Big Rock Point Plant; Consumers Energy Company; Notice of Partial Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 1 (Monday, January 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 198-199]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34791]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-155]


Big Rock Point Plant; Consumers Energy Company; Notice of Partial 
Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
the request of Consumers Energy Company (Consumers or the licensee) to 
withdraw parts of its September 19, 1997, application, as supplemented 
October 10 and November 12, 1997, and June 5, July 21 and 27, October 
14, November 25 and December 21, 1998, for proposed amendment to 
Facility Operating License No. DPR-6 for the Big Rock Point (BRP) Plant 
located in Charlevoix County, Michigan.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on December 3, 
1997 (62 FR 63974), pursuant to the licensee's September 19, 1997, 
request, as supplemented. This proposed amendment was to amend the DPR-
6 license and change Appendix A, Technical Specifications (TS), to the 
license to reflect the permanently shutdown and defueled condition of 
the BRP facility.
    By letters dated November 25 and December 21, 1998, the licensee 
proposed to withdraw parts of its September 19, 1997, request, as 
supplemented. As requested in the November 25, 1998, letter, these 
parts include withdrawal of proposed changes with regard to: (1) 
storage of spent fuel with a decay time of greater than one year in the 
outer three rows of the fuel rack adjacent to the south wall of the 
spent fuel pool; (2) deletion of portions of TS 6.12.1.b regarding the 
use of a radiation monitoring device which continuously integrates the 
radiation dose rate in the area and alarms when a preset integrated 
dose is received; (3) applicability of TS 6.12.2 wording to dose rates 
equal to 1000 millirem per hour at 30 centimeters but less than 500 
rads per hour at 1 meter from the radiation source; (4) replacement of 
TS 6.12.2 regarding the dose rate levels in the immediate work areas 
and the maximum stay time for individuals in that area; (5) replacement 
of TS 13.1.3.1 regarding limitations on dose rate due to radioactive 
materials released in gaseous effluents; and, (6) deletion of TS 
13.1.4.3 regarding dose to a member of the public from tritium and all 
radionuclides in particulate form with half lives greater than 8 days 
in gaseous effluents. In its December 21, 1998, letter, Consumers 
requested to withdraw its proposed revision of the first sentence in 
paragraph 2.A. of the DPR-6 license that added the phrase 
``decommissioning of'' prior to ``Big Rock Point Plant.''
    For further details with respect to this action, see application 
for amendment dated September 19, 1997, as supplemented October 10 and 
November 12, 1997, and June 5, July 21 and 27, October 14, 1998, and 
letters dated November 25 and December 21, 1998, the last two of which, 
in part, withdrew certain portions of the proposed amendment request. 
The above 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 
the North Central Michigan College Library, 1515 Howard Street, 
Petoskey, MI 49770.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of December 1998.


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    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul W. Harris,
Project Manager, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project 
Directorate, Division of Reactor Program Management, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-34791 Filed 12-31-98; 8:45 am]
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