ML033460002

Notice of Withdrawal of Amendment Request

ML033460002
Person / Time
Site:	Farley
Issue date:	12/12/2003
From:	Sean Peters NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD2
To:	Beasley J Southern Nuclear Operating Co
Peters, S, NRR/DLPM/301-415-1842
References
TAC MC1445, TAC MC1446
Download: ML033460002 (5)

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December 12, 2003 Mr. J. B. Beasley, Jr.

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

Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201-1295

SUBJECT:

JOSEPH M. FARLEY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 RE: WITHDRAWAL OF AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOs. MC1445 and MC1446)

Dear Mr. Beasley:

By letter dated December 3, 2003, you applied for amendments to Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-2 and NPF-8. The proposed changes would have allowed a one time extension of the TS 3.8.1, Electrical Power Systems AC Sources - Operating, Action B completion time from 10 days to 13 days for the 1C Emergency Diesel Generator. Subsequently, by letter dated December 9, 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/

Sean E. Peters, Project Manager Project Directorate II-1 Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-348 and 50-364

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: See next page

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant cc:

Mr. Don E. Grissette William D. Oldfield General Manager - SAER Supervisor Southern Nuclear Operating Company Southern Nuclear Operating Company Post Office Box 470 P. O. Box 470 Ashford, Alabama 36312 Ashford, Alabama 36312 Mr. B. D. McKinney, Licensing Manager Southern Nuclear Operating Company Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201-1295 Mr. M. Stanford Blanton Balch and Bingham Law Firm Post Office Box 306 1710 Sixth Avenue North Birmingham, Alabama 35201 Mr. J. D. Woodard Executive Vice President Southern Nuclear Operating Company Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201 State Health Officer Alabama Department of Public Health 434 Monroe Street Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1701 Chairman Houston County Commission Post Office Box 6406 Dothan, Alabama 36302 Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 7388 N. State Highway 95 Columbia, Alabama 36319

December 12, 2003 Mr. J. B. Beasley, Jr.

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

Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201-1295

SUBJECT:

JOSEPH M. FARLEY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 RE: WITHDRAWAL OF AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOs. MC1445 and MC1446)

Dear Mr. Beasley:

By letter dated December 3, 2003, you applied for amendments to Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-2 and NPF-8. The proposed changes would have allowed a one time extension of the TS 3.8.1, Electrical Power Systems AC Sources - Operating, Action B completion time from 10 days to 13 days for the 1C Emergency Diesel Generator. Subsequently, by letter dated December 9, 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/

Sean E. Peters, Project Manager Project Directorate II-1 Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-348 and 50-364

Enclosure:

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

PUBLIC CHawes ACRS PDII-1 R/F FRinaldi GHill (4) OGC SPeters JChung EHackett JNakoski DHarrison MRubin MReinhart RJenkins OChopra BBonser,RII ADAMS Accession No:ML033460002 OFFICE PM/PD II-1 LA/PD II-1 SC/PD II-1 NAME SPeters CHawes JNakoski DATE 12/11/03 12/11/03 12/11/03 Official Record Copy

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

ALABAMA POWER COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-348 AND 50-364 JOSEPH M. FARLEY NUCLEAR PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2 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 3, 2003, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-2 and NPF-8 for the Joseph M.

Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located in Houston County, Alabama.

The proposed amendments would have revised the Technical Specifications to extend the completion time for the 1C Emergency Diesel Generator from 10 days to 13 days. This change would have allowed the continued operation of Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 with the inoperable diesel generator until December 13, 2003.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Dothan Eagle newspaper on December 5 and 6, 2003. However, by letter dated December 9, 2003, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated December 3, 2003, and the licensee's letter dated December 9, 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 O1F21, 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 12th day of December 2003.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

Sean E. Peters, Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation