[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 168 (Monday, August 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 46256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23338]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-397]


Washington Public Power Supply System; Notice of Withdrawal of 
Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
a request by Washington Public Power Supply System (the licensee) to 
withdraw its July 17, 1998, application for an exigent amendment to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-21, issued to the licensee for 
operation of the Nuclear Project No. 2 (WNP-2), located in Benton 
County, Washington. The request for withdrawal of the subject amendment 
was made by the licensee in a letter dated August 13, 1998. Notice of 
Consideration of Issuance of this amendment was published in the 
Federal Register on July 24, 1998 (63 FR 39913).
    The July 17, 1998, exigent amendment application was in response to 
a Notice of Enforcement Discretion (NOED) that was issued by the NRC 
staff on July 17, 1998, for WNP-2. The technical specification (TS) 
change would have authorized the licensee to conduct TS Surveillance 
3.8.4.8 (performance test) in lieu of TS Surveillance 3.8.4.7 (service 
test) for the WNP-2 Division 2 Class 1E 125 VDC battery on a one-time 
basis. Since WNP-2 occurred an outage of sufficient duration that would 
allow them to perform the surveillance, the change to the TS is no 
longer required.
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the 
application for exigent amendment dated July 17, 1998, as supplemented 
by letter dated July 28, 1998, and (2) the staff's letter dated August 
25, 1998.
    These 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 Richland Public Library, 955 Northgate 
Street, Richland, Washington 99352.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of August 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Chester Poslusny,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate IV-2, Division of Reactor 
Projects III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-23338 Filed 8-28-98; 8:45 am]
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