[Federal Register: October 6, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 193)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446]

 
TXU Electric Co.; Notice of Issuance of Amendments to Facility 
Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 72 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-87 and Amendment 
No. 72 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-89 issued to TXU Electric 
Company, which revised the Technical Specifications (TSs) for operation 
of the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station (CPSES) located in 
Somervell County, Texas. The amendments are effective as of the date of 
issuance.
    The amendments modified the rated thermal power (RTP), in paragraph 
2.C.(1) of Facility Operating License No. NPF-89 (FOL NPF-89) for 
CPSES, Unit 2, from 3411 megawatts thermal (MWt) to 3445 MWt. The 
amendments also changed the TSs for CPSES, Units 1 and 2. The 
amendments changed TS 1.1 to increase the RTP to 3445 MWt for CPSES, 
Unit 2. In addition, the Allowable Values for the reactor trip 
setpoints for ``N-16 Overpower,'' and ``Power Range Neutron Flux--
High'' in TS Table 3.3.1-1 are changed for CPSES, Unit 2 and TS 5.6.5b, 
``Core Operating Limits Report (COLR),'' is changed to reflect 
appropriate, power-dependant, safety analysis assumptions and the 
updating of these assumptions in NRC staff-approved documents.
    The application for the amendments 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 Amendments to Facility 
Operating Licenses and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with 
this action was published in the Federal Register on May 10, 1999 (64 
FR 25086). 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 
43762).
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendments dated December 21, 1998, as supplemented by 
letters dated April 23, May 14, July 9, August 13 (two letters), August 
25, and September 10, 1999, (2) Amendment No. 72 to License No. NPF-87, 
(3) Amendment No. 72 to License No. NPF-89, (4) the Commission's 
related Safety Evaluation, and (5) 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 University of Texas at Arlington Library, Government 
Publications/Maps, 702 College, P. O. Box 19497, Arlington, Texas.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of September, 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

David H. Jaffe,
Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate IV & 
Decommissioning, Division of Licensing Project Management, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-25975 Filed 10-5-99; 8:45 am]
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