99-13775. Northeast Nuclear Energy Company, et al. Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit No. 3; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License  

  • [Federal Register Volume 64, Number 104 (Tuesday, June 1, 1999)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 29365]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 99-13775]
    
    
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    NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
    
    [Docket No. 50-423]
    
    
    Northeast Nuclear Energy Company, et al. Millstone Nuclear Power 
    Station, Unit No. 3; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment 
    to Facility Operating License
    
        The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
    the request of Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (the licensee) to 
    withdraw its July 26, 1995, application, as supplemented by letter 
    dated July 17, 1996, for proposed amendment to Facility Operating 
    License No. NPF-49 for the Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit No. 3, 
    located in New London County, Connecticut.
        The proposed amendment would have revised the facility technical 
    specifications pertaining to the protective functions instrumentation 
    surveillance interval, extending the interval from the current 18-month 
    to a 24-month fuel cycle, and would have revised the Reactor Trip 
    System (RTS) and Engineered Safety Features Actuation System (ESFAS) 
    instrumentation trip setpoints tables from the existing five columns to 
    a single column format that lists only nominal trip setpoints. Revision 
    to the RTS and ESFAS instrumentation trip setpoints tables were 
    subsequently resubmitted under a separate amendment request dated 
    October 15, 1997, as supplemented January 23 and April 8, 1998, and 
    approved in amendment number 159, issued on May 26, 1998.
        The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
    Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on November 27, 
    1995 (60 FR 58402). However, by letter dated April 22, 1999, the 
    licensee withdrew the proposed change.
        For further details with respect to this action, see the 
    application for amendment dated July 26, 1995, as supplemented by 
    letter dated July 17, 1996, and the licensee's letter dated April 22, 
    1999, which withdrew the application for license amendment. 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 Millstone Unit 3 local public document rooms 
    located at the Learning Resources Center, Three Rivers Community-
    Technical College, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich, Connecticut, and 
    the Waterford Public Library, ATTN: Vince Juliano, 49 Rope Ferry Road, 
    Waterford, Connecticut.
    
        Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of May 1999.
    
        For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    John A. Nakoski,
    Sr. Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate I, Division of 
    Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
    [FR Doc. 99-13775 Filed 5-28-99; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 7590-01-P
    
    
    

Document Information

Published:
06/01/1999
Department:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
99-13775
Pages:
29365-29365 (1 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Docket No. 50-423
PDF File:
99-13775.pdf