diff --git a/calculations/3body_Berggren_B2R_EC.jl b/calculations/3body_Berggren_B2R_EC.jl
index 1ff156f..1824c00 100644
--- a/calculations/3body_Berggren_B2R_EC.jl
+++ b/calculations/3body_Berggren_B2R_EC.jl
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ println("Original EC dimensionality = $(length(training_vecs))")
 @time "Gram-Schmidt" training_vecs = gram_schmidt!(training_vecs, weights; verbose=true) # orthonormalization
 
 EC_basis = hcat(training_vecs...)
-N_EC = transpose(EC_basis) * weights_mat * EC_basis
 H0_EC = transpose(EC_basis) * weights_mat * H0 * EC_basis
 Vp_EC = transpose(EC_basis) * weights_mat * Vp * EC_basis