Entergy Entergy Operations, Inc.1340 Echelon ParkwayJackson, Mississippi 39213-8298Tel 601-368-5758

F. G. BurfordActing DirectorNuclear Safety & Licensing

CNRO-2007-00018

March 29, 2007

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionAttn: Document Control Desk11555 Rockville PikeRockville, MD 20852-2738(301) 415-7000

SUBJECT: Status of Decommissioning Funding forPlants Operated by Entergy Operations, Inc.For Year Ending December 31, 2006 - 10 CFR 50.75(f)(1)

River Bend Station Unit 1Docket No. 50-458License No. NPF-47

Arkansas Nuclear OneUnits 1 & 2Docket Nos. 50-313 & 50-368License Nos. DPR-51 & NPF-6

Grand Gulf Nuclear StationDocket No. 50-416License No. NPF-29

Waterford 3 Steam ElectricStationDocket No. 50-382License No. NPF-38

Dear Sir or Madam:

10 CFR 50.75(f)(1) requires each power reactor licensee to report to the NRC byMarch 31, 1999, and every two years thereafter, on the status of its decommissioning fundingfor each reactor, or share of a reactor, that it owns. On behalf of Entergy Arkansas, Inc. forArkansas Nuclear One (ANO), System Entergy Resources, Inc. (SERI) and South MississippiElectric Power Association (SMEPA) for Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (GGNS), Entergy GulfStates, Inc. for River Bend Station (RBS) and Entergy Louisiana, LLC for Waterford 3 SteamElectric Station (WF3), Entergy Operations, Inc. hereby submits the information requested forpower reactors operated by Entergy Operations, Inc.

The estimated minimum decommissioning fund values were determined using the NRC'smethodology in NUREG-1307 Rev 12 dated February 2007.

The information provided in Attachment 1 is based on NRC Regulatory Issue Summary 2001-07.

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CNRO-2007-00018Page 2 of 2

This submittal contains no new commitments. Please address any comments or questionsregarding this matter to Mr. L. A. England at 601-368-5766.

Sincerely,

FGB/LAE/baa

Attachments:1. Entergy Arkansas, Inc. - ANO 1 Status Report1-A Entergy Arkansas, Inc. - ANO 2 Status Report2. SERI & SMEPA - GGNS Status Report2-A. Schedule of Remaining Principle Payments - GGNS2-B Amendment 3 to Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund3. Entergy Gulf States, Inc. - RBS Status Report - 70% Regulated3-A Entergy Gulf States, Inc. RBS Status Report - 30% Non-Regulated4. Entergy Louisiana, LLC - WF3 Status Report4-A Schedule of Remaining Principle Payments - WF34-B Fifth Amendment to Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund Agreement

cc: (All Below with Attachments)Mr. T. A. Burke (ECH)Mr. W. R. Brian (GGNS)Mr. W. R. Campbell (ECH)Mr. J. S. Forbes (ECH)Mr. J. R. McCann (WPO)Mr. T. G. Mitchell (ANO)Mr. L. Jager Smith (Wise, Carter)Mr. J. E. Venable (RBS)Mr. K. T. Walsh (W-3)

Mr. M. B. Fields, Project Manager, W-3Dr. B. S. Mallett, Regional Administrator, Region IVMs. F. E. Saba, Project Manager, ANOMr. B. K. Vaidya, Project Manager, GGNS, RBS

Attachment 1

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.Status of Decommissioning Funding

For Year Ending December 31, 2006 - Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.75(f)(1)

Date: March 31, 2007

Reactor Name: Arkansas Nuclear One Unit 1 (ANO 1)

1. Minimum Financial Assurance (MFA)Estimated per 10 CFR 50.75(b) and (c) (2006$):

2. Decommissioning Trust Fund Total

As of 12/31/06:

3. Annual amounts remaining to be collected:

4. Assumptions used:Rate of Escalation of Decommissioning Costs:

Rate of Earnings on Decommissioning Funds:

Authority for use of Real Earnings Over 2%:

5. Contracts upon which licensee is relyingFor Decommissioning Funding:

6. Modifications to Method of FinancialAssurance since Last Report:

7. Material Changes to Trust Agreements:

$648.4 million1

$240.5 million

$W2

Approx. 2.45%3

Approx. 5.88%3

APSC Order4

None

None

None

1

2

3

4

Without waste vendor disposal factor. This figure is $340.3 million when' the waste vendor disposalfactor is used.Decommissioning funding has been suspended pursuant to order of the Arkansas Public ServiceCommission in Docket No. 87-166-TF. The NRC has granted life extension to 5/2034.Approved in APSC Docket No. 87-166-TF, Order No. 45.APSC Docket No. 87-166-TF, Order Nos. 27, 32, and 41.

