ML022560010

Withdrawal of an Amendment Request

ML022560010
Person / Time
Site:	Oconee
Issue date:	09/18/2002
From:	Olshan L NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD2
To:	Mccollum W Duke Energy Corp
Olshan L N, NRR/DLPM, 415-1419
References
TAC MB3667, TAC MB3668, TAC MB3669
Download: ML022560010 (5)

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September 18, 2002 Mr. William R. McCollum, Jr.

Vice President, Oconee Site Duke Energy Corporation P.O. Box 1439 Seneca, South Carolina 29679

SUBJECT:

OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. MB3667, MB3668, AND MB3669)

Dear Mr. Mc Collum:

By letter dated December 20, 2001, you applied for an amendment to the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2 and 3, Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55, respectively. The proposed change would have modified the licensing basis associated with the failure of non-Category 1 (non-seismic) piping in the auxiliary building.

Subsequently, by letter dated April 23, 2002, you withdrew the amendment request.

The Commission has filed the enclosed Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License with the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Leonard N. Olshan, Project Manager Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/encl: See next page

September 18, 2002 Mr. William R. McCollum, Jr.

Vice President, Oconee Site Duke Energy Corporation P.O. Box 1439 Seneca, South Carolina 29679

SUBJECT:

OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1, 2, AND 3 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. MB3667, MB3668, AND MB3669)

Dear Mr. Mc Collum:

By letter dated December 20, 2001, you applied for an amendment to the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2 and 3, Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55, respectively. The proposed change would have modified the licensing basis associated with the failure of non-Category 1 (non-seismic) piping in the auxiliary building.

Subsequently, by letter dated April 23, 2002, you withdrew the amendment request.

The Commission has filed the enclosed Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License with the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Leonard N. Olshan, Project Manager Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/encl: See next page Distribution:

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7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION DOCKET NOS. 50-267, 50-270, AND 50-287 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Duke Energy Corporation (the licensee) to withdraw its December 20, 2001, application for proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55 for the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, located in Seneca, South Carolina.

The proposed amendment would have revised the licensing basis associated with the failure of non-Category I (non-seismic) piping in the auxiliary building.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on January 22, 2002 (67 FR 2922).

However, by letter dated April 23, 2002, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated December 20, 2001, and the licensee's letter dated April 23, 2002, which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR), 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/adams/html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in

accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by email to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of September 2002.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

Leonard N. Olshan, Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Oconee Nuclear Station cc:

Ms. Lisa F. Vaughn Mr. L. E. Nicholson Legal Department (PBO5E) Compliance Manager Duke Energy Corporation Duke Energy Corporation 422 South Church Street Oconee Nuclear Site Charlotte, North Carolina 28201-1006 7800 Rochester Highway Seneca, South Carolina 29672 Anne W. Cottingham, Esquire Winston and Strawn Ms. Karen E. Long 1400 L Street, NW Assistant Attorney General Washington, DC 20005 North Carolina Department of Justice Manager, LIS P. O. Box 629 NUS Corporation Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 2650 McCormick Drive, 3rd Floor Clearwater, Florida 34619-1035 Mr. C. Jeffrey Thomas Manager - Nuclear Regulatory Senior Resident Inspector Licensing U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Duke Energy Corporation Commission 526 South Church Street 7812B Rochester Highway Charlotte, North Carolina 28201-1006 Seneca, South Carolina 29672 Mr. Richard M. Fry, Director Mr. Henry Porter, Director Division of Radiation Protection Division of Radioactive Waste Management North Carolina Department of Bureau of Land and Waste Management Environment, Health, and Department of Health and Environmental Natural Resources Control 3825 Barrett Drive 2600 Bull Street Raleigh, North Carolina 27609-7721 Columbia, South Carolina 29201-1708 Mr. Peter R. Harden, IV Mr. Michael A. Schoppman VP-Customer Relations and Sales Framatome ANP Westinghouse Electric Company 1911 North Ft. Myer Drive 6000 Fairview Road Suite 705 12th Floor Rosslyn, VA 22209 Charlotte, North Carolina 28210