[Federal Register: August 5, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 150)] [Notices] [Page 41876-41877] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr05au98-115] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388] Pennsylvania Power and Light Company; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating Licenses The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued [[Page 41877]] Amendment No. 178 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-14 and No. 151 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-22 issued to Pennsylvania Power and Light Company (PP&L, the licensee), which revised operating license and Appendices A and C to the operating license for Susquehanna Steam Electric Station (SSES), Units 1 and 2, located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The amendments are effective as of the date of issuance. The amendment implements a full conversion of the SSES Technical Specifications (TS) to a set of TS based upon NUREG-1433, ``Standard Technical Specifications General Electric Plants, BWR/4,'' Revision 1, dated April 1995 and grants requests for the following additional ITS items: (a) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17227; (b) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17232); (c) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17227); (d) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17231); (e) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17231); (f) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17230); (g) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17233); (h) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17229); (i) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17229); (j) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17230); (k) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17232); (l) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17234); (m) April 8, 1998 (63 FR 17233); (n) April 27, 1998 (63 FR 20664); (o) April 27, 1998 (63 FR 20669); (p) April 27, 1998 (63 FR 20665); (q) April 27, 1998 (63 FR 20667). 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 November 5, 1996 (61 FR 36972). 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 (63 FR 39114). For further details with respect to the action see (1) the application for amendment dated August 1, 1996, as supplemented by letters dated November 26, 1997, January 6, March 2, April 24, and June 18, 1998, (2) Amendment No. 178 to Facility Operating License No. NPF- 14 and Amendment No. 151 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-22, (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 Osterhout Free Library, Reference Department, 71 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of July 1998. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Victor Nerses, Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate I-2, Division of Reactor Projects--I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 98-20883 Filed 8-4-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P