[Federal Register: December 13, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 240)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. STN 50-528]
Arizona Public Service Co.; Notice of Withdrawal of Application
for Amendment to Facility Operating License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted
the request of Arizona Public Service Company (the licensee) to
withdraw its application dated September 26, 2002, and its supplement
dated October 23, 2002, for proposed amendment to Facility Operating
License No. NPF-41 for the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Unit
No. 1, located in Maricopa County, Arizona.
The proposed amendment would have revised the definition of steam
generator tube inspection in Section 5.5.9, ``Steam Generator (SG) Tube
Surveillance Program,'' of the Technical Specifications.
The Commission had previously issued Notices of Consideration of
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on October 3,
2002 (67 FR 62079) and on November 26, 2002 (67 FR 70763). The initial
notice stated that the amendment had been submitted under exigent
circumstances, to be issued on or about October 25, 2002, with the
public comment period being less than the normal 30-day period. The
basis for the exigent circumstances was provided in the notice.
However, on October 25, 2002, the NRC staff issued a letter to the
licensee stating that the proposed amendment was not needed on an
exigent basis prior to plant restart. Therefore, the second notice was
published to provide the normal 30-day public comment period for the
amendment. By letter dated November 19, 2002, the licensee requested to
withdraw the proposed amendment request, and by letter dated November
22, 2002, the NRC staff stated that it did not object to the licensee's
withdrawal of the application. Therefore, the proposed change
effectively has been withdrawn.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for amendment dated September 26, 2002, and its supplement
dated October 23, 2002; the licensee's letter dated November 19, 2002;
and the staff's letter of November 22, 2002. Documents may be examined,
and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR),
located at One White Flint North, 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
pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of December, 2002.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jack Donohew,
Senior Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate IV, Division of
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 02-31437 Filed 12-12-02; 8:45 am]
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