[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 14012]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7027]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. STN 50-454, STN 50-455, STN 50-456, STN 50-457]


Commonwealth Edison Company; Notice of Issuance of Amendments to 
Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 106 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-37, Amendment 
No. 106 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-66, Amendment No. 98 to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-72, and Amendment No. 98 to Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-77, issued to Commonwealth Edison Company 
(the licensee), which revised the operating licenses and the Technical 
Specifications for operation of Byron Station, Units 1 and 2, located 
in Ogle County, Illinois and Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, located 
in Will County, Illinois. The amendments are effective as of the date 
of issuance.
    The amendments revise the Byron and Braidwood Technical 
Specifications (Appendix A of the operating licensees) in their 
entirety to be consistent with the Improved Standard Technical 
Specifications conveyed by NUREG-1431 (April 1995). In addition, the 
amendments add two new license conditions to Appendix C of the Byron 
and Braidwood operating licenses regarding surveillance requirements 
and delete one existing license condition.
    The application for the amendments complies 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 October 28, 1998 
(63 FR 57710), October 29, 1998 (63 FR 58072), and November 2, 1998 (63 
FR 58794). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene 
was filed following these notices.
    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 amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (63 FR 
70440).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated December 13, 1996, as supplemented by 
letters dated February 24, September 2, October 10, October 28 and 
December 8, 1997, and January 27, January 29, February 6, February 13, 
February 24, February 26, April 14, April 16, June 1, June 2, July 2, 
July 8, July 30, July 31, August 11, August 12, September 21, September 
25, October 1, October 2, October 5, October 15, October 23, November, 
6, November 19, November 23, November 30 and December 14, 1998, (2) 
Amendment No. 106 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-37, Amendment 
No. 106 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-66, Amendment No. 98 to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-72, and Amendment No. 98 to Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-77, (3) the Commission's related Safety 
Evaluation, and (4) the Commission's related 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: 
for Byron, The Byron Public Library District, 109 N. Franklin, P.O. Box 
434, Byron, Illinois 61010; for Braidwood, the Wilmington Public 
Library, 201 S. Kankakee Street, Wilmington, Illinois 60481.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of December, 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ramin R. Assa,
Project Manager, Project Directorate III-2, Division of Reactor 
Projects--III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-7027 Filed 3-22-99; 8:45 am]
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