[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 155 (Friday, August 10, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39797-39798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17166]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-382 and 72-75; NRC-2017-0239]
In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC and Entergy Operations,
Inc. Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, and Independent Spent
Fuel Storage Installation Facility
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Indirect transfer of license; order.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an
order to permit the indirect transfer of membership interests in
Entergy Louisiana, LLC (ELL; the owner of Waterford Steam Electric
Station, Unit 3, and the independent spent fuel storage installation
facility) to the extent ELL is affected by the addition of Entergy
Arkansas, LLC; Entergy Mississippi, LLC; and Entergy New Orleans, LLC
to Entergy Utility Holding Company, LLC (EUHC). Upon execution of the
transfer, these changes will result in additional members of EUHC that
may dilute the resources and voting power of its members, including
ELL.
DATES: The order was issued on August 1, 2018, and is effective for one
year.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0239 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly[dash]available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0239. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For
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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 ``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 e-mail to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first
time that it is mentioned in this document.
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: Margaret W. O'Banion, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1233; email:
Margaret.O'[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of the order is attached.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of August 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Margaret W. O'Banion,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
Attachment--Order Approving Indirect Transfer of Control of License
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-382 and 72-75; License No. NPF-38]
In the Matter of Entergy Louisiana, LLC and Entergy Operations, Inc.
Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3
ORDER APPROVING INDIRECT TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF LICENSE
I.
Entergy Louisiana, LLC (ELL) and Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI)
(together, the licensees) are co[dash]holders of Facility Operating
License No. NPF[dash]38 for Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3
(Waterford), and the general license for the independent spent fuel
storage installation (ISFSI). ELL is the owner and EOI is authorized
to possess, use, and operate Waterford and the ISFSI, which are
located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.
II.
By application dated September 21, 2017, EOI requested, on
behalf of itself, ELL, and their parent companies (together, the
applicants), pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR) Section 50.80, ``Transfer of licenses,'' that the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) consent to the indirect transfer
of membership interests in ELL to the extent ELL is affected by the
addition of Entergy Arkansas, LLC (EAL); Entergy Mississippi, LLC
(EML); and Entergy New Orleans, LLC (ENOL) to Entergy Utility
Holding Company, LLC (EUHC). These changes will result (upon
execution of the transfers) in additional members of EUHC that may
dilute the resources and voting power of its members.
The application proposes no physical or operational changes to
the facilities. The interconnections that provide offsite power to
Waterford do not change as a result of the proposed indirect license
transfer.
The applicants requested NRC approval of the indirect transfer
of membership interests in ELL. The NRC published a notice,
``Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2; Grand Gulf Nuclear Station,
Unit 1; River Bend Station, Unit 1; and Waterford Steam Electric
Station, Unit 3 Consideration of Approval of Transfer of Licenses
and Conforming Amendments,'' in the Federal Register on December 29,
2017 (82 FR 61800). No comments or hearing requests were received.
Under 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 NRC gives its consent in writing. Upon
review of the information in the application and other information
before the Commission, the NRC staff has determined that the
licensees are qualified to hold the license to the extent proposed
to permit the indirect transfer of membership interests in ELL to
the extent ELL is affected by the addition of EAL, EML, and ENOL to
EUHC. The NRC staff has also determined that the proposed license
transfer is otherwise consistent with the applicable provisions of
law, regulations, and orders issued by the NRC pursuant thereto. The
findings set forth above are supported by an NRC safety evaluation
dated August 1, 2018.
III.
Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 161b, 161i, and 184 of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; Title 42 of the United States
Code Sections 2201(b), 2201(i), and 2234; and 10 CFR 50.80, IT IS
HEREBY ORDERED that the application regarding the proposed indirect
license transfer is approved.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, after receipt of all required
regulatory approvals of the proposed transfer action, EOI shall
inform the Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation in
writing of such receipt, and of the date of closing of the transfer,
no later than 5 business days before the date of the closing of the
transfer. Should the proposed indirect transfer not be completed
within 1 year of this order's date of issuance, this order shall
become null and void; however, upon written application and for good
cause shown, such date may be extended by order.
This order is effective upon issuance.
For further details with respect to this order, see the
application dated September 21, 2017 (Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML17268A213), and the
NRC's safety evaluation dated August 1, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML18177A236), which are available for public inspection at the NRC's
Public Document Room located at One White Flint North, Public File
Area 01-F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland. Publicly available documents created or received at the
NRC are accessible electronically through 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 accessing the documents
located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public Document Room
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 1st day of August, 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph G. Giitter,
Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
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