[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 252 (Tuesday, December 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 69115]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-33251]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-331]


IES Utilities, Inc.; Notice of Withdrawal of Application For 
Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of IES Utilities Inc. (the licensee) to withdraw its 
January 30, 1996, application for proposed amendment to Facility 
Operating License No. 50-331 for the Duane Arnold Energy Center, 
located in Palo, Iowa.
    The proposed amendment would have revised the control rod scram 
insertion time testing requirements in the plant Technical 
Specifications.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on February 14, 
1996 (61 FR 5814). However, by letter dated February 26, 1996, the 
licensee withdrew the proposed change.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated January 30, 1996, and the licensee's 
letter dated February 26, 1996, 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 the local public 
document room located at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, 500 First 
Street, S.E., Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of December 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions.
Glenn B. Kelly, Sr.,
Project Manager, Project Directorate III-3, Division of Reactor 
Projects III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-33251 Filed 12-30-96; 8:45 am]
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