[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 218 (Thursday, November 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 63336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30257]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-259]
Tennessee Valley Authority; Notice of Withdrawal of Application
for Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted
a request by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to withdraw its June
21, 1996, application for an amendment to Facility Operating License
DPR-33 issued to TVA for the operation of the Browns Ferry Nuclear
Plant, Unit 1, located in Limestone County, Alabama. The application
was supplemented by letter dated February 7, 1997. Notice of
consideration of issuance of this amendment was published in the
Federal Register on August 14, 1996 (61 FR 42285).
The proposed amendment, submitted in custom technical specification
format, would have provided a new safety limit minimum critical power
ratio (SLMCPR) to replace the existing non-conservative value. The
proposed amendment also would have updated a technical specification
bases to clarify the usage of the residual heat removal supplemental
spent fuel pool cooling mode.
On May 7, 1997, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued the
Bases change, however, no further action was taken on the remainder of
the application pending TVA documentation of completion of analyses
related to the SLMCPR for Unit 1. On July 14, 1998, the NRC issued
Amendment No. 234 to Operating License DPR-33. Amendment No. 234
converted the Unit 1 custom technical specifications, which were in
effect at the time the June 21, 1996, application was submitted, into
the standard technical specification format. Thus, the NRC was unable
to take any further action upon the June 21, 1996, application. TVA's
letter of October 13, 1998, informed the staff that the requested
changes are no longer needed. Furthermore, since TVA does not now have
a firm schedule for the restart of Unit 1, any changes associated with
the SLMCPR will be resubmitted prior to Unit 1 restart.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendment dated June 21, 1996, TVA's letters dated
February 7, 1997, and October 13, 1998, and the staff's letter dated
September 22, 1998, which 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 Athens Public Library, 405 E. South Street, Athens, Alabama.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of November 1998.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Albert W. De Agazio,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate II-3, Division of Reactor
Projects--I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-30257 Filed 11-10-98; 8:45 am]
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