[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 28, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 45088]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-17141]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-483]
Union Electric Company; Notice of Partial Withdrawal of
Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted
the request of Union Electric Company (the licensee) to partially
withdraw its June 27, 2003, application for proposed amendment to
Facility Operating License No. NPF-30 for the Callaway Plant, Unit 1,
located in Callaway County, Missouri.
The request for amendment to the operating license in the
application dated June 27, 2003, would allow plant modifications in
order to facilitate maintenance on the replacement steam generators
(SGs) to be installed in Refueling Outage (RO) 14 (Fall 2005). The
proposed modifications (1) replace the existing sludge lance platforms
with new platforms to provide a larger platform area around each SG,
and (2) cut a permanent access opening through the secondary shield
wall to improve access to the sludge lance platforms, which are to be
done in RO 13 (Spring 2004). To allow these modifications, the licensee
requested approval of the use of (1) the ASCE 4-86 ``100-40-40'' method
of combining components of seismic response loads, and (2) leak-before-
break (LBB) methodology for the accumulator, pressurizer surge, and
residual heat removal (RHR) lines to exclude the dynamic effects
associated with large reactor coolant system branch line ruptures. The
amendment approving the installation of the permanent access opening
through the secondary shield wall and the use of LBB for the
accumulator and RHR lines was issued April 12, 2004, and the opening
was installed by the licensee in RO 13.
The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on July 22,
2003 (68 FR 43397) for the application for amendment dated June 27,
2003. However, by letters dated April 5 and July 2, 2004, the licensee
withdrew portions of its amendment request. The letter dated April 5,
2004, revised the original request for application of LBB on the
pressurizer surge line and the letter dated July 2, 2004, withdrew its
request to use the ASCE 4-86 methodology. The Commission has previously
issued a Notice of Partial Withdrawal of Application for Amendment
published in the Federal Register on April 20, 2004 (69 FR 21166) for
the letter dated April 5, 2004. This Notice of Partial Withdrawal of
Application for Amendment is for the letter dated July 2, 2004.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendment dated June 27, 2003, and the licensee's
letter dated July 2, 2004, which partially withdrew 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 O1F21, 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 email to
[email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of July 2004.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jack Donohew,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate IV, Division of
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 04-17141 Filed 7-27-04; 8:45 am]
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