[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 200 (Friday, October 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55652-55653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27807]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-259, 50-260 and 50-296]


Tennessee Valley Authority; Notice of Withdrawal of Application 
for Amendement to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has 
granted a request by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA or the 
licensee) to withdraw its June 16, 1995, application for an amendment 
to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-33, DPR-52 and DPR-68 issued to 
the licensee for operation of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant (BFN), 
Units 1, 2 and 3, respectively, located in Limestone County, Alabama. 
Notice of consideration of issuance of this amendment was published in 
the Federal Register on August 16, 1995 (60 FR 42610).
    The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to allow the 
Traveling In-core Probe (TIP) system to be considered operable with 
less than five TIP machines operable. This change would allow the data 
normally supplied by the inoperable TIP unit to be supplied by either 
substituting data from traverses of symmetric TIP locations or using 
normalized TIP readings calculated by the on-line core monitoring 
system.
    On July 14, 1998, NRC issued Amendment Nos. 234, 253, and 212 to 
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-33, DPR-52, and DPR-69 for BFN 
Units 1, 2, and 3 respectively, which approved conversion of CTS to 
Improved Technical Specifications (ITS). With the implementation of the 
ITS, there are no explicit requirements for TIP operability. As a 
result, by letter dated September 18, 1998, TVA informed the NRC staff 
that it no longer requires staff action on its June 16, 1995 
application for TIP operability. Thus the licensee's June 16, 1995 
application is considered withdrawn by the licensee.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendments dated June 16, 1995, the licensee's 
September 18, 1998 letter and the staff's letter dated October 7, 1998, 
which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public 
Document Room, the Gelman Building,

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2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC and at the local public document room 
located at the Athens Public Library, 405 E. South Street, Athens, 
Alabama.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of October 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
L. Raghavan,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate II-3, Division of Reactor 
Projects--I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-27807 Filed 10-15-98; 8:45 am]
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