Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation Wolf Creek Generating Station; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 67 (Thursday, April 8, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17203-17204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8772]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-482]


Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation Wolf Creek Generating 
Station; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has 
issued Amendment No. 123 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-42 
issued to Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (the licensee) for 
operation of the Wolf Creek Generating Station (WCGS) located in Coffey 
County, Kansas.
    The amendment is effective as of the date of issuance and shall be 
implemented by December 31, 1999. The implementation of the amendment 
includes the two license conditions which are being added to Appendix D 
of the license as part of the amendment.
    The amendment replaces, in its entirety, the current Technical 
Specifications (TS) with a set of improved TS based on NUREG-1431, 
``Standard Technical Specifications, Westinghouse Plants,'' Revision 1, 
dated April 1995, including all approved changes to the standard TS; 
the Commission's Final Policy Statement, ``NRC Final Policy Statement 
on Technical Specifications Improvements for Nuclear Power Reactors,'' 
published on July 22, 1993 (58 FR 39132); and 10 CFR 50.36, ``Technical 
Specifications,'' as amended July 19, 1995 (60 FR 36953). In addition, 
the amendment adds two license conditions to Appendix D of the 
operating license that require (1) the relocation of current TS 
requirements into licensee-controlled documents, and (2) the first 
performance of new and revised surveillance requirements for the 
improved TS to be related to the implementation date for the improved 
TS. The implementation of the amendment and the license conditions will 
be completed by December 31, 1999, as stated in the amendment.
    The application for the amendment, as supplemented, complies with 
the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations. The 
Commission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the 
Commission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment and Opportunity 
for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal 
Register on October 5, 1998 (63 FR 53471), February 26, 1999, (64 FR 
9546) and supplemented for an additional beyond-scope issue in a notice 
published in the Federal Register on March 1, 1999 (64 FR 10028). No 
request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed 
following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment and has 
determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement related to 
the action to convert the current TS to the improved TS. Based on the 
Environmental Assessment, the Commission has concluded that the 
issuance of the amendment will not have a significant effect on the 
quality of the human environment beyond that described in the Final 
Environmental Statement (FES) related to the operation of WCGS (NUREG-
0878 dated June 1982). The Environmental Assessment was published in 
the Federal Register on March 30, 1999 (64 FR 15186).
    For further details with respect to the amendment see (1) the 
application for amendment dated May 15, 1997, as supplemented by 
letters in 1998 dated June 30, August 5, August 28, September 24, 
October 16, October 23, November 24, December 2, December 17, and 
December 21, and letters in 1999 dated February 4, March 5 (3 letters), 
March 25, and March 26, and (2) the Commission's related Safety 
Evaluation and Environmental Assessment. All of these items 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 rooms located at the Emporia State 
University, Wiliam Allen White Library, 1200 Commercial Street, 
Emporia, Kansas 66801, and Washburn University School of Law Library, 
Topeka, Kansas 66621.


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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of March 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Jack N. Donohew,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate IV-1, Division of Licensing 
Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-8772 Filed 4-7-99; 8:45 am]
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