[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 211 (Thursday, October 31, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 58416]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-23781]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-317 and 50-318; NRC-2019-0215]


Exelon Generation Company, LLC; Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power 
Plant, Unit Nos. 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 Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon) to withdraw its 
application dated August 13, 2018, as supplemented by letters dated 
October 10, 2018, March 25, 2019, June 7, 2019, and October 3, 2019, 
for proposed amendments to Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-
53 and DPR-69 issued to Exelon for operation of the Calvert Cliffs 
Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 (Calvert Cliffs). The proposed 
amendment would have modified the Calvert Cliffs' licensing bases, 
including the affected portions of the Technical Specifications and 
Updated Final Safety Analysis Report to use a risk-informed approach to 
address issues described in NRC Generic Letter 2004-02, ``Potential 
Impact of Debris Blockage on Emergency Recirculation During Design 
Basis Accidents at Pressurized-Water Reactors.''

DATES: The effective date of the withdrawal of the license amendment 
application is October 31, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0215 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-2019-0215. Address 
questions about dockets IDs in Regulations.gov to 
[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 (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 01-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael L. Marshall, Jr., Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulation Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2871, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has granted the request of Exelon 
(the licensee) to withdraw its August 13, 2018 application (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML18226A189), as supplemented by letters dated October 
10, 2018, March 25, 2019, June 7, 2019, and October 3, 2019 (ADAMS 
Accession Nos. ML18283A034, ML19084A078, ML19158A075, and ML19277D103, 
respectively) for proposed amendments to Renewed Facility Operating 
License Nos. DPR-53 and DPR-69 for the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power 
Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in Calvert County, Maryland.
    The proposed change would have modified the Calvert Cliffs' 
licensing bases, including the affected portions of the Technical 
Specifications and Updated Final Safety Analysis Report to use a risk-
informed approach to address issues described in NRC Generic Letter 
2004-02, ``Potential Impact of Debris Blockage on Emergency 
Recirculation During Design Basis Accidents at Pressurized-Water 
Reactors'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML042360586).
    Exelon's August 13, 2018, request was noticed in the Federal 
Register on December 18, 2018 (83 FR 64895). Exelon requested to 
withdraw the request by letter dated October 21, 2019 (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML19294A056).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of October 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael L. Marshall,
Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of Operating 
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2019-23781 Filed 10-30-19; 8:45 am]
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