[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 77912]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-31737]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446]


TXU Electric; Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 
2; Notice of Partial Denial of Amendment to Facility Operating License 
and Opportunity for Hearing

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has 
partially denied a request by TXU Electric, (the licensee) for an 
amendment to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-87 and NPF-89 issued 
to the licensee for operation of the Comanche Peak Steam Electric 
Station (CPSES), Units 1 and 2, located in Somervell County, Texas. 
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of this amendment was published in 
the Federal Register on October 4, 2000 (65 FR 59226).
    The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to revise the 
CPSES Security Plan as follows: (1) To allow response team members to 
perform compensatory measures for protective area intrusion detection 
or closed circuit television failure, (2) to post compensatory measures 
for vital doors only if both the alarm and lock are inoperable, (3) to 
modify vital area door alarm response if no unresolved protective area 
alarms are received, (4) to eliminate the need to perform vehicle 
ignition key checks within the protected area, (5) to modify the patrol 
frequency for the protected area, (6) to eliminate the need to search 
generic packages sealed at the point of manufacturing and sent to a 
site from a general distribution center (e.g., pallet of paper), and 
(7) to allow material/equipment to be sealed prior to exiting the 
protective area or searched and sealed in a location exterior to the 
protective area (this would permit material/equipment to be transferred 
from one site to another without additional search). The U.S Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (the Commission) staff has completed its 
evaluation of the proposed changes to the CPSES Security Plan as 
detailed in the Safety Evaluation dated December 5, 2000. Of the 
changes proposed by the licensee, changes (1) and (5) are acceptable, 
change (2) is not applicable to CPSES and is thus denied, change (3) is 
unacceptable and is thus denied, change (4) is not a Security Plan 
commitment associated with CPSES and thus is denied, and changes (6) 
and (7) are currently approved in the CPSES Security Plan and thus are 
denied.
    The licensee was notified of the Commission's denial of proposed 
Security Plan changes (2), (3), (4), (6) and (7) by a letter dated 
December 5, 2000.
    By January 12, 2001, the licensee may demand a hearing with respect 
to the denial described above. Any person whose interest may be 
affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to 
intervene.
    A request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be 
filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Rulemakings and 
Adjudications Staff, or may be delivered to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Public Document Room, Washington, DC 20555-000, by the 
above date.
    A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Office of the 
General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, and to George L. Edgar, Esq., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, 1800 
M Street, NW., Washington DC 20036-5869, attorney for the licensee.
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the 
application for amendment dated May 2, 2000, and the supplement dated 
August 30, 2000, and (2) the Commission's letter to the licensee dated 
December 5, 2000.
    Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's 
Public Document Room, located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 
Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, 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 5th day of December 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stuart A. Richards,
Project Director, Project Directorate IV-1, Division of Licensing 
Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-31737 Filed 12-12-00; 8:45 am]
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