[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 14, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56880-56881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24813]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-458; NRC-2017-0141]


Entergy Operations, Inc., River Bend Station, Unit 1

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Final supplemental environmental impact statement; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a 
final plant-specific Supplement 58 to the Generic Environmental Impact 
Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, 
regarding the renewal of operating license NPF-47 for an additional 20 
years of operation for River Bend Station, Unit 1 (RBS). The RBS is 
located in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.

DATES: The final supplemental environmental impact statement referenced 
in this document is available on November 14, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0141 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 website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0141. Address 
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 
telephone: 301-287-9127; 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 ``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 final supplemental environmental 
impact statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML18310A072.
     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.
     Library: The final supplemental environmental impact 
statement is available for public inspection at the West Feliciana 
Parish Library, 5114 Burnett Road, St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Drucker, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6223; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    In accordance with Sec.  51.118 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, the NRC is issuing the final Supplement 58 to the GEIS 
regarding the renewal of Entergy Operations, Inc. operating license 
NPF-47 for an additional 20 years of operation for RBS. The draft 
Supplement 58 to the GEIS was noticed by the NRC in the Federal 
Register on June 6, 2018 (83 FR 26310), and noticed by the 
Environmental Protection Agency on June 8, 2018 (83 FR 26665). The 
public comment period on the draft Supplement 58 to the GEIS ended on 
July 23, 2018, and the comments received are addressed in the final 
Supplement 58 to the GEIS.

II. Discussion

    As discussed in Chapter 5 of the final Supplement 58 to the GEIS, 
the NRC determined that the adverse environmental impacts of license 
renewal for RBS are not so great that preserving the option of license 
renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
    This recommendation is based on: (1) The analysis and findings in 
the GEIS;

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(2) information provided in the environmental report and other 
documents submitted by Entergy Operations, Inc.; (3) consultation with 
Federal, State, local, and Tribal agencies; (4) the NRC staff's 
independent environmental review; and (5) the NRC staff's consideration 
of public comments received during the scoping process and on the draft 
Supplement 58 to the GEIS.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, on November 8, 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Eric R. Oesterle,
Chief, License Renewal Projects Branch, Division of Materials and 
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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