[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 13 (Wednesday, January 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 2977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00927]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-397; NRC-2014-0010; NRC-2014-0189]


Energy Northwest, Columbia Generating Station

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the 
request of Energy Northwest (the licensee) to withdraw its application 
dated October 2, 2013, as supplemented by letters dated June 19 and 
November 17, 2014, for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-21. The proposed amendment would have revised 
the Technical Specifications (TS) for the Columbia Generating Station 
to incorporate TS Task Force (TSTF) Traveler TSTF-493, Revision 4, 
``Clarify Application of Setpoint Methodology for LSSS [limiting safety 
system settings] Functions,'' Option A.

DATES: Notice of withdrawal of license amendment application given on 
January 21, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket IDs NRC-2014-0010 and NRC-2014-0189 
when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding 
this document. You may obtain publicly-available information related to 
this document using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket IDs NRC-2014-0010 and NRC-
2014-0189. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; 
telephone: 301-287-3422; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section of this document.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, 
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document 
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time 
that a document is referenced.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrea E. George, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1081, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has granted the request of Energy 
Northwest to withdrawal its application dated October 2, 2013, as 
supplemented by letters dated June 19 and November 17, 2014 (ADAMS 
Accession Nos. ML13284A063, ML14188B450, and ML14335A320, 
respectively), for a proposed amendment to the Columbia Generating 
Station's TS, located in Benton County, Washington. The proposed change 
would have revised the TS to incorporate TSTF-493, Revision 4, Option 
A, by adding footnotes to certain TS Surveillance Requirements. The 
availability of this TS improvement was announced in the Federal 
Register on May 11, 2010 (75 FR 26294).
    The NRC published a Biweekly Notice in the Federal Register on 
January 21, 2014 (79 FR 3415), that gave notice that this proposed 
amendment was under consideration by the NRC. Due to an increase in 
scope of the proposed amendment from an application supplement, the 
amendment was republished in a Biweekly Notice in the Federal Register 
on August 19, 2014 (79 FR 49107). However, by letter dated December 9, 
2014 (ADAMS Accession No. ML14349A494), the licensee requested to 
withdraw the proposed amendment.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of January 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea E. George,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV-1, Division of Operating 
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-00927 Filed 1-20-15; 8:45 am]
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