[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 21, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 43920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20992]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-266 and 50-301]


Nuclear Management Company, LLC; Notice of Issuance of Amendment 
to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment Nos. 201 and 206 to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-24 
and DPR-27 issued to the Nuclear Management Company, LLC (the 
licensee), which revised the Operating Licenses and Technical 
Specifications for the Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, 
respectively, located in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The amendments 
are effective as of the date of issuance and shall be implemented by 
December 31, 2001. The implementation of the amendments include two 
license conditions that are being added to Appendix C of the Operating 
Licenses.
    The amendments replace, in their entirety, the current TSs (CTS) 
with a set of improved TSs (ITS) based on (1) NUREG-1431, Revision 1, 
``Standard Technical Specifications, Westinghouse Plants,'' dated April 
1995, including subsequent approved changes to the standard TSs, (2) 
guidance provided in the Commission's ``Final Policy Statement on 
Technical Specifications Improvements for Nuclear Power Reactors,'' 
published on July 22, 1993 (58 FR 39132), and (3) 10 CFR 50.36, 
``Technical Specifications,'' as amended July 19, 1995 (60 FR 36953). 
In addition, the amendments added two license conditions to Appendix C 
of the Operating Licenses that (1) require the relocation of certain 
CTS requirements into licensee-controlled documents, and (2) provide 
the schedule for the first performance of surveillance requirements 
that are new or revised in the amendments.
    In addition to the amendments discussed above, Amendment Nos. 201 
and 206 also include the implementation of a Core Operating Limits 
Report (COLR), which the licensee requested to be issued concurrent 
with the ITS amendment. This amendment relocates cycle-specific reactor 
parameter limits from the TSs to a licensee-controlled document called 
a COLR.
    Amendment Nos. 201 and 206 also include the implementation of a 
Pressure Temperature Limits Report (PTLR), which the licensee requested 
to be issued concurrent with the ITS amendment. This amendment 
relocates pressure-temperature curves to a licensee-controlled document 
called a PTLR.
    The applications for amendment comply with the standards and 
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), 
and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made 
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules 
and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license 
amendments.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with the 
action to convert to ITS was published in the Federal Register on June 
22, 2001 (66 FR 33581). Notice of Consideration of Issuance of 
Amendment to Facility Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing 
in connection with the action to implement a COLR was published in the 
Federal Register on August 9, 2000 (65 FR 48740). Notice of 
Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License 
and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with the action to 
implement a PTLR was published in the Federal Register on August 23, 
2000 (65 FR 51364). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to 
intervene was filed following these notices.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of the amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment. The 
Environmental Assessment was published in the Federal Register on July 
23, 2001 (66 FR 38329).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated November 15, 1999, as supplemented 
March 15, June 15, June 19, July 28, August 17, September 14, October 
19 and December 21, 2000, February 6, February 23, March 19, May 11 and 
June 13, and July 27, 2001, (2) the application for amendment dated 
March 2, 2000, as supplemented August 14, 2000, (3) the application for 
amendment dated March 10, 2000, as supplemented November 20, 2000, and 
April 10, 2001, (4) Amendment No. 201 to License No. DPR-24 and 
Amendment No. 206 to License No. DPR-27, (5) the Commission's related 
Safety Evaluation, and (6) the Commission's Environmental Assessment. 
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. Publicly available records will be 
accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the 
internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. 
Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC Public 
Document Room Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737 or by email to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of August 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Beth A. Wetzel,
Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate III, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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