E9-6401. Tennessee Valley Authority, Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Unit 2; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA, the licensee) to withdraw its December 22, 2008, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-52 for the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Unit 2, located in Limestone County, Alabama.

The proposed amendment would, on a one-time basis, extend several Technical Specification surveillance frequencies approximately 45 days.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on January 27, 2009 (74 FR 4775). However, by letter dated March 6, 2009, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated December 22, 2008, and the licensee's letter dated March 6, 2009, which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to [e-mail].

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of March 2009.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Eva A. Brown,

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II-2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulations.