[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 147 (Monday, July 31, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 46752]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-19246]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-327 and 50-328]


Tennessee Valley Authority; Notice of Withdrawal of Application 
for Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA, the licensee) to 
withdraw its June 24, 1999, application for proposed amendments to 
Facility Operating Licenses Nos. DPR-77 and DPR-79 for the Sequoyah 
Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
    The proposed amendments would have revised the facility technical 
specifications (TS) pertaining to surveillance requirements for the ice 
weight in the ice condenser baskets.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendments published in the Federal Register on August 11, 
1999 (64 FR 43781). The Commission subsequently sent a letter to TVA, 
dated December 9, 1999, noting that the staff had identified a number 
of deficiencies during the course of their review. Although these 
deficiencies did not dispute the no significant hazards consideration 
determination published in the Federal Register, they did fall short of 
the improvements to and clarifications of the present TS envisioned by 
the Commission staff. By letter dated June 9, 2000, TVA withdrew the 
proposed change on the basis that the Ice Condenser Utility Group 
reevaluated the original request and determined that the initial 
approach taken may not necessarily provide the desired improvements.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendments dated June 24, 1999, the Commission's letter 
dated December 9, 1999, and the licensee's letter dated June 9, 2000, 
which withdrew the application for license amendments. 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 25th day of July 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ronald W. Hernan,
Senior Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate II, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-19246 Filed 7-28-00; 8:45 am]
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