ML061170103

Withdrawal of an Amendment Request to Revise Technical Specification 3/4.3.2.1 to Permit a Single Inoperable Safety Features Actuation System (Sfas) Instrument String Function Unit to Be Placed in a Bypassed

ML061170103
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	05/19/2006
From:	Shawn Campbell Plant Licensing Branch III-2
To:	Bezilla M FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co
S. Campbell X1486
References
TAC MC5547
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May 19, 2006 Mr. Mark B. Bezilla Vice President FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Mail Stop A-DB-3080 5501 North State Route 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760

SUBJECT:

DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNIT 1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST TO REVISE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 3/4.3.2.1 TO PERMIT A SINGLE INOPERABLE SAFETY FEATURES ACTUATION SYSTEM INSTRUMENT STRING FUNCTIONAL UNIT TO BE PLACED IN A BYPASSED CONDITION INDEFINITELY (TAC NO. