In the Matter of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Palisades Nuclear Plant, 32797-32800 [2016-12193]

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• NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 24, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32797-32800]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-12193]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[EA-15-039; NRC-2016-0104]


In the Matter of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Palisades 
Nuclear Plant

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Order; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a 
Confirmatory Order to Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy), 
confirming agreements reached in an Alternative Dispute Resolution 
Session held on March 25, 2016. As part of the agreement, Entergy will 
take a number of actions, including: (1) Developing a case study 
pertaining to the leakage of the Safety Injection Refueling Water Tank 
at the Palisades Nuclear Plant and training site personnel with an 
emphasis on lessons learned from the event; (2) sharing facts and 
lessons learned with the Entergy Fleet and other reactor licensees; (3) 
reviewing and revising the Entergy corrective action and operability 
determination procedures to ensure indeterminate and/or changing 
conditions are addressed, and (4) modifying the current outreach 
program at Palisades to include wide audience and discussions of the 
event, plant safety, and current operations.

DATES: Effective Date: June 16, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0104 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0104. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@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 ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then 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 it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this 
document.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Magdalena Gryglak, Region III, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Lisle, Illinois, 60532; telephone: 630-
810-4372, email: Magdalena.Gryglak@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of the Order is attached.

    Dated at Lisle, Illinois this 16 day of May, 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cynthia D. Pederson,
Regional Administrator.

Attachment--Confirmatory Order Modifying License

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

In the Matter of

All POWER REACTOR LICENSEES OWNED AND OPERATED BY
ENTERGY NUCLEAR OPERATIONS, INC.; ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC.; AND 
ENTERGY NUCLEAR GENERATION COMPANY
EA-15-039
Docket Nos. (Attachment 1)
Licensed Nos. (Attachment 1)

CONFIRMATORY ORDER MODIFYING LICENSE

I

    Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy) is the holder of 
Reactor Operating License No. DPR-20 issued by the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) pursuant to Title 10 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 50 on March 24, 1971, 
and renewed on January 17, 2007. The license authorizes the 
operation of the Palisades Nuclear Plant (Palisades) in accordance 
with conditions specified therein. The facility is located on 
Entergy's site in Covert, Michigan.
    This Confirmatory Order is the result of an agreement reached 
during an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mediation session 
conducted on March 25, 2016.

