[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 2 (Monday, January 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 273-274]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-98]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-295 and 50-304]


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

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 178 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-39 and 
Amendment No. 165 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-48, issued to 
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd, the licensee), which revised the 
operating licenses and the Technical Specifications (TS) for operation 
of the Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, located in Lake 
County, Illinois. The amendments are effective as of the date of 
issuance and shall be implemented prior to Unit 2 entering Mode 4.
    The amendments replace, in their entirety, the Zion Technical 
Specifications with a set based on NUREG-1431, Revision 1, ``Standard 
Technical Specifications--Westinghouse Plants'' issued in April 1995, 
and on guidance provided in the Commission's ``Final Policy Statement 
on Technical Specifications Improvements for Nuclear Power Reactors,'' 
published on July 22, 1993 (58 FR 39132). The amendments also modify 
the licenses by relocating requirements from four license

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conditions to the Technical Specifications and one license condition to 
the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report. Further, the amendments add a 
new license condition 2.C.(12) reflecting the licensee's commitments 
regarding relocation of Technical Specification and license condition 
requirements to licensee-controlled documents and add an Appendix D to 
the Facility Operating Licenses describing those commitments. In 
addition, the amendments revise Technical Specification 4.3.1.B.4.A.10 
by identifying enhancements to the Combustion Engineering welded steam 
generator tube sleeve process described in Topical Report CEN-331-P, 
Revision 1-P. 
    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, as 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 as it applies to the Improved Technical Specifications was 
published in the Federal Register on December 29, 1995 (60 FR 67366). 
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.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments to Facility 
Operating Licenses, Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration 
Determination, and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action as it applies to enhancements to the Combustion Engineering 
welded steam generator tube sleeve process described in Topical Report 
CEN-331-P, Revision 1-P was published in the Federal Register on 
November 6, 1996 (61 FR 57483). No request for a hearing or petition 
for leave to intervene was filed following this notice and no 
significant hazards consideration comments were received. The February 
3, 1997, supplement provided Technical Specification pages reformatted 
in the Improved Technical Specification format. This supplement was 
within the scope of the original application and did not change the 
staff's initial proposed no significant hazards consideration 
determination.
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated November 3,1995, as supplemented by 
letters dated November 22, 1995, March 15, 1996, April 30, 1996, May 8, 
1996, May 17, 1996, May 21, 1996, June 6, 1996, July 5, 1996, July 17, 
1996, September 13, 1996, September 20, 1996, November 1, 1996, 
December 11, 1996, January 2, 1997, February 3, 1997, two letters dated 
May 8, 1997, June 6, 1997, September 19, 1997, October 20, 1997, 
November 10, 1997, and November 28, 1997, (2) Amendment No. 178 to 
License No. DPR-39 and Amendment No.165 to License No. DPR-48, and (3) 
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 NW., Washington, DC, and at the local public document room 
located at the Waukegan Public Library, 128 N. County Street, Waukegan, 
Illinois 60085. A copy of items (2) and (3) may be obtained upon 
request addresses to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, D.C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor 
Projects--III/IV.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of December 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 
Clyde Y. Shiraki,
Project Manager, Project Directorate III-2, Division of Reactor 
Projects--III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-98 Filed 1-2-98; 8:45 am]
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