiana, LLC. DATES: The Order was issued on August 14, 2015, and is effective for one year. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0258 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 Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0258. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415- 3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then [[Page 51327]] select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan B. Wang, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1445; email: [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of the Order is attached. Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 14 day of August, 2015. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A. Louise Lund, Acting Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Attachment--Order Approving Direct and Indirect Transfers of License United States of America Nuclear Regulatory CommissionIn the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC; Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 Docket No. 50-382, License No. NPF-38Order Approving Direct and Indirect Transfers of License I Entergy Louisiana, LLC (ELL) and Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI) (the licensees), are co-holders of Facility Operating License (FOL) No. NPF-38 for the Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 (Waterford). ELL is the licensed owner, and EOI is licensed operator and is authorized to possess, use, and operate Waterford, which is located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C. (EGSL) and EOI (the licensees), are co-holders of FOL No. NPF-47 for the River Bend Station, Unit No. 1 (RBS). EGSL is the licensed owner, and EOI is the licensed operator and is authorized to possess, use, and operate RBS which is located in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. II By application dated June 10, 2014, as supplemented by letters dated October 9, 2014, December 31, 2014, and January 30, 2015, EOI requested on behalf of itself, ELL, EGSL, and their parent companies (together, the Applicants), under Section 50.80, ``Transfer of licenses,'' of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) consent to the direct transfers of the operating licenses for Waterford and RBS to a new limited liability company named Entergy Louisiana, LLC. The newly formed company has maintained the same name as the current owner of Waterford; Entergy Louisiana, LLC. (To distinguish between the two companies, ``ELL'' will only be used when referencing the current owner of Waterford.) In addition, the Applicants requested the NRC's consent to the associated indirect license transfers of RBS and Waterford due to the creation of a new intermediary holding company. The license transfers are necessary to support the corporate reorganization to permit the combination of the assets and liabilities of two utility operating companies, which are subsidiaries of Entergy Corporation (Entergy). Entergy will remain as the ultimate parent company, but a new intermediate company, Entergy Utility Holding Company, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, will become the direct parent company of the newly formed Entergy Louisiana, LLC. When the transactions are completed, the newly formed Entergy Louisiana, LLC will acquire 100 percent ownership of RBS and Waterford. EOI will remain responsible for the operation and maintenance of RBS and Waterford. The transaction will also result in the transfer of the general license for the Waterford independent spent fuel storage installation held by the Applicants under 10 CFR Part 50. No physical changes to the Waterford facility or operational changes are being proposed in the application. Approval of the direct and indirect license transfers of the FOLs was requested by EOI, acting on behalf of ELL, as well as their parent companies and itself. A notice entitled, ``River Bend Station, Unit 1, and Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3; Consideration of Approval of Transfer of License and Conforming Amendment,'' was published in the Federal Register on December 3, 2014 (79 FR 71803). The NRC has received two comments from the public. No hearing requests or petitions to intervene were received. Under 10 CFR 50.80, no license, or any right thereunder, shall be transferred, directly or indirectly, through transfer of control of the license, unless the Commission gives its consent in writing. Upon review of the information in the licensees' application, and other information before the Commission, relying upon the representations and agreements contained in the application, the NRC staff has determined that the newly formed Entergy Louisiana, LLC, is qualified to acquire and directly hold the ownership interest under FOL No. NPF-38 for Waterford as described in the application, and has further determined that both the direct and indirect transfers of control of the subject license, as described in the application, are otherwise consistent with the applicable provisions of law, regulations, and orders issued by the NRC, pursuant thereto, subject to the conditions set forth below. The findings set forth above are supported by a safety evaluation dated August 14, 2015. III Accordingly, under Sections 161b, 161i, 161o, and 184 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sections 2201(b), 2201(i), 2201(o), and 2234; and 10 CFR 50.80, it is hereby ordered that the application for the direct and indirect license transfers related to the proposed corporate restructuring, in connection with the merger of EGSL and ELL is approved, subject to the following condition: 1. Before completion of the proposed transaction, Entergy Operations, Inc. shall provide the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation satisfactory documentary evidence that the newly formed Entergy Louisiana, LLC has obtained the appropriate amount of insurance required of the licensees under 10 CFR Part 140, ``Financial Protection Requirements and Indemnity Agreements,'' of the Commission's regulations. It is further ordered that after receipt of all required regulatory approvals of the proposed direct transfer action, EOI shall inform the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation in writing of such receipt, and of the date of closing, no later than 1 business day before the closing of the direct transfer. Should the proposed direct transfer not be completed within 1 year of this Order's date of issuance, this Order shall become null and void. However, upon written application and good cause shown, such date may be extended by Order. This Order is effective upon issuance. For further details with respect to this Order, see the initial application dated June 10, 2014 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML14161A698), as supplemented by letters dated October 9, 2014, December 31, 2014, and January 30, 2015 (ADAMS [[Page 51328]] Accession Nos. ML15154B588, ML14365A404, and ML15030A495, respectively), and the safety evaluation dated the same date as this Order (ADAMS Accession No. ML15138A440), which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public File Area 01 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852. Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC are accessible electronically through ADAMS in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 14 day of August 2015. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. William M. Dean, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2015-20869 Filed 8-21-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P
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submit a request for hearing or petition Filing is considered complete by first- Regional Administrator.