II

    On June 25, 2012, the NRC Office of Investigations (OI), Region 
III Field Office initiated an investigation (OI Case No. 3-2012-021) 
to determine whether personnel at Palisades deliberately failed to 
provide complete and accurate information to the NRC regarding a 
potential leak in the Safety Injection Refueling Water Tank (SIRWT), 
thereby violating 10 CFR 50.9, ``Completeness and Accuracy of 
Information.'' The Office of Investigations completed its 
investigation on March 10, 2015, and the NRC provided a factual 
summary of the investigation in a letter to Entergy dated February 
22, 2016 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) 
Accession No. ML16053A472). Based on the review of the OI 
investigation report, the NRC determined that four Palisades 
employees willfully violated 10 CFR part 50, Appendix B, Criterion 
V, ``Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,'' by failing to comply 
with the Palisades corrective action program procedure. The NRC also 
determined that Entergy violated 10 CFR part 50, Appendix B, 
Criterion V, ``Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,'' based on an 
inadequate operability determination. In addition, the NRC found 
that Entergy violated Technical Specifications (TS), Surveillance 
Requirement (SR) 3.0.3 by not performing either a missed 
surveillance test within 24 hours from identification or a risk 
evaluation to complete the surveillance at a later time.
    More specifically, on May 18, 2011, Palisades employees 
initiated Condition Report (CR) PLP-2011-02491 when leakage from the 
ceiling in the Palisades main control room was identified following 
heavy rains in the area. Based on the evidence gathered during the 
OI investigation, the NRC determined that four Palisades employees 
willfully violated NRC requirements by failing to enter a condition 
adverse to quality into Palisades' corrective action program, after 
they either initiated or received emails that concluded with high 
certainty that the SIRWT or associated piping was the source of the 
leakage. Their actions caused Entergy to be in violation of 10 CFR 
part 50, Appendix B, Criterion V, ``Instructions, Procedures, and 
Drawings,'' and Procedure EN-LI-102, ``Corrective Action Process,'' 
Revision 16, which requires employees to promptly identify and 
initiate CRs for conditions adverse to quality.
    On June 2, 2011, Entergy performed a direct visual inspection of 
the catacombs, an area directly above the control room and below the 
SIRWT, to look for sources of leakage. As a result of the 
inspection, Palisades identified an active flange leak on a 3-inch 
SIRWT piping flange (CR PLP-2011-02738) and an active leak from the 
catacombs ceiling (CR PLP-2011-02740). The NRC determined that 
Entergy violated NRC requirements by failing to perform an 
operability determination for the catacombs ceiling leak. 
Additionally, Entergy failed to perform an engineering evaluation 
for the SIRWT when Palisades staff identified active boric acid 
leakage from a safety injection flange with carbon steel bolts. 
These failures caused Entergy to be in violation of 10 CFR part 50, 
Appendix B, Criterion V, ``Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,'' 
and Procedure EN-OP-104, ``Operability Determination Process,'' 
Revision 5, which required Entergy to assess operability when 
degraded conditions affecting structures, systems, and components, 
were identified.
    The NRC also determined Entergy to be in violation of Palisades 
TS, SR 3.0.3, which required it to either perform a missed 
surveillance test within 24 hours or a risk

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evaluation for any surveillance delayed greater than 24 hours. 
Specifically, when Entergy identified surveillance procedure RT-71M, 
the surveillance to conduct the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers inservice pressure test of the SIRWT and associated 
piping, had not been performed within its required schedule, Entergy 
failed to perform the test within 24 hours from identification or 
perform a risk evaluation to complete the surveillance at a later 
time.
    Entergy accepted the NRC's offer of ADR to resolve differences 
it had with the NRC over the results of the investigation and these 
apparent violations. Alternative Dispute Resolution is a process in 
which a neutral mediator with no decision-making authority assists 
the parties in reaching an agreement on resolving any differences 
regarding the dispute. On March 25, 2016, Entergy and the NRC met in 
an ADR session mediated by a professional mediator, arranged through 
Cornell University's Institute on Conflict Resolution.
    Prior to the NRC's offer to engage in ADR, Entergy had already 
taken several corrective actions, including (but not limited to): 
(1) repair of the SIRWT; (2) waterproofing the concrete support 
structure below the SIRWT nozzles; (3) changes to management and 
other personnel at the station; (4) addressing safety culture by 
training site personnel, increasing leadership communication of 
safety culture expectations, and completing an independent third 
party assessment of safety culture; and (5) implementing a Recovery 
Plan at Palisades to strengthen safety culture, the corrective 
action program, and leadership effectiveness.

