[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48951-48952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13836]


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 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-483]


Union Electric Company; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for 
Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission/NRC) has 
granted the request of Union Electric Company (the licensee) to 
withdraw its application dated July 19, 2006, for the proposed exigent 
amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-30 for the Callaway 
Plant, Unit 1,located in Callaway County, Missouri.
    By letter dated July 19, 2006, Union Electric Company (the 
licensee)

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submitted an exigent license amendment request to remove the 
containment condensate monitoring system and atmosphere gaseous 
radioactivity monitor from Technical Specification (TS) 3.4.15, ``RCS 
[reactor coolant system] Leakage Detection Instrumentation.'' The 
licensee stated that it was uncertain that the containment cooler 
condensate system could detect an RCS leak rate of 1 gallon per minute 
in 1 hour, which is the requirement for the instrumentation listed in 
TS 3.4.15 to be considered operable, and the condensate monitoring 
system was declared inoperable on July 10, 2006. With the containment 
atmosphere gaseous radioactivity monitor already declared inoperable 
and the condensate monitoring system now being inoperable, TS 3.4.15 
required the licensee to shut down the Callaway Plant within 30 days of 
July 10, 2006, if the condensate monitoring could not be made operable. 
The exigent amendment request was to prevent a plant shutdown. The 
licensee also stated that the previous application dated August 26, 
2005, as supplemented by letters dated December 16, 2005, and June 29, 
2006, to revise TS 3.4.15 were superceded by the letter dated July 19, 
2006.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on July 25, 
2006 (71 FR 42134). However, by letter dated August 7, 2006, the 
licensee withdrew its exigent license amendment request dated July 19, 
2006, and re-instated the previous application dated August 26, 2005, 
and the supplemental letters. The licensee declared the containment 
condensate monitoring system operable on August 3, 2006, and TS 3.4.15 
no longer required a plant shutdown.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated July 19, 2006, and the licensee's 
letter dated August 7, 2006, which withdrew the application for license 
amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the 
NRC's Public Document Room, 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/NRC/ADAMS/index/html. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public 
Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or 
by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of August 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jack N. Donohew,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of 
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E6-13836 Filed 8-21-06; 8:45 am]
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