[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 190 (Friday, October 2, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 50989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-23779]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446; NRC-2009-0437]
Luminant Generation Company LLC; Notice of Withdrawal of
Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted
the request of Luminant Generation Company LLC (the licensee) to
withdraw its March 4, 2009, application, as supplemented by letter
dated September 14, 2009, for a proposed amendment to Facility
Operating License Nos. NPF-87 and NPF-89 for the Comanche Peak Steam
Electric Station (CPSES), Units 1 and 2, located in Somervell County,
Texas.
The proposed amendment would have added a license condition for
submittal of inservice inspection (ISI) information and analyses
requested in Section (e) of the final rule in Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Part 50.61a, or the proposed rule
(October 3, 2007; 72 FR 56275), prior to issuance of the 10 CFR 50.61a,
within 1 year of completing each American Society of Mechanical
Engineers Boiler and Pressure and Vessel Code (ASME Code), Section XI,
Category B-A and B-D reactor vessel (RV) weld inspections. This
amendment request was associated with the request for relief to extend
the ISI interval for ASME Code, Section XI, Category B-A and B-D RV
welds from 10 years to 20 years (TAC Nos. ME0777 and ME0778) and the
license condition was required in accordance with the conditions and
limitations of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved WCAP-
16168-NP, Revision 2, ``Risk-Informed Extension of the Reactor Vessel
In-service Inspection Interval.''
The request was to defer the ASME Code-required volumetric
examination of the CPSES, Unit 1, for the second ISI from refueling
outage 1RF14 in 2010 until refueling outage 1RF20 and to perform the
third ISI on a 20-year inspection interval, instead of the currently
required 10-year interval. By letter dated September 14, 2009, the
licensee revised its application for relief request for a one-time
extension only and requested to withdraw the proposed amendment and
associated license condition.
The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on May 5, 2009
(74 FR 20750). However, by letter dated September 14, 2009, the
licensee withdrew the proposed change.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendment dated March 4, 2009, and the licensee's
letter dated September 14, 2009, 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 Agencywide Documents Access and Management
System (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].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of September 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Balwant K. Singal,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, Division of
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E9-23779 Filed 10-1-09; 8:45 am]
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