III

    During the ADR session, the NRC and Entergy reached a 
preliminary settlement agreement. The NRC is issuing this 
Confirmatory Order pursuant to the agreement reached during the ADR 
process. The elements of the agreement, as signed by both parties, 
consist of the following:
    1. Entergy does not believe that any of the above violations 
were committed willfully, but rather were the product of 
deficiencies in the organizational safety culture that existed at 
the time those violations occurred. The parties agreed to disagree 
on the issue of willfulness.
    2. Entergy will ensure site personnel understand lessons learned 
from this matter:
    2a. Within 180 days of the effective date of the Confirmatory 
Order, Entergy will develop a case study with the participation of 
key personnel in operations, chemistry, radiation protection, and 
engineering, addressing lessons learned from the events that gave 
rise to the Confirmatory Order. The case study will include 
applicable safety culture traits, including the importance of 
conservative decisionmaking; going forward in the face of 
uncertainty; the need for nuclear personnel to demonstrate a 
questioning attitude; and the threshold for initiating corrective 
action documents, especially when dealing with indeterminate and/or 
changing conditions.
    2b. Within 180 days of the completion of item 2a., Entergy will 
present the case study to the Palisades site leadership team (first-
line supervisors and above) during focused leadership training; 
licensed and non-licensed operators during routine requalification 
training; engineering personnel during routine Engineering Support 
Personnel training; and chemistry, radiation protection, and 
maintenance personnel during continuing training. This training will 
include long-term contractor personnel who would normally attend.
    2c. No later than December 31, 2017, the Entergy Safety Review 
Committee, Oversight Subcommittee, will report to the Entergy Chief 
Nuclear Officer on the effectiveness of the training in item 2b. 
Upon completion of the report, Entergy will notify in writing the 
Director, Division of Reactor Projects, NRC Region III, and make the 
report available to the NRC for inspection.
    3. Entergy will share lessons learned from this matter with 
other reactor licensees:
    3a. Within 180 days of completion of item 2a., Entergy will 
present the lessons learned from the case study to the Entergy fleet 
in Inside Entergy.
    3b. Within 360 days of completion of item 2a., Entergy will 
present the lessons learned from the case study at: (1) A Regional 
Utility Group meeting in each of the NRC Regions that Entergy 
operates; and (2) a suitable industry-wide forum such as the Nuclear 
Energy Institute Licensing Forum.
    3c. Entergy will notify in writing the Director, Division of 
Reactor Projects, NRC Region III, at least 30 days prior to any 
scheduled presentation under item 3b, and make the presentation 
materials available for NRC review.
    3d. No later than December 31, 2017, Entergy will affirm in 
writing to the Director, Division of Reactor Projects, NRC Region 
III, that the presentations in items 3a. and 3b. were conducted.
    4. Within 360 days of the effective date of the Confirmatory 
Order, Entergy will review Procedure EN-OP-104, ``Operability 
Determination Process,'' and Procedure EN-LI-102, ``Corrective 
Action Process,'' in light of the lessons learned from events 
associated with leakage of the SIRWT and revise these procedures as 
appropriate. In particular, the review will evaluate the adequacy of 
those procedures to address indeterminate and/or changing 
conditions. Upon completion of the procedure reviews and applicable 
revisions, Entergy will notify in writing the Director, Division of 
Reactor Projects, NRC Region III, and make the procedures available 
to the NRC for inspection.
    5. Entergy will modify its current program of public outreach at 
Palisades. The modifications will include, at a minimum:
    5a. Ensuring key stakeholders, including Federal, State, and 
local government officials, non-government organizations interested 
in Palisades, and members of the local community, are invited to the 
meetings.
    5b. Ensuring the subject of each meeting includes plant safety 
and operations.
    5c. Ensuring the format of the meeting permits the audience to 
raise questions, such as in a town hall environment.
    5d. Ensuring at least one meeting is held no later than December 
31, 2016, which will address the events that led to this 
Confirmatory Order.
    5e. Ensuring at least two meetings are held per calendar year in 
2017 and 2018.
    In exchange for Entergy fulfilling its commitments under this 
Confirmatory Order, and for the corrective actions Entergy has 
already taken, the NRC agreed to the following conditions:
    1. The NRC will consider this Confirmatory Order as an escalated 
enforcement action for a period of one year from its effective date.
    2. The NRC will refrain from issuing a Notice of Violation and 
proposing a civil penalty for the apparent violations described in 
the NRC letter to Entergy dated February 22, 2016.
    On May 5, 2016, Entergy consented to issuing this Confirmatory 
Order with the commitments described in Section V. Entergy further 
agreed that this Confirmatory Order is to be effective 30 calendar 
days after issuance and waived its right to a hearing on the 
Confirmatory Order.

