E7-8658. Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (the licensee) to withdraw its July 10, 2006, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-26 for Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit No. 2, located in Westchester County, New York.

The proposed amendment would have revised the Technical Specifications pertaining to spent fuel cask loading operations.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on August 29, 2006 (71 FR 51227). However, by letter dated April 11, 2007, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated July 10, 2006, and the licensee's letter dated April 11, 2007, which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm.html. 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 by e-mail to [e-mail].

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of May 2007.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

John P. Boska,

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I-1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.