[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 28, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4985-4986]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1779]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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


Entergy Operations, Inc.; River Bend Station Unit 3 Combined 
License Application; Notice of Cancellation of Environmental Scoping 
Process and Public Scoping Meeting

    Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI) on behalf of itself; Entergy 
Louisiana, LLC (ELL); Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C. (EGSL); and 
Entergy Mississippi, Inc. (EMI) has submitted an application for a 
combined license (COL) to build Unit 3 at its River Bend Station (RBS) 
site, located on approximately 3,330 acres in West Feliciana Parish on 
the Mississippi River, approximately three miles southeast of St. 
Francisville, Louisiana and 24 miles north-northwest of Baton Rouge, 
Louisiana. EOI submitted the application for the COL to the U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on September 25, 2008, pursuant to 
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 52.
    A notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement and 
conduct scoping process was published in the Federal Register on 
January 5, 2009 (74 FR 324). On January 9, 2009, EOI submitted a letter 
to NRC requesting that the staff suspend its review of the RBS Unit 3 
COL application. The purpose of this notice is to inform the public 
that the NRC has canceled the scoping process and the associated 
scoping meeting for this application.

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    Questions about this cancellation should be directed to Mr. Andrew 
Kugler at 301-415-2828 or via e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of January 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Scott C. Flanders,
Director, Division of Site and Environmental Reviews, Office of New 
Reactors.
[FR Doc. E9-1779 Filed 1-27-09; 8:45 am]
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