[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 70 (Thursday, April 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17884-17885]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07504]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-413 and 50-414; NRC-2017-0097]


Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 
2

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the 
request of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC to withdraw its application dated 
May 26, 2016, for a proposed amendment to Facility Operating License 
Nos. NPF-35 and NPF-52. The proposed amendment would have revised the 
Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) to add descriptions to 
several sections of the UFSAR to clarify how a shutdown unit supplying 
either it's normal or emergency power source may be credited for 
operability of shared components supporting the operating unit.

DATES: April 13, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0097 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-2017-0097. 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: Michael Mahoney, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone 301-415-3857, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has granted the request of Duke 
Energy Carolinas, LLC (the licensee) to withdraw its May 26, 2016, 
application (ADAMS Accession No. ML16147A105) for proposed amendment to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-35 and NPF-52 for the Catawba 
Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, located in York County, South Carolina.
    The proposed amendment would have revised the Updated Final Safety 
Analysis Report (UFSAR) to add descriptions to several sections of the 
UFSAR to clarify how a shutdown unit supplying either it's normal or 
emergency power source may be credited for operability of shared 
components supporting the operating unit.

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    The licensee's application was previously noticed in the Federal 
Register on August 2, 2016 (81 FR 50731). The licensee provided 
responses to NRC staff requests for additional information related to 
this action on November 10, 2016 and February 13, 2017 (ADAMS Accession 
Nos. ML16315A411 and ML17045A363, respectively), and a request to 
withdraw the application on March 23, 2017 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML17083A077).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of April 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael Mahoney,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II-1, Division of Operating 
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2017-07504 Filed 4-12-17; 8:45 am]
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