[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 189 (Friday, September 29, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 57575]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-16016]


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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 July 4, 2005, application for the proposed amendments to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-76, to be issued to the licensee for 
operation of the South Texas Project, Unit 1; and Facility Operating 
License No. NPF-80, to be issued to the licensee for South Texas 
Project, Unit 2; located in Matagorda County, Texas.
    The proposed amendments would have modified the facility technical 
specifications (TSs) to extend allowed outage time for TS 3.7.4, 
``Essential Cooling Water System,'' and associated TSs for those 
systems that are supported by Essential Cooling Water, from 7 days to 
14 days.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendments published in the Federal Register on August 2, 
2005 (70 FR 44403). However, by letter dated September 13, 2006, the 
NRC informed the licensee that the NRC would consider the proposed 
application for the amendments to be withdrawn unless the licensee 
notified the NRC by September 21, 2006, that our understanding was 
incorrect. Thus, the July 4, 2005, application for the amendments is 
considered to be withdrawn by the licensee.
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the 
application for the amendments dated July 4, 2005, and (2) the NRC 
staff's letter dated September 21, 2006, which withdrew the application 
for the license amendments. 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 25th day of September 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. E6-16016 Filed 9-28-06; 8:45 am]
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