[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 201 (Monday, October 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55902-55903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27945]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-369 and 50-370]


Duke Energy Corporation; Notice of Issuance of Amendments to 
Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 184 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-9 and Amendment 
No. 166 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-17 issued to Duke Energy 
Corporation (the licensee), which revised the Technical Specifications 
for operation of the McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, located in 
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The amendments are effective as of 
the date of issuance and shall be implemented within 90 days of 
issuance.
    The amendments implement a full conversion of the McGuire Nuclear 
Station Technical Specifications (TS) to a set of TS based upon NUREG-
1431, ``Standard Technical Specifications--Westinghouse Plants,'' 
Revision 1, April 1995, and on guidance provided in the

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Commission's ``Final Policy Statement on Technical Specifications 
Improvements for Nuclear Power Reactors,'' published on July 22, 1993 
(58 FR 39132), and Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 
50.36, as amended July 19, 1995 (60 FR 36953). The amendments also 
grant requests for the following additional ITS items: (a) May 6, 1998 
(63 FR 25108) (two notices); (b) May 6, 1998 (63 FR 25107); (c) May 20, 
1998 (63 FR 27761); (d) July 29, 1998 (63 FR 40554); and (e) August 26, 
1998 (63 FR 45524). In addition, the amendments add license conditions 
to the newly-created Appendix C (Unit 1) and Appendix D (Unit 2) of the 
operating licenses that require (1) the relocation of certain 
requirements to 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 of the improved 
TS. The implementation of the amendments and the license conditions 
will be completed no later than 90 days after the date of the 
amendments, as stated in the amendments.
    The application for the amendments comply 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, which are set forth in the license 
amendments.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments to Facility 
Operating Licenses and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with 
this action was published in the Federal Register on July 15, 1997 (62 
FR 37940). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene 
was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of the amendments will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment ( 63 FR 
51626 dated September 28, 1998). For further details with respect to 
the action see (1) the application for amendments dated May 27, 1997, 
as supplemented by letters dated March 9, March 20, April 20, June 3, 
June 24, July 7, July 21, August 5, September 8, and September 15, 
1998, (2) Amendment No. 184 to License No. NPF-9 and Amendment No. 166 
to License No. NPF-17, (3) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation, 
and (4) the Commission's Environmental Assessment. All of these items 
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 J. Murrey Atkins Library, 
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City 
Boulevard, Charlotte, North Carolina.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of October 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Herbert N. Berkow,
Director, Project Directorate II-2, Division of Reactor Projects--I/II, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-27945 Filed 10-16-98; 8:45 am]
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