[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3926]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1900]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. STN 50-454 AND STN 50-456]
Commonwealth Edison Company; Notice of Withdrawal of Application
for Amendment to Facility Operating Licenses
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted
the request of Commonwealth Edison Company (the licensee) to withdraw
its January 31, 1997, application for proposed amendments to Facility
Operating License Nos. NPF-37 and NPF-66, for Byron Station, Units 1
and 2, located in Ogle County, Illinois.
The proposed amendment would have modified the facility technical
specifications (TS) to reduce the Byron, Unit 1, limiting TS value for
the primary coolant dose equivalent iodine-131 (DEI) concentration from
0.35 to 0.20 microcuries per gram. The intent of this proposed TS
revision was to limit the offsite dose at the exclusion area boundary
to a small fraction of the radiation exposure guidelines in 10 CFR Part
100. In the interim, ComEd performed an operability assessment and
administratively reduced the Byron, Unit 1, DEI to 0.20 microcuries per
gram. On November 7, 1997, ComEd started its Byron, Unit 1, fall 1997
refueling outage during which the steam generators (SG) are being
replaced. The replacement SG begin installed at Byron, Unit 1, will not
have the relatively large end of cycle SG tube leakage attributed to
the original SG. Accordingly, the license amendment requests submitted
on January 31, 1997, was no longer needed.
The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on March 12,
1997, (62 FR 11489). However, by letter dated November 11, 1997, the
licensee withdrew the proposed change.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendment dated January 31, 1997, and the licensee's
letter dated November 11, 1997, which withdrew the application for the
license amendments. The above documents are available for public
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman
Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC, and at the local public
document room located at the Byron Public Library District, 109 N.
Franklin, P.O. Box 434, Byron, Illinois 60481.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of January, 1998.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
M. David Lynch,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate III-2, Division of Reactor
Projects--III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
[FR Doc. 98-1900 Filed 1-26-98; 8:45 am]
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