[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 234 (Friday, December 5, 1997)] [Notices] [Page 64407] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-31870] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket No. 50-423] Northeast Nuclear Energy Company; 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 May 5, 1997, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-49 for the Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit 3, located in New London County, Connecticut. The proposed amendment to Technical Specifications 3.9.1.2 and 3.9.1.3 and their Bases would have allowed the crediting of soluble boron for maintaining k-effective at less than or equal to 0.95 within the spent fuel pool rack matrix following a seismic event of a magnitude greater than or equal to an operating basis earthquake. The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on July 16, 1997 (62 FR 38135). However, by letter dated November 11, 1997, the licensee withdrew the proposed change. For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated May 5, 1997, and the licensee's letter dated November 11, 1997, 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 2 the local public document room located at the Learning Resources Center, Three Rivers Community- Technical College, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich, Connecticut, and the Waterford Library, ATTN: Vince Juliano, 49 Rope Ferry Road, Waterford, Connecticut. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of November 1997. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. James W. Andersen, Project Manager, Special Projects Office--Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 97-31870 Filed 12-4-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P