Attachment 1-A

ENTERGY ARKANSAS, INC.Status of Decommissioning Funding

For Year Ending December 31, 2006 - Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.75(f)(1)

Date: March 31, 2007

Reactor Name: Arkansas Nuclear One Unit 2 (ANO 2)

1. Minimum Financial Assurance (MFA)Estimated per 10 CFR 50.75(b) and (c) (2006$):

2. Decommissioning Fund TotalAs of 12/31/06:

3. Annual amounts remaining to be collected:

4. Assumptions used:

Rate of Escalation of Decommissioning Costs:

Rate of Earnings on Decommissioning Funds:

Authority for use of Real Earnings Over 2%:

5. Contracts upon which licensee is relyingFor Decommissioning Funding:

6. Modifications to Method of FinancialAssurance since Last Report:

7. Material Changes to Trust Agreements:

$675.2 million 1

$198.9 million

$02

Approx. 2.45%3

Approx. 6.14%3

APSC Order4

None

None

None

1 Without waste vendor disposal factor. This figure is $354.4 million when the waste vendor disposalfactor is used.

2 Decommissioning funding has been suspended pursuant to order of the Arkansas Public Service

Commission in Docket No. 87-166-TF. The NRC has granted life extension to 7/2038.4 Approved in APSC Docket No. 87-166-TF, Order No. 45.'4 APSC Docket No. 87-166-TF, Order Nos. 27, 32 and 41.

Attachment 2

SYSTEM ENERGY RESOURCES, INC. andSOUTH MISSISSIPPI ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATION

Status of Decommissioning FundingFor Year Ending December 31, 2006 - Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.75(f)(1)

Date: March 31, 2007

Reactor Name: Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (Owned & leased 90% by System EnergyResources, Inc (SERI) and 10% by South Mississippi Electric Power Association(SMEPA))

1. Minimum Financial Assurance (MFA)Estimated per 10 CFR 50.75(b) and (c) (2006$):SERI (90% ownership share)SMEPA (10% ownership share)

2. Decommissioning Fund Total as of 12/31/06:SERISMEPA

3. Annual amounts remaining to be collected:

4. Assumptions used:Rate of Escalation of Decommissioning Costs:SERISMEPA

Rate of Earnings on Decommissioning Funds:SERISMEPA

Authority for use of Real Earnings Over 2%:SERISMEPA

5. Contracts upon which licensee is relyingFor Decommissioning Funding:

6. Modifications to Method of Financial

Assurance since Last Report:

7. Material Changes to Trust Agreements:

$748.5 million 1

$83.2 million2

$279.8 million$33.8 million

See Attachment 2-A

5.5%4.0%

Approx. 6.7%Approx. 10%

N/ASMEPA Board

None

None

See Attachment 2-B

1 Without waste vendor disposal factor. This figure is $465.0 million when the waste vendor disposal

factor is used.2 Without waste vendor disposal factor. This figure is $51.7 million when the waste vendor disposal

factor is used.

Attachment 2-A

Schedule of Remaining Principal Payments intoGrand Gulf Nuclear Station Decommissioning Fund

($ Thousands)

20062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

SERI Share

$19,550$19,550$19,550$19,550$19,550$23,785$23,785$23,785$23,785$22,285$24,550$24,550$24,550$24,550$24,550$29,878$17,429$0 Thereafter

SMEPA Share

$14,512$ 7,505$ 0 Thereafter

Total

$34,062$27,055$19,550$19,550$19,550$23,785$23,785$23,785$23,785$22,285$24,550$24,550$24,550$24,550$24,550$29,878$17,429$0

