[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 134 (Monday, July 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 37630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18364]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-263, 50-282, and 50-306]


Northern States Power Company; Withdrawal of Application for 
Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has 
permitted Northern States Power Company (NSP, the licensee) to withdraw 
its December 6, 1995, application for amendments to Facility Operating 
Licenses Nos. DPR-22, DPR-42, and DPR-60 for the Monticello Nuclear 
Generating Plant and the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Unit 
Nos. 1 and 2, respectively. The Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant is 
located in Wright County, Minnesota; the Prairie Island Nuclear 
Generating Plant is located in Goodhue County, Minnesota.
    The proposed amendments would have modified the operating licenses 
to reflect a transfer of control of the licenses resulting from the 
proposed merger of NSP with Wisconsin Energy Corporation. By letter 
dated June 10, 1997, NSP informed the Commission that on May 16, 1997, 
NSP and Wisconsin Energy Corporation announced an agreement to 
terminate plans to merge the two companies and that it was withdrawing 
the application for amendments.
    The Commission had previously issued an Order Approving Transfer of 
Control of Licenses and Notice of Consideration of Proposed Issuance of 
Associated Amendments published in the Federal Register on April 11, 
1997 (62 FR 17882). The order becomes null and void on September 30, 
1997, by its own terms.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendments dated December 6, 1995, the application for 
transfer of control of licenses dated October 20, 1995, and the 
licensee's letter dated June 10, 1997. 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 Minneapolis Public 
Library, Technology and Science Department, 300 Nicollet Mall, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of July 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Beth A. Wetzel,
Project Manager, Project Directorate III-1, Division of Reactor 
Projects--III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 97-18364 Filed 7-11-97; 8:45 am]
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