ML17348B167

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Status Letter - December
ML17348B167
Person / Time
Site: River Bend Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 01/04/2018
From: Sayoc E
NRC/NRR/DMLR/MRPB
To: Maguire W
Entergy Operations
Emmanuel Sayoc, NRR/DMLR/MRPB, 2873716
References
CAC MF9747, CAC MF9778
Download: ML17348B167 (4)


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January 4, 2018 Mr. William F. Maguire Site Vice President River Bend Station, Unit 1 Entergy Operations, Inc.

5485 U.S. Highway 61 N St. Francisville, LA 70775

SUBJECT:

RIVER BEND STATION, UNIT 1 LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION REVIEW DECEMBER 2017 STATUS LETTER (CAC NOS. MF9747 AND MF9778)

Dear Mr. Maguire:

By letter dated May 25, 2017 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML17153A282), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the staff) received the Entergy Operations, Inc. (Entergy) application for renewal of Operating License NPF-47 for River Bend Station, Unit 1 (RBS). The application was supplemented by letter dated August 1, 2017 (ADAMS Accession No. ML17213A064, Non-Public). On August 7, 2017 (ADAMS Accession No. ML17177A058), the application was accepted for review. The purpose of this letter is to provide the status of the license renewal application review for RBS.

For the safety review, the operating experience, scoping and screening, in office (at NRC headquarters) aging management program (AMP), and on site (at RBS) AMP review audits were completed as scheduled on October 13, 26, November 3, and 8, 2017, respectively.

Entergys CERTREC document portal is still operational and all document requests have been completed. The staff is about one month into the next major phase of its review, which is the issuance of requests for additional information (RAI). To date the staff has issued RAI sets 1 through 6, via RAI letters to Entergy, for a total of 30 RAIs. Entergy has submitted responses to the first two RAI sets. The staff is in the process of reviewing the responses, issuing the remaining RAIs, and drafting the Safety Evaluation Report.

For the environmental review, the environmental and severe accident mitigation alternatives (SAMA) audits were completed on October 26, 2017. The staff issued environmental RAIs on November 7, 2017 and received the RBS response on December 11, 2017. The staff issued SAMA RAIs on November 8, 2017, and received the RBS response on December 5, 2017. The staff is in the process of reviewing the responses and drafting the Environmental Impact Statement.

This letter also updates the enclosed safety and environmental review schedule for the RBS application. At this time the review is on schedule.

If you have any questions on this matter, please contact Mr. Emmanuel Sayoc, Project Manager for the review of the River Bend Station license renewal application, by telephone at 301-415-4084 or via e-mail at Emmanuel.Sayoc@nrc.gov.

If you have any questions on the schedule related to the environmental review, please contact Mr. David Drucker, Project Manager, by telephone at 301-415-6223 or via e-mail at David.Drucker@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Emmanuel Sayoc, Project Manager License Renewal Project Branch Division of Materials and License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-458

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/encl.: Listserv

Enclosure RIVER BEND STATION, UNIT 1 LICENSE RENEWAL APPLICATION REVIEW SCHEDULE Milestone Scheduled Actual Receive license renewal application (LRA) 5/31/2017 5/31/2017 Publish Federal Register Notice (FRN) - LRA availability 6/20/2017 6/20/2017 Publish FRN - acceptance/rejection and opportunity for hearing 8/2017 8/14/2017 Public Meeting - License Renewal Overview and Environmental Scoping meeting 9/2017 9/19/2017 Environmental scoping period ends 9/2017 10/23/2017 Deadline for filing hearing requests and petitions for intervention 10/2017 10/13/2017 Issue draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) 4/2018 Public Meeting - draft SEIS meeting 5/2018 End of draft SEIS comment period 6/2018 Issue final safety evaluation report 7/2018 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Subcommittee meeting 10/2018 Issue final SEIS 11/2018 ACRS full committee meeting 12/2018 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency FRN Published - availability of final SEIS 12/2018 Decision - Director, NRR 2/2019

ML17348B167 OFFICE PM:MRPB:DMLR LA:MRPB:DMLR BC:MENB:DMLR BC:MRPB:DMLR PM:MRPB:DMLR NAME ESayoc YEdmonds (SLent for)

BBeasley EOesterle ESayoc DATE 1/2/2018 12/28/2017 1/3/2018 1/4/2018 1/4/2018