[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63076-63077]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-29971]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-354]


PSEG Nuclear LLC; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for 
Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of PSEG Nuclear LLC (the licensee) to withdraw its November 
29, 2000, application as supplemented August 10, 2001, for proposed 
amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-57 for the Hope Creek 
Generating Station (HCGS), located in Salem County, New Jersey.
    The proposed amendment would have modified the HCGS technical 
specifications to reflect the enabling of the Oscillation Power Range 
Monitor (OPRM) reactor protection system (RPS) trip function. The OPRM 
is designed to detect the onset of reactor core power oscillations 
resulting from thermal-hydraulic instability and suppress them by 
initiating a reactor scram via the RPS trip logic.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of

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Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on December 27, 
2000 (65 FR 81930). However, by letter dated October 19, 2001, the 
licensee withdrew the proposed change. The withdrawal request was based 
on the extended time period General Electric Company (GE) is projecting 
to resolve a defect that was reported to the Commission pursuant to 
part 21 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR part 
21). The defect pertains to GE's OPRM setpoint methodology as detailed 
in letters from GE to the Commission dated June 29 and August 31, 2001. 
The defect could result in non-conservative OPRM trip setpoints. The 
OPRM is currently installed at HCGS with the RPS trip function 
disabled.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated November 29, 2000, as supplemented 
August 10, 2001, and the licensee's letter dated October 19, 2001, 
which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be 
examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room, 
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.html. Persons who do not 
have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the 
documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC Public Document Room 
(PDR) Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or 
by email to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of November 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard B. Ennis,
 Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate I, Divisionof 
Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regualtion.
[FR Doc. 01-29971 Filed 12-3-01; 8:45 am]
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