In the Matter of Arizona Public Service Company; El Paso Electric Company; Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation, 5521-5522 [2022-01942]
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operator license, and notices of
disability that occur during licensed
tenure.
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: Facility licensees who are
tasked with certifying the medical
fitness or operator licensee.
7. The estimated number of annual
responses: 1,650.
8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 128.
9. The estimated number of hours
needed annually to comply with the
information collection requirement or
request: 2,063 hours (1,650 Reporting
hours plus 413 Recordkeeping hours).
10. Abstract: NRC Form 396 is used to
transmit information to the NRC
regarding the medical condition of
applicants for initial operator licenses or
renewal of operator licenses and for the
maintenance of medical records for all
licensed operators. The information is
used to determine whether the physical
condition and general health of
applicants for operator licensees is such
that the applicant would not be
expected to cause operational errors and
endanger public health and safety.
III. Specific Requests for Comments
The NRC is seeking comments that
address the following questions:
1. Is the proposed collection of
information necessary for the NRC to
properly perform its functions? Does the
information have practical utility?
2. Is the estimate of the burden of the
information collection accurate?
3. Is there a way to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected?
4. How can the burden of the
information collection on respondents
be minimized, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology?
Dated: January 27, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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In the Matter of Arizona Public Service
Company; El Paso Electric Company;
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station,
Units 1, 2, and 3 and Independent
Spent Fuel Storage Installation
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
AGENCY:
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Indirect transfer of control of
licenses; order.
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Siva
P. Lingam, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001; telephone: 301–415–1564, email:
Siva.Lingam@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of
the order is attached.
ACTION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing an order
approving the application dated March
18, 2021, filed by El Paso Electric
Company (EPE). The application sought
NRC consent to the indirect transfer of
control of EPE’s interests in Renewed
Facility Operating License Nos. NPF–41,
NPF–51, and NPF–74 for Palo Verde
Nuclear Generating Station (Palo Verde),
Units 1, 2, and 3, respectively, and the
general license for the Palo Verde
Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation (together, the facility). No
physical changes or operational changes
to the facility were proposed in the
application.
Dated: January 26, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Siva P. Lingam,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV,
Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
SUMMARY:
The order was issued on January
25, 2022, and is effective immediately.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2021–0100 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–2021–0100. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@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 license
transfer order and the NRC staff safety
evaluation supporting the order are
available in ADAMS under Package
Accession No. ML22003A102.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents,
by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR,
Room P1 B35, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please
send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov
or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–
4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
(ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
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Attachment—Order Approving Indirect
Transfer of Control of Licenses
United States of America
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In the Matter of: Arizona Public
Service Company, El Paso Electric
Company; Palo Verde Nuclear
Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 and
Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation.
Docket Nos. STN 50–528, STN 50–529,
STN 50–530, and 72–44
License Nos. NPF–41, NPF–51, and
NPF–74
Order Approving Indirect Transfer of
Control of Licenses
I
Arizona Public Service Company
(APS) is the licensed operator and a
licensed co-owner of Renewed Facility
Operating License Nos. NPF–41, NPF–
51, and NPF–74 for Palo Verde Nuclear
Generating Station (Palo Verde), Units 1,
2, and 3, respectively, and the general
license for the Palo Verde Independent
Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI).
Palo Verde is located in Maricopa
County, Arizona. The other licensed coowners (tenants-in-common), Salt River
Project Agricultural Improvement and
Power District; Southern California
Edison Company; El Paso Electric
Company (EPE); Public Service
Company of New Mexico; Southern
California Public Power Authority; and
Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power, hold possession-only rights for
these licenses (i.e., they are not licensed
to operate the facility).
II
By application dated March 18, 2021
(Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS)
Accession Nos. ML21077A256), EPE
requested pursuant to Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
Sections 50.80, ‘‘Transfer of licenses,’’
and 72.50, ‘‘Transfer of license,’’ that
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC, the Commission)
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consent to the indirect transfer of
control of the Palo Verde NRC licenses.