Attachment 2-BPage 1 of 2

AGREEMIENT BEWM XOUT ,M[SSXSS Z LtCfl1C !OWEF

ASSOC[AXION A1 TRUSTMARX NATIONAL BANK,

WHEREAS, by a?'eaI et40 d ited twentleth'(060 o June 1-990 (the Agmemetnt') the.Suhmississippi ElectrkIcower. Association (tQ "Grnto?),~ ýa. MSISssipI, ýACýoprtidd

establish a NuclearDecohmujIsin't g * , Fun (the ji't:sý n rvd~fo t aaeet

Triac atonl an (he"Tusee) ýa nto6#W banin asoitonalivd- to:'rciscor~~rate trust po~~~wers under' the ivofteSaetislip n

WHEREIAS.- wider, the taiin& of siAreetthe: Grantor duneeremte itself the

rishtto allter or amend Vaitain terms of the Agreemnent, in whole or in part; and'

WHERTAS, the Orazlto hW twice modified the ariginal Ageenbyandet that,

tookeflfect June 1~, 1510,, and )Wbruery 17, 2000. mesectively; andW1BYREa$. The Trus Agreemeont, dated the twcn'titc(0h)oli. 990. seins i ~Uý

f~cimin eaofibc*, as mumnded and

toacetad implexi~ik those, jMOdfi*60losj

NOW T14EREF6RE bytisAedmn umber 3 wto h ulerDcmm inn

Trustf% In xqAgwment theq Gr nto n t6"herte.e, intening to be lcahl, bound mutually 8grce

that thTrust Agreeti arsnll ied~ sflos

4, AiVtcle W, A., (4),is Mo~ 4td fad itIts (ntiretr- Equity Investkentsselected from, hoti.specuative stoiftswhich comprise imajor market indices~commonly, used in the investment industry, tx,-witi no~mm nior ohi Q f thecurrent market valuieof the total portfolio shall bes bnvwW iiiroks thft

mnk u eah f te ollwig:the S&P 500 Large Cap hdei~kthe S&PO40Mid ap Idex;theR4ssefl 2000 Small Cap thex de MISC1 EAF

Internatonl ndx, and the MSCI Emerging Market Index.:7The'total equity:,comfponen 4*14. ortfolio shall cot exceed 80% of the current q~i9rke value,of "h oa otoi.Nompzw ecnae will, be, reqid min any stock,

-ctego Iyn andi suffciet fd kversikicaton;shail be raxtiid;'st'aodundue co1 nraini any sigl*idusIý r opa

A4 other: provisions. of theTnrit Agreement sojiginlly, executd ýand suwseuentlyamiended but not expressly modiie kerei, wilcontinue in full Aoc And cfEci%

Attachment 2-BPage 2 of 2

IJN lWITNE$SS WHEREOF this Amnmn ubr3is, signdo hi h

day of May 2060.

PUOHSSISSWPPI ELECTRIC10 AOJ

'COUNT-Y'OF FORREST,

PERSONALLY came and aupeae boeMe, tine mdepge au, thit, in andf6t swdýC~nyand State, lanmeA CompItonl wh 8411owedd tom hth sGeea aa f South

the ay ad Poer sociTinadthte Psigned and delivered h beon insrtimeutothad earein metoned as the at adwde of aicoorthaving trst, bendy

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0- onay 2006.

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PERSON4ALLY camei andapparedl Weoem, 'the udlersige uhrt. nadfrs

Counly ind Sat, Peiu lLaugh~l, who acn Wldd to nme tjjjhat ,he i FisVice- Preijdeg'nAt a TstýQi~er f rusrnak atoa Bank, rin thWW ige dlvrdthe fore-going insruneton'l

theiday and y~ek therei mentione 8;6 th at nd deeOdofsaid" coprainhv~ingfrtbe uyauthorized so to do.;,

Give undr m b ~~Ol~jpa ofoflie o thiis the L 'day oW May 2006.

