[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 208 (Thursday, October 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 64265]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27511]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-458]


Entergy Gulf States, Inc., et al.; Notice of Issuance of 
Amendment to River Bend Station, Unit 1, Facility Operating License 
NPF-47

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 114 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-47 issued to 
Entergy Gulf States, Inc. and Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI, or the 
licensee), which revised the Technical Specifications for operation of 
the River Bend Station, Unit 1, located in Saint Francisville, 
Louisiana. The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance and 
shall be implemented no later than the start-up following the next 
refueling outage.
    The amendment modified the Technical Specifications to increase the 
maximum allowable thermal power from 2894 megawatts thermal (MWt) to 
3039 MWt.
    The application for the amendment complies with the standards and 
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), 
and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made 
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules 
and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter 1, which are set forth in the license 
amendment.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action was published in the Federal Register on June 14, 2000 (65 FR 
37413). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was 
filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of the amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (65 FR 
58298).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated July 30, 1999, as supplemented by 
letters dated April 3, May 9, July 18, and August 24, and October 2, 
2000, (2) Amendment No. 114 to License No. NPF-47, (3) the Commission's 
related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the Commission's Environmental 
Assessment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the 
NRC's Public Document Room, located at One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, and accessible 
electronically through the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room link at 
the NRC Web site (http://www.nrc.gov).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of October 2000.
Jefferey F. Harold,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate IV & Decommissioning, 
Division of Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-27511 Filed 10-25-00; 8:45 am]
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