[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 174 (Friday, September 7, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46848-46849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-22517]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-334 and 50-412]


FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company, et al., Beaver Valley 
Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to 
Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment Nos. 241 and 121 to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-66 
and NPF-73, respectively, issued to FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating 
Company, et al. (the licensee), which revised the Technical 
Specifications (TSs) and authorized revisions to the Updated Final 
Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) for operation of Beaver Valley Power 
Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. The 
amendment is effective as of the date of issuance.
    The amendment authorized revisions to the BVPS-1 and 2 UFSAR 
design-basis fuel handling accident (FHA) dose consequence analyses. 
The amendment also revised the BVPS-1 and 2 TSs associated with the 
requirements for handling irradiated fuel assemblies in the reactor 
containment and fuel building and the TS requirements associated with 
ensuring that UFSAR safety analysis assumptions are met for a 
postulated FHA. The term ``recently irradiated'' fuel is defined in the 
applicable TS Bases as ``fuel that has occupied part of a critical 
reactor core within the previous 100 hours.'' The purpose of the 
addition of the term ``recently irradiated'' throughout the TSs is to 
establish a point where operability of those systems typically used to 
mitigate the consequences of an FHA is no longer required to meet the

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radiation exposure limits of 10 CFR 50.67. This amendment revises the 
TSs to eliminate TS controls over the integrity of the fuel building 
and the reactor containment building and the operability of the 
associated building's ventilation/filtration systems after the decay 
period of 100 hours.
    The application for the amendment complies 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 
amendment.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action was published in the Federal Register on June 4, 2001 (66 FR 
30026). No request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was 
filed following this notice.
    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.
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated March 19, 2001 (Agencywide Documents 
Access and Management System [ADAMS] Accession No. ML010810433), as 
supplemented by letters dated July 6 (ADAMS Accession No. ML011980423), 
August 8 (ADAMS Accession No. ML012260302), and August 23, 2001 (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML012420089), (2) Amendment Nos. 241and 121 to License 
Nos. DPR-66 and NPF-73, (3) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation, 
and (4) the Commission's Environmental Assessment, dated August 17, 
2001 (ADAMS Accession No. ML012210436). Documents may be examined, and/
or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located 
at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 
Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible 
electronically from the 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 PDR 
Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737, or by 
e-mail at [email protected]. 

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of August 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Lawrence J. Burkhart,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate I, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 01-22517 Filed 9-6-01; 8:45 am]
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