Commonwealth Edison Company; Notice of Partial Denial of Amendment to Facility Operating Licenses and Opportunity for Hearing

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15983-15984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8908]



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Commonwealth Edison Company; Notice of Partial Denial of 
Amendment to Facility Operating Licenses and Opportunity for Hearing

[Docket Nos. STN 50-454, STN 50-455, STN 50-456, STN 50-457]
    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has 
partially denied a request by Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd, the 
licensee) for an amendment to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-37, 
NPF-62, NPF-72 and NPF-77, issued to the licensee for operation of 
Byron Station, Units 1 and 2, located in Ogle County, Illinois and 
Braidwood Station, Units 1 and 2, located in Will County, Illinois. 
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of this amendment was published in 
the Federal Register on February 28, 1996 (61 FR 7547).
    The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to revise the 
Technical Specifications (TS) to replace the existing scheduling 
requirements for overall integrated and local containment leakage rate 
testing with a requirement to perform the testing in accordance with 10 
CFR Part 50, Appendix J, Option B. As part of its submittal, ComEd 
proposed to revise the TS regarding the testing of valves with 
resilient seal material. The scope of the staff's revisions to 10 CFR 
Part 50, Appendix J, did not include changes to testing of such valves 
and ComEd's submittal did not include sufficient information for the 
staff to evaluate the proposed change independently of the others. 
Therefore, the staff has concluded that that portion of the licensee's 
request can not be granted. The licensee was notified of the 
Commission's partial denial of the proposed change by a letter dated 
April 4, 1996.
    By May 10, 1996, the licensee may demand a hearing with respect to 
the partial denial described above. Any person whose interest may be 
affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to 
intervene.
    A request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be 
filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Docketing and Services 
Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 
the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC, by the above 
date.
    A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Office of the 
General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555, and to Michael I. Miller, Esquire; Sidley and Austin, One First 
National Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60603, attorney for the licensee.
    For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the 
application for amendment dated December 6, 1995, as supplemented 
February 27, 1996, and March 28, 1996, and (2) the Commission's letter 
to the licensee dated April 4, 1996.
    These documents 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: 
for Byron, the Byron Public Library District, 109 N. Franklin, P.O. Box 
434, Byron, Illinois 61010; for Braidwood, the Wilmington Public 
Library, 201 S. Kankakee Street, Wilmington, Illinois 60481.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of April 1996.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ramin R. Assa,
Project Manager, Project Directorate III-2, Division of Reactor 
Projects--III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 96-8908 Filed 4-9-96; 8:45 am]
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