[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 236 (Thursday, December 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69044-69045]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31917]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-255]
Consumers Regulatory Co. Palisades Plant; Notice of Issuance of
Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued
Amendment No. 189 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-20, issued to
the Consumers Energy Company (the licensee), for operation of the
Palisades Plant, located in Van Buren County, Michigan.
The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance and shall be
implemented on or before October 21, 2000. The implementation of the
amendment includes one license condition that is being added to Section
2.C of the operating license as part of the amendment.
The amendment replaces, in its entirety, the current Technical
Specifications (TSs) with a set of improved TSs based on (1) NUREG-
1432, ``Standard Technical Specifications, Combustion Engineering
Plants,'' Revision 1, dated April 1995, including subsequent approved
changes to the standard TSs, (2) guidance provided in the Commission's
``Final Policy Statement on Technical Specifications Improvements for
Nuclear Power Reactors,'' published on July 22, 1993 (58 FR 39132), and
(3) 10 CFR 50.36, ``Technical Specifications,'' as amended July 19,
1995 (60 FR 36953). In addition, the amendment added one license
condition to Section 2.C of the operating license that provides the
schedule for the first performance of surveillance requirements that
are new or revised in the amendment.
The application for the amendment, as supplemented, complies with
the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations. The
Commission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the
Commission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter 1.
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity
for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal
Register on September 21, 1999 (64 FR 51147). No request for a hearing
or petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice.
The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has
concluded that the issuance of the amendment will not have a
significant effect on the quality of the human environment beyond that
described in the Final Environmental Statement related to the operation
of the Palisades Nuclear Generating Plant dated June 1972, and in the
addendum to the Final Environmental Statement dated February 1978. The
Environmental Assessment as published in the Federal Register on
October 22, 1999 (64 FR 57156).
For further details with respect to the action, see (1) the
application for amendment dated January 26, 1998, as supplemented by
letters dated April 30, September 14, October 12, and November 9, 1998,
and March 1, March 22, March 30, April 7, May 3, June 4, June 11, June
17, July 19, July 30, September 17, September 30, October 22, and
November 5, 1999, (2) Amendment No. 189 to License No. DPR-20, (3) the
Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the
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Commission's Environmental Assessment. All of these items are available
for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the
Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC, and are accessible
electronically through the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room link at
the NRC Web site (http://www.nrc.gov).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of November 1999.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert G. Schaaf,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate III, Division of
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-31917 Filed 12-8-99; 8:45 am]
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