[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:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0078. Address
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technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
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NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
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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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