[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 171 (Friday, September 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 53236]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22499]


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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) to withdraw its July 
13, 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) by temporarily increasing the maximum temperature 
limit of the plant's ultimate heat sink, which is the Tennessee River, 
from 84.5 deg.F to 87.0 deg.F.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendments published in the Federal Register on July 20, 
2000 (65 FR 45113). By letter dated August 21, 2000, TVA withdrew the 
proposed change on the basis that, with current conditions and 
projections, the Tennessee River temperature is forecast to remain 
below the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant's current TS temperature limit.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendments dated July 13, 2000 and the TVA's letter 
dated August 21, 2000, which withdrew the application for license 
amendments. These 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 August 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. 00-22499 Filed 8-31-00; 8:45 am]
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