ML083040609
| ML083040609 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 11/19/2008 |
| From: | Guzman R V Plant Licensing Branch 1 |
| To: | Larragoite L S Calvert Cliffs |
| Guzman R V | |
| References | |
| TAC MD9789, TAC MD9790 | |
| Download: ML083040609 (8) | |
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UNITED NUCLEAR REGULATORY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 November 19, 2008 Mr. Louis S. Larragoite Manager -Nuclear Safety and Security Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant 1650 Calvert Cliffs Parkway Lusby, MD 20657-4702 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF 10 CFR 50.80 INDIRECT TRANSFERS OF CONTROL OF LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR A HEARING -NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT NOS. 1 AND 2 (TAC NOS. MD9789 AND MD9790)
Dear Mr. Larragoite:
Enclosed is a copy of a "Notice of Consideration of Approval of 10 CFR 50.80 Indirect Transfers of Control of Licenses," related to the application dated October 3, 2008, filed by Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, LLC and MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (MEHC). The application, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80, seeks approval of the proposed indirect transfer of Nine Mile Nuclear Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, Facility Operating Licenses DPR-63 and NPF-69, as a result of the proposed acquisition of Constellation Energy Group, Inc. by MEHC. This notice is being forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.
Sincerely,
__ Richard V. Guzman, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-220 and 50-410
Enclosure:
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY NIf\IE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT NOS. 1 AND DOCKET NOS. 50-220 AND NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF 10 CFR 50.80 INDIRECT OF CONTROL OF LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR A The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) is considering the issuance of an Order under 10 CFR 50.80 approving the indirect transfer of Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-63 and NPF-69 for the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, currently held by Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC, as owner and licensed operator. Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC is currently owned by Constellation Nuclear Power Plants, Inc., which is owned by Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, LLC (CENG). According to an application for approval dated October 3, 2008, filed by CENG and MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (MEHC), the indirect transfers of control would result from the proposed acquisition by merger of CENG's parent corporation, Constellation Energy Group, Inc. (CEG) by MEHC. MEHC will indirectly own 100 percent of CEG through its direct wholly owned subsidiary Constellation Energy Holdings, LLC, a holding company. CEG will remain as the parent company of CENG and CENG will remain as the parent company of the licensee.
There will be no direct transfer of the licenses. Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station, LLC, will continue to own and operate the facilities. No physical changes to the facilities or operational changes are being proposed in the application.
Pursuant to 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 Commission shall give its consent in writing. The Commission will approve an application for the indirect transfer of a
-2license, if the Commission determines that the proposed transfer will not affect the qualifications of the licensee to hold the license, and that the transfer is otherwise consistent with applicable provisions of law, regulations, and Orders issued by the Commission pursuant thereto. The filing of requests for hearing and petitions for leave to intervene, and written comments with regard to the license transfer application, are discussed below. Within 20 days from the date of publication of this notice, any person(s) whose interest may be affected by the Commission's action on the application may request a hearing and intervention via electronic submission through the NRC E-filing system. Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene should be filed in accordance with the Commission's rules of practice set forth in Subpart C "Rules of General Applicability: Hearing Requests, Petitions to Intervene, Availability of Documents, Selection of Specific Hearing Procedures, Presiding Officer Powers, and General Hearing Management for NRC Adjudicatory Hearings," of 10 CFR Part 2. In particular, such requests and petitions must comply with the requirements set forth in 10 CFR 2.309. Untimely requests and petitions may be denied, as provided in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1), unless good cause for failure to 'file on time is established. In addition, an untimely request or petition should address the factors that the Commission will also consider, in reviewing untimely requests or petitions, set forth in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)-(viii).
All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including a request for hearing, a petition for leave to intervene, any motion or other document filed in the proceeding prior to the submission of a request for hearing or petition to intervene, and documents filed by interested governmental entities participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule, which the NRC promulgated in August 2007,72 Fed. Reg. 49139 (Aug. 28, 2007). The E-Filing process requires participants to submit and serve documents over the internet or in some cases to mail copies on electronic storage media. Participants may not
-3submit paper copies of their filings unless they seek a waiver in accordance with the procedures described below. To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least ten (10) days prior to the filing deadline, the petitioner/ requestor must contact the Office of the Secretary bye-mail at HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV, or by calling (301) 415-1677, to request (1) a digital 10 certificate, which allows the participant (or its counselor representative) to digitally sign documents and access the E-Submittal server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and/or (2) creation of an electronic docket for the proceeding (even in instances in which the petitioner/requestor (or its counselor representative) already holds an NRC-issued digital 10 certificate). Each petitioner/requestor will need to download the Workplace Forms Viewer" to access the Electronic Information Exchange (EIE), a component of the E-Filing system. The Workplace Forms Viewer" is free and is available at submittals/install-viewer.html. Information about applying for a digital 10certificate is available on NRC's public website at http://www.nrc.qov/site-help/e-submittals/apply-certificates.html. Once a petitioner/requestor has obtained a digital 10 certificate, had a docket created, and downloaded the EIE viewer, it can then submit a request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene.