According to the application, EPE
currently owns a 15.8 percent tenant-incommon interest and holds possessiononly rights in the Palo Verde NRC
licenses. The indirect transfer of control
of EPE’s possession only non-operating
interests in the Palo Verde NRC licenses
resulted from the acquisition of an
approximately 33.3 percent membership
interest in IIF US Holding 2 GP, LLC (IIF
US 2 GP), the general partner of IIF US
Holding 2 LP (IIF US 2), by a private
individual, Anne Cleary, a U.S. citizen,
subsequent to the retirement and
relinquishment of an approximately
33.3 percent IIF US 2 GP membership
interest held by Dennis Clarke, a U.S.
citizen. APS owns a 29.1 percent tenantin-common interest and holds both
operating and possession rights in the
Palo Verde NRC licenses. Further, APS
operates, and will continue to operate,
each of the Palo Verde units and the
ISFSI pursuant to the operating rights
granted to it under the license of each
Palo Verde unit. The remaining tenantin-common co-owners that hold
possession-only rights in the Palo Verde
NRC licenses are: Salt River Project
Agricultural Improvement and Power
District (17.49 percent); Southern
California Edison Company (15.8
percent); Public Service Company of
New Mexico (10.2 percent); Southern
California Public Power Authority (5.91
percent); and Los Angeles Department
of Water and Power (5.7 percent).
According to the application, the
transaction involved the issuance of the
approximately 33.3 percent interest in
IIF US 2 GP that was relinquished by
Dennis Clarke on September 30, 2020, to
Anne Cleary pursuant to that certain
resolution dated September 30, 2020, of
the IIF US 2 GP Owners, Rita J. Sallis
and Christopher Ward. As a result of the
transaction, as of December 17, 2020,
Anne Cleary became an approximately
33.3 percent owner of IIF US 2 GP and
indirect owner of EPE. The
approximately 33.3 percent interests of
each of Rita J. Sallis and Christopher
Ward were unaffected by the
transaction.
After the transaction, Anne Cleary
owns an approximately 33.3 percent
membership interest in IIF US 2 GP.
APS continues to own a 29.1 percent
tenant-in-common interest and
continues to hold both operating and
possession rights in the Palo Verde NRC
licenses. Further, APS continues to
operate each of the Palo Verde units and
the ISFSI pursuant to the operating
rights granted to it under the license of
each Palo Verde unit. Also, as before the
transaction, no entity owns 50 percent
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or more of the voting interests.
Accordingly, after the transaction, there
is no change in the control of the
operation of Palo Verde; APS continues
to make all technical decisions that do
not require approval from all owners of
Palo Verde.
No physical changes or operational
changes were proposed in the
application.
A notice of the application and
opportunity to comment, request a
hearing, and petition for leave to
intervene on the application was
published in the Federal Register (FR)
on May 4, 2021 (86 FR 23757). The NRC
did not receive any comments or
hearing requests on the application.
Under 10 CFR 50.80 and 10 CFR
72.50, no license for a production or
utilization facility or ISFSI, or any right
thereunder, shall be transferred, either
voluntarily or involuntarily, directly or
indirectly, through transfer of control of
the license to any person, unless the
Commission gives its consent in writing.
Upon review of the information in the
application, and other information
before the Commission, the NRC staff
has determined that the acquisition of
an approximately 33.3 percent
membership interest in IIF US 2 GP by
Anne Cleary is acceptable. The
transferee is qualified to be the indirect
holder of the licenses and indirect
transfer of the licenses is otherwise
consistent with applicable provisions of
law, regulations, and orders issued by
the Commission pursuant thereto.
The findings set forth above are
supported by an NRC staff safety
evaluation dated the same date as this
Order, which is available at ADAMS
Accession No. ML22003A105.
III
Accordingly, pursuant to Sections
161b, 161i, and 184 of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 42
U.S.C. 2201(b), 2201(i), and 2234; and
10 CFR 50.80 and 10 CFR 72.50, it is
hereby ordered that the application
regarding the indirect transfer of control
of licenses is approved for Palo Verde
Units 1, 2, and 3 and the Palo Verde
ISFSI.
