[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 44 (Monday, March 8, 1999)] [Notices] [Page 11070] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 99-5596] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446] Texas Utilities Electric Co.; Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating Licenses The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued Amendment No. 64 to Facility Operating Licenses Nos. NPF-87 and NPF-89, issued to TU Electric (the licensee) for operation of the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2, (CPSES) located in Somervell County, Texas. The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance and shall be implemented within 180 days of the issuance of the amendment. The implementation of the amendment includes the two license conditions which are being added to Appendix D of the licenses as part of the amendment. The amendment replaces, in its entirety, the current Technical Specifications (TS) with a set of improved TS based on NUREG-1431, ``Standard Technical Specifications, Westinghouse Plants,'' Revision 1, dated April 1995, including all approved changes to the standard TS; the Commission's Final Policy Statement, ``NRC Final Policy Statement on Technical Specifications Improvements for Nuclear Power Reactors,'' published on July 22, 1993 (58 FR 39132); and 10 CFR 50.36, ``Technical Specifications,'' as amended July 19, 1995 (60 FR 36953). In addition, the amendment adds two license conditions to the newly-created Appendix D of the operating licenses that require (1) the relocation of previous TS requirements into license-controlled documents and (2) the first performance of new and revised surveillance requirements for the improved TS to be related to the implementation date for the improved TS. The implementation of the amendment and the license conditions will be completed no later than 180 days after the date of the amendment, as stated in the amendment. The application for the amendment, as supplemented, complies with the standards and 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. Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal Register on January 27, 1999, (64 FR 4148). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice. The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement related to the action to convert the current TS to the improved TS. Based on 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 beyond that described in the Final Environmental Statement (FES) related to the operation of CPSES (NUREG- 0775) dated September 1981. The Environmental Assessment was published in the Federal Register on February 12, 1999 (64 FR 7214). For further details with respect to the amendment see (1) the application for amendment dated May 15, 1997, as supplemented by letters in 1998 dated June 26, August 5, August 28, September 24, October 21, October 23, November 24 (2 letters), December 11, December 17, and December 18, and 7 letters in 1999 dated January 5, February 3 (3 letters), February 16, and February 23 (2 letters), and (2) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation and Environmental Assessment. All of these items are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the local public document room located at the University of Texas at Arlington Library, Government Publications/Maps, 702 College, P.O. Box 19497, Arlington, TX 76019. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of February, 1999. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Jack N. Donohew, Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate IV-1, Division of Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 99-5596 Filed 3-5-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P