[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 10, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 75141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-036]


Entergy Operations, Inc., et al.; Acceptance for Docketing of an 
Application for Combined License (COL) for River Bend, Unit 3

    On September 25, 2008, Entergy Operations, Incorporated, on behalf 
of itself and Entergy Mississippi, Incorporated, Entergy Louisiana, 
LLC, and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC filed with the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) pursuant to Section 103 of 
the Atomic Energy Act and Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 
(10 CFR) Part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear 
Power Plants,'' an application for a combined license (COL) for an 
economic simplified boiling water reactor (ESBWR) nuclear power plant, 
to be located in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The reactor is to be 
identified as River Bend Station, Unit 3. A notice of receipt and 
availability of this application was previously published in the 
Federal Register (73 FR 67895 on November 17, 2008).
    The NRC staff has determined that Entergy Operations, Incorporated, 
et al. has submitted information in accordance with 10 CFR Part 2, 
``Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensing Proceedings and Issuance of 
Orders,'' and Part 52 that is sufficiently complete and acceptable for 
docketing. The docket number established for this application is 52-
036.
    The NRC staff will perform a detailed technical review of the 
application. Docketing of the COL application does not preclude the NRC 
from requesting additional information from the applicant as the review 
proceeds, nor does it predict whether the Commission will grant or deny 
the application. The Commission will conduct a hearing in accordance 
with Subpart L, ``Informal Hearing Procedures for NRC Adjudications,'' 
of 10 CFR Part 2 and will receive a report on the COL application from 
the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards in accordance with 10 CFR 
52.87, ``Referral to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards 
(ACRS).'' If the Commission finds that the application meets the 
applicable standards of the Atomic Energy Act and the Commission's 
regulations, and that required notifications to other agencies and 
bodies have been made, the Commission will issue a COL, in the form and 
containing conditions and limitations that the Commission finds 
appropriate and necessary.
    In accordance with 10 CFR Part 51, the Commission will also prepare 
an environmental impact statement for the proposed action. Pursuant to 
10 CFR 51.26, and as part of the environmental scoping process, the 
staff intends to hold a public scoping meeting. Detailed information 
regarding this meeting will be included in a future Federal Register 
notice. Finally, the Commission will announce in a future Federal 
Register notice the opportunity to petition for leave to intervene in 
the hearing required for this application.
    A copy of the Entergy Operations, Inc. COL application is available 
for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room located 
at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 
Rockville, Maryland. The application is also available at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/col.html and is accessible 
electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the 
NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML082830022).
    Persons who do not have access to ADAMS, or who encounter problems 
in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC 
Public Document Room staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, (301) 415-
4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of December 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas A. Kevern,
Senior Project Manager, ABWR/ESBWR Projects Branch 1, Division of New 
Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-29185 Filed 12-9-08; 8:45 am]
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