IV

    Since the Entergy agrees to take additional actions to address 
NRC concerns, as set forth in Section III above, the NRC concludes 
that its concerns can be resolved through issuance of this 
Confirmatory Order.
    I find that Entergy's commitments set forth in Section V are 
acceptable and necessary, and I conclude that with these commitments 
the public health and safety are reasonably assured. In view of the 
foregoing, I have determined that public health and safety require 
that Entergy's commitments be confirmed by this Confirmatory Order. 
Based on the above and based on Entergy's consent, this Confirmatory 
Order is effective 30 calendar days after issuance.

V

    Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 104b, 161b, 161i, 161o, 182, 
and 186 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the 
Commission's regulations in 10 CFR 2.202, and 10 CFR part 50, IT IS 
HEREBY ORDERED THAT:
    1. Entergy will ensure site personnel understand lessons learned 
from this matter:
    1a. Within 180 days of the effective date of the Confirmatory 
Order, Entergy will develop a case study with the participation of 
key personnel in operations, chemistry, radiation protection, and 
engineering, addressing lessons learned from the events that gave 
rise to the Confirmatory Order. The case study will include 
applicable safety culture traits, including the importance of 
conservative decisionmaking; going forward in the face of 
uncertainty; the need for nuclear personnel to demonstrate a 
questioning attitude; and the threshold for initiating corrective 
action documents, especially when dealing with indeterminate and/or 
changing conditions.
    1b. Within 180 days of the completion of item 1a., Entergy will 
present the case study to the Palisades site leadership team (first-
line supervisors and above) during focused leadership training; 
licensed and non-licensed operators during routine requalification 
training; engineering personnel during routine Engineering Support 
Personnel training; and chemistry, radiation protection, and 
maintenance personnel during continuing training. This training will 
include long-term contractor personnel who would normally attend.

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    1c. No later than December 31, 2017, the Entergy Safety Review 
Committee, Oversight Subcommittee, will report to the Entergy Chief 
Nuclear Officer on the effectiveness of the training in item 1b. 
Upon completion of the report, Entergy will notify in writing the 
Director, Division of Reactor Projects, NRC Region III, and make the 
report available to the NRC for inspection.
    2. Entergy will share lessons learned from this matter with 
other reactor licensees:
    2a. Within 180 days of completion of item 1a., Entergy will 
present the lessons learned from the case study to the Entergy fleet 
in Inside Entergy.
    2b. Within 360 days of completion of item 1a., Entergy will 
present the lessons learned from the case study at: (1) A Regional 
Utility Group meeting in each of the NRC Regions that Entergy 
operates; and (2) a suitable industry-wide forum such as the Nuclear 
Energy Institute Licensing Forum.
    2c. Entergy will notify in writing the Director, Division of 
Reactor Projects, NRC Region III, at least 30 days prior to any 
scheduled presentation under item 2b. and make the presentation 
materials available for NRC review.
    2d. No later than December 31, 2017, Entergy will affirm in 
writing to the Director, Division of Reactor Projects, NRC Region 
III, that the presentations in items 2a. and 2b. were conducted.
    3. Within 360 days of the effective date of the Confirmatory 
Order, Entergy will review Procedure EN-OP-104, ``Operability 
Determination Process,'' and Procedure EN-LI-102, ``Corrective 
Action Process,'' in light of the lessons learned from events 
associated with leakage of the SIRWT and revise these procedures as 
appropriate. In particular, the review will evaluate the adequacy of 
those procedures to address indeterminate and/or changing 
conditions. Upon completion of the procedure reviews and applicable 
revisions, Entergy will notify in writing the Director, Division of 
Reactor Projects, NRC Region III, and make the procedures available 
to the NRC for inspection.
    4. Entergy will modify its current program of public outreach at 
Palisades. The modifications will include, at a minimum:
    4a. Ensuring key stakeholders, including Federal, State, and 
local government officials, non-government organizations interested 
in Palisades, and members of the local community are invited to the 
meetings.
    4b. Ensuring the subject of each meeting includes plant safety 
and operations.
    4c. Ensuring the format of the meetings permits the audience to 
raise questions, such as in a town hall environment.
    4d. Ensuring at least one meeting is held no later than December 
31, 2016, which will address the events that led to this 
Confirmatory Order.
    4e. Ensuring at least two meetings are held per calendar year in 
2017 and 2018.
    5. The conditions of this order are binding upon the successors 
and assigns of Entergy.
    The Regional Administrator, Region III, may, in writing, relax 
or rescind any of the above conditions upon demonstration by the 
Licensee of good cause.

