[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 240 (Friday, December 13, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 76767]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-31437]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. STN 50-528]


Arizona Public Service Co.; Notice of Withdrawal of Application 
for Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Arizona Public Service Company (the licensee) to 
withdraw its application dated September 26, 2002, and its supplement 
dated October 23, 2002, for proposed amendment to Facility Operating 
License No. NPF-41 for the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 
No. 1, located in Maricopa County, Arizona.
    The proposed amendment would have revised the definition of steam 
generator tube inspection in Section 5.5.9, ``Steam Generator (SG) Tube 
Surveillance Program,'' of the Technical Specifications.
    The Commission had previously issued Notices of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on October 3, 
2002 (67 FR 62079) and on November 26, 2002 (67 FR 70763). The initial 
notice stated that the amendment had been submitted under exigent 
circumstances, to be issued on or about October 25, 2002, with the 
public comment period being less than the normal 30-day period. The 
basis for the exigent circumstances was provided in the notice. 
However, on October 25, 2002, the NRC staff issued a letter to the 
licensee stating that the proposed amendment was not needed on an 
exigent basis prior to plant restart. Therefore, the second notice was 
published to provide the normal 30-day public comment period for the 
amendment. By letter dated November 19, 2002, the licensee requested to 
withdraw the proposed amendment request, and by letter dated November 
22, 2002, the NRC staff stated that it did not object to the licensee's 
withdrawal of the application. Therefore, the proposed change 
effectively has been withdrawn.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated September 26, 2002, and its supplement 
dated October 23, 2002; the licensee's letter dated November 19, 2002; 
and the staff's letter of November 22, 2002. 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 Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the 
NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/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 to 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of December, 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jack Donohew,
Senior Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate IV, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-31437 Filed 12-12-02; 8:45 am]
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