This Order is effective upon issuance.
For further details with respect to this
Order, see the application dated March
18, 2021, and the NRC staff’s safety
evaluation dated the same date as this
Order, which are available for public
inspection electronically through
ADAMS in the NRC Library at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Persons who do not have access to
ADAMS or who encounter problems
accessing the documents located in
ADAMS should contact the NRC Public
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Document Room reference staff by
telephone at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–
415–4737 or by email to PDR.Resource@
nrc.gov.
Dated: January 25, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
/RA/
Brian D. Wittick,
Acting Deputy Director, Division of
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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Information Collection: NRC Form 398,
‘‘Personal Qualification Statement—
Licensee’’
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Renewal of existing information
collection; request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) invites public
comment on the renewal of Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for an existing collection of
information. The information collection
is entitled, NRC Form 398, ‘‘Personal
Qualification Statement—Licensee.’’
DATES: Submit comments by April 4,
2022. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the Commission is able to ensure
consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2021–0151. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• Mail comments to: David Cullison,
Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Mail Stop: T–6 A10M, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
SUMMARY:
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[Docket Nos. STN 50-528, STN 50-529, STN-530, and 72-44; NRC-2021-0100]
In the Matter of Arizona Public Service Company; El Paso Electric
Company; Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 and
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Indirect transfer of control of licenses; order.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an
order approving the application dated March 18, 2021, filed by El Paso
Electric Company (EPE). The application sought NRC consent to the
indirect transfer of control of EPE's interests in Renewed Facility
Operating License Nos. NPF-41, NPF-51, and NPF-74 for Palo Verde
Nuclear Generating Station (Palo Verde), Units 1, 2, and 3,
respectively, and the general license for the Palo Verde Independent
Spent Fuel Storage Installation (together, the facility). No physical
changes or operational changes to the facility were proposed in the
application.
DATES: The order was issued on January 25, 2022, and is effective
immediately.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0100 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-2021-0100. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. The license transfer order and the
NRC staff safety evaluation supporting the order are available in ADAMS
under Package Accession No. ML22003A102.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Siva P. Lingam, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1564, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of the order is attached.
Dated: January 26, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Siva P. Lingam,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
Attachment--Order Approving Indirect Transfer of Control of Licenses
United States of America
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
In the Matter of: Arizona Public Service Company, El Paso Electric
Company; Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 and
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation.
Docket Nos. STN 50-528, STN 50-529, STN 50-530, and 72-44
License Nos. NPF-41, NPF-51, and NPF-74
Order Approving Indirect Transfer of Control of Licenses
I
Arizona Public Service Company (APS) is the licensed operator and a
licensed co-owner of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-41,
NPF-51, and NPF-74 for Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (Palo
Verde), Units 1, 2, and 3, respectively, and the general license for
the Palo Verde Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI).
Palo Verde is located in Maricopa County, Arizona. The other licensed
co-owners (tenants-in-common), Salt River Project Agricultural
Improvement and Power District; Southern California Edison Company; El
Paso Electric Company (EPE); Public Service Company of New Mexico;
Southern California Public Power Authority; and Los Angeles Department
of Water and Power, hold possession-only rights for these licenses
(i.e., they are not licensed to operate the facility).
II
By application dated March 18, 2021 (Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Nos. ML21077A256), EPE
requested pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR) Sections 50.80, ``Transfer of licenses,'' and 72.50, ``Transfer of
license,'' that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the
Commission)
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consent to the indirect transfer of control of the Palo Verde NRC
licenses.
