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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 103 / Tuesday, June 1, 2021 / Notices
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
Docket Nos. STN 50528, STN 50529, STN
50530, and 7244; NRC20210031

In the Matter of Arizona Public Service Company, Public Service Company of New Mexico, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Indirect transfer of licenses;
order.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC is issuing an Order approving the application dated December 2, 2020, as supplemented by letters dated February 26, 2021 and May 14, 2021, filed by Arizona Public Service Company APS, on behalf of Public Service Company of New Mexico PNM, Avangrid, Inc. Avangrid, and their corporate affiliates. The application sought NRC consent to the indirect transfer of PNMs interests in Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF41, NPF51, and NPF74 for the 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 together, the Facility. No physical changes to the Facility or operational changes were proposed in the application.
DATES: The Order was issued on May 25, 2021, and is effective for 1 year.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC20210031 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 NRC20210031. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 3012870624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
NRCs 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 NRCs Public Document Room PDR

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reference staff at 18003974209, 301
4154737, 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 ADAMS Package Accession No. ML21119A050.
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 18003974209 or 3014154737, 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: 3014151564, email:
Siva.Lingam@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of the Order is attached.
Dated: May 25, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Siva P. Lingam, Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

AttachmentOrder Approving Indirect Transfer of Licenses United States of America Nuclear Regulatory Commission In the Matter of: Arizona Public Service Company, Public Service Company of New Mexico, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, 3, and Independent Spent, Fuel Storage Installation, Docket Nos. STN 50528, STN 50529, STN 50530, and 7244, License Nos. NPF41, NPF51, and NPF74.
Order Approving Indirect Transfer of Licenses I
Arizona Public Service Company APS is the licensed operator and a licensed co-owner of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF41, NPF
51, and NPF74 for the 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 tenantsin-common, Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District; Southern California Edison Company; El Paso Electric Company;
Public Service Company of New Mexico PNM; Southern California Public Power Authority; and Los Angeles
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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 December 2, 2020 Agencywide Documents Access and Management System ADAMS
Accession No. ML20337A344, as supplemented by letters dated February 26, 2021, and May 14, 2021 ADAMS
Accession Nos. ML21061A156 and ML21134A244, respectively, APS, on behalf of PNM, Avangrid, Inc.
Avangrid, and their corporate affiliates together, the Applicants, requested, pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 10 CFR Sections 50.80 and 72.50, that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC, the Commission consent to the indirect transfer of PNMs interests in Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF41, NPF51, and NPF74 for Palo Verde Units 1, 2, and 3, respectively, and the general license for the Palo Verde ISFSI
to Avangrid.
According to the application, PNM
currently owns a 10.2 percent tenant-incommon interest and holds possessiononly rights in the NRC licenses. The proposed indirect license transfer would result from Avangrid acquiring PNM
and its parent holding company as its subsidiaries, thereby owning 100
percent of the shares in PNM. APS owns a 29.1 percent tenant-in-common interest and holds both operating and possession rights in the NRC licenses.
Further, APS operates, and would 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 NRC licenses are: Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District 17.49 percent; Southern California Edison Company 15.8
percent; El Paso Electric Company 15.8
percent; Southern California Public Power Authority 5.91 percent; and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 5.7 percent. The proposed transaction would implicate only an indirect upstream change in control over PNMs possession-only rights in the NRC
licenses. The proposed transaction would not involve or implicate any change in PNMs rights and obligations under any of the NRC licenses, nor would it implicate APSs or any other possession-only co-owners rights and obligations under any of the NRC
licenses.
No physical changes or operational changes are proposed in the application.

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