[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 174 (Wednesday, September 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48253-48254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24128]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-302]


In the Matter of Florida Power Corporation, et al.; Crystal 
River, Unit 3; Revocation of Exemption

I

    The Florida Power Corporation, et. al. (FPC or the licensee) is the 
holder of Facility Operating License No. DPR-72, which authorizes 
operation of Crystal River Unit 3. The license provides that the 
licensee is subject to all rules, regulations, and orders of the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) now or hereafter in 
effect.
    The facility consists of a pressurized-water reactor at the 
licensee's site located in Citrus County, Florida.

II

    With respect to certain generic issues for facilities operating 
prior to January 1, 1979, except to the extent set forth in 10 CFR 
50.48(b), 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, sets forth fire protection 
features required to satisfy general design Criterion 3 of the 
Commission's regulations. Pursuant to 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, 
Section III. O, ``Oil collection system for reactor coolant pump,'' the 
reactor coolant pump (RCP) shall be equipped with an oil collection 
system which ``* * * shall be capable of collecting lube oil from all 
potential pressurized and unpressurized leakage sites in the RCP lube 
oil system.''
    When replacing the RCP motors with new motors and re-designed RCP 
lube oil system, physical interference and other design difficulties 
prevented four specific sites in the RCP motor lube oil system from 
accommodating an oil collection system for collecting potential oil 
leakage. By letter dated June 7, 1993, as supplemented March 28, 1994, 
the licensee submitted an exemption request to exclude these four 
specific sites from leakage protection. On October 7, 1994, as appended 
on September 17, 1996, the NRC granted the requested exemption because 
it was determined that a collection system at the four specific sites 
was not necessary to achieve the underlying purpose of the regulation.
    By letter dated November 13, 1997, the licensee informed the NRC 
that modifications had been made to the RCP Oil Collection System such 
that collection coverage for these four potential leakage sites was 
assured, and that the Crystal River Unit 3 RCP Oil Collection System 
now conforms to the requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, Section 
III. O. In the FPC

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letter, it was stated that the exemption issued on October 7, 1994, was 
no longer needed.

III

    The NRC has reviewed the information submitted by the licensee and 
concludes that the exemption granted for the four oil collection sites 
in the RCP motor lube oil system is no longer necessary. Specifically, 
the licensee has stated that modifications have been completed on the 
RCP Oil Collection System such that the system now conforms to the 
requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, Section III. O.

IV

    Accordingly, the Commission hereby revokes the specific exemption 
from 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix R, Section III. O, granted on October 7, 
1994, as appended September 17, 1996, relating to oil collection in the 
RCPs.
    This Revocation of Exemption is effective upon issuance.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of September 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Robert A. Capra,
Acting Director, Division of Reator Projects I/II, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-24128 Filed 9-8-98; 8:45 am]
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