[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 102 (Wednesday, May 27, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31822-31823]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-11313]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-548; NRC-2020-0090]
Entergy Operations Inc.; River Bend Station, Unit 1
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the
request of Entergy Operations, Inc. (Entergy, the licensee) to withdraw
its
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application dated March 23, 2020, for a proposed amendment to River
Bend Station, Unit 1 (River Bend), Renewed Facility Operating License
No. NPF-47. The proposed amendment would have extended the
implementation date for Amendment No. 197 to upgrade the River Bend
Emergency Action Level scheme based on Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
99-01, Revision 6, ``Development of Emergency Action Levels for Non-
Passive Reactors,'' from May 13, 2020, to September 30, 2020, due to
the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting impact on the station.
DATES: May 27, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0090 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0090. Address
questions about NRC 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.
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ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://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 ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if that document is available in ADAMS) is
provided the first time that a document is referenced.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas J. Wengert, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-4037, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has granted the request of Entergy
to withdraw its March 23, 2020, application (ADAMS Accession No.
ML20083N719) for a proposed amendment to River Bend, Renewed Facility
Operating License No. NPF-47, located in West Feliciana Parish,
Louisiana.
The proposed amendment would have extended the implementation date
for Amendment No. 197 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19070A062), which approved
a revision to the River Bend Emergency Plan to revise the emergency
action level scheme to one based on the NEI document NEI 99-01,
Revision 6, ``Development of Emergency Action Levels for Non-Passive
Reactors,'' from May 13, 2020, to September 30, 2020, due to the
ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting impact on the station.
This proposed amendment request was noticed in the Federal Register
on April 2, 2020 (85 FR 18590). Entergy requested to withdraw the
request by letter dated April 24, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML20115E516).
Dated: May 21, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas J. Wengert,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2020-11313 Filed 5-26-20; 8:45 am]
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