Submissions should be in Portable Document Format (PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance available on the NRC public website at http://www.nrc.qov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A filing is considered complete at the time the filer submits its documents through EIE. To be timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the EIE system no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Upon receipt of a transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends the submitter an e-mail notice confirming receipt of the document. The EIE system also distributes an e-mail notice that provides access to the document to the NRC Office of the General Counsel and any others who have advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to participate in the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the documents on
-those participants separately.
Therefore, applicants and other participants (or their counselor representative) must apply for and receive a digitallD certificate before a hearing request/petition to intervene is filed so that they can obtain access to the document via the E-Filing system. A person filing electronically may seek assistance through the "Contact Us" link located on the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.htmlor by calling the NRC technical help line, which is available between 8:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. The help line number is (800) 397-4209 or locally, (301) 415-4737.
Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not submitting documents electronically must file a motion, in accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper format. Such filings must be submitted by: (1) first class mail addressed to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention:
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, express mail, or expedited delivery service to the Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth Floor, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, Attention:
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. Participants filing a document in this manner are responsible for serving the document on all other participants. Filing is considered complete by first-class mail as of the time of deposit in the mail, or by courier, express mail, or expedited delivery service upon depositing the document with the provider of the service.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at http://ehd.nrc.qov/EHD Proceeding/home.asp, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the Commission, an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, or a Presiding Officer. Participants are requested not to include personal privacy information, such as social security numbers, home addresses, or home phone numbers in their
-5filings. With respect to copyrighted works, except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose of the adjudicatory filings and would constitute a Fair Use application, participants are requested not to include copyrighted materials in their submissions. The Commission will issue a notice or order granting or denying a hearing request or intervention petition, designating the issues for any hearing that will be held and designating the Presiding Officer. A notice granting a hearing will be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER and served on the parties to the hearing. As an alternative to petitions to intervene and requests for hearing, within 30 days from the date of publication of this notice, persons may submit written comments regarding the indirect license transfer application, as provided for in 10 CFR 2.1305. The Commission will consider and, if appropriate, respond to these comments, but such comments will not otherwise constitute part of the decisional record. Comments should be submitted to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, and should cite the publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice. For further details with respect to this indirect license transfer application, see the application dated October 3, 2008, 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 records will be accessible electronically from the Agency wide Documents Access and Management System's (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC web site, http://ww'N.nrc.qov/reading-rm/adams.htrnl. 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 bye-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
-6 Attorneys for applicants: Daniel F. Stenger, Hogan
& Hartson LLP, 555 Thirteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20004, tel:
202.637.5691, email: DFStenger@hhlaw.com (counsel for CENG); and John O'Neill, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, 2300 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037, tel. 202.663.8148, email: john.o'neillespulsburvlaw.com (counsel for MEHC). Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 19tH:lay of November 2008. FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
. 1/ r/ {IL --cL t':1'/:11 U 1* Richard V. Guzman, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation November 19, 2008 Mr. Louis S.
Larragoite Manager -Nuclear Safety and Security Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant 1650 Calvert Cliffs Parkway Lusby, MD 20657-4702 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF 10 CFR 50.80 INDIRECT TRANSFERS OF CONTROL OF LICENSES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR A HEARING -NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT NOS. 1 AND 2 (TAC NOS. MD9789 AND MD9790)
Dear Mr. Larragoite:
Enclosed is a copy of a "Notice of Consideration of Approval of 10 CFR 50.80 Indirect Transfers of Control of Licenses," related to the application dated October 3, 2008, filed by Constellation Energy Nuclear Group, LLC and MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (MEHC). The application, pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80, seeks approval of the proposed indirect transfer of Nine lVIile Nuclear Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, Facility Operating Licenses DPR-63 and NPF-69, as a result of the proposed acquisition of Constellation Energy Group, Inc. by MEHC. This notice is being forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.
Sincerely, Ira! Richard V. Guzman, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-220 and 50-410
Enclosure:
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