[Federal Register: May 26, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 101)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-353]

 
PECO Energy Company; Limerick Generating Station, Unit 2; Notice 
of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 99 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-85, issued to 
PECO Energy Company (the licensee), which approves installation of 
replacement suction strainers for operation of the Limerick Generating 
Station (LGS), Unit 2, located in Montgomery and Chester Counties, 
Pennsylvania. The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance and 
shall be implemented prior to restart following completion of the LGS, 
Unit 2, refueling outage which commenced April 1999.
    The amendment documents the NRC staff's approval of the 
implementation of a plant modification to support the installation of 
replacement suction strainers for the emergency core cooling systems at 
the LGS, Unit 2.
    The application for the amendment complies with the standards and 
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), 
and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made 
appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules 
and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license 
amendment.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action was published in the Federal Register on January 29, 1998 (63 FR 
4496). The August 28, 1998, letter provided clarifying information and 
did not change the original proposed no significant hazards 
consideration. No request for a hearing or petition for leave to 
intervene was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of the amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment (64 FR 
27014).
    For further details with respect to the action, see (1) the 
application for amendment dated October 6, 1997, as supplemented by 
letter dated August 28, 1998, (2) Amendment No. 99 to License No. NPF-
85, (3) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and (4) the 
Commission's Environmental Assessment. All of these items 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 Pottstown Public Library, 500 High 
Street, Pottstown, PA.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th of May 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bartholomew C. Buckley, Sr.,
Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate I, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-13422 Filed 5-25-99; 8:45 am]
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