According to the application, EPE currently owns a 15.8 percent
tenant-in-common interest and holds possession-only rights in the Palo
Verde NRC licenses. The indirect transfer of control of EPE's
possession only non-operating interests in the Palo Verde NRC licenses
resulted from the acquisition of an approximately 33.3 percent
membership interest in IIF US Holding 2 GP, LLC (IIF US 2 GP), the
general partner of IIF US Holding 2 LP (IIF US 2), by a private
individual, Anne Cleary, a U.S. citizen, subsequent to the retirement
and relinquishment of an approximately 33.3 percent IIF US 2 GP
membership interest held by Dennis Clarke, a U.S. citizen. APS owns a
29.1 percent tenant-in-common interest and holds both operating and
possession rights in the Palo Verde NRC licenses. Further, APS
operates, and will continue to operate, each of the Palo Verde units
and the ISFSI pursuant to the operating rights granted to it under the
license of each Palo Verde unit. The remaining tenant-in-common co-
owners that hold possession-only rights in the Palo Verde NRC licenses
are: Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District
(17.49 percent); Southern California Edison Company (15.8 percent);
Public Service Company of New Mexico (10.2 percent); Southern
California Public Power Authority (5.91 percent); and Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power (5.7 percent).
According to the application, the transaction involved the issuance
of the approximately 33.3 percent interest in IIF US 2 GP that was
relinquished by Dennis Clarke on September 30, 2020, to Anne Cleary
pursuant to that certain resolution dated September 30, 2020, of the
IIF US 2 GP Owners, Rita J. Sallis and Christopher Ward. As a result of
the transaction, as of December 17, 2020, Anne Cleary became an
approximately 33.3 percent owner of IIF US 2 GP and indirect owner of
EPE. The approximately 33.3 percent interests of each of Rita J. Sallis
and Christopher Ward were unaffected by the transaction.
After the transaction, Anne Cleary owns an approximately 33.3
percent membership interest in IIF US 2 GP. APS continues to own a 29.1
percent tenant-in-common interest and continues to hold both operating
and possession rights in the Palo Verde NRC licenses. Further, APS
continues to operate each of the Palo Verde units and the ISFSI
pursuant to the operating rights granted to it under the license of
each Palo Verde unit. Also, as before the transaction, no entity owns
50 percent or more of the voting interests. Accordingly, after the
transaction, there is no change in the control of the operation of Palo
Verde; APS continues to make all technical decisions that do not
require approval from all owners of Palo Verde.
No physical changes or operational changes were proposed in the
application.
A notice of the application and opportunity to comment, request a
hearing, and petition for leave to intervene on the application was
published in the Federal Register (FR) on May 4, 2021 (86 FR 23757).
The NRC did not receive any comments or hearing requests on the
application.
Under 10 CFR 50.80 and 10 CFR 72.50, no license for a production or
utilization facility or ISFSI, or any right thereunder, shall be
transferred, either voluntarily or involuntarily, directly or
indirectly, through transfer of control of the license to any person,
unless the Commission gives its consent in writing. Upon review of the
information in the application, and other information before the
Commission, the NRC staff has determined that the acquisition of an
approximately 33.3 percent membership interest in IIF US 2 GP by Anne
Cleary is acceptable. The transferee is qualified to be the indirect
holder of the licenses and indirect transfer of the licenses is
otherwise consistent with applicable provisions of law, regulations,
and orders issued by the Commission pursuant thereto.
The findings set forth above are supported by an NRC staff safety
evaluation dated the same date as this Order, which is available at
ADAMS Accession No. ML22003A105.
III
Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 161b, 161i, and 184 of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2201(b), 2201(i), and 2234;
and 10 CFR 50.80 and 10 CFR 72.50, it is hereby ordered that the
application regarding the indirect transfer of control of licenses is
approved for Palo Verde Units 1, 2, and 3 and the Palo Verde ISFSI.
This Order is effective upon issuance.
For further details with respect to this Order, see the application
dated March 18, 2021, and the NRC staff's safety evaluation dated the
same date as this Order, which are available for public inspection
electronically through ADAMS in the NRC Library at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who
encounter problems accessing the documents located in ADAMS should
contact the NRC Public Document Room reference staff by telephone at 1-
800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737 or by email to [email protected].
Dated: January 25, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
/RA/
Brian D. Wittick,
Acting Deputy Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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