Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 155 / Friday, August 10, 2018 / Notices 39789 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–313, 50–368, and 72–13; 

NRC–2017–0239] 

In the Matter of Entergy Arkansas, Inc. 

and Entergy Operations, Inc. Arkansas 

Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2, and 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation Facility 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Direct and indirect transfer of 

license; order. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an order to 

permit the direct transfer of Renewed 

Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–51 

and NPF–6 for Arkansas Nuclear One, 

Units 1 and 2, and the general license 

for the independent spent fuel storage 

installation facility, to a new limited 

liability company named Entergy 

Arkansas, LLC. In addition, the order 

permits an associated indirect license 

transfer of membership interest of 

Entergy Arkansas, LLC to an 

intermediate company, Entergy Utility 

Holding Company, LLC. Entergy 

Corporation will remain as the ultimate 

parent company, but the intermediate 

company, Entergy Utility Holding 

Company, LLC, will be the direct parent 

company of the newly formed Entergy 

Arkansas, LLC. The NRC will issue 

conforming amendments to the renewed 

facility operating licenses for 

administrative purposes to reflect the 

change in the owner licensee. 

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-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: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. 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 publiclyavailable 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 pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. 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’Banion@nrc.gov. 

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 Direct 

and Indirect Transfers of Control of 

Licenses and Conforming Amendments 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–313, 50–368, and 72–13; 

License Nos. DPR–51 and NPF–6] 

In the Matter of Entergy Arkansas, Inc. and 

Entergy Operations, Inc. 

Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2 

ORDER APPROVING DIRECT AND 

INDIRECT TRANSFERS OF CONTROL OF 

LICENSES AND CONFORMING 

AMENDMENTS 

I. 

Entergy Arkansas, Inc. (EAI) and Entergy 

Operations, Inc. (EOI) (together, the 

licensees) are co-holders of Renewed Facility 

Operating License (RFOL) Nos. DPR–51 and 

NPF–6 for Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO), 

Units 1 and 2, and the general license for the 

independent spent fuel storage installation 

(ISFSI). EAI is the owner and EOI is 

authorized to possess, use, and operate ANO, 

Units 1 and 2, and the ISFSI, which are 

located in Pope County, Arkansas. 

II. 

By application dated September 21, 2017, 

EOI requested on behalf of itself, EAI, 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 direct transfer of RFOL Nos. 

DPR–51 and NPF–6 for ANO, Units 1 and 2, 

and the general license for the ISFSI, from 

the current owner, EAI, to a new limited 

liability company, Entergy Arkansas, LLC 

(EAL). The applicants also requested 

approval of conforming license amendments 

that would replace references to EAI in the 

RFOLs with references to EAL to reflect the 

transfer of ownership. In addition, the 

applicants requested the NRC’s consent to 

the indirect transfer of membership interest 

of EAL to an intermediate company, Entergy 

Utility Holding Company, LLC (EUHC). 

Entergy Corporation will remain as the 

ultimate parent company, but EUHC will be 

the direct parent company of EAL. 

Ultimately, EAL will acquire ownership of 

the facilities and EOI will remain responsible 

for the operation and maintenance of ANO, 

Units 1 and 2. The license transfers are 

necessary to support a corporate 

restructuring. 

The application proposes no physical or 

operational changes to the facilities. The 

interconnections that provide offsite power 

to ANO, Units 1 and 2, do not change as a 

result of the proposed direct and indirect 

license transfers. 

The applicants requested NRC approval of 

the transfers of the facility operating and 

ISFSI general licenses and conforming 

license amendments in accordance with 10 

CFR 50.80 and 10 CFR 50.90, ‘‘Application 

for amendment of license, construction 

permit, or early site permit.’’ 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 EAL is qualified to hold the 

license to the extent proposed to permit the 

transfer of ownership from EAI to EAL and 

the indirect transfer of membership interest 

of EAL to an intermediate company, EUHC, 

as described in the application. The NRC 

staff has also determined that the proposed 

license transfers are otherwise consistent 

with the applicable provisions of law, 

regulations, and orders issued by the NRC 

pursuant thereto, subject to the condition set 

forth below. The NRC staff has further found 

that the application for the proposed license 

amendments complies with the standards 

and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations set forth 

in 10 CFR Chapter I, ‘‘Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission’’; the facilities will operate in 

conformity with the application, the 

provisions of the Act, and the rules and 

regulations of the Commission; there is 

reasonable assurance that the activities 

authorized by the proposed license 

amendments can be conducted without 

endangering the health and safety of the 

public and that such activities will be 


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1See Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. 

