ML030770707

Withdrawal of an Amendment Request

ML030770707
Person / Time
Site:	Summer
Issue date:	03/18/2003
From:	Cotton K NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD2
To:	Byrne S South Carolina Electric & Gas Co
References
TAC MB7986
Download: ML030770707 (5)

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March 18, 2003 Mr. Stephen A. Byrne Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Post Office Box 88 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065

SUBJECT:

VIRGIL C. SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NO. MB7986)

Dear Mr. Byrne:

By letter dated June 27, 2002, you applied for an amendment to the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Facility Operating License No. NPF-12. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications pertaining to a revision to add an Allowed Outage Time to Table 3.3-3, Engineered Safety Features Actuation System Instrumentation, Action 16.

Subsequently, by letter dated February 25, 2003, 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/

Karen R. Cotton, Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate ll Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-395

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: See next page

ML030770707 OFFICE PDII-1/PM PDII-2/LA PDII-1/SC NAME KCotton BClayton JNakoski DATE 3/18/2003 3/18/2003 3/18/2003 7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-395 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (the licensee) to withdraw its June 27, 2002, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-12 for the Virgil C.

Summer Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1, located in Fairfield County, South Carolina.

The proposed amendment would have added an Allowed Outage Time to Table 3.3-3, Engineered Safety Features Actuation System Instrumentation, Action 16.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on July 23, 2002 (67 FR 48221). However, by letter dated February 25, 2003, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated June 27, 2002, and the licensees letter dated February 25, 2003, 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, Public File Area O1 F21, 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 e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of March 2003.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

Karen R. Cotton, Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate ll Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Mr. Stephen A. Byrne VIRGIL C. SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION South Carolina Electric & Gas Company cc:

Mr. R. J. White Ms. Kathryn M. Sutton, Esquire Nuclear Coordinator Winston & Strawn Law Firm S.C. Public Service Authority 1400 L Street, NW c/o Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Washington, DC 20005-3502 Post Office Box 88, Mail Code 802 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Resident Inspector/Summer NPS c/o U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 576 Stairway Road Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Chairman, Fairfield County Council Drawer 60 Winnsboro, South Carolina 29180 Mr. Henry Porter, Assistant Director Division of Waste Management Bureau of Land & Waste Management Department of Health & Environmental Control 2600 Bull Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Mr. Gregory H. Halnon, General Manager Nuclear Plant Operations South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Mail Code 303, Post Office Box 88 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Mr. Melvin N. Browne, Manager Nuclear Licensing & Operating Experience South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Mail Code 830, Post Office Box 88 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065