[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 183 (Tuesday, September 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 57239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24032]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 52-024; NRC-2008-0233]


Entergy Operations, Inc.; Grand Gulf, Unit 3

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Application for combined license; withdrawal.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing an 
application for a combined license (COL) for a single unit of the 
Economic Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor (ESBWR). This reactor would 
be identified as Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 3 (GGNS3) and is 
located adjacent to the current Grand Gulf Nuclear Station site in 
Claiborne County, Mississippi.

DATES: The effective date of the withdrawal of the application for 
combined license is September 22, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0233 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for docket ID NRC-2008-0233. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For 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 ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then 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 email to [email protected]. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document 
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time 
that the document is referenced.
     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: Adrian Mu[ntilde]iz, Office of New 
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-4093; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice of receipt and availability of this 
application was previously published in the Federal Register (73 FR 
14849) on March 19, 2008. On April 24, 2008, a subsequent notice was 
published in the Federal Register (73 FR 22180) announcing the 
acceptance of the GGNS3 COL application for docketing in accordance 
with part 2 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 
``Agency Rules of Practice and Procedure,'' and 10 CFR part 52, 
``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' 
The docket number established for this application is 52-024.
    By letter dated January 9, 2009, Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI) 
requested that the NRC temporarily suspend the COL application review, 
including any supporting reviews by external agencies, until further 
notice (ADAMS Accession No. ML090130174). The NRC granted the 
suspension request (ADAMS Accession No. ML090080523). By letter dated 
February 9, 2015, EOI requested the NRC to withdraw the GGNS3 COL 
application, including the Safeguards/Security Part, from the docket 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15040A078). Pursuant to the requirements in 10 
CFR part 2, the Commission grants EOI its request to withdraw the GGNS3 
COL application.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of September, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Francis M. Akstulewicz,
Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2015-24032 Filed 9-21-15; 8:45 am]
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