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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–395, 52–027, 52–028, and 

72–1038; Renewed Operating License No. 

NPF–12; Combined License Nos. NPF–93 

and NPF–94; and the General License for 

the Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation (ISFSI); NRC–2018–0043] 

In the Matter of Dominion Energy, Inc., 

and SCANA Corporation Virgil C. 

Summer Nuclear Station (VCSNS), 

Units 1, 2, and 3, and the ISFSI 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Indirect transfer of license; 

Orders. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing Orders 

approving an application filed by South 

Carolina Electric & Gas Company and 

Dominion Energy, Inc. (Dominion 

Energy) on January 25, 2018. The 

application sought NRC approval of the 

indirect transfer of Renewed Facility 

Operating License No. NPF–12 and 

Combined License Nos. NPF–93 and 

NPF–94 for Summer, Units 1, 2, and 3, 

respectively, and the general license for 

the Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation, from the ultimate parent, 

SCANA Corporation, to Dominion 

Energy. The NRC’s approval of the 

indirect license transfer is subject to 

certain conditions, which are described 

in the Orders. No physical changes to 

the facility or operational changes were 

proposed in the application. The Orders 

were effective upon issuance. 

DATES: The Orders were issued on 

August 30, 2018, and are effective for 1 

year. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2018–0043 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–2018–0035. 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: 

Shawn Williams, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

1009; email: Shawn.Williams@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of 

the Orders are attached. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th of 

September 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Shawn A. Williams, 

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing 

Branch II–1, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

Attachment—Orders Approving Indirect 

Transfer of License 

United States of America 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

In the Matter of: SCANA Corporation, 

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, 

Dominion Energy, Inc.,Virgil C. Summer 

Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1, and Independent 

Spent Fuel Storage Installation 

Docket Nos. 50–395, 72–1038 

Renewed Facility Operating License No. 

NPF–12; and, General License for the 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation 

ORDER APPROVING INDIRECT TRANSFER 

OF LICENSES 

I. 

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company 

(SCE&G) and the South Carolina Public 

Service Authority (Santee Cooper) are the 

holders of Renewed Facility Operating 

License No. NPF–12 and the general license 

for the Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation (ISFSI) for the Virgil C. Summer 

Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1, and the ISFSI 

(together, VCSNS). SCE&G is the licensed 

operator of VCSNS. SCE&G is a wholly 

owned subsidiary of SCANA Corporation 

(SCANA). VCSNS is located in Fairfield 

County, South Carolina. 

II. 

By application dated January 25, 2018, 

SCE&G, acting for itself and its parent 

company, SCANA, and Dominion Energy, 

Inc. (Dominion Energy) (together, the 

Applicants) requested, pursuant to Title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

Section 50.80 (10 CFR 50.80), that the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

consent to the indirect transfer of SCE&G’s 

two-thirds ownership interest in the 

Renewed Facility Operating License No. 

NPF–12, Combined License Nos. NPF–93 and 

NPF–94, and the general license for the 

associated ISFSI. The proposed indirect 

transfer does not involve Santee Cooper’s 

one-third ownership interest in VCSNS. The 

Combined License Nos. NPF–93 and NPF–94 

indirect license transfer is addressed in a 

separate Order. 

The proposed indirect license transfer 

would facilitate a merger between Dominion 

Energy and SCANA, the parent company of 

SCE&G. The transaction would be effected 

through the merger of SCANA and Sedona 

Corp. (Sedona), which is a South Carolina 

corporation and subsidiary of Dominion 

Energy formed for the sole purpose of 

merging with SCANA. Sedona would be 

merged with and into SCANA, with SCANA 

remaining as the surviving corporation, 

which will be a direct wholly-owned 

subsidiary of Dominion Energy. 

Approval of the indirect transfer of the 

Renewed Facility Operating License and 

ISFSI was requested by SCE&G and 

Dominion Energy. A notice entitled, ‘‘Virgil 

C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 1, 2, and 3, 

and Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation; Consideration of Approval of 

Transfer of License,’’ was published in the 

Federal Register on March 8, 2018 (83 FR 

9876). 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. After the indirect transfer, SCE&G 

would remain a wholly owned subsidiary of 

SCANA, which in turn would become a 

wholly owned subsidiary of Dominion 

Energy. SCE&G would remain the licensed 

owner and operator of VCSNS. Upon review 

of the information in the application, and 

other information before the Commission, the 

NRC staff has determined that the Applicants 

are qualified to hold the licenses to the extent 

proposed to permit the indirect transfer. The 

NRC staff has also determined that indirect 

transfer of the licenses, as described in the 

application, is otherwise consistent with the 

applicable provisions of law, regulations, and 

orders issued by the NRC, pursuant thereto, 

subject to the conditions set forth below. The 

findings set forth above are supported by a 

safety evaluation dated August 30, 2018. 

III. 

Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 161b, 

161i, 161o, and 184 of the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (the Act), 42 U.S.C. 

§ 2201(b), 2201(i), 2201(o), and 2234; and 10 

CFR 50.80, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the 

application regarding the proposed indirect 

license transfer is approved for Virgil C. 

Summer Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1, and the 

ISFSI. 

IT IS ORDERED that after receipt of all 

required regulatory approvals of the 

proposed indirect transfer action, SCE&G 

shall inform the Director of the Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation in writing of such 


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receipt no later than 2 business days prior to 

the date of the closing of the indirect transfer. 

