81 FR 40357 - Entergy Operations, Inc., River Bend Station, Unit 3

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 119 (June 21, 2016)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing an application for a combined license (COL) for a single unit of the Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor. This reactor would be identified as River Bend Station, Unit 3 (RBS3) and would be located at the current River Bend Nuclear Station site near St. Francisville, Louisiana in West Feliciana Parish.

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40357-40358]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-14630]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-036; NRC-2008-0616]


Entergy Operations, Inc., River Bend Station, Unit 3

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Application for combined license; withdrawal.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing an 
application for a combined license (COL) for a single unit of the 
Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor. This reactor would be 
identified as River Bend Station, Unit 3 (RBS3) and would be located at 
the current River Bend Nuclear Station site near St. Francisville, 
Louisiana in West Feliciana Parish.

DATES: The effective date of the withdrawal of the application for 
combined license is June 21, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0616 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0616. 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 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 it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this 
document.
     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: Adrian Mu[ntilde]iz, Office of New 
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-4093; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice of receipt and availability of this 
application was previously published in the Federal Register on 
November 17, 2008 (73 FR 67895). On December 10, 2008 (73 FR 75141), a 
subsequent notice was published in the Federal Register announcing the 
acceptance of the RBS3 COL application for docketing in accordance with 
part 2 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 
``Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure,'' and 10 CFR part 52, 
``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' 
The docket number established for this application is 52-036.
    By letter dated January 9, 2009, Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI) 
requested that the NRC temporarily suspend the COL application review, 
including any supporting reviews by external agencies, until further 
notice (ADAMS Accession No. ML090130174). The NRC granted the 
suspension request (ADAMS Accession No. ML090080277). By letter dated 
December 4, 2015, EOI requested the NRC to withdraw the RBS3 COL 
application from the docket (ADAMS Accession No. ML15338A298). Pursuant 
to the requirements in 10 CFR part 2, the Commission grants EOI its 
request to withdraw the RBS3 COL application.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of June, 2016.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Francis M. Akstulewicz,
 Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2016-14630 Filed 6-20-16; 8:45 am]
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