[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 1 (Monday, January 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 198-199]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34791]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-155]
Big Rock Point Plant; Consumers Energy Company; Notice of Partial
Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted
the request of Consumers Energy Company (Consumers or the licensee) to
withdraw parts of its September 19, 1997, application, as supplemented
October 10 and November 12, 1997, and June 5, July 21 and 27, October
14, November 25 and December 21, 1998, for proposed amendment to
Facility Operating License No. DPR-6 for the Big Rock Point (BRP) Plant
located in Charlevoix County, Michigan.
The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on December 3,
1997 (62 FR 63974), pursuant to the licensee's September 19, 1997,
request, as supplemented. This proposed amendment was to amend the DPR-
6 license and change Appendix A, Technical Specifications (TS), to the
license to reflect the permanently shutdown and defueled condition of
the BRP facility.
By letters dated November 25 and December 21, 1998, the licensee
proposed to withdraw parts of its September 19, 1997, request, as
supplemented. As requested in the November 25, 1998, letter, these
parts include withdrawal of proposed changes with regard to: (1)
storage of spent fuel with a decay time of greater than one year in the
outer three rows of the fuel rack adjacent to the south wall of the
spent fuel pool; (2) deletion of portions of TS 6.12.1.b regarding the
use of a radiation monitoring device which continuously integrates the
radiation dose rate in the area and alarms when a preset integrated
dose is received; (3) applicability of TS 6.12.2 wording to dose rates
equal to 1000 millirem per hour at 30 centimeters but less than 500
rads per hour at 1 meter from the radiation source; (4) replacement of
TS 6.12.2 regarding the dose rate levels in the immediate work areas
and the maximum stay time for individuals in that area; (5) replacement
of TS 13.1.3.1 regarding limitations on dose rate due to radioactive
materials released in gaseous effluents; and, (6) deletion of TS
13.1.4.3 regarding dose to a member of the public from tritium and all
radionuclides in particulate form with half lives greater than 8 days
in gaseous effluents. In its December 21, 1998, letter, Consumers
requested to withdraw its proposed revision of the first sentence in
paragraph 2.A. of the DPR-6 license that added the phrase
``decommissioning of'' prior to ``Big Rock Point Plant.''
For further details with respect to this action, see application
for amendment dated September 19, 1997, as supplemented October 10 and
November 12, 1997, and June 5, July 21 and 27, October 14, 1998, and
letters dated November 25 and December 21, 1998, the last two of which,
in part, withdrew certain portions of the proposed amendment request.
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 North Central Michigan College Library, 1515 Howard Street,
Petoskey, MI 49770.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of December 1998.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul W. Harris,
Project Manager, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project
Directorate, Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-34791 Filed 12-31-98; 8:45 am]
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