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Attachment 3

ENTERGY GULF STATES, INC.Status of Decommissioning Funding

For Year Ending December 31, 2006- Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.75(f)(1)

Date: March 31, 2007

Reactor Name: River Bend Station (70% Regulated Interest)

1. Minimum Financial Assurance (MFA)Estimated per 10 CFR 50.75(b) and (c) (2006$):

2. Decommissioning Fund TotalAs of 12/31/06:

$568.5 million 1

$148.7 million

3. Annual amounts remaining to be collected: PUCT - $3,665,000 per year through 2024, plus$2,443,000 in 2025; none thereafter2

4. Assumptions used:Rate of Escalation of Decommissioning Costs:

Rate of Earnings on Decommissioning Funds:

Authority for use of Real Earnings Over 2%:

5. Contracts upon which licensee is relyingFor Decommissioning Funding:

6. Modifications to Method of FinancialAssurance since Last Report:

7. Material Changes to Trust Agreements:

Approx. 4%3

Approx. 6.4%4

LPSC, PUCT and FERC Orders5

None

None

None

1 Without waste vendor disposal factor. This figure is $353.2 million when the waste vendor disposal factor

is used.2 Decommissioning funding for the Louisiana jurisdictional share has been suspended pursuant to order of

the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) in Docket Nos. U-22491, U-23358, U-24182, U-24993and U-25687 dated 12/18/2002. Funding shown is by the Texas jurisdiction.For this factor, the LPSC has approved approximately 2.5%; the Public Utility Commission of Texas(PUCT) has approved approximately 4.8%, and the FERC has approved approximately 4%. The citedrate is a weighted average based on each jurisdiction's current share of the decommissioning trust fundsas of 12/31/06 (33%, 64% and 3%, respectively).For this factor, the LPSC has approved approximately 5.7%; the PUCT has approved approximately 6.6%;and the FERC has approved 9%. The cited rate is a weighted average based on each jurisdiction'scurrent share of the decommissioning trust funds as of 12/31/06 (33%, 64% and 3%, respectively).LPSC Consolidated Dockets Nos. U-22491, U-23358, U-24182, U-24993 and U-25687 dated 12/18/2002;PUCT Order in Docket No. 20150; FERC Order in Docket Nos. ER86-558-002, ER86-558-011 and ER86-558-013.

Attachment 3-A

ENTERGY GULF STATES, INC.Status of Decommissioning Funding

For Year Ending December 31, 2006 - Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.75(f)(1)

Date: March 31, 2007

Reactor Name: River Bend Station (30% Non-Regulated Interest)

1. Minimum Financial Assurance (MFA)Estimated per 10 CFR 50.75(b) and (c) (2006$): $243.6 million 1

2. Decommissioning Fund TotalAs of 12/31/06: $195.9 million

3. Annual amounts remaining to be collected:

4. Assumptions used:Rate of Escalation of Decommissioning Costs:

Rate of Earnings on Decommissioning Funds:

Authority for use of Real Earnings Over 2%:

5. Contracts upon which licensee is relyingFor Decommissioning Funding:

6. Modifications to Method of Financial

Assurance since Last Report:

7. Material Changes to Trust Agreements:

$0

See next item

Use allowed 2% real rate of returnper 10 CFR 50.75(e)(1)(i)

N/A

None

None

None

1Without waste vendor disposal factor. This figure is $151.4 million when the waste vendor disposalfactor is used.

Attachment 4

ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLCStatus of Decommissioning Funding

For Year Ending December 31, 2006 - Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.75(f)(1)

Date: March 31, 2007

Reactor Name: Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station

1. Minimum Financial Assurance (MFA)Estimated per 10 CFR 50.75(b) and (c) (2006$):

2. Decommissioning Fund TotalAs of 12/31/06:

3. Annual amounts remaining to be collected:

4. Assumptions used:Rate of Escalation of Decommissioning Costs:

Rate of Earnings on Decommissioning Funds:

Authority for use of Real Earnings Over 2%:

5. Contracts upon which licensee is relyingFor Decommissioning Funding:

6. Modifications to Method of Financial

Assurance since Last Report:

7. Material Changes to Trust Agreements:

$697.6 million 1

$208.3 million

See Attachment 4-A

Approx. 4.08%2

Approx. 6.2%2

N/A

None

None

See Attachment 4-B

1 Without waste vendor disposal factor. This figure is $366.1 million when the waste vendor disposal

factor is used.2 Rates of Escalation and Earnings were approved in LPSC Docket No. U-20925 RRF 2004.

