[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 190 (Monday, October 3, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57626-57627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-5387]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323]


Pacific Gas and Electric Company Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Units 
1 and 2; Notice of Partial Withdrawal of Application for Amendments to 
Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (the licensee) to 
partially withdraw the request of approval to adopt the extreme growth 
method, which was a part of its application dated March 18, 2004, and 
its supplements dated August 18 and 20, and September 17, 2004, for 
proposed amendments to Facility Operating License No. DPR-80 and 
Facility Operating License No. DPR-82 for the Diablo Canyon Power 
Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, located in San Luis Obispo 
County, California.
    The amendment request included (i) revisions to the Final Safety 
Analysis Report Update to incorporate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
approval of a permanently revised steam generator voltage-based repair 
criteria probability of prior cycle detection (POPCD) method; (ii) 
addition of a new reporting requirement to the DCPP Technical 
Specifications as TS 5.6.10.i; and (iii) approval to adopt the extreme 
growth method coincident with the above POPCD method. However, by 
letter dated September 17, 2004, the licensee requested that the 
extreme growth method be approved at a later time. Therefore, on 
October 28, 2004, the Commission issued Amendment Nos. 177 and 179, to 
Facility Operating License No. DPR-80 and Facility Operating License 
No. DPR-82 for the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, 
respectively, without reviewing the extreme growth method.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendments published in the Federal Register on June 22, 
2004 (69 FR 34704), and a Notice of Issuance of Amendments published in 
the Federal Register on November 23, 2004 (69 FR 68190). However, by 
letter dated September 22, 2005, the licensee withdrew the remaining 
portion of the amendment request pertaining to the approval to adopt 
the extreme growth method. The licensee's application dated March 18, 
2004, and its supplements dated August 18 and 20, and September 17, 
2004, and withdrawal letter dated September 22, 2005, are available in 
the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) 
under Accession Numbers ML040840449, ML042380475, ML042530054, 
ML042680323 and ML052660327, respectively.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated March 18, 2004, its supplements dated 
August 18 and 20, and September 17, 2004, and withdrawal letter dated 
September 22, 2005, which withdrew the request of approval to adopt the 
extreme growth method. 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/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].


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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of September, 2005.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Girija S. Shukla,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate IV, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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