ML042150327

7/30/04, Wolf Creek - Withdrawal of License Amendment Request

ML042150327
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	07/30/2004
From:	Donohew J NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD4
To:	Muench R Wolf Creek
Donohew J N, NRR/DLPM,415-1307
References
TAC MB6188
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July 30, 2004 Mr. Rick A. Muench President and Chief Executive Officer Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation Post Office Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT:

WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - WITHDRAWAL OF LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NO. MB6188)

Dear Mr. Muench:

On June 21, 2004, the Commission issued a "Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License" for the Wolf Creek Generating Station. The withdrawal pertained to your application dated August 16, 2002, for a license amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-42 to revise Technical Specification 3.6.3, "Containment Isolation Valves."

Due to a processing error the notice was not published in the Federal Register. Enclosed is the Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License. The only change made to this notice is its date. The notice has been forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Jack Donohew, Senior Project Manager, Section 2 Project Directorate IV Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-482

Enclosure:

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

July 30, 2004 Mr. Rick A. Muench President and Chief Executive Officer Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation Post Office Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT:

WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - WITHDRAWAL OF LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NO. MB6188)

Dear Mr. Muench:

On June 21, 2004, the Commission issued a "Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License" for the Wolf Creek Generating Station. The withdrawal pertained to your application dated August 16, 2002, for a license amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-42 to revise Technical Specification 3.6.3, "Containment Isolation Valves."

Due to a processing error the notice was not published in the Federal Register. Enclosed is the Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License. The only change made to this notice is its date. The notice has been forwarded to the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Jack Donohew, Senior Project Manager, Section 2 Project Directorate IV Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-482 DISTRIBUTION PUBLIC

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Wolf Creek Generating Station cc:

Jay Silberg, Esq. Site Vice President Shaw Pittman, LLP Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation 2300 N Street, NW P.O. Box 411 Washington, D.C. 20037 Burlington, KS 66839 Regional Administrator, Region IV Superintendent Licensing U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400 P.O. Box 411 Arlington, TX 76011-7005 Burlington, KS 66839 Senior Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspectors Office P.O. Box 311 8201 NRC Road Burlington, KS 66839 Steedman, MO 65077-1032 Chief Engineer, Utilities Division Kansas Corporation Commission 1500 SW Arrowhead Road Topeka, KS 66604-4027 Office of the Governor State of Kansas Topeka, KS 66612 Attorney General 120 S.W. 10th Avenue, 2nd Floor Topeka, KS 66612-1597 County Clerk Coffey County Courthouse 110 South 6th Street Burlington, KS 66839 Vick L. Cooper, Chief Air Operating Permit and Compliance Section Kansas Department of Health and Environment Bureau of Air and Radiation 1000 SW Jackson, Suite 310 Topeka, KS 66612-1366

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WOLF CREEK NUCLEAR OPERATING CORPORATION DOCKET NO. 50-482 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (the licensee) to withdraw its application dated August 16, 2002, for a proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-42 for the Wolf Creek Generating Station, Unit No. 1, located in Coffey County, Kansas.

The proposed amendment would have revised Technical Specification 3.6.3, "Containment Isolation Valves," by (1) deleting the Note and adding the abbreviation "(CIV)" for containment isolation valve in Condition A of the Actions for the Limiting Condition for Operation, (2) revising the completion time for Required Condition A.1 from 4 hours4.62963e-5 days <br />0.00111 hours <br />6.613757e-6 weeks <br />1.522e-6 months <br /> to as much as 7 days depending on the category of the CIVs, (3) deleting Condition C, and (4) renumbering the later Conditions D and E. The proposed amendment is based on Topical Report WCAP-15791-P, "Risk-Informed Evaluation of Extensions to Containment Isolation Valve Completion Times."

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on October 1, 2002 (67 FR 61686).

However, by letter dated June 4, 2004, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated August 16, 2002, and the licensee's letter dated June 4, 2004, 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 30th day of July 2004.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

Jack Donohew, Senior Project Manager, Section 2 Project Directorate IV Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation