[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 136 (Friday, July 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38484-38485]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-18162]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-272 and 50-311]


Public Service Electric and Gas Company; Denial of Amendment to 
Facility Operating License and Opportunity for Hearing

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied 
a request by the Public Service Electric and Gas Company (the licensee) 
for an amendment to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-70 and DPR-75 
issued to the licensee for operation of the Salem Nuclear Generating 
Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in Salem County, New Jersey. Notice 
of Consideration of Issuance of this amendment was published in the 
Federal Register on September 9, 1998 (63 FR 48264).
    The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to revise 
Technical Specification 3/4.7.6, ``Control Room Emergency Air 
Conditioning System.'' Specifically, the licensee requested that the 
acceptance criteria for the control room envelope be revised to 
maintain a \1/8\-inch positive pressure with respect to the outside 
atmosphere, the work control center and control room equipment rooms, 
and a \1/20\-inch water gauge positive pressure with respect to the 
relay rooms and the auxiliary building.
    The NRC staff has concluded that the licensee's request cannot be 
granted. The licensee was notified of the Commission's denial of the 
proposed change by a letter dated July 9, 1999.
    By August 16, 1999, the licensee may demand a hearing with respect 
to the denial described above. Any person whose interest may be 
affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to 
intervene.
    A request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be 
filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 Attention: Rulemakings and 
Adjudications Staff, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public 
Document Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC, 
by the above date.

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    A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Office of the 
General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, and to Jeffrie J. Keenan, Esquire, Nuclear Business Unit--
N21, P.O. Box 236, Hancocks Bridge, NJ 08038, attorney for the 
licensee.
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the 
application for amendment dated July 30, 1998, as supplemented on 
February 22, 1999, and (2) the Commission's letter to the licensee 
dated July 9, 1999.
    These documents 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 Salem Free Public Library, 112 West Broadway, Salem, NJ 08079.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of July 1999.
S. Singh Bajwa,
Acting Director, Project Directorate I, Division of Licensing Project 
Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-18162 Filed 7-15-99; 8:45 am]
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