[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 160 (Friday, August 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 47831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13631]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-498 and 50-499]


STP Nuclear Operating Company; Notice of Withdrawal of 
Application for Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC/the Commission) has 
granted the request of STP Nuclear Operating Company (the licensee) to 
withdraw its August 2, 2004, application for the proposed amendments to 
Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-76 and NPF-80, for the South Texas 
Project (STP), Units 1 and 2, respectively, located in Matagorda 
County, Texas.
    The purpose of the licensee's request for amendments was to allow 
implementation of a risk-informed process for determining the allowed 
outage times for STP's Technical Specifications.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendments published in the Federal Register on August 31, 
2004 (69 FR 53112). However, by letter dated July 27, 2006, the NRC 
informed the licensee that the NRC would consider the proposed 
application for amendments to be withdrawn unless the licensee notified 
the NRC, by August 9, 2006, that our understanding was incorrect. Thus, 
the August 2, 2004, application for amendments is considered to be 
withdrawn by the licensee.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendments dated August 2, 2004, and the NRC staff's 
letter dated July 27, 2006. Documents may be examined, and/or copied 
for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One 
White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 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.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 10th day of August 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mohan C. Thadani,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of 
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E6-13631 Filed 8-17-06; 8:45 am]
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