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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-461]

 

Illinois Power Company, et al.; Withdrawal of Application for 
Amendment To Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Illinois Power Company (the licensee) to withdraw its 
February 17, 1993, application for a proposed amendment to Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-62 for the Clinton Power Station (CPS), Unit 
No. 1, located in DeWitt County, Illinois.
    The proposed amendment consisted of three proposed partial 
exemptions from the requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix J 
regarding containment integrated leakage rate testing, three proposed 
changes to associated CPS Technical Specification 3/4.6.1.2, ``Primary 
Containment Leakage,'' and changes to the CPS Technical Specification 
Bases and Operating License No. NPF-62.
    One of the three requested exemptions was granted. A partial 
exemption from the 10 CFR 50, Appendix J, Section III.D.1.(a) 
requirement to perform the third Type A test of each 10-year service 
period when the plant is shut down for the 10-year plant inservice 
inspection was granted in Amendment #83 dated September 8, 1993. 
However, requests for partial exemptions from the requirements of 
Section III.A.1.(a) (the requirement to stop a containment integrated 
leak rate test if excessive leakage is detected) and Section 
III.A.5.(b) (acceptance criteria for containment integrated leak rate 
tests with respect to determining the frequency of conducting future 
tests) was deferred pending resolution of ongoing rulemaking activities 
associated with Appendix J.
    SECY-94-036 dated February 17, 1994, described the staff's plans 
for completion of rulemaking on Appendix J and how plant-specific 
requests for contingency and performance based exemptions would compete 
for limited staff resources. The SECY paper further stated that the 
availability of staff resources for reviewing such exemptions would be 
extremely limited. Subsequently, by letter dated August 15, 1994, the 
licensee withdrew the amendment request.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on March 31, 
1993 (58 FR 16864). However, by letter dated August 15, 1994, the 
licensee withdrew the proposed change.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated February 17, 1993, and the licensee's 
letter dated August 15, 1994, which withdrew the application for 
license amendment. The above documents are available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public document Room, 2120 L Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20555, and at the Vespasian Warner Public Library, 120 
West Johnson Street, Clinton, Illinois 61727.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of September 1994.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Douglas V. Pickett,
Acting Director, Project Directorate III-3, Division of Reactor 
Projects-III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 94-23457 Filed 9-21-94; 8:45 am]
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