ML050820453

Withdrawal of Amendment Request

ML050820453
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	04/20/2005
From:	Thadani M NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD4
To:	Blevins M TXU Power
Thadani M, NRR/DLPM, 415-1476
References
TAC MC1680, TAC MC1681
Download: ML050820453 (5)

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April 20, 2005 Mr. M. R. Blevins Senior Vice President &

Chief Nuclear Officer TXU Power Attn: Regulatory Affairs Department P. O. Box 1002 Glen Rose, TX 76043

SUBJECT:

COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION (CPSES), UNITS 1 AND 2 -

WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. MC1680 AND MC1681)

Dear Mr. Blevins:

By letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) dated December 31, 2003, you applied for an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-87 and Facility Operating License No. NPF-89 for CPSES, Units 1 and 2, respectively. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications pertaining to extending the allowable Completion Times for the Required Actions associated with restoration of an inoperable Diesel Generator (DG) and associated changes. Subsequently, by letter dated March 17, 2005, you withdrew the amendment request.

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

Sincerely,

/RA by D.Jaffe for M.Thadani/

Mohan C. Thadani, Senior Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate IV Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446

Enclosure:

As stated cc: See next page

April 20, 2005 Mr. M. R. Blevins Senior Vice President &

Chief Nuclear Officer TXU Power Attn: Regulatory Affairs Department P. O. Box 1002 Glen Rose, TX 76043

SUBJECT:

COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION (CPSES), UNITS 1 AND 2 -

WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. MC1680 AND MC1681)

Dear Mr. Blevins:

By letter to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) dated December 31, 2003, you applied for an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-87 and Facility Operating License No. NPF-89 for CPSES, Units 1 and 2, respectively. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications pertaining to extending the allowable Completion Times for the Required Actions associated with restoration of an inoperable Diesel Generator (DG) and associated changes. Subsequently, by letter dated March 17, 2005, you withdrew the amendment request.

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

Sincerely,

/RA by D.Jaffe for M.Thadani/

Mohan C. Thadani, Senior Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate IV Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446

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7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION TXU GENERATION COMPANY, LP DOCKET NOS. 50-445 AND 50-446 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of TXU Generation Company, LP (the licensee) to withdraw its December 31, 2003, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-87 and Facility Operating License No. NPF-89 for Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2, respectively, located in Somervell County, Texas.

The proposed amendment would have revised the facility technical specifications pertaining to extending the allowable Completion Times for the Required Actions associated with restoration of an inoperable Diesel Generator (DG) and associated changes.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on February 3, 2004 (69 FR 5209). However, by letter dated March 17, 2005, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated December 31, 2003, and the licensee's letter dated March 17, 2005, 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,

2 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 20th day of April 2005.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION David H. Jaffe, Senior Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate IV Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station cc:

Senior Resident Inspector Mr. Brian Almon U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Public Utility Commission P. O. Box 2159 William B. Travis Building Glen Rose, TX 76403-2159 P. O. Box 13326 1701 North Congress Avenue Regional Administrator, Region IV Austin, TX 78701-3326 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 400 Ms. Susan M. Jablonski Arlington, TX 76011 Office of Permitting, Remediation and Registration Mr. Fred W. Madden, Director Texas Commission on Environmental Regulatory Affairs Quality TXU Generation Company LP MC-122 P. O. Box 1002 P. O. Box 13087 Glen Rose, TX 76043 Austin, TX 78711-3087 George L. Edgar, Esq. Terry Parks, Chief Inspector Morgan Lewis Texas Department of Licensing 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW and Regulation Washington, DC 20004 Boiler Program P. O. Box 12157 County Judge Austin, TX 78711 P. O. Box 851 Glen Rose, TX 76043 Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Director Office of the Governor P. O. Box 12428 Austin, TX 78711-3189 Mr. Richard A. Ratliff, Chief Bureau of Radiation Control Texas Department of Health 1100 West 49th Street Austin, TX 78756-3189 December 2004