[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 165 (Monday, August 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 50061]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19611]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-302]
Florida Power Corporation; Notice of Withdrawal of Application
for Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has
granted the request of Florida Power Corporation (FPC, the licensee) to
withdraw its July 31, 2007, application for proposed amendment to
Facility Operating License No. DPR-72 for the Crystal River Unit 3
Nuclear Generating Plant (CR-3) located in Citrus County, Florida.
The proposed amendment would have revised the technical
specifications to impose more restrictive voltage and frequency limits
during surveillance testing of the emergency diesel generators.
The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on January 29,
2008 (73 FR 5222). Subsequently, by letter dated June 19, 2008
(Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession
No. ML081770040), the licensee withdrew the amendment request, and
stated that FPC will continue to maintain administrative control of the
emergency diesel generator voltage and frequency limits as described in
the referenced license amendment request (LAR) submittal. In addition,
the licensee plans to resubmit this LAR under a new identification
number after additional evaluations have been completed.
Further on July 24, 2008, in response to the NRC staff request for
additional information, FPC: (1) Explained the basis for withdrawal of
the amendment request, (2) committed to resubmit the amendment by
November 7, 2008, and (3) provided assurance that the short term
administrative controls, taken as corrective action in accordance with
the guidance contained in NRC Administrative Letter 98-10, are
effective and will remain in place until the LAR implementation.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendment dated July 31, 2007, and the licensee's
letters dated June 19 and July 24, 2008, which withdrew the application
for license amendment. 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 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 29 day of July, 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Farideh E. Saba,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II-2, Division of
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E8-19611 Filed 8-22-08; 8:45 am]
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