[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 235 (Wednesday, December 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 88274-88275]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29357]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-416; NRC-2016-0236]


License Renewal for Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License renewal and record of decision; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued 
renewed facility operating license No. NPF-29 to Entergy Company 
(Entergy or the licensee), the operator of Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, 
Unit 1 (GGNS). Renewed facility operating license No. NPF-29 authorizes 
operation of GGNS by the licensee at reactor core power levels not in 
excess of 4,408 megawatts thermal, in accordance with the provisions of 
the GGNS renewed license and technical specifications. In addition, the 
NRC has prepared a record of decision (ROD) that supports the NRC's 
decision to renew facility operating license No. NPF-29.

DATES: The license renewal of facility operating license No. NPF-29 was 
effective on December 1, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0236 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0236. 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 a 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: Emmanuel Sayoc, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555; telephone: 301-415-4084; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the NRC has 
issued renewed facility operating license No. NPF-29 to Entergy 
Company, the operator of GGNS. Renewed facility operating license No. 
NPF-29 authorizes operation of GGNS by the licensee at reactor core 
power levels not in excess of 4,408 megawatts thermal, in accordance 
with the provisions of the GGNS renewed license and technical 
specifications. The NRC's ROD that supports the NRC's decision to renew 
facility operating license No. NPF-29 is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML16243A024. As discussed in the ROD and the final 
supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS) for GGNS, 
Supplement 50 to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement 
for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Grand Gulf Nuclear 
Station, Unit 1,'' dated November 30, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML14328A171), the NRC has considered a range of reasonable alternatives 
that included natural gas combined-cycle (NGCC), supercritical 
pulverized coal, combination of wind, solar, and NGCC, and the no 
action alternative. The ROD and FSEIS document the NRC decision for the 
environmental review that the adverse environmental impacts of license 
renewal for GGNS are not so great that preserving the option of license 
renewal for energy planning decision makers would be unreasonable.
    Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1 is a boiling water reactor 
located 20 miles southwest of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The application 
for the renewed license, ``License Renewal Application, Grand Gulf 
Nuclear Station, Unit 1,'' dated October 28, 2011, as supplemented by 
letters dated through October 3, 2016 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML11308A052), complied with the standards and requirements of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the NRC's 
regulations. As required by the Act and the NRC's regulations in 
chapter 1 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), the 
NRC has made appropriate findings, which are set forth in the license. 
A public notice of the proposed issuance of the renewed license and an 
opportunity for a hearing was published in the Federal Register on 
December 27, 2011 (76 FR 80980).
    For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) Entergy 
Company, license renewal application for Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, 
Unit 1, dated October 28, 2011, as supplemented by letters dated 
through October 3, 2016; (2) the NRC's safety evaluation report 
published on October 18, 2016 (ADAMS

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Accession No. ML16288A185); (3) the NRC's final environmental impact 
statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 50), for GGNS published in November 
2014; and (4) the NRC's record of decision.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of December, 2016.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jane E. Marshall,
Acting Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-29357 Filed 12-6-16; 8:45 am]
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