[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 172 (Friday, September 5, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52800-52801]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22610]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-390]


License No. NPF-90, Tennessee Valley Authority Withdrawal of 
Request for Action Under 10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that by letter dated August 5, 2003, Mr. 
David Lochbaum (petitioner), on behalf of the Union of Concerned 
Scientists (UCS), has withdrawn his May 30, 2003, request that the NRC 
take action with regard to Watts Bar Nuclear Plant. The

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petitioner had requested that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the 
licensee for Watts Bar, be required to provide specific information 
relating to possible corrosion of the reactor coolant pressure boundary 
at Watts Bar due to defects in the stainless steel cladding applied to 
the interior surface of the carbon steel reactor pressure vessel to 
provide corrosion resistance against the borated water used as reactor 
coolant. The petitioner had also requested that the NRC (a) provide UCS 
with copies of all correspondence sent to TVA regarding this petition 
and the subject cladding defects at Watts Bar, (b) provide UCS with 
advance notice of all NRC public meetings with TVA regarding this 
petition and the subject cladding defects, (c) provide UCS with an 
opportunity to participate in all relevant phone calls between NRC 
staff and TVA regarding this petition and the subject cladding defects 
at Watts Bar, and (d) provide UCS with copies of all correspondence 
sent to Members of Congress and/or industry organizations (e.g., the 
Nuclear Energy Institute, the Electric Power Research Institute, the 
Institute for Nuclear Power Operations).
    As the basis for this withdrawal, the petitioner states that the 
UCS has reviewed the response provided by the licensee and finds it 
fully responsive so that the Demand for Information is no longer 
necessary.
    Notice of the receipt of the request for action was published in 
the Federal Register on July 9, 2003 (68 FR 41022). Copies of the 
licensee's response and the withdrawal letter are available for 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room (PDR) at One White 
Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first 
floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be 
accessible from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(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 28th day of August 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
R. William Borchardt,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-22610 Filed 9-4-03; 8:45 am]
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