ML17025A180. 

conducted in compliance with the 

Commission’s regulations; the issuance of the 

proposed license amendments will not be 

inimical to the common defense and security 

or to the health and safety of the public; and 

the issuance of the proposed amendments 

will be in accordance with 10 CFR part 51, 

‘‘Environmental Protection Regulations for 

Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory 

Functions,’’ of the Commission’s regulations 

and all applicable requirements have been 

satisfied. 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 Act; 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 license transfers is approved, 

subject to the following condition: 

1. Before completion of the proposed 

transaction, EOI shall provide the Director of 

the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 

satisfactory documentary evidence that EAL 

has obtained the appropriate amount of 

insurance required of the licensees under 10 

CFR part 140 and 10 CFR part 50. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, consistent 

with 10 CFR 2.1315(b), the license 

amendments for ANO, Units 1 and 2, that 

make changes, as indicated in Enclosures 2 

and 3 to the cover letter forwarding this 

order, to conform the licenses to reflect the 

subject transfers, are approved. The 

amendments shall be issued and made 

effective at the time the proposed transfer 

actions are completed. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, after 

receipt of all required regulatory approvals of 

the proposed transfer actions, 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 transfers, no 

later than 5 business days before the date of 

the closing of the transfers. Should the 

proposed transfers 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 in 

ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public 

Document Room reference staff by telephone 

at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day 

of August, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Brian E. Holian, 

Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17168 Filed 8–9–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–368, 50–334, 50–445, 50– 

302, 50–348, 50–364, 50–336, 50–338, 50– 

339, 50–282, 50–306, 50–327, 50–498, 50– 

499, 50–335, 50–280, 50–395, 50–390; NRC– 

2017–0188] 

Entergy Operations, Inc.; FirstEnergy 

Nuclear Operating Company; Vistra 

Operations Company, LLC; Duke 

Entergy Florida, Southern Nuclear 

Operating Company, Inc.; Dominion 

Nuclear Connecticut, Inc.; Virginia 

Electric and Power Company; Northern 

States Power Company—Minnesota; 

South Carolina Electric & Gas 

Company, Inc.; STP Nuclear Operating 

Company; Tennessee Valley Authority 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Director’s decision under 10 

CFR 2.206; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has issued a 

director’s decision in response to a 

petition dated January 24, 2017, filed by 

Mr. Paul Gunter on behalf of Beyond 

Nuclear, and representing numerous 

public interest groups (collectively, 

Beyond Nuclear, et al., or petitioners), 

requesting that the NRC take action with 

regard to licensees of plants that 

currently rely on potentially defective 

safety-related components and 

potentially falsified quality assurance 

documentation supplied by AREVA-Le 

Creusot Forge and Japan Casting and 

Forging Corporation. The petitioners’ 

requests are included in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

DATES: The director’s decision was 

issued on August 2, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2017–0188 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–2017–0188. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. 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 publiclyavailable 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 pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. 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: 

Perry Buckberg, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

1383; email: Perry.Buckberg@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of 

the director’s decision is attached. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day 

of August 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Perry H. Buckberg, 

Senior Project Manager, Special Projects and 

Process Branch, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

Attachment—Director’s Decision DD–18–03 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 

OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR 

REGULATION 

Brian E. Holian, Acting Director 

In the Matter of Power Reactor Licensees 

Docket Nos.: See Attached List 

License Nos.: See Attached List 

DIRECTOR’S DECISION UNDER 10 CFR 

2.206 

I. Introduction 

On January 24, 2017,1 Mr. Paul Gunter 

submitted a petition on behalf of Beyond 

Nuclear that represents numerous public 

interest groups (collectively referred to as the 

Petitioners) under Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.206, 

‘‘Requests for Action under This Subpart.’’ 


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