ML052300624

Ltr., Withdrawal of Amendment Request (Tac No. MB7314)

ML052300624
Person / Time
Site:	Summer
Issue date:	09/08/2005
From:	Martin R NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD2
To:	Archie J South Carolina Electric & Gas Co
Martin R, NRR/DLPM, 415-1493
References
TAC MB7314
Download: ML052300624 (5)

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September 8, 2005 Mr. Jeffery Archie 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 NO. 1 WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NO. MB7314)

Dear Mr. Archie:

By letter dated January 4, 2003, you applied for an amendment to the Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station, Unit No. 1, Facility Operating License No. NPF-12. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications pertaining to emergency core cooling systems (ECCS); exclusion of safety injection pumps from the requirement to vent ECCS pumps.

Subsequently, by letter dated June 22, 2005, 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/

Robert E. Martin, Senior Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-395

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: See next page

ML052300624 NRR-058 OFFICE PM:PDII/S1 LA:PDII/S2 SC:PDII/S1 NAME RMartin BClayton EMarinos DATE 08/29/05 08/25/05 09/06/05 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 January 14, 2003, 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 revised the Technical Specifications pertaining to emergency core cooling systems (ECCS); exclusion of safety injection pumps from the requirement to vent ECCS pumps.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on March 4, 2003 (68 FR 10281). However, by letter dated June 22, 2005, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated January 14, 2003, and the licensee's letter dated June 22, 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 01 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 8th day of September 2005.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

Robert E. Martin, Senior Project Manager, Section 1 Project Directorate II Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Mr. Jeffrey B. Archie VIRGIL C. SUMMER NUCLEAR STATION South Carolina Electric & Gas Company cc:

Mr. R. J. White Nuclear Coordinator S.C. Public Service Authority c/o Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station 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 Dept. of Health & Environmental Control 2600 Bull Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Mr. Thomas D. Gatlin, General Manager Nuclear Plant Operations South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Post Office Box 88, Mail Code 300 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Mr. Ronald B. Clary, Manager Nuclear Licensing South Carolina Electric & Gas Company Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Post Office Box 88, Mail Code 830 Jenkinsville, South Carolina 29065 Ms. Kathryn M. Sutton, Esquire Winston & Strawn Law Firm 1400 L Street, NW Washington, DC 20005-3502