[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 137 (Monday, July 19, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 43022]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-16303]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-275 and 50-323]


Pacific Gas and Electric Co.; Notice of Partial Withdrawal of 
Application for Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (the licensee) to 
partially withdraw its September 24, 2002, application for proposed 
amendment to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-80 and DPR-82 for the 
Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in San Luis 
Obispo County, California.
    A portion of the proposed amendments would have revised Technical 
Specification 3.4.10, ``Pressurizer Safety Valves,'' to allow 
pressurizer safety valve (PSV) loop seal temperature to be less than 
the lower design temperature during plant heatup and cooldown in Mode 
3, and in Mode 4 when any reactor coolant system cold leg temperature 
is greater than the low temperature overpressure protection arming 
temperature specified in the pressure temperature limits report, 
provided at least one Class 1 power operated relief valve is available 
and capable of providing automatic pressure relief. The loop seal 
revision was intended to allow gradual stabilization of the loop seal 
temperatures during plant heatups and cooldowns, and avoid having to 
partially drain the loop seals to establish the minimum design PSV 
inlet temperature.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on December 24, 
2002 (67 FR 78522). However, by letter dated March 9, 2004, the 
licensee withdrew that portion of the proposed change.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated September 24, 2002, and its supplement 
dated November 21, 2003, and the licensee's letter dated March 9, 2004, 
which withdrew a portion of the application for license amendment. 
Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public 
Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public File Area 
O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 
Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the 
Agencywide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public 
Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/html. Persons who do not have access to 
ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in 
ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-
800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of July, 2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Girjia Shukla,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate IV, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 04-16303 Filed 7-16-04; 8:45 am]
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