[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 68 (Wednesday, April 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17219-17220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9061]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. STN 50-454, STN 50-455, STN 50-456 and STN 50-457]


Commonwealth Edison Company; Notice of Issuance of Amendments to 
Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 86 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-37, Amendment 
No. 86 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-66, Amendment No. 78 to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-72 and Amendment No. 78 to Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-77, issued to Commonwealth Edison Company 
(ComEd, the licensee), which revised the Technical Specifications (TS) 
for operation of the Byron Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in Ogle 
County, Illinois and Braidwood Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in 
Will County, Illinois. The amendments are effective as of the date of 
issuance and shall be implemented within 45 days.
    The amendments modified the TSs to allow the licensee to take 
credit, on a temporary basis, for soluble boron in the spent fuel 
storage pool water in maintaining an acceptable margin of 
subcriticality.
    The application for the amendments 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, which are set forth in the license 
amendments.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments to Facility 
Operating Licenses and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with 
this action was published in the Federal Register on February 10, 1997 
(62 FR 6016). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to 
intervene was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of the amendments will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (62 FR 
13403).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendments dated November 5, 1996, as supplemented 
February 27 and March 30, 1997, (2) Amendment No. 86 to Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-37, Amendment No. 86 to Facility Operating 
License No. NPF-66, Amendment No. 78 to Facility Operating License No. 
NPF-72 and Amendment No. 78 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-77, 
(3) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the 
Commission's related Environmental Assessment. All of these items 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 rooms located at: for Byron, the Byron Public 
Library District, 109 N. Franklin, P.O. Box 434, Byron, Illinois 61010; 
for Braidwood, the Wilmington Public Library, 201 S. Kankakee Street, 
Wilmington, Illinois 60481.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of April 1997.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ramin R. Assa,
Project Manager, Project Directorate III-2, Division of Reactor 
Projects--III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 97-9061 Filed 4-8-97; 8:45 am]
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