[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 104 (Monday, June 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29761-29762]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14392]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-331]
IES Utilities Inc.; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility
Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued
Amendment No. 223 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-49 issued to
IES Utilities Inc.,(the licensee), which revised the operating license
and the Technical Specifications for operation of the Duane Arnold
Energy Center (DAEC), located in Linn County, Iowa. The amendment is
effective as of the date of issuance and shall be implemented prior to
October 1, 1998.
The amendment modified the Technical Specifications by replacing
the existing Technical Specifications in their entirety with a new set
of Improved Technical Specifications based on NUREG-1433, ``Standard
Technical Specifications, General Electric Plants BWR/4,'' Revision 1,
dated April 1995, and on 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). The
amendment also modified the license by adding a new license condition
which established an Appendix B to the license for additional license
conditions. For this amendment, a condition was added to Appendix B
describing the relocation of certain Technical Specification
requirements to licensee controlled documents. In addition to replacing
the Technical Specifications with the Improved Technical
Specifications, the amendment revised the combinations of emergency
core cooling systems/subsystems that may be out of service and relaxed
the required flowrates for the core spray, the low pressure coolant
injection, and the high pressure coolant injection systems.
The application for the amendment complies with the standards and
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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 I, which are set forth in the license
amendment.
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this
action as it applies to the Improved Technical Specifications was
published in the Federal Register on July 22, 1997 (62 FR 39283). 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 (63 FR 13078, dated March 17, 1998).
Notices of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility
Operation License, Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration
Determination, and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this
action as it applies to the revised combinations of emergency core
cooling systems/subsystems that may be out of service and to the
relaxed required flowrates for the core spray, the low pressure coolant
injection, and the high pressure coolant injection systems were
published in the Federal Register on December 31, 1997 (62 FR 68306)
and February 11, 1998 (63 FR 6986), respectively. No request for a
hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following these
notices and no significant hazards consideration comments were
received.
For further details with respect to the action see (1) the
application for amendment dated October 30, 1996, as supplemented by
letters dated June 10, September 5, 17, and 30, October 16, November 18
and 21, December 8 and 15, 1997, January 2, 5, 12, 22 and 23, February
10, 26, March 23, 31, and April 17, 1998, (2) Amendment No. 223 to
License No. DPR-49, (3) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and
(4) the 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 at
the local public document room located at the local public document
room located at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, 500 First Street, SE.,
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of May 1998.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard J. Laufer,
Project Manager, Project Directorate III-3, Division of Reactor
Projects, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-14392 Filed 5-29-98; 8:45 am]
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