ML15261A671

FRN - Withdrawal of an Amendment Request Regarding Deletion of Operating License Conditions Related to the Decommissioning Trust Provisions

ML15261A671
Person / Time
Site:	Vermont Yankee
Issue date:	11/10/2015
From:	Meena Khanna Plant Licensing Branch IV
To:
Kim J, NRR/DORL/LPLIV-2
References
NRC-2015-0029, TAC MF4798
Download: ML15261A671 (3)

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-271; NRC-2015-0029]

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the request of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy, the licensee), to withdraw its application dated September 4, 2014, for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No.

DPR-28, for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VY). The proposed amendment would have replaced VYs decommissioning trust fund (DTF) license conditions with the NRCs regulations governing decommissioning trust funds.

DATES: November 17, 2015 ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0029 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 Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0029. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher;

telephone: 301-415-3463; e-mail: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.

• NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):

You may obtain publicly-available 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 NRCs 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 that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.

• NRCs PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRCs PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Kim, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone:

301-415-4125; e-mail: James.Kim@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The NRC has granted the request of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy, the licensee), to withdraw its application dated September 4, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. ML14254A405), for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No.

DPR-28, for VY, located in Windam County, Vermont. The proposed amendment would have

replaced VYs DTF license conditions with the DTF provisions in paragraph 50.75(h) of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).

The NRC published a Biweekly Notice in the Federal Register on February 17, 2015 (80 FR 8359), that gave notice that this proposed amendment was under consideration by the NRC. However, by letter dated September 22, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15267A074),

the licensee requested to withdraw the proposed amendment.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of November 2015.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

/RA/

Meena K. Khanna, Chief, Plant Licensing Branch IV-2 and Decommissioning Transition Branch, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.