[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 201 (Monday, October 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-259, 50-260 and 50-296]


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

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has 
granted a request by the Tennessee Valley Authority (the licensee) to 
withdraw its December 30, 1997, 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 February 11, 1998 (63 FR 6999).
    The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to revise the 
BFN Custom Technical specifications (CTS) to remove an identified non-
conservatism concerning the number of residual heat removal system 
service water (RHRSW) pumps required for multi-unit operation. This 
change also proposed to reduce the number of RHRSW pumps required to be 
operable after a unit has been in the cold shutdown condition for more 
than 24 hours.
    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). These license amendments also 
approved the licensee's December 30, 1997 proposed CTS change relating 
to the RHRSW pumps operation. As a result, by letter dated September 
18, 1998, the licensee informed the staff that it no longer requires 
staff action relating to its December 30, 1997 application for CTS 
change relating to RHRSW pump operation. Thus the licensee's December 
30, 1997 application is considered withdrawn by the licensee.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendments dated December 30, 1997, the licensee's 
September 18, 1998 letter and the staff's letter dated October 8, 1998, 
which 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 Athens Public 
Library, 405 E. South Street, Athens, Alabama.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th 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. 98-27948 Filed 10-16-98; 8:45 am]
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