[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 54 (Friday, March 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13703-13704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7278]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-423]


Northeast Nuclear Energy Company; Notice of Withdrawal of 
Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (the licensee) to 
withdraw its December 14, 1994, application for proposed amendment to 
Facility Operating License No. 49 for the Millstone Nuclear Power 
Station, Unit 3, located in New London County, Connecticut.
    The proposed amendment would have (1) increased the upper bound of 
the overall containment integrated leakage rate required by Technical 
Specification (TS) 3.6.1.2.a from 0.3 wt.% per day to 0.65 wt.% per day 
of the containment air per 24 hours at design basis pressure, (2) 
revised TS 4.6.6.1.d.3 by providing more margin with respect to the 
drawdown time for secondary containment vacuum, and (3) revised the 
applicable Bases section.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in

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the Federal Register on February 15, 1995 (60 FR 8750). However, by 
letter dated February 26, 1998, the licensee withdrew the proposed 
change.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated December 14, 1994, and the licensee's 
letter dated February 26, 1998, 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 Learning Resources Center, Three Rivers 
Community-Technical College, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich, 
Connecticut, and the Waterford Library, ATTN: Vince Juliano, 49 Rope 
Ferry Road, Waterford, Connecticut.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of March 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James W. Andersen,
Project Manager, Special Projects Office--Licensing, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-7278 Filed 3-19-98; 8:45 am]
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