[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 22 (Friday, February 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1249-1250]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-00585]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-382; NRC-2016-0078]


Entergy Operations, Inc.; Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 
3

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-38 to Entergy Operations, 
Inc., (EOI), the operator of the Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 
3 (WF3), and Entergy Louisiana, LLC, the owner of WF3 (together Entergy 
or the licensees). Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-38 
authorizes EOI to operate WF3 at reactor core power levels not in 
excess of 3,716 megawatts thermal, in accordance with the provisions of 
the WF3 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-38.

DATES: The NRC issued the Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-38 
on December 27, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0078 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:
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INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
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415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. For the convenience of 
the reader, instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this 
document are provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
     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: Phyllis M. Clark, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6447, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    Notice is hereby given that the NRC has issued Renewed Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-38 to Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI), the 
operator of Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3 (WF3), and Entergy 
Louisiana, LLC (together Entergy or the licensees). Renewed Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-38 authorizes EOI to operate WF3 at reactor 
core power levels not in excess of 3,716 megawatts thermal, in 
accordance with the provisions of the WF3 renewed license and technical 
specifications. The NRC's record of decision that supports the decision 
to issue Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-38 is available in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML18275A234. The NRC documented its 
environmental review for the license renewal in the record of decision 
and in the final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS), 
which was published as Supplement 59, ``Regarding Waterford Steam 
Electric Station, Unit 3, Final Report,'' November 20, 2018 (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML18323A103), to NUREG-1437, ``Generic Environmental 
Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants.'' As part of 
its environmental review, the NRC considered a range of reasonable 
alternatives to WF3 license renewal that included new nuclear power 
generation, supercritical pulverized coal (SCPC), natural gas combined-
cycle (NGCC), and a combination alternative (NGCC, biomass, and demand-
side management (DSM)). The NRC also considered the no-action 
alternative, or simply not issuing the renewed license. The FSEIS 
documents the environmental review, including the determination that 
the adverse environmental impacts of license renewal for WF3 are not so 
great that preserving the option of license renewal for energy planning 
decisionmakers would be unreasonable.
    WF3 is a pressurized-water reactor located in Killona, St. Charles 
Parish, Louisiana (25 miles west of New Orleans, LA). The application 
for the renewed license, ``License Renewal Application, Waterford Steam 
Electric Station, Unit 3 Facility Operating License MPF-38, March 
2016,'' dated March 23, 2016 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML16088A324), 
as supplemented by letters dated through June 26, 2018, complies 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 it has set forth in the renewed license. The NRC published a 
public notice of the proposed issuance of the renewed license, which 
included an opportunity for a hearing, in the Federal Register on May 
31, 2016 (81 FR 34379). No adjudicatory matters are pending before the 
Commission or the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel regarding the 
WF3 license renewal application.
    For further details with respect to this action, see: (1) Entergy's 
license renewal application for WF3 dated March 23, 2016 (ADAMS Package 
Accession No. ML16088A324), as supplemented by letters through June 26, 
2018, (2) the NRC's safety evaluation report published on August 17, 
2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18228A668), (3) the NRC's final 
supplemental environmental impact statement (NUREG-1437, Supplement 59) 
for WF3 published on November 20, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML18323A103), and (4) the NRC's record of decision (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML18275A234).

II. Conclusion

    As discussed in Chapter 5 of the final supplemental environmental 
impact statement for the WF3 license renewal (Supplement 59 to NUREG-
1437), the NRC has determined that the adverse environmental impacts of 
license renewal for WF3 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 Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License 
Renewal of Nuclear Plants, (2) information provided in the 
environmental report submitted by Entergy, (3) consultation with 
Federal, State, local, and Tribal agencies, and (4) the NRC staff's 
independent environmental review.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of January 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph E. Donoghue,
Deputy Director, Division of Materials and License Renewal, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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