[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 213 (Thursday, November 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 65887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-28122]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. 50-328]


Tennessee Valley Authority; Notice of Withdrawal of Application 
for Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to withdraw its June 7, 
1999, application for proposed amendments to Facility Operating 
Licenses No. DPR-79 for the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant (SQN), Unit 2, 
located in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of of this amendment was published in the Federal Register on 
July 28, 1999, (64 FR 40907).
    The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to revise the 
Technical Specifications (TS) to increase the maximum allowed specific 
activity of the primary (reactor) coolant from 0.35 microcuries/gram 
dose equivalent Iodine-131 (I-131) to 1.0 microcuries/gram dose 
equivalent I-131 for the Unit 2 Cycle 10 core. The change for Unit 2 
back to 1.0 microcuries/gram (the previous TS limit) was to have been a 
provisional allowance to provide operational flexibility with respect 
to the reactor coolant specific activity because an unexpected increase 
in the specific activity associated with I-131 occurred during startup 
following the previous refueling outage due presumably to minor fuel 
clad leakage.
    By letter dated October 17, 2000, TVA withdrew the proposed change 
on the basis that reactor coolant dose equivalent I-131 activity had 
not closely approached the current TS limit and was not expected to 
before the refueling outage that commenced on October 22, 2000.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendments dated August 30, 1999, and TVA's letter 
dated October 17, 2000, which withdrew the application for the license 
amendment.
    These Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the 
Commission's Public Document room, located at One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland, and accessible 
electronically through the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading Room link at 
the NRC Web site (http://www.nrc.gov).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of October 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Ronald W. Hernan,
Senior Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate II, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 00-28122 Filed 11-1-00; 8:45 am]
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