Should the proposed indirect transfer not be 

completed within 1 year of this Order’s date 

of issue, this Order shall become null and 

void, provided, however, upon written 

application and 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 initial application dated 

January 25, 2018 (Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System (ADAMS) 

Accession No. ML18025C035), and the Safety 

Evaluation dated August 30, 2018 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18129A076), which are 

available for public inspection at the 

Commission’s Public Document Room (PDR), 

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 in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, should 

contact the NRC PDR 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 30th day 

of August 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Joseph G. Giitter, 

Director, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation 

United States of America 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

In the Matter of: SCANA Corporation, 

South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, 

Dominion Energy, Inc., Virgil C. Summer 

Nuclear Station, Unit Nos. 2 and 3 

Docket Nos. 52–027, 52–028 

Combined License Nos. NPF–93 and NPF–94 

ORDER APPROVING INDIRECT TRANSFER 

OF LICENSES 

I. 

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company 

(SCE&G) and the South Carolina Public 

Service Authority (Santee Cooper) are the 

holders of Combined License (COL) Nos. 

NPF–93 and NPF–94 for the Virgil C. 

Summer Nuclear Station (VCSNS), Unit Nos. 

2 and 3. SCE&G is a wholly owned subsidiary 

of SCANA Corporation (SCANA). VCSNS is 

located in Fairfield County, South Carolina. 

II. 

By application dated January 25, 2018, 

SCE&G, acting for itself and its parent 

company, SCANA, and Dominion Energy, 

Inc. (Dominion Energy) (together, the 

Applicants) requested, pursuant to Title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

Section 50.80 (10 CFR 50.80), that the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

consent to the indirect transfer of SCE&G’s 

two-thirds ownership interest in Renewed 

Facility Operating License No. NPF–12, 

Combined License Nos. NPF–93 and NPF–94, 

and the general license for the associated 

ISFSI. The proposed indirect transfer does 

not involve Santee Cooper’s one-third 

ownership interest in VCSNS, Units 2 and 3. 

The Renewed Facility Operating License No. 

NPF–12 and the general license for the ISFSI 

indirect license transfer is addressed in a 

separate Order. 

The proposed indirect license transfer 

would facilitate a merger between Dominion 

Energy and SCANA, the parent company of 

SCE&G. The merger would be effected 

through the merger of SCANA and Sedona 

Corp. (Sedona), which is a South Carolina 

corporation and subsidiary of Dominion 

Energy formed for the sole purpose of 

merging with SCANA. Sedona would be 

merged with and into SCANA, with SCANA 

remaining as the surviving corporation which 

will be a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of 

Dominion Energy. 

Approval of the indirect transfer of the 

Combined License Nos. NPF–93 and NPF–94 

was requested by SCE&G and Dominion 

Energy. A notice entitled, ‘‘Virgil C. Summer 

Nuclear Station, Unit 1, 2, and 3, and 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation; 

Consideration of Approval of Transfer of 

License,’’ was published in the FEDERAL

REGISTER on March 8, 2018 (83 FR 9876). 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. After the indirect transfer, SCE&G 

would remain a wholly owned subsidiary of 

SCANA, which in turn would become a 

wholly owned subsidiary of Dominion 

Energy. SCE&G would remain the licensed 

two-thirds owner and operator of VCSNS, 

Units 2 and 3. Upon review of the 

information in the licensee’s application, and 

other information before the Commission, the 

NRC staff has determined that the Applicants 

are qualified to hold the license to the extent 

proposed to permit the indirect transfer. The 

NRC staff has also determined that indirect 

transfer of the licenses, as described in the 

application, is otherwise consistent with the 

applicable provisions of law, regulations, and 

orders issued by the NRC, pursuant thereto, 

subject to the conditions set forth below. The 

findings set forth above are supported by a 

safety evaluation dated August 30, 2018. 

III. 

Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 161b, 

161i, 161o, and 184 of the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (the Act), 42 U.S.C. 

§ 2201(b), 2201(i), 2201(o), and 2234; and 10 

CFR 50.80 and 52.105, IT IS HEREBY 

ORDERED that the application regarding the 

proposed indirect license transfer is 

approved for Virgil C. Summer Nuclear 

Station, Unit Nos. 2 and 3. 

IT IS ORDERED that after receipt of all 

required regulatory approvals of the 

proposed indirect transfer action, SCG&E 

shall inform the Director of the Office of New 

Reactors in writing of such receipt no later 

than 2 business days prior to the date of the 

closing of the indirect transfer. Should the 

proposed indirect transfer not be completed 

within 1 year of this Order’s date of issue, 

this Order shall become null and void, 

provided, however, upon written application 

and 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 initial application dated 

January 25, 2018, (Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System (ADAMS) 

Accession No. ML18025C035), and the Safety 

Evaluation dated August 30, 2018 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18129A076), which are 

available for public inspection at the 

Commission’s Public Document Room (PDR), 

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 in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, should 

contact the NRC PDR 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 30th day 

of August, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Robert M. Taylor, 

Director Division of Licensing, Siting, and 

Environmental Analysis Office of New 

Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19578 Filed 9–7–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–395; NRC–2018–0198] 

Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit 

No. 1 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License amendment request; 

opportunity to comment, request a 

hearing, and petition for leave to 

intervene. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is proposing to 

determine that no significant hazards 

consideration is involved with the 

issuance of an amendment to Facility 

Operating License No. NPF–12 for the 

Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station 

(Summer), Unit No. 1. By letter dated 

August 24, 2018, as supplemented by 

letter dated August 31, 2018, South 

Caroline Electric and Gas Company 

(SCE&G) requested a one-time extension 

to surveillance requirement (SR) 4.3.3.6 

to allow a one-time extension of the 

frequency of the Core Exit Temperature 

Instrumentation channel calibrations 

from ‘‘every refueling outage’’ to ‘‘every 

19 months.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by September 

24, 2018. Requests for a hearing or 


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