[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 199 (Wednesday, October 15, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59419-59420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-25988]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-346; License No. NPF-3]


Firstenergy Nuclear Operating Company, Davis-Besse Nuclear Power 
Station, Unit 1; Receipt of Request for Action Under 10 CFR 2.206

    Notice is hereby given that by petition dated August 25, 2003, 
submitted by Greenpeace on behalf of the Nuclear Information & Resource 
Service and the Union of Concerned Scientists (collectively, the 
Petitioners), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been 
requested to take enforcement actions against FirstEnergy Nuclear 
Operating Company (FirstEnergy), the licensee for Davis-Besse Nuclear 
Power Station in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and the NRC has also been requested 
to suspend the Davis-Besse license and prohibit plant restart until 
certain conditions have been met.
    As bases for requesting the NRC to take enforcement actions against 
the licensee, the Petitioners state that FirstEnergy has failed to 
complete commitments related to the NRC's 50.54(f) design basis letter 
(issued on October 9, 1996), and refer to numerous design basis 
violations dating back to

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plant licensing. The petitioners request that the NRC suspend the 
Davis-Besse license and prohibit plant restart until all design basis 
deficiencies identified in response to the NRC's 50.54(f) design basis 
letter are adequately addressed, the plant probabilistic risk 
assessment (PRA) is updated to reflect design flaws, and no systems are 
in a ``degraded but operable'' condition.
    The request is being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the 
Commission's regulations. The request has been referred to the Director 
of the NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). As provided by 
Section 2.206, appropriate action will be taken on this petition within 
a reasonable time.
    A copy of the petition is available in the Agencywide Documents 
Access and Management System (ADAMS) for inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, and from the ADAMS 
Public Library component on the NRC's Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (the Public Electronic Reading Room), using 
Accession No. ML032400435. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or 
who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS 
should contact the NRC's 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 7th day of October, 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
J.E. Dyer,
Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-25988 Filed 10-14-03; 8:45 am]
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