[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 154 (Friday, August 9, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39382-39383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17070]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-346; NRC-2019-0087]


FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company; Davis-Besse Nuclear Power 
Station, Unit No. 1

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 FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. (FES) to withdraw the 
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (FENOC, the licensee) application 
dated February 5, 2019, for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-3. The proposed amendment would have made 
changes to the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station (DBNPS), Unit No. 1, 
license and technical specifications (TS) to reflect the permanent 
cessation of reactor operation and permanent defueling of the reactor.

DATES: The withdrawal of the proposed amendment takes effect on August 
9, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0087 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0087. Address 
questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 
telephone: 301-287-9127; 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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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 in this document (if that document is available in 
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.
     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: Blake A. Purnell, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1380, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has granted the request of FES to 
withdraw the FENOC application dated February 5, 2019 (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML19036A523), as supplemented by letters dated May 16 and June 26, 
2019 (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML19136A240 and ML19177A289, respectively), 
for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-
3 for the DBNPS located in Ottawa County, Ohio. FES is the parent 
company of FirstEnergy Nuclear Generation, LLC, which owns DBNPS. The 
proposed amendment would have revised the DBNPS renewed facility 
operating license and TS following the permanent cessation of power 
operations to reflect the post-shutdown and permanently

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defueled condition. The proposed amendment would have eliminated TS 
requirements and license conditions which would not have been 
applicable once DBNPS ceased power operations and could no longer place 
fuel in the reactor vessel. The proposed amendment would have also 
eliminated obsolete license conditions. In addition, the proposed 
amendment would have revised several license conditions and TS 
requirements, including limiting conditions for operation, usage rules, 
definitions, surveillance requirements, and administrative controls. 
The licensing bases for DBNPS, including the design bases accident 
analysis, would have also been revised.
    The Commission previously issued a proposed finding that the 
amendment involves no significant hazards consideration published in 
the Federal Register on April 9, 2019 (84 FR 14149). However, by letter 
dated July 26, 2019 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19207A097), FES requested to 
withdraw the proposed amendment.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of August, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Blake A. Purnell,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III, Division of Operating 
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2019-17070 Filed 8-8-19; 8:45 am]
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