[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 140 (Thursday, July 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-346]


FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company; Davis-Besse Nuclear Power 
Station, Unit 1 Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to 
Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC) (the 
licensee) to withdraw its January 25, 2000, application for proposed 
amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-3 for the Davis-Besse 
Nuclear Power Station, Unit No.1, located in Ottawa County, Ohio.
    The proposed amendment would have revised the Once-Through Steam 
Generator (OTSG) tube repair roll process for use during the Twelfth 
Refueling Outage. At a meeting on April 6, 2000, the Babcock and Wilcox 
Owners Group, of which FENOC is a member, announced they are developing 
a Topical Report that will support eliminating certain accidents from 
consideration in OTSG design. This Topical Report is scheduled to be 
submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the summer of 
2000 for review and approval. Since the subject license amendment 
request content will be affected by the Topical Report, and since the 
OTSG repairs for the Twelfth Refueling Outage were completed without 
using the repair roll process, FENOC is withdrawing the subject license 
amendment.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on February 23, 
2000 (65 FR 9008). However, by letter dated May 9, 2000, the licensee 
withdrew the proposed change.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated January 25, 2000, and the licensee's 
letter dated May 9, 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 14th day of July 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen P. Sands,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate III, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-18424 Filed 7-19-00; 8:45 am]
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