[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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