[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 28 (Thursday, February 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 6638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3095]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-255]


Consumers Energy Company; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for 
Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Consumers Energy Company (the licensee) to withdraw its 
November 9, 1998, application for proposed amendment to Facility 
Operating License No. DPR-20 for the Palisades Plant, located in 
Covert, Michigan.
    The proposed amendment would have revised the Technical 
Specifications by deleting the chemical and volume control system 
(CVCS) operability and surveillance requirements, which the licensee 
had incorporated into the facility's Operating Requirements Manual 
(ORM). In its letter of January 13, 2000, the licensee stated that the 
proposed amendment was no longer needed because (1) the CVCS repairs 
anticipated at the time of the application for amendment were completed 
during a subsequent forced outage, and (2) the NRC's subsequent 
approval of the Improved Technical Specifications (Amendment 189, dated 
November 30, 1999) deleted the CVCS requirements that the licensee had 
incorporated into the ORM.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on December 16, 
1998 (63 FR 69337). However, by letter dated January 13, 2000, the 
licensee withdrew the proposed change.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated November 9, 1998, and the licensee's 
letter dated January 13, 2000, which withdrew the application for 
license amendment. The above documents are available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman 
Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC, and accessible 
electronically through the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room link at 
the NRC Web site (http://www.nrc.gov).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2d day of February 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Darl S. Hood,
Senior Project Manager, Section1, Project Directorate III, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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