83 FR 39797 - In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC and Entergy Operations, Inc. Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation Facility
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 155 (Friday, August 10, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 39797-39798] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-17166] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50-382 and 72-75; NRC-2017-0239] In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC and Entergy Operations, Inc. Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation Facility AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Indirect transfer of license; order. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an order to permit the indirect transfer of membership interests in Entergy Louisiana, LLC (ELL; the owner of Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, and the independent spent fuel storage installation facility) to the extent ELL is affected by the addition of Entergy Arkansas, LLC; Entergy Mississippi, LLC; and Entergy New Orleans, LLC to Entergy Utility Holding Company, LLC (EUHC). Upon execution of the transfer, these changes will result in additional members of EUHC that may dilute the resources and voting power of its members, including ELL. DATES: The order was issued on August 1, 2018, and is effective for one year. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0239 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly[dash]available information related to this document using any of the following methods:Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0239. Address questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287- 9127; email: [email protected]. For [[Page 39798]] 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 ``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 e-mail 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: Margaret W. O'Banion, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1233; email: Margaret.O'[email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of the order is attached. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of August 2018. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Margaret W. O'Banion, Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Attachment--Order Approving Indirect Transfer of Control of License UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50-382 and 72-75; License No. NPF-38] In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC and Entergy Operations, Inc. Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 ORDER APPROVING INDIRECT TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF LICENSE I. Entergy Louisiana, LLC (ELL) and Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI) (together, the licensees) are co[dash]holders of Facility Operating License No. NPF[dash]38 for Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 (Waterford), and the general license for the independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). ELL is the owner and EOI is authorized to possess, use, and operate Waterford and the ISFSI, which are located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. II. By application dated September 21, 2017, EOI requested, on behalf of itself, ELL, and their parent companies (together, the applicants), pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 50.80, ``Transfer of licenses,'' that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) consent to the indirect transfer of membership interests in ELL to the extent ELL is affected by the addition of Entergy Arkansas, LLC (EAL); Entergy Mississippi, LLC (EML); and Entergy New Orleans, LLC (ENOL) to Entergy Utility Holding Company, LLC (EUHC). These changes will result (upon execution of the transfers) in additional members of EUHC that may dilute the resources and voting power of its members. The application proposes no physical or operational changes to the facilities. The interconnections that provide offsite power to Waterford do not change as a result of the proposed indirect license transfer. The applicants requested NRC approval of the indirect transfer of membership interests in ELL. The NRC published a notice, ``Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2; Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1; River Bend Station, Unit 1; and Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 Consideration of Approval of Transfer of Licenses and Conforming Amendments,'' in the Federal Register on December 29, 2017 (82 FR 61800). No comments or hearing requests 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 NRC gives its consent in writing. Upon review of the information in the application and other information before the Commission, the NRC staff has determined that the licensees are qualified to hold the license to the extent proposed to permit the indirect transfer of membership interests in ELL to the extent ELL is affected by the addition of EAL, EML, and ENOL to EUHC. The NRC staff has also determined that the proposed license transfer is otherwise consistent with the applicable provisions of law, regulations, and orders issued by the NRC pursuant thereto. The findings set forth above are supported by an NRC safety evaluation dated August 1, 2018. III. Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 161b, 161i, and 184 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; Title 42 of the United States Code Sections 2201(b), 2201(i), and 2234; and 10 CFR 50.80, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the application regarding the proposed indirect license transfer is approved. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, after receipt of all required regulatory approvals of the proposed 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 of the transfer, no later than 5 business days before the date of the closing of the transfer. Should the proposed indirect 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 for 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 application dated September 21, 2017 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML17268A213), and the NRC's safety evaluation dated August 1, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18177A236), which are available for public inspection at the NRC's Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, Public File Area 01-F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 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 accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public Document Room reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of August, 2018. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Joseph G. Giitter, Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2018-17166 Filed 8-9-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P
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3 by then Framatome and now decommissioning. Therefore, the Petitioners’ NRC memorandum, the NRR Director has
AREVA-Le Creusot Forge industrial requests 1, 2, 3, and 4(a) do not apply to this determined that the actions requested by the
facility in Charlon-St. Marcel, France plant. However, the acquisition and Petitioners, will not be granted in whole or
and; subsequent testing of irradiated and aged in part.
b. With completion and confirmation [of plant material from decommissioned plants
As provided for in 10 CFR 2.206(c), a copy
the above Crystal River Unit 3 actions], could be a valuable research activity that
the modification of Duke Energy’s might offer useful scientific information on of this Director’s Decision will be filed with
current license for the permanently the progress of aging mechanisms. The the Secretary of the Commission for the
closed Crystal River Unit 3 nuclear harvesting of reactor vessel material from Commission to review. As provided for by
power station in Crystal River, Florida, plants that have been permanently shut this regulation, the decision will constitute
to inspect and conduct the appropriate down can be a complex and the final action of the Commission 25 days
material test(s) for carbon radiation-dose-intensive effort. The NRC’s after the date of the decision unless the
macrosegregation on sufficient samples Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research has Commission, on its own motion, institutes a
harvested from the installed and now in previously obtained samples appropriate for review of the decision within that time.
