[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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