Florida Power Corp; Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 84 (Monday, May 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23686-23687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11021]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-302]


Florida Power Corp; Application for Amendment to Facility 
Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted 
a request by the Florida Power Corporation (FPC) to withdraw its 
October 16, 1998, application, with supplement dated December 22, 1998, 
for an amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR 72, issued to 
FPC for operation of the Crystal River Nuclear Generating Unit 3 (CR-3) 
located in Citrus County, Florida. Notice of consideration of issuance 
of this amendment was published in the Federal Register on November 18, 
1998 (63 FR 64116).
    The proposed amendment would have changed the CR-3 Final Safety 
Analysis Report (FSAR), Improved Technical Specifications (ITS) and ITS 
Bases to resolve an Unreviewed Safety Question (USQ). This USQ was 
created by changing the normal standby position of valves DHV-34 and 
DHV-35 (low pressure injection (LPI) pump suction valves from borated 
water storage tank) from normally open to normally closed. Maintaining 
these valves normally closed had been determined to be necessary to 
ensure assumptions used in fire protection analyses remain valid. The 
proposed amendment would have also added new ITS surveillance 
requirements for verifying on a periodic basis that the LPI system 
components and piping, and the

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building spray suction piping, were full of water.
    FPC's letter of April 12, 1999, informed the staff that the request 
was being withdrawn because FPC had resolved the fire protection 
analyses concerns in a manner that allows valves DHV-34 and DHV-35 to 
be restored to the normally open standby configuration. With 
restoration of the valves to the normally open standby position, the 
need for the proposed amendment no longer existed.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated October 16, 1998, as supplemented 
December 22, 1998, and FPC's withdrawal letter dated April 12, 1999, 
which 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 Coastal Region 
Library, 8619 W. Crystal Street, Crystal River, Florida.

    Dated at Rockville, MD, this 27th day of April 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Leonard A. Wiens,
Senior Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate II, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-11021 Filed 4-30-99; 8:45 am]
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