81_FR_40476 81 FR 40357 - Entergy Operations, Inc., River Bend Station, Unit 3

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

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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

Page Range40357-40358
FR Document2016-14630

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 Issue 119 (Tuesday, June 21, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
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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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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 119 / Tuesday, June 21, 2016 / Notices 40357 environmental impact statement. The from the regulations at 10 CFR (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly exemption meets the categorical 72.44(c)(1) and 10 CFR 72.44(c)(3) to available documents online in the exclusion criteria of 10 CFR permit a delay by six months of the ADAMS Public Documents collection at 51.22(c)(25)(i)–(vi). monitoring and surveillance scheduled http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ Granting an exemption from the for June 2016. The exemption extends adams.html. To begin the search, select requirements of 10 CFR 72.44(c)(1) and the date for completion of the O-ring ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 10 CFR 72.44(c)(3) will extend the time leakage rate test under SR 3.3.1.1 for one select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS for DOE to conduct the inspection and fuel storage container from each vault Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, surveillance of the fuel storage container and the FSAR aging management please contact the NRC’s Public O-ring leakage rate test required by TS inspection of FSCs for hydrogen until Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 3.3.1 and the FSAR aging management December 31, 2016. This exemption is surveillance of fuel storage containers 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by effective as of June 21, 2016. email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The for hydrogen buildup required by Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day ADAMS accession number for each license Condition No. 9. A categorical of June, 2016. exclusion for inspection and document referenced (if it is available in For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ADAMS) is provided the first time that surveillance requirements is provided under 10 CFR 51.22(c)(25)(vi)(C), when John McKirgan, it is mentioned in this document. Chief, Spent Fuel Licensing Branch, Division the criteria in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(25)(i)–(v) • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and are also satisfied. In its review of the of Spent Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. purchase copies of public documents at exemption request, the NRC staff the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One determined that, under 10 CFR [FR Doc. 2016–14673 Filed 6–20–16; 8:45 am] White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 51.22(c)(25) granting the exemption: (i) BILLING CODE 7590–01–P Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Does not involve a significant hazards consideration because it does not reduce FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: a margin of safety, create a new or NUCLEAR REGULATORY Adrian Muñiz, Office of New Reactors, different kind of accident not previously COMMISSION U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, evaluated, or significantly increase the [Docket No. 52–036; NRC–2008–0616] Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: probability or consequences of an 301–415–4093; email: Adrian.Muniz@ unevaluated accident; (ii) would not Entergy Operations, Inc., River Bend nrc.gov. significantly change the types or Station, Unit 3 amounts of effluents that may be SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory of receipt and availability of this released offsite because the exemption Commission. does not change or produce additional application was previously published in avenues of effluent release; (iii) would ACTION: Application for combined the Federal Register on November 17, not significantly increase occupational license; withdrawal. 2008 (73 FR 67895). On December 10, or public radiation exposure, SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 2008 (73 FR 75141), a subsequent notice individually or cumulatively, because Commission (NRC) is withdrawing an was published in the Federal Register the exemption does not introduce new application for a combined license announcing the acceptance of the RBS3 or increased radiological hazards; (iv) (COL) for a single unit of the Economic COL application for docketing in would not result in significant Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor. This accordance with part 2 of title 10 of the construction impacts because the reactor would be identified as River Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), exemption does not involve Bend Station, Unit 3 (RBS3) and would ‘‘Agency Rules of Practice and construction or other ground disturbing be located at the current River Bend Procedure,’’ and 10 CFR part 52, activities, or change the footprint of the Nuclear Station site near St. ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals existing ISFSI; and (v) would not Francisville, Louisiana in West for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ The docket increase the potential for or the Feliciana Parish. number established for this application consequences of radiological accidents. For example, a gross leak from a fuel DATES: The effective date of the is 52–036. storage container or excessive hydrogen withdrawal of the application for By letter dated January 9, 2009, buildup in a fuel storage container is combined license is June 21, 2016. Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI) requested unlikely because the exemption does ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID that the NRC temporarily suspend the not reduce the ability of the container to NRC–2008–0616 when contacting the COL application review, including any confine radioactive material or create NRC about the availability of supporting reviews by external agencies, new accident precursors at FSV’s ISFSI. information regarding this document. until further notice (ADAMS Accession Accordingly, this exemption meets the You may obtain publicly-available No. ML090130174). The NRC granted eligibility criteria for categorical information related to this action by the the suspension request (ADAMS exclusion in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(25). There following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to Accession No. ML090080277). By letter are no significant radiological http://www.regulations.gov and search dated December 4, 2015, EOI requested environmental impacts associated with for Docket ID NRC–2008–0616. Address the NRC to withdraw the RBS3 COL the proposed action. questions about NRC dockets to Carol application from the docket (ADAMS asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES IV. Conclusions Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; Accession No. ML15338A298). Pursuant Accordingly, the NRC has determined email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For to the requirements in 10 CFR part 2, that, pursuant to 10 CFR 72.7, this technical questions, contact the the Commission grants EOI its request to exemption is authorized by law, will not individual listed in the FOR FURTHER withdraw the RBS3 COL application. endanger life or property or the common INFORMATION CONTACT section of this Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day defense and security, and is otherwise document. of June, 2016. in the public interest. 