for leave to intervene through the EIE. class mail as of the time of deposit in [FR Doc. 2015–20874 Filed 8–21–15; 8:45 am]
Submissions should be in Portable the mail, or by courier, express mail, or BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
Document Format (PDF) in accordance expedited delivery service upon
with NRC guidance available at http:// depositing the document with the
www.nrc.gov/site-help/e- provider of the service. A presiding NUCLEAR REGULATORY
submittals.html. A filing is considered officer, having granted an exemption COMMISSION
complete at the time the documents are request from using e-filing, may require
submitted through the NRC’s e-filing [Docket No. 50–382; License No. NPF–38;
a participant or party to use e-filing if NRC–2014–0258]
system. To be timely, an electronic the presiding officer subsequently
filing must be submitted to the e-filing determines that the reason for granting In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana,
system no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern the exemption from use of e-filing no LLC; Waterford Steam Electric Station,
Time (ET) on the due date. Upon receipt longer exists. Unit 3
of a transmission, the e-filing system
time-stamps the document and sends Documents submitted in adjudicatory AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
the submitter an email notice proceedings will appear in the NRC’s Commission.
confirming receipt of the document. The electronic hearing docket, which is
ACTION: Direct and indirect transfer of
e-filing system also distributes an email available to the public at http://
ehd1.nrc.gov/ehd/, unless excluded license; order.
notice that provides access to the
document to the NRC’s Office of the pursuant to an order of the Commission SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
General Counsel and any others who or the presiding officer. Participants are Commission (NRC) is issuing an order to
have advised the Office of the Secretary requested not to include personal permit the direct transfer of Facility
that they wish to participate in the privacy information, such as social Operating License No. NPF–38 for
proceeding, so that the filer need not security numbers, home addresses, or Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3
serve the documents on those home phone numbers in their filings, (Waterford), to a newly formed limited
participants separately. Therefore, any unless an NRC regulation or other law liability company named Entergy
others who wish to participate in the requires submission of such Louisiana, LLC. The new owner licensee
proceeding (or their counsel or information. With respect to has the same name as the previous
representative) must apply for and copyrighted works, participants are owner licensee. In addition, the
receive a digital ID certificate before a requested not to include copyrighted applicants requested the NRC’s consent
hearing request/petition to intervene is materials in their submission, except for to approve an associated indirect license
filed so that they can obtain access to limited excerpts that serve the purpose transfer of Waterford to the extent that
the document via the e-filing system. of the adjudicatory filings and would such indirect transfer would be affected
A person filing electronically using constitute a Fair Use application. by a new intermediary holding
the NRC’s adjudicatory e-filing system If a person other than Dr. Bastow company. Entergy Corporation will
may seek assistance by contacting the requests a hearing, that person shall set remain as the ultimate parent company,
NRC Meta System Help Desk through forth with particularity the manner in but a new intermediate company,
the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located on the which his interest is adversely affected Entergy Utility Holding Company, LLC,
NRC’s Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/ by this Confirmatory Order and shall a Texas limited liability company, will
site-help/e-submittals.html, by email at address the criteria set forth in 10 CFR be the direct parent company of the
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a toll- 2.309(d) and (f). newly formed Entergy Louisiana, LLC.
free call at (866) 672–7640. The NRC
If a hearing is requested by a person DATES: The Order was issued on August
Meta System Help Desk is available
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between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., ET,
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| Action | Direct and indirect transfer of license; order. | |
| Dates | The Order was issued on August 14, 2015, and is effective for one year. | |
| Contact | Alan B. Wang, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1445; email: [email protected] | |
| FR Citation | 80 FR 51326 |
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