[Federal Register: December 1, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 230)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-302]

 
Florida Power Corporation; Notice of Withdrawal of Application 
for Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
a request by the Florida Power Corporation (FPC) to withdraw its 
October 31, 1997, application for an amendment to Facility Operating 
License No. DPR 72, issued to FPC for operation of the Crystal River 
Nuclear Generating Unit 3 (CR3) located in Citrus County, Florida. 
Notice of consideration of issuance of this amendment was published in 
the Federal Register on November 12, 1997 (62 FR 60735).
    The proposed amendment would have revised the CR3 Technical 
Specifications (TS) relating to decay heat removal requirements in Mode 
4. The proposed modification would have revised the TS and associated 
Bases to require in Mode 4, one operable emergency feedwater (EFW) 
train and associated equipment, including the EFW tank, emergency 
feedwater initiation and control actuation instrumentation for EFW, 
post accident monitoring instrumentation, and the turbine bypass 
valves. Additionally, the TS and associated Bases would have been 
revised to require in Mode 4, a low-pressure injection (LPI) train, 
dedicated to the borated water storage tank, and to reflect that the 
available loops for decay heat removal do not include this dedicated 
LPI train. Editorial changes would also have been made to clarify the 
description of Mode 4 accidents requiring emergency core cooling system 
injection, and to revise the title of TS limiting condition for 
operation 3.7.5.
    FPC's letter of November 18, 1998, informed the staff that the 
request was being withdrawn because the NRC staff had indicated that 
the subject of reactor decay heat removal requirements during Mode 4 
operation would be treated as a generic industry issue. In this letter, 
FPC committed to continue to maintain administrative controls for the 
additional equipment and capability to remove decay heat identified in 
the October 31, 1997, request during Mode 4 operation of CR-3.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated October 31, 1997, and FPC's withdrawal 
letter dated November 18, 1998, which are available for public 
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman 
Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC and at the local public 
document room located at the Coastal Region Library, 8619 W. Crystal 
Street, Crystal River, Florida.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of November, 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Leonard A. Wiens,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate II-3, Division of Reactor 
Projects--I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-31936 Filed 11-30-98; 8:45 am]
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