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40358 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 119 / Tuesday, June 21, 2016 / Notices For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. For additional direction on obtaining If you are requesting or aggregating Francis M. Akstulewicz, information and submitting comments, comments from other persons for Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, see ‘‘Obtaining Information and submission to the NRC, then you should Office of New Reactors. Submitting Comments’’ in the inform those persons not to include [FR Doc. 2016–14630 Filed 6–20–16; 8:45 am] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of identifying or contact information that BILLING CODE 7590–01–P this document. they do not want to be publicly FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: disclosed in their comment submission. Paula Blechman, Office of Nuclear Your request should state that the NRC NUCLEAR REGULATORY Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear does not routinely edit comment COMMISSION Regulatory Commission, Washington DC submissions to remove such information 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–2242, before making the comment [NRC–2016–0116] submissions available to the public or email: Paula.Blechman@nrc.gov. entering the comment into ADAMS. Biweekly Notice: Applications and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Amendments to Facility Operating II. Notice of Consideration of Issuance Licenses and Combined Licenses I. Obtaining Information and of Amendments to Facility Operating Involving No Significant Hazards Submitting Comments Licenses and Combined Licenses and Considerations A. Obtaining Information Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration Determination AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2016– Commission. 0116 when contacting the NRC about The Commission has made a ACTION: Biweekly notice. the availability of information for this proposed determination that the action. You may obtain publicly- following amendment requests involve SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 189a.(2) available information related to this no significant hazards consideration. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as action by any of the following methods: Under the Commission’s regulations in amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear § 50.92 of title 10 of the Code of Federal • Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to Regulatory Commission (NRC) is Regulations (10 CFR), this means that http://www.regulations.gov and search publishing this regular biweekly notice. operation of the facility in accordance for Docket ID NRC–2016–0116. The Act requires the Commission to with the proposed amendment would publish notice of any amendments • NRC’s Agencywide Documents not (1) involve a significant increase in issued, or proposed to be issued, and Access and Management System the probability or consequences of an grants the Commission the authority to (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- accident previously evaluated, or (2) issue and make immediately effective available documents online in the create the possibility of a new or any amendment to an operating license ADAMS Public Documents collection at different kind of accident from any or combined license, as applicable, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ accident previously evaluated; or (3) upon a determination by the adams.html. To begin the search, select involve a significant reduction in a Commission that such amendment ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then margin of safety. The basis for this involves no significant hazards select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS proposed determination for each consideration, notwithstanding the Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, amendment request is shown below. pendency before the Commission of a please contact the NRC’s Public The Commission is seeking public request for a hearing from any person. Document Room (PDR) reference staff at comments on this proposed This biweekly notice includes all 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by determination. Any comments received notices of amendments issued, or email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The within 30 days after the date of proposed to be issued from May 24, ADAMS accession number for each publication of this notice will be 2016, to June 6, 2016. The last biweekly document referenced (if it is available in considered in making any final notice was published on June 7, 2016 ADAMS) is provided the first time that determination. (81 FR 36613). it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY Normally, the Commission will not DATES: Comments must be filed by July INFORMATION section of this document. issue the amendment until the 21, 2016. A request for a hearing must • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and expiration of 60 days after the date of be filed by August 22, 2016. purchase copies of public documents at publication of this notice. The ADDRESSES: You may submit comments the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One Commission may issue the license by any of the following methods (unless White Flint North, 11555 Rockville amendment before expiration of the 60- this document describes a different Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. day period provided that its final method for submitting comments on a determination is that the amendment B. Submitting Comments specific subject): involves no significant hazards • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to Please include Docket ID NRC–2016– consideration. In addition, the http://www.regulations.gov and search 0116, facility name, unit number(s), Commission may issue the amendment for Docket ID NRC–2016–0116. Address application date, and subject in your prior to the expiration of the 30-day questions about NRC dockets to Carol comment submission. comment period if circumstances Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; The NRC cautions you not to include change during the 30-day comment email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For identifying or contact information that period such that failure to act in a you do not want to be publicly timely way would result, for example in asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER disclosed in your comment submission. derating or shutdown of the facility. If INFORMATION CONTACT section of this The NRC will post all comment the Commission takes action prior to the document. submissions at http:// expiration of either the comment period • Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, www.regulations.gov as well as enter the or the notice period, it will publish in Office of Administration, Mail Stop: comment submissions into ADAMS. the Federal Register a notice of OWFN–12–H08, U.S. Nuclear The NRC does not routinely edit issuance. If the Commission makes a Regulatory Commission, Washington, comment submissions to remove final no significant hazards DC 20555–0001. identifying or contact information. consideration determination, any VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:37 Jun 20, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00100 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21JNN1.SGM 21JNN1


Document Created: 2016-06-21 01:30:47
Document Modified: 2016-06-21 01:30:47
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionApplication for combined license; withdrawal.
DatesThe effective date of the withdrawal of the application for combined license is June 21, 2016.
ContactAdrian Mu[ntilde]iz, Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555- 0001; telephone: 301-415-4093; email: [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 40357 
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