Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 204 / Tuesday, October 24, 2017 / Notices 49233 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–458–LR, ASLBP No. 17– 

956–01–LR–BD01] 

Entergy Operations, Inc.; 

Establishment of Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board 

Pursuant to delegation by the 

Commission, see 37 FR 28,710 (Dec. 29, 

1972), and the Commission’s 

regulations, see, e.g., 10 CFR 2.104, 

2.105, 2.300, 2.309, 2.313, 2.318, 2.321, 

notice is hereby given that an Atomic 

Safety and Licensing Board (Board) is 

being established to preside over the 

following proceeding: 

Entergy Operations, Inc. 

(River Bend Station, Unit 1) 

This proceeding involves an 

application by Entergy Operations, Inc. 

to renew for twenty years its operating 

license for River Bend Station, Unit 1, 

located in St. Francisville, Louisiana. 

The current operating license for River 

Bend Station, Unit 1, expires on 

midnight, August 29, 2025. In response 

to a notice published in the Federal 

Register, see 82 FR 37,908 (Aug. 14, 

2017), announcing the opportunity to 

request a hearing, the Sierra Club on 

October 12, 2017 filed a petition to 

intervene and request for a hearing. 

The Board is comprised of the 

following Administrative Judges: 

E. Roy Hawkens, Chairman, Atomic 

Safety and Licensing Board Panel, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001 

Dr. Michael F. Kennedy, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001 

Dr. Richard E. Wardwell, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001 

All correspondence, documents, and 

other materials shall be filed in 

accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule. 

See 10 CFR 2.302. 

Rockville, Maryland, October 18, 2017. 

Edward Hawkens, 

Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22975 Filed 10–23–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2016–0238] 

Managing Aging Processes in Storage 

Report 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft NUREG, NUREG–2214, 

‘‘Managing Aging Processes in Storage 

(MAPS) Report.’’ The draft NUREG 

provides guidance to the NRC technical 

review staff and establishes a technical 

basis for the safety review of renewal 

applications for specific licenses of 

independent spent fuel storage 

installations (ISFSIs) and certificates of 

compliance of dry storage systems. 

DATES: Submit comments on the draft 

NUREG–2214 by December 26, 2017. 

Comments received after this date will 

be considered if it is practical to do so, 

but the NRC is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2016–0238. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: May Ma, Office 

of Administration, Mail Stop: OWFN–2– 

A13, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Wise, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 

and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–8085; email: 

John.Wise@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2016– 

0238 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2016–0238. 

• 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 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

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. Draft 

NUREG–2214, ‘‘Managing Aging 

Processes in Storage (MAPS) Report’’ is 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML17289A237. 

• 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. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2016– 

0238 in your comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC posts all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as entering 

the comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment submissions into 

ADAMS. 

II. Discussion 

The NUREG–2214, ‘‘Managing Aging 

Process for Storage (MAPS) Report,’’ is 

a technical basis document that 

provides guidance to NRC staff on the 

safety review of renewal applications for 

the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel. 

The MAPS Report provides a generic 

evaluation of the aging mechanisms that 


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