VI

    Any person adversely affected by this Confirmatory Order, other 
than Entergy may request a hearing within 30 days of the issuance 
date of this Confirmatory Order. Where good cause is shown, 
consideration will be given to extending the time to request a 
hearing. A request for extension of time must be directed to the 
Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
and include a statement of good cause for the extension.
    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's E-Filing rule 
(72 FR 49139; August 28, 2007), as amended by 77 FR 46562; August 3, 
2012 (codified in pertinent part at 10 CFR part 2, subpart C). The 
E-Filing process requires participants to submit and serve all 
adjudicatory documents over the internet, or in some cases to mail 
copies on electronic storage media. Participants may not submit 
paper copies of their filings unless they seek an exemption 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 participant should 
contact the Office of the Secretary by email at 
hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by telephone at 301-415-1677, to (1) 
request a digital identification (ID) certificate, which allows the 
participant (or its counsel or representative) to digitally sign 
documents and access the E-Submittal server for any proceeding in 
which it is participating; and (2) advise the Secretary that the 
participant will be submitting a request or petition for hearing 
(even in instances in which the participant, or its counsel or 
representative, already holds an NRC-issued digital ID certificate). 
Based upon this information, the Secretary will establish an 
electronic docket for the hearing in this proceeding if the 
Secretary has not already established an electronic docket.
    Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is 
available on NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. System requirements for accessing the E-Submittal 
server are detailed in NRC's ``Guidance for Electronic Submission,'' 
which is available on the agency's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants may attempt to 
use other software not listed on the Web site, but should note that 
the NRC's E-Filing system does not support unlisted software, and 
the NRC Meta System Help Desk will not be able to offer assistance 
in using unlisted software.
    If a participant is electronically submitting a document to the 
NRC in accordance with the E-Filing rule, the participant must file 
the document using the NRC's online, Web-based submission form. In 
order to serve documents through the Electronic Information Exchange 
System (EIE), users will be required to install a Web browser plug-
in from the NRC Web site. Further information on the Web-based 
submission form, including the installation of the Web browser plug-
in, is available on the NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
    Once a participant has obtained a digital ID certificate and a 
docket has been created, the participant can then submit a request 
for hearing or petition for leave to intervene through the EIE. 
Submissions should be in Portable Document Format (PDF) in 
accordance with NRC guidance available on the NRC's public Web site 
at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A filing is 
considered complete at the time the documents are submitted through 
the NRC's E-Filing system. To be timely, an electronic filing must 
be submitted to the E-Filing system no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern 
Time (ET) on the due date. Upon receipt of a transmission, the E-
Filing system time-stamps the document and sends the submitter an 
email notice confirming receipt of the document. The E-Filing system 
also distributes an email notice that provides access to the 
document to the NRC's 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, any others 
who wish to participate in the proceeding (or their counsel or 
representative) must apply for and receive a digital ID 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 using the NRC's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC Meta System 
Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC's Web 
site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by email at 
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a toll-free call at (866) 672-7640. The 
NRC Meta System Help Desk is available between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 
p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, excluding government holidays.
    Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not 
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, 
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. A 
presiding officer, having granted a