service irradiated Le Creusot Forge testing from shutdown plants. In regard to
reactor pressure vessel head [sic]. The this request, the NRC may, in the future, seek Dated at Rockville, MD, this 2nd day of
Petitioners assert that the appropriate to purchase samples. However, the identified August 2018.
material testing include OES. facility has ceased operations, and there is no For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
safety concern at those facilities that justifies
NRC Response: enforcement-related action (i.e., to modify, Brian E. Holian,
AREVA did not identify Crystal River Unit suspend, or revoke the license) to give the Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor
3 as a plant that contained components from NRC reasonable assurance of the adequate Regulation.
ACF,37 38 and the staff has not confirmed that protection of public health and safety.
this unit contained any forgings
manufactured from ingots produced by ACF. III. Conclusion Attachment:
In addition, Crystal River Unit 3 is currently Based on the evaluations provided above, List of Affected Reactors
shut down and in the process of and documented in the February 22, 2018,
LIST OF POWER REACTORS AFFECTED BY THE PETITION
Facility
Plant Docket No. operating
license No.
Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 1 ...................................................................................................... 05000282 DPR–42
Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 2 ...................................................................................................... 05000306 DPR–60
Arkansas Nuclear One, Unit 2 ................................................................................................................................ 05000368 NPF–6
Beaver Valley Power Station, Unit 1 ....................................................................................................................... 05000334 DPR–66
North Anna Power Station, Unit 1 ........................................................................................................................... 05000338 NPF–4
North Anna Power Station, Unit 2 ........................................................................................................................... 05000339 NPF–7
Surry Power Station, Unit 1 ..................................................................................................................................... 05000280 DPR–32
Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1 ........................................................................................................ 05000445 NPF–87
V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1 ..................................................................................................................... 05000395 NPF–12
Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 .................................................................................................................. 05000348 NPF–2
Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Unit 2 .................................................................................................................. 05000364 NPF–8
South Texas Project, Unit 1 .................................................................................................................................... 05000498 NPF–76
South Texas Project, Unit 2 .................................................................................................................................... 05000499 NPF–80
Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 .............................................................................................................................. 05000327 DPR–77
Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 .............................................................................................................................. 05000390 NPF–90
Millstone Power Station, Unit 2 ............................................................................................................................... 05000336 NPF–65
Saint Lucie Plant, Unit 1 .......................................................................................................................................... 05000335 DPR–67
Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant ....................................................................................................... 05000302 DPR–72
[FR Doc. 2018–17131 Filed 8–9–18; 8:45 am] ACTION: Indirect transfer of license; may dilute the resources and voting
BILLING CODE 7590–01–P order. power of its members, including ELL.
DATES: The order was issued on August
SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 1, 2018, and is effective for one year.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY Commission (NRC) is issuing an order to
COMMISSION permit the indirect transfer of ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
membership interests in Entergy NRC–2017–0239 when contacting the
Louisiana, LLC (ELL; the owner of NRC about the availability of
[Docket Nos. 50–382 and 72–75; NRC–2017–
0239] Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit information regarding this document.
3, and the independent spent fuel You may obtain publicly-available
In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC storage installation facility) to the extent information related to this document
and Entergy Operations, Inc. Waterford ELL is affected by the addition of using any of the following methods:
Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, and Entergy Arkansas, LLC; Entergy • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Mississippi, LLC; and Entergy New http://www.regulations.gov and search
Installation Facility Orleans, LLC to Entergy Utility Holding for Docket ID NRC–2017–0239. Address
Company, LLC (EUHC). Upon execution questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer
AGENCY:Nuclear Regulatory of the transfer, these changes will result Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127;
Commission. in additional members of EUHC that email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For
37 See ADAMS Accession No. ML17040A100. 38 See ADAMS Accession No. ML17009A278.
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technical questions, contact the II. This order is effective upon issuance.
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER By application dated September 21, 2017, For further details with respect to this
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this EOI requested, on behalf of itself, ELL, and order, see the application dated September
their parent companies (together, the 21, 2017 (Agencywide Documents Access
document.
