[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 130 (Thursday, July 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39910-39913]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17010]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION



[Docket Nos. 50-220 and 50-410]




Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC; Nine Mile Point Nuclear 

Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Notice of Consideration of Approval of 

Application Regarding Proposed Corporate Merger and Opportunity for a 

Hearing



AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.



ACTION: Notice of request for license transfer, opportunity to comment, 

opportunity to request a hearing.



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DATES: Comments must be filed by August 8, 2011. A request for a 

hearing must be filed by July 27, 2011.



ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2009-0193 in the subject line 

of your comments. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form 

will be posted on the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking Web 

site http://www.regulations.gov. Because your comments will not be 

edited to remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC 

cautions you against including any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly disclosed.

    The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any 

identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not 

include any information in their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed.

    You may submit comments by any one of the following methods.

     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-

2009-0193. Address questions



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about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 301-492-3668; e-mail 

[email protected].

     Mail comments to: Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWB-05-

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

     Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.

    You can access publicly available documents related to this notice 

using the following methods:

     NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine 

and have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's 

PDR, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852.

     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC 

are available online in the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. If 

you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing 

the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR reference staff 

at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected]. 

The application dated May 12, 2011, contains proprietary information 

and, accordingly, those portions are being withheld from public 

disclosure. A redacted version of the application is available 

electronically under ADAMS Accession No. ML11138A159.



FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Guzman, Senior Project 

Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I-1, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: 301-415-1030; 

e-mail: [email protected]

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) is 

considering the issuance of an Order under Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.80 approving the indirect transfer of 

Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-63 and NPF-69 for the Nine 

Mile Point Nuclear Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 (NMP), respectively, 

currently held by Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC as owner and 

licensed operator. Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC is owned by 

Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, LLC (CENG). The indirect transfer 

of control would result from the proposed merger between Exelon 

Corporation (Exelon) and one of CENG's parent companies, Constellation 

Energy Group, Inc (CEG).

    According to the application dated May 12, 2011, filed by Exelon 

Generation Company, LLC (Exelon Generation) acting on behalf of itself, 

Exelon, and Exelon Ventures Company, LLC (Exelon Ventures) and CENG 

acting on behalf of its subsidiary licensee, Nine Mile Point Nuclear 

Station, LLC, the applicants seek approval pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80 of 

the indirect transfer of control of the NMP Renewed Facility Operating 

License Nos. DPR-63 and NPF-69.

    CEG is one of two parent companies of CENG. CEG, through its 

subsidiaries, has a 50.01 percent ownership interest in CENG. EDF Inc. 

has the remaining 49.99 percent ownership interest in CENG.

    According to the application:

     EDF Inc.'s 49.99 percent ownership interest in CENG is not 

affected by the corporate merger of Exelon and CEG. EDF Inc. is a U.S. 

corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware and a 

wholly-owned subsidiary of E.D.F. International SAS, a limited company 

organized under the laws of France, which is, in turn, a wholly-owned 

subsidiary of Electricit[eacute] de France SA, a French limited 

company;

     The existing chain of ownership for Exelon Generation's 

current licensed facilities is unaffected by the proposed transaction 

and associated license transfers for NMP;

     The proposed transaction does not result in any transfer 

of control with respect to the licenses for the current Exelon 

Generation plants;

     Upon completion of the transaction, CEG will become a 

direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation; and

     Throughout the transaction, the direct ownership by CEG of 

100 percent of Constellation Nuclear, LLC and, indirectly, the 

ownership by CEG of 50.01 percent in CENG and CENG's ownership of 

Constellation Nuclear Power Plants, LLC and NMP will remain unchanged.

    No physical changes to the NMP facility or operational changes are 

being proposed in the application.

    Pursuant to 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 Commission shall give its consent in 

writing. The Commission will approve an application for the indirect 

transfer of a license, if the Commission determines that the proposed 

corporate merger will not affect the qualifications of the licensee to 

hold the license, and that the transfer is otherwise consistent with 

applicable provisions of law, regulations, and orders issued by the 

Commission pursuant thereto.

    The filing of requests for hearing and petitions for leave to 

intervene, and written comments with regard to the license transfer 

application, are discussed below.

    Within 20 days from the date of publication of this notice, any 

person(s) whose interest may be affected by the Commission's action on 

the application may request a hearing and intervention via electronic 

submission through the NRC E-filing system. Requests for a hearing and 

petitions for leave to intervene should be filed in accordance with the 

Commission's rules of practice set forth in Subpart C ``Rules of 

General Applicability: Hearing Requests, Petitions to Intervene, 

Availability of Documents, Selection of Specific Hearing Procedures, 

Presiding Officer Powers, and General Hearing Management for NRC 

Adjudicatory Hearings,'' of 10 CFR part 2. In particular, such requests 

and petitions must comply with the requirements set forth in 10 CFR 

2.309. Untimely requests and petitions may be denied, as provided in 10 

CFR 2.309(c)(1), unless good cause for failure to file on time is 

established. In addition, an untimely request or petition should 

address the factors that the Commission will also consider, in 

reviewing untimely requests or petitions, set forth in 10 CFR 

2.309(c)(1)(i)-(viii). NRC regulations are accessible electronically 

from the NRC Library on the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/.