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request for exemption from using E-Filing, may require a participant 
or party to use E-Filing if the presiding officer subsequently 
determines that the reason for granting the exemption from use of E-
Filing no longer exists.
    Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in 
the NRC's electronic hearing docket, which is available to the 
public at https://ehd1.nrc.gov/ehd/, unless excluded pursuant to an 
order of the Commission or the presiding officer. Participants are 
requested not to include personal privacy information, such as 
social security numbers, home addresses, or home phone numbers in 
their filings, unless an NRC regulation or other law requires 
submission of such information. However, in some instances, a 
request to intervene will require including information on local 
residence in order to demonstrate a proximity assertion of interest 
in the proceeding. With respect to copyrighted works, participants 
are requested not to include copyrighted materials in their 
submission, except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose of 
the adjudicatory filings and would constitute a Fair Use 
application.
    If a person other than the Licensee requests a hearing, that 
person shall set forth with particularity the manner in which his 
interest is adversely affected by this Confirmatory Order and shall 
address the criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.309(d) and (f).
    If a hearing is requested by a person whose interest is 
adversely affected, the Commission will issue a separate Order 
designating the time and place of any hearings, as appropriate. If a 
hearing is held, the issue to be considered at such hearing shall be 
whether this Confirmatory Order should be sustained.
    In the absence of any request for hearing, or written approval 
of an extension of time in which to request a hearing, the 
provisions specified in Section V above shall be final 30 days after 
issuance of the Confirmatory Order without further order or 
proceedings. If an extension of time for requesting a hearing has 
been approved, the provisions specified in Section V shall be final 
when the extension expires if a hearing request has not been 
received.
    Dated at Lisle, Illinois this 16 day of May, 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Cynthia D. Pederson,

Regional Administrator.

ALL POWER REACTOR LICENSEES OWNED AND OPERATED BY ENTERGY NUCLEAR 
OPERATIONS, INC.; ENTERGY OPERATIONS, INC.; AND ENTERGY NUCLEAR 
GENERATION COMPANY

Arkansas Nuclear One. Units 1 and 2
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Docket Nos. 50-313, 50-368
License Nos. DRP-51; NPF-6

Mr. Jeremy Browning, Site Vice President
Arkansas Nuclear One Entergy Operations, Inc.
1448 SR 333
Russellville, AR 72802-0967

Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Docket No. 50-416
License No. NPF-29

Mr. Kevin Mulligan, Site Vice President
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
P.O. Box 756
Port Gibson, MS 39150

Indian Point Nuclear Generating, Units 2 and 3
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
Docket Nos. 50-247 and 50-286
License Nos. DPR-26 and DPR-64

Mr. Larry Coyle, Site Vice President
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
Indian Point Energy Center
450 Broadway, GSB
Buchanan, NY 10511-0249

James A FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
Docket No. 50-333
License No. DPR-59

Mr. Brian Sullivan, Site Vice President
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
James A FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
P.O. Box 110
Lycoming, NY 13093

Palisades Nuclear Plant
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
Docket No. 50-255
License No. DPR-20

Mr. Anthony Vitale, Vice President, Operations
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
Palisades Nuclear Plant
27780 Blue Star Memorial Highway
Covert, Ml 49043

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
Entergy Nuclear Generation Company
Docket No. 50-293
License No. DPR-35

Mr. John Dent, Site Vice President
Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc.
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station
600 Rocky Hill Road
Plymouth, MA 02360-5508

River Bend Station
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Docket No. 50-458
License No. NPF-47

Mr. Eric W. Olson, Site Vice President
Entergy Operations, Inc.
River Bend Station
5485 US Highway 61 N
St. Francisville, LA 70775

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
Docket No. 50-271
License No. DPR-28

Mr. Christopher Wamser, Site Vice President
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station
P. O. Box 250
Vernon, VT 05354

Waterford Steam Electric Station. Unit 3
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Docket No. 50-382
License No. NPF-38

Mr. Michael R. Chisum, Site Vice President
Entergy Operations, Inc.
Waterford Steam Electric Station
17265 River Road
Killona, LA 70057-0751

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