applicants), pursuant to Title 10 of the Code and Management System (ADAMS)
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section Accession No. ML17268A213), and the
Access and Management System 50.80, ‘‘Transfer of licenses,’’ that the U.S. NRC’s safety evaluation dated August 1, 2018
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) (ADAMS Accession No. ML18177A236),
available documents online in the consent to the indirect transfer of which are available for public inspection at
membership interests in ELL to the extent the NRC’s Public Document Room located at
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
ELL is affected by the addition of Entergy One White Flint North, Public File Area 01–
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Arkansas, LLC (EAL); Entergy Mississippi,
adams.html. To begin the search, select LLC (EML); and Entergy New Orleans, LLC Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available
‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For (ENOL) to Entergy Utility Holding Company, documents created or received at the NRC are
problems with ADAMS, please contact LLC (EUHC). These changes will result (upon accessible electronically through ADAMS in
the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) execution of the transfers) in additional the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/
reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– members of EUHC that may dilute the reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not
415–4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@ resources and voting power of its members. have access to ADAMS, or who encounter
The application proposes no physical or problems accessing the documents located in
nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number
operational changes to the facilities. The ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public
for each document referenced (if it is Document Room reference staff by telephone
interconnections that provide offsite power
available in ADAMS) is provided the to Waterford do not change as a result of the at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or by
first time that it is mentioned in this proposed indirect license transfer. e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
document. The applicants requested NRC approval of Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and the indirect transfer of membership interests of August, 2018.
in ELL. The NRC published a notice,
purchase copies of public documents at ‘‘Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2; Grand
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1; River Bend Joseph G. Giitter,
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Station, Unit 1; and Waterford Steam Electric Director, Division of Operating Reactor
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Station, Unit 3 Consideration of Approval of Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Transfer of Licenses and Conforming Regulation.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amendments,’’ in the Federal Register on [FR Doc. 2018–17166 Filed 8–9–18; 8:45 am]
Margaret W. O’Banion, Office of Nuclear December 29, 2017 (82 FR 61800). No BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear comments or hearing requests were received.
Regulatory Commission, Washington DC Under 10 CFR 50.80, no license, or any
20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–1233; right thereunder, shall be transferred, directly
or indirectly, through transfer of control of NUCLEAR REGULATORY
email: Margaret.O’Banion@nrc.gov. COMMISSION
the license, unless the NRC gives its consent
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of in writing. Upon review of the information in [Docket Nos. 50–458 and 72–49; NRC–2017–
the order is attached. the application and other information before 0239]
the Commission, the NRC staff has
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day determined that the licensees are qualified to
of August 2018. In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC
hold the license to the extent proposed to
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. permit the indirect transfer of membership and Entergy Operations, Inc., River
Margaret W. O’Banion, interests in ELL to the extent ELL is affected Bend Station, Unit 1, and Independent
by the addition of EAL, EML, and ENOL to Spent Fuel Storage Installation Facility
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV,
EUHC. The NRC staff has also determined
Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
that the proposed license transfer is
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Commission.
otherwise consistent with the applicable
Attachment—Order Approving Indirect provisions of law, regulations, and orders ACTION: Indirect transfer of license;
Transfer of Control of License issued by the NRC pursuant thereto. The order.
findings set forth above are supported by an
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NRC safety evaluation dated August 1, 2018. SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION III. Commission (NRC) is issuing an order to
permit the indirect transfer of
[Docket Nos. 50–382 and 72–75; License No. Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 161b,
161i, and 184 of the Atomic Energy Act of
membership interests in Entergy
NPF–38] Louisiana, LLC (ELL; the owner of River
1954, as amended; Title 42 of the United
In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC and States Code Sections 2201(b), 2201(i), and Bend Station, Unit 1, and the
Entergy Operations, Inc. 2234; and 10 CFR 50.80, IT IS HEREBY independent spent fuel storage
Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 ORDERED that the application regarding the installation facility) to the extent ELL is
proposed indirect license transfer is affected by the addition of Entergy
ORDER APPROVING INDIRECT TRANSFER approved. Arkansas, LLC; Entergy Mississippi,
OF CONTROL OF LICENSE IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, after LLC; and Entergy New Orleans, LLC to
receipt of all required regulatory approvals of
I.
the proposed transfer action, EOI shall
Entergy Utility Holding Company, LLC
Entergy Louisiana, LLC (ELL) and Entergy inform the Director of the Office of Nuclear (EUHC). Upon execution of the transfer,
Operations, Inc. (EOI) (together, the Reactor Regulation in writing of such receipt, these changes will result in additional
licensees) are co-holders of Facility and of the date of closing of the transfer, no members of EUHC that may dilute the
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES
Operating License No. NPF-38 for Waterford later than 5 business days before the date of resources and voting power of its
Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 (Waterford), the closing of the transfer. Should the members, including ELL.
and the general license for the independent proposed indirect transfer not be completed DATES: The Order was issued on August
spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). ELL is within 1 year of this order’s date of issuance,
the owner and EOI is authorized to possess, this order shall become null and void;
1, 2018, and is effective for one year.
use, and operate Waterford and the ISFSI, however, upon written application and for ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
which are located in St. Charles Parish, good cause shown, such date may be NRC–2017–0239 when contacting the
Louisiana. extended by order. NRC about the availability of
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| Action | Indirect transfer of license; order. | |
| Dates | The order was issued on August 1, 2018, and is effective for one year. | |
| Contact | Margaret W. O'Banion, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1233; email: Margaret.O'[email protected] | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 39797 |
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