[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52716-52717]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18841]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-390; NRC-2015-0162]


Tennessee Valley Authority; Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 1; 
Maximum Number of Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing an 
amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-90, issued to the 
Tennessee Valley Authority, for operation of the Watts Bar Nuclear 
Plant, Unit 1. The amendment allows Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Unit 1, to 
irradiate up to 1792 tritium producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs) 
per cycle. This amendment revised Technical Specification (TS) 4.2.1, 
``Fuel Assemblies,'' to increase the maximum number of TPBARs allowed 
in the core from 704 to 1792. The amendment also revised Surveillance 
Requirement (SR) 3.5.1.4 of TS 3.5.1, ``Accumulators,'' and SR 3.5.4.3 
of TS 3.5.4, ``Refueling Water Storage Tank (RWST),'' to delete 
outdated information related to the tritium production program.

DATES: August 9, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0162 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0162. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, 
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected]. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this 
document.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeanne Dion, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-1349, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has issued Amendment No. 107 to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-90 issued to the Tennessee Valley 
Authority, which revised the TSs for operation of the Watts Bar Nuclear 
Plant, Unit 1, located in Rhea County, TN. A publicly-available version 
is in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16159A057. Documents related to this 
amendment are listed in the Safety Evaluation enclosed with the 
amendment. The amendment was effective as of the date of its issuance.
    The amendment revised TS 4.2.1, ``Fuel Assemblies,'' to increase 
the maximum number of TPBARs allowed in the core from 704 to 1792. The 
amendment also revised SR 3.5.1.4 of TS 3.5.1, ``Accumulators,'' and SR 
3.5.4.3 of TS 3.5.4, ``Refueling Water Storage Tank (RWST),'' to delete 
outdated information related to the tritium production program.
    The application for the amendment complies with the standards and 
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), 
and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made 
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules 
and regulations in chapter I of title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, which are set forth in the license amendment.
    A Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity 
for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal 
Register on July 7, 2015 (80 FR 38752). A correction to the notice was 
published on April 22, 2016 (81 FR 23761), to correct a typographical 
error in the original notice. No request for a hearing or petition for 
leave to intervene was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment, published 
on July 5, 2016 (81 FR 43656), related to the action and has concluded 
that an environmental impact statement is not warranted because there 
will be no environmental impact attributable to the action beyond that 
which has been predicted and described in the Commission's Final 
Environmental Statement for the facility dated December 1978 and 
supplemented in April 1995.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated March 31, 2015, as supplemented by 
letters dated April 28, 2015, May 27, 2015, June 15, 2015, September 
14, 2015, September 25, 2015, November 30, 2015, December 22, 2015, 
December 29, 2015, February 22, 2016, and March 31, 2016 (ADAMS 
Accession Nos. ML15098A446, ML15124A334, ML15147A611, ML15167A359, 
ML15258A204, ML15268A568, ML15335A468, ML16054A661, ML16004A161, 
ML16053A513, and ML16095A064, respectively).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of July 2016.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert G. Schaaf,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II-2, Division of 
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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