ML032590721

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Withdrawal of an Amendment Request
ML032590721
Person / Time
Site: Hatch  Southern Nuclear icon.png
Issue date: 09/16/2003
From: Steven Bloom
NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD2
To: Sumner H
Southern Nuclear Operating Co
Bloom S D, NRR/DLPM,415-1313
References
TAC MB5642, TAC MB5643
Download: ML032590721 (5)


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September 16, 2003 Mr. H. L. Sumner, Jr.

Vice President - Nuclear Hatch Project Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201-1295

SUBJECT:

EDWIN I. HATCH NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. MB5642 AND MB5643)

Dear Mr. Sumner:

By letter dated July 11, 2002, as supplemented by letter dated August 19, 2003, you applied for an amendment to the Edwin I. Hatch (Hatch) Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Renewed Facility Operating License DPR-57 and Renewed Facility Operating License NPF-5. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications (TSs) pertaining to the deletion of TS 3.3.1.1.I.2, which requires returning the Oscillating Power Range Monitor to operable status within 120 days of discovering its inoperability. Subsequently, by letter dated September 12, 2003, you withdrew the amendment request.

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

Sincerely,

/RA/

Steve Bloom, Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: See next page

September 16, 2003 Mr. H. L. Sumner, Jr.

Vice President - Nuclear Hatch Project Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201-1295

SUBJECT:

EDWIN I. HATCH NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. MB5642 AND MB5643)

Dear Mr. Sumner:

By letter dated July 11, 2002, as supplemented by letter dated August 19, 2003, you applied for an amendment to the Edwin I. Hatch (Hatch) Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Renewed Facility Operating License DPR-57 and Renewed Facility Operating License NPF-5. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications (TSs) pertaining to the deletion of TS 3.3.1.1.I.2, which requires returning the Oscillating Power Range Monitor to operable status within 120 days of discovering its inoperability. Subsequently, by letter dated September 12, 2003, you withdrew the amendment request.

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

Sincerely,

/RA/

Steve Bloom, Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: See next page DISTRIBUTION:

NON-PUBLIC PDII-1 R/F EHackett JNakoski CHawes SBloom OGC ACRS BBosner,RII ADAMS: ML032590721 OFFICE PDII-1/PM PDII-1/LA PDII-1/SC NAME SBloom CHawes JNakoski DATE 9/16/03 9/15/03 9/16/03 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SOUTHERN NUCLEAR OPERATING COMPANY, INC., ET AL.

EDWIN I. HATCH NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 DOCKET NOS. 50-321 AND 50-366 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc. (the licensee) to withdraw its July 11, 2002, as supplemented by letter dated August 19, 2003, application for proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License DPR-57 and to Renewed Facility Operating License NPF-5 for the Edwin I. Hatch (Hatch) Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located in Appling County, Georgia.

The proposed amendment would have revised the Technical Specifications (TSs) to delete TS 3.3.1.1.I.2, which requires returning the Oscillating Power Range Monitor to operable status within 120 days of discovering its inoperability.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 6, 2002 (67 FR 50959).

However, by letter dated September 12, 2003, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated July 11, 2002, as supplemented by letter dated August 19, 2003, and the licensees letter dated September 12, 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 email to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of September 2003.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA Steve Bloom, Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant cc:

Laurence Bergen Oglethorpe Power Corporation 2100 East Exchange Place P.O. Box 1349 Tucker, GA 30085-1349 Mr. R. D. Baker Manager - Licensing Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201-1295 Resident Inspector Plant Hatch 11030 Hatch Parkway N.

Baxley, Georgia 31531 Mr. Charles H. Badger Office of Planning and Budget Room 610 270 Washington Street, SW.

Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Harold Reheis, Director Department of Natural Resources 205 Butler Street, SE., Suite 1252 Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Steven M. Jackson Senior Engineer - Power Supply Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia 1470 Riveredge Parkway, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30328-4684 Mr. Reece McAlister Executive Secretary Georgia Public Service Commission 244 Washington St., S. W.

Atlanta, Ga. 30334 Arthur H. Domby, Esq.

Troutman Sanders Nations Bank Plaza 600 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 5200 Atlanta, GA 30308-2216 Chairman Appling County Commissioners County Courthouse Baxley, Georgia 31513 Mr. J. D. Woodard Executive Vice President Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201-1295 Mr. G. R. Frederick General Manager, Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.

U.S. Highway 1 North P. O. Box 2010 Baxley, Georgia 31515 Mr. K. Rosanski Resident Manager Oglethorpe Power Corporation Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant P. O. Box 2010 Baxley, Georgia 31515