[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 83 (Tuesday, April 30, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 21283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10589]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-368]


Entergy Operations, Inc.; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to 
Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 244 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-6 issued to 
Entergy Operations, Inc. (the licensee), which revised the Operating 
License and Technical Specifications (TSs) for operation of Arkansas 
Nuclear One, Unit 2, located in Pope County, Arkansas. The amendment is 
effective as of the date of issuance.
    The amendment modified the Operating License and the TSs to allow 
an increase in the maximum authorized reactor core power level from 
2815 megawatts thermal (MWt) to 3026 MWt, which represents a power 
increase of about 7.5 percent and is considered to be an extended power 
uprate. Also, operation at the uprated power requested by the proposed 
amendment resulted in increases in dose consequences for certain 
postulated accidents considered in the accident analyses in the Safety 
Analysis Report; however, the doses remained within the regulatory 
limits. In addition, although unrelated to the proposed power uprate, 
the proposed amendment clarified portions of the control element 
assembly TSs.
    The application for the amendment complies with the standards and 
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), 
and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made 
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules 
and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license 
amendment.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action was published in the Federal Register on December 27, 2001 (66 
FR 66945). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene 
was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of the amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (67 FR 
20176, published April 24, 2002).
    Further details with respect to the action see (1) the application 
for amendment dated December 19, 2000, as supplemented by letters dated 
May 30, June 20, 26 (two letters), 27, and 28, July 3 and 24 (two 
letters), August 7, 13, 21, 23, and 30, September 14, October 1, 12 
(two letters), 17, 30 (two letters), and 31, November 9, 16 (three 
letters), and 17, and December 5, 6 (two letters), 10, and 20, 2001, 
and January 14, 15, and 31, February 7 (two letters), and March 1, 
2002, (2) Amendment No. 244 to License No. NFP-6, (3) the Commission's 
related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the Commission's Environmental 
Assessment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the 
NRC's Public Document Room, located at One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available 
records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents 
Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on 
the internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter 
problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contract 
the NRC Public Document Room Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-
4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of April 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas W. Alexion,
Project Directorate IV, Project Manager, Section 1, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-10589 Filed 4-29-02; 8:45 am]
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