Attachment 4-A

Schedule of Remaining Principal Payments intoWaterford 3 Decommissioning Fund

($ Thousands)

2007 $2,2822008 $2,2822009 $2,2822010 $2,6252011 $2,6252012 $2,6252013 $2,6252014 $2,6252015 $2,9292016 $2,9292017 $2,9292018 $2,9292019 $2,9292020 $3,2682021 $3,2682022 $3,2682023 $3,2682024 $3,2682025 $3,6452026 $3,6452027 $3,6452028 $3,6452029 $3,6452030 $4,0662031 $4,0662032 $4,0662033 $4,0662034 $4,0662035 $4,5362036 $4,5362037 $4,5362038 $4,5362039 $4,5362040 $5,0602041 $5,0602042 $5,0602043 $5,0602044 $5,0602045 $0 Thereafter

Note: Approved in LPSC Docket No. U-20925 RRF 2004, includes life extension.

Attachment 4-BPage 1 of 5

FFhAMENDMENT TO NUCL 'EARDECOMMIJSSIONJNG TRUSTlkFU7N AGREEMENT

This Fifth Amendment to Nuclear Decommissioning Trut Agreement- (Fifth.

Amnendment") is made effective as of the 3 1st day of tDecemhbe, 20605, by and betw'een

ENTERGY LOUISIANA,.LLC, a Texas limited liability company ("Entergy

Louisiana"'), and MELLON B3ANK, N.A. (the "Successor Trustee") (Entergy Louisianai

•.andthe SUccessor Trustee being referred to heein co lectively as the Partis")•

W EES, :on Marc h 14, 1989, tL6` Lo isiaaPwe and Light CmAny(t"

'"Company") and First National Bank of Commerce' (the 47rustee") enterdinto ,a,Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund Agreeentl (the.4"Truist Agreement), 'w'hich

provided for the establishment and maintenance of a nuclear decommissioning reserve

fund (the "Trust Fund!) to hold and invest revenues collected-by the Company for the

decommissioning of, Uniit No. 3 of the Waterford Stta 'Electric Gctnrating Stationq(th,

"WVaterford 3 Plant")

WHEREAS, s ofg September 28; 1990, in connction wvth the Company's aleand ~ ~ P lesbc fprin fis ownership interest in the Waterford 3 Plant on September-

28j,19,89. the Company and Trustee entered into the First'Amendment to Nuclear

Decommissioning Trust Agreement (the 'First Amendmenqt,.Whch amended:the Trust

Areet to contin~ue- to provide for the ýadministration, anid fuirther accumulation, of

,monies inthe Trust' Fund;

WHfEREAS asi of alarma~ry 1, 1993, the, Company and Mellon Bank, N:A. entered.'

into the Second Amendment to Nuclear DNeommissionin Trust Agreement to provide

for the removal of the Trustee and to appoint Mellon Bak:,NA. as Successor Trustee to

the Trust.Agreemnent (the "Second, Amendment);

, ,WHEREAS; .effecUtiveas .of February 1, 1996,te Comany.and tlo-Successor

Tr.stee entereldintothe third Aiendmnkn to Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund-J

Agreement ("Tird Amendment"), to allow the Successor Trustee to invest trust funsds inn

.the Mellon Jwank Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Stock .ndex Fund (the "Stock fndc,

Fnd"), and to comply with the final Treasury Regulatipni ssoed pursuant to Secion'

468A of the Intem4al Revenue Code of,1986,n , as iamended (the "Code,

WHERE'AS, effective April 22 196 Company charge its namet neg

Lousania, Inc.: ("EI") and remained 'a Louisiana corpora~tion

WHEREAS, effective as of Dec Iember 17, 2003, theý Company and the Successor

Trustee entered into the Fourth Amendment to NuclearDecomimissioning Trust Fund

A.greemecnt ("ourth Amxnndment"), to amenld the Trust Agreement iii order to. comply

v~l cetai chnge inappicalergqlation of he ular. RegulIato ry C o rri s si on

'C'NC");,

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Attachment 4-BPage 2 of 5

•WI1.EAS, o0n December 31',005, ELI, conve•tedfrorm a •ouisiana, orppratn.

into: a Texas corporation and ar drw t a b' mgerby division under;which ELI created•tWqo Tex As limte liabilityl mais~n fwihi ae Ent etg LOuI s~iana, dLC(Entergy Louisian,•'),ansUbstatially all of ELr asaets, liabilitiei, and operations

-,, , ,, • , ,: I I • - . " '' :i .:: _- I " I " " ,, • • . . • • •

ere'allocated to Entergy Louisiana,

'WHEREAS, with respect to the decoministionfing ef the Waterford 3 Ptak,,Entergy Louisiana has a beaieficial interest inthe Trust Agreement, as amended, a copy Yf

which isattached hereto a~s Ex~hibilt "A";

WHEREAS, the P~arties desire, to amend_ the Trust Agreeent to reflect thefrgping;.

