Notices. License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant
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BILLING CODE 7590-01-P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 50-548; NRC-2020-0090] Entergy Operations Inc.; River Bend Station, Unit 1 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 Operations, Inc. (Entergy, the licensee) to withdraw its application dated March 23, 2020, for a proposed amendment to River Bend Station, Unit 1 (River Bend), Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-47. The proposed amendment would have extended the implementation date for Amendment No. 197 to upgrade the River Bend Emergency Action Level scheme based on Nuclear Energy Institute
(NEI)99-01, Revision 6, “Development of Emergency Action Levels for Non-Passive Reactors,” from May 13, 2020, to September 30, 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting impact on the station. DATES: May 27, 2020. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0090 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 website:* Go to *https://www.regulations.gov* and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0090. Address questions about NRC docket IDs in *Regulations.gov* to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-9127; email: *Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov.* For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • *NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):* You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at *https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.* To begin the search, 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.* 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. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas J. Wengert, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-4037, email: *Thomas.Wengert@nrc.gov.* SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has granted the request of Entergy to withdraw its March 23, 2020, application (ADAMS Accession No. ML20083N719) for a proposed amendment to River Bend, Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-47, located in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The proposed amendment would have extended the implementation date for Amendment No. 197 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19070A062), which approved a revision to the River Bend Emergency Plan to revise the emergency action level scheme to one based on the NEI document NEI 99-01, Revision 6, “Development of Emergency Action Levels for Non-Passive Reactors,” from May 13, 2020, to September 30, 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting impact on the station. This proposed amendment request was noticed in the **Federal Register** on April 2, 2020 (85 FR 18590). Entergy requested to withdraw the request by letter dated April 24, 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20115E516). Dated: May 21, 2020. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Thomas J. Wengert, Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2020-11313 Filed 5-26-20; 8:45 am]