[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 151 (Thursday, August 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 42083]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21041]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-298]


Nebraska Public Power District (Cooper Nuclear Station); Notice 
of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has 
issued Amendment No. 178 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-46, 
issued to Nebraska Public Power District (license) for operation of the 
Cooper Nuclear Station located in Nemaha County, Nebraska.
    The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance.
    The amendment replaces, in its entirety, the current Technical 
Specifications (TS) with a set of improved TS based on NUREG-1433, 
``Standard Technical Specifications, General Electric Plants, BWR/4,'' 
Revision 1, dated 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), and 10 CFR 50.36, as amended July 19, 1995 (60 FR 
36953). In addition, the amendment adds two license conditions to the 
newly-created Appendix C of the operating license that require (1) the 
relocation of previous TS requirements into licensee-controlled 
documents and (2) the first performance of new and revised surveillance 
requirements for the new improved TS to be related to the 
implementation date for the improved TS. The implementation of the 
amendment and the license conditions will be completed no later than 90 
days after the date of the amendment, as stated in the amendment.
    The application for the amendment, as supplemented, 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.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity 
for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal 
Register on March 17, 1998 (63 FR 13074). No request for a hearing or 
petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment and has 
determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement related to 
the action to convert the current TS to the improved TS. Based on the 
Environmental Assessment, the Commission has concluded that the 
issuance of the amendment will not have a significant effect on the 
quality of the human environment beyond that described in the Final 
Environmental Statement (FES) related to the operation of the CNS dated 
February 1973. The Environmental Assessment was published in the 
Federal Register on July 29, 1998 (63 FR 40549).
    For further details with respect to the amendment see (1) the 
application for amendment dated March 27, 1997, as supplemented by (a) 
two letters in 1997 dated September 29 and December 22, and (6) 9 
letters in 1998 dated February 9, March 13, March 26, April 16, May 6, 
June 23, and July 13 (two letters), July 29, and (2) 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, N.W., Washington, 
D.C., and at the local public document room located at the Auburn 
Memorial Library, 1810 Courthouse Avenue, Auburn, Nebraska 68305.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of July 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jack N. Donohew,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate IV-1, Division of Reactor 
Projects III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-21041 Filed 8-5-98; 8:45 am]
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