WHEREAS, Secton '9.110 ofthe Trust Agreement provides that the Trust,Agremet my b 0xenddr moi0 e ~i t anOy time upon request of ti-c Cmpny ad

WHEREAS, Secio 4AO'd ofteTns~rcnnpoie n mnmnfrust Agreement must ,be in writing;

NOW, TH EREFORjE,,ini cosdrto of thea for~egoing premises.and foreothei,good and valuable consideration, rte receit.and• suffiiencly of which is theby•acknowledged, the Parties hereby #aee aS;follows:

A., The Trus Areent is amniended as follows:.

Wherever the words "Louis•ana Power, and Light Company, a LUuisianacorporat~ion"appear, the s shall bedeleted and replaced with the•words,.ntergy L.ouisiana,La iteliability company'.

:2 Tlis FiftihAmendment shalt bindad shalt.AaUr to the benefit 9f the

• respective .arties and, theitr assigns; transferees, and successors.-

:",This Fifth Amienidmeint ,may be eýxec~ut'ed in' one or morer cout: rs `eachofwhich shallbedeemedan originalbyalowhich tSg erwill vnstitute oqei

and the same instnent.

4: . Each Party hereby represents and: w-arrants toi tliether that•it has fuilauthority.to enter into this Fifth, Amendentpon' the termsand ccnditions erefiý-f adthat the individual executing 'theFifth Aniegndient on its behalf has the:reuisite authority to bin suih PWaty.Y

(R emnaider ojfdPge Iýnieýntiznlly Left Blank)

Attachment 4-BPage 3 of 5

114WryNESS WHEREOF, the Pati~es have execute~d tiws inisftrumeýt under el sothe dte first, above writtein.,

'Authorized Signer of:

ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLCý,

,aTextas limited flgbflty company

Vice. Presid~ent and Treasureir

Autho'ried, Officer of:.

,MELLON BANK N.A.,,as SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE

Title:, .Vz ...Date.: A24 I,• ,

-3-ý

Attachment 4-BPage 4 of 5

ACK1'1nOWLDGMEN'Tt

STATE OF TEXAS

ýCOUNTY OF HARRIS'

'On'this .31It day of 6eibr 26005, 'before mue, the undersigned notr,public, duly commissioned and qualificd in and for the aforesaid juirlsdctibn ,' personally came and appea'red Steven C. Mc~eal, who being firsIt duly sworn,deposed and said tha~t ap~pearer is, the, V4ic President and Treasurer of hitergyLouisiana, LLC, a Texas limited ll bility. comp~any, that appearreeue ndelivered the above and foregoing ,~t fAmendment to the Nuclear Decommnisiioning-Trust Agreeinent as the trpý act and "deed o~f-saiid colpordliun, and thatopae`i.-

dut' a thoize todo G b th bo rd f drecofs ofthe compauy. a

My cmmisionexpires:

q.L(-M M COM~5iam m(p~Ai5

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Attachment 4-BPage 5 of 5

AtENOWLEIDGMENT

STATE OF4 V s''COUN.TY OF

On this ýP day of j!(Ž~•2005, before mie, the undemigned notarypublic, duly CoMnIissioned and qua fedina ndd fth r ,.aor¢esaidjurisdiction,personally carne and appeared 7IA __who b ing first dulysworn, deposed and said that appearer is the Pr -, # IA. 'e d JOfMellon Bank, N.A., a national banking association, that appearer executed anddeliver e habove and foregoing Fifth Amendmentto the Nuclear DecommissioningTrust Agreement as the true act and deed ofsaid corporation, and that appearer wasdaly authorized to do so by the board of directors of said national banklngassociation,.

I 'Note, Public

Mly colnYMi~SS10 expires:COMMONV EL1HOF~PENN5YLVANIA

'SC e 6~~L 5-Y o oa1coibty ge a hn A~gj~~Nge