[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 236 (Thursday, December 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69044-69045]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31917]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-255]


Consumers Regulatory Co. Palisades Plant; Notice of Issuance of 
Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 189 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-20, issued to 
the Consumers Energy Company (the licensee), for operation of the 
Palisades Plant, located in Van Buren County, Michigan.
    The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance and shall be 
implemented on or before October 21, 2000. The implementation of the 
amendment includes one license condition that is being added to Section 
2.C of the operating license as part of the amendment.
    The amendment replaces, in its entirety, the current Technical 
Specifications (TSs) with a set of improved TSs based on (1) NUREG-
1432, ``Standard Technical Specifications, Combustion Engineering 
Plants,'' Revision 1, dated April 1995, including subsequent approved 
changes to the standard TSs, (2) guidance provided in the Commission's 
``Final Policy Statement on Technical Specifications Improvements for 
Nuclear Power Reactors,'' published on July 22, 1993 (58 FR 39132), and 
(3) 10 CFR 50.36, ``Technical Specifications,'' as amended July 19, 
1995 (60 FR 36953). In addition, the amendment added one license 
condition to Section 2.C of the operating license that provides the 
schedule for the first performance of surveillance requirements that 
are new or revised in the amendment.
    The application for the amendment, as supplemented, 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 1.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity 
for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal 
Register on September 21, 1999 (64 FR 51147). 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 amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment beyond that 
described in the Final Environmental Statement related to the operation 
of the Palisades Nuclear Generating Plant dated June 1972, and in the 
addendum to the Final Environmental Statement dated February 1978. The 
Environmental Assessment as published in the Federal Register on 
October 22, 1999 (64 FR 57156).
    For further details with respect to the action, see (1) the 
application for amendment dated January 26, 1998, as supplemented by 
letters dated April 30, September 14, October 12, and November 9, 1998, 
and March 1, March 22, March 30, April 7, May 3, June 4, June 11, June 
17, July 19, July 30, September 17, September 30, October 22, and 
November 5, 1999, (2) Amendment No. 189 to License No. DPR-20, (3) the 
Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the

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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 are accessible 
electronically through the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room link at 
the NRC Web site (http://www.nrc.gov).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of November 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert G. Schaaf,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate III, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-31917 Filed 12-8-99; 8:45 am]
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