[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 183 (Thursday, September 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55632-55633]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-18916]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-285]
Omaha Public Power District; Notice of Withdrawal of Application
for Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted
the request of Omaha Public Power District (the licensee) to withdraw
its July 25, 2003, application for proposed amendment to Facility
Operating License No. DPR-40 for the Fort Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1
(FCS), located in Washington County, Nebraska.
The proposed amendment would have revised the facility technical
specifications pertaining to FCS Technical Specification Section 3.0.2,
Table 3-2, Table 3-5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and the Definitions Section. This
proposed change would have provided a risk-informed alternative to the
existing surveillance interval for the integrated Engineered Safety
Features (ESF) and Loss-of-Offsite Power testing required to be
performed on each ESF equipment train during each outage. The proposed
change would have modified the surveillance interval requirement for
these refueling interval surveillance requirements to go to a staggered
test basis scheme. Using a staggered test basis, only one train would
be tested each refueling outage. Omaha Public Power District stated
that this amendment was modeled after the Improved Standard Technical
Specifications and is based on a study conducted by the Westinghouse
Electric Company, LLC on behalf of the Combustion Engineering Owners
Group in topical report WCAP-15830-P, ``Staggered Integrated ESF
Testing,'' and Technical Specification Task Force 450.
The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on August 19,
2003 (68 FR 49818). However, by letter dated September 9, 2005, the
licensee withdrew the proposed change.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendment dated July 25, 2003, and the
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licensee's letter dated September 9, 2005, which withdrew the
application for the 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 01 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 [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of September 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Alan B. Wang,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate IV, Division of
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 05-18916 Filed 9-21-05; 8:45 am]
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