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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-259]

 
Tennessee Valley Authority; 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 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to withdraw its June 
21, 1996, application for an amendment to Facility Operating License 
DPR-33 issued to TVA for the operation of the Browns Ferry Nuclear 
Plant, Unit 1, located in Limestone County, Alabama. The application 
was supplemented by letter dated February 7, 1997. Notice of 
consideration of issuance of this amendment was published in the 
Federal Register on August 14, 1996 (61 FR 42285).
    The proposed amendment, submitted in custom technical specification 
format, would have provided a new safety limit minimum critical power 
ratio (SLMCPR) to replace the existing non-conservative value. The 
proposed amendment also would have updated a technical specification 
bases to clarify the usage of the residual heat removal supplemental 
spent fuel pool cooling mode.
    On May 7, 1997, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued the 
Bases change, however, no further action was taken on the remainder of 
the application pending TVA documentation of completion of analyses 
related to the SLMCPR for Unit 1. On July 14, 1998, the NRC issued 
Amendment No. 234 to Operating License DPR-33. Amendment No. 234 
converted the Unit 1 custom technical specifications, which were in 
effect at the time the June 21, 1996, application was submitted, into 
the standard technical specification format. Thus, the NRC was unable 
to take any further action upon the June 21, 1996, application. TVA's 
letter of October 13, 1998, informed the staff that the requested 
changes are no longer needed. Furthermore, since TVA does not now have 
a firm schedule for the restart of Unit 1, any changes associated with 
the SLMCPR will be resubmitted prior to Unit 1 restart.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated June 21, 1996, TVA's letters dated 
February 7, 1997, and October 13, 1998, and the staff's letter dated 
September 22, 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 Athens Public Library, 405 E. South Street, Athens, Alabama.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of November 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Albert W. De Agazio,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate II-3, Division of Reactor 
Projects--I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-30257 Filed 11-10-98; 8:45 am]
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