    All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including a 

request for hearing, a petition for leave to intervene, any motion or 

other document filed in the proceeding prior to the submission of a 

request for hearing or petition to intervene, and documents filed by 

interested governmental entities participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c), 

must be filed in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139, 

August 28, 2007). The E-Filing process requires participants to submit 

and serve all adjudicatory documents over the Internet, or in some 

cases to mail copies on electronic storage media. Participants may not 

submit paper copies of their filings unless they seek an exemption in 

accordance with the procedures described below.

    To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least 

ten (10) days prior to the filing deadline, the



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participant should contact the Office of the Secretary by e-mail at 

[email protected], or by telephone at (301) 415-1677, to request 

(1) a digital ID certificate, which allows the participant (or its 

counsel or representative) to digitally sign documents and access the 

E-Submittal server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and 

(2) advise the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a 

request or petition for hearing (even in instances in which the 

participant, or its counsel or representative, already holds an NRC-

issued digital ID certificate). Based upon this information, the 

Secretary will establish an electronic docket for the hearing in this 

proceeding if the Secretary has not already established an electronic 

docket.

    Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is 

available on NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/apply-certificates.html. System requirements for accessing 

the E-Submittal server are detailed in NRC's ``Guidance for Electronic 

Submission,'' which is available on the agency's public Web site at 

http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants may 

attempt to use other software not listed on the Web site, but should 

note that the NRC's E-Filing system does not support unlisted software, 

and the NRC Meta System Help Desk will not be able to offer assistance 

in using unlisted software.

    If a participant is electronically submitting a document to the NRC 

in accordance with the E-Filing rule, the participant must file the 

document using the NRC's online, Web-based submission form. In order to 

serve documents through EIE, users will be required to install a Web 

browser plug-in from the NRC Web site. Further information on the Web-

based submission form, including the installation of the Web browser 

plug-in, is available on the NRC's public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.

    Once a participant has obtained a digital ID certificate and a 

docket has been created, the participant can then submit a request for 

hearing or petition for leave to intervene. Submissions should be in 

Portable Document Format (PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance 

available on the NRC public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A filing is considered complete at the time the 

documents are submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be 

timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing system 

no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Upon receipt of 

a transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends 

the submitter an e-mail notice confirming receipt of the document. The 

E-Filing system also distributes an e-mail notice that provides access 

to the document to the NRC Office of the General Counsel and any others 

who have advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to 

participate in the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the 

documents on those participants separately. Therefore, applicants and 

other participants (or their counsel or representative) must apply for 

and receive a digital ID certificate before a hearing request/petition 

to intervene is filed so that they can obtain access to the document 

via the E-Filing system.

    A person filing electronically using the agency's adjudicatory E-

Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC Meta System 

Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC Web site 

at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by e-mail at 

[email protected], or by a toll-free call at (866) 672-7640. The 

NRC Meta System Help Desk is available between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., 

Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding government holidays.

    Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not 

submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, in 

accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing 

requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper 

format. Such filings must be submitted by: (1) First class mail 

addressed to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, express mail, or 

expedited delivery service to the Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth 

Floor, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, Attention: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. Participants 

filing a document in this manner are responsible for serving the 

document on all other participants. Filing is considered complete by 

first-class mail as of the time of deposit in the mail, or by courier, 

express mail, or expedited delivery service upon depositing the 

document with the provider of the service. A presiding officer, having 

granted an exemption request from using E-Filing, may require a 

participant or party to use E-Filing if the presiding officer 

subsequently determines that the reason for granting the exemption from 

use of E-Filing no longer exists.

    Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in 

NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at: 

http://ehd1.nrc.gov/EHD/, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the 

Commission, or the presiding officer. Participants are requested not to 

include personal privacy information, such as social security numbers, 

home addresses, or home phone numbers in their filings, unless an NRC 

regulation or other law requires submission of such information. With 

respect to copyrighted works, except for limited excerpts that serve 

the purpose of the adjudicatory filings and would constitute a Fair Use 

application, participants are requested not to include copyrighted 

materials in their submission.

    Petitions for leave to intervene must be filed no later than 20 

days from the date of publication of this notice. Non-timely filings 

will not be entertained absent a determination by the presiding officer 

that the petition or request should be granted or the contentions 

should be admitted, based on a balancing of the factors specified in 10 

CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)-(viii).

    The Commission will issue a notice or order granting or denying a 

hearing request or intervention petition, designating the issues for 

any hearing that will be held and designating the Presiding Officer. A 

notice granting a hearing will be published in the Federal Register and 

served on the parties to the hearing.

    Within 30 days from the date of publication of this notice, persons 

may submit written comments regarding the license transfer application, 

as provided for in 10 CFR 2.1305. The Commission will consider and, if 

appropriate, respond to these comments, but such comments will not 

otherwise constitute part of the decisional record. Comments should be 

submitted to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Rulemakings and Adjudications 

Staff, and should cite the publication date and page number of this 

Federal Register notice.

    For further details with respect to this license transfer 

application, see the application dated May 12, 2011, available for 

public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR), 

located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available 

documents created or received at the NRC are accessible electronically 

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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 in 

accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR 

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 28th day of June 2011.



    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Richard V. Guzman,

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I-1, Division of 

Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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