[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 56798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-21253]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-266 and 50-301]


Nuclear Management Company, LLC; Notice of Withdrawal of 
Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the 
request of Nuclear Management Company, LLC (the licensee), to withdraw 
its September 26, 2003, application for a proposed amendment to 
Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-24 and DPR-27 for the Point Beach 
Nuclear Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 , located in Manitowoc County, WI.
    The proposed amendment would have revised Technical Specification 
5.6.5, ``Reactor Coolant System (RCS) Pressure and Temperature Limits 
Report (PTLR),'' Paragraph b. to reference an NRC approval of a revised 
pressurized thermal shock screening evaluation methodology for Unit 2. 
This methodology, described in Babcock & Wilcox Report BAW-2308, 
Revision 1, ``Initial RTNDT [reference nil-ductility 
temperature] of Linde 80 Weld Materials'' (August 2003), was submitted 
by Framatome ANP on behalf of the Babcock & Wilcox Owners Group Reactor 
Vessel Working Group for NRC review on August 19, 2003.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on November 25, 
2003 (68 FR 66138). As discussed, the amendment request was based on an 
evaluation methodology that was being reviewed, but had not yet been 
approved for use, by the NRC when the request was submitted. The NRC 
conveyed to the licensee that the additional time required to complete 
its review of the BAW-2308, Revision 1 methodology, which remains under 
review, had the potential to impact the NRC's review activities 
associated with Point Beach license renewal. By letter dated August 3, 
2004, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated September 26, 2003, and the licensee's 
letter dated August 3, 2004, which 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 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 in Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of September, 2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harold K. Chernoff,
Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate III, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 04-21253 Filed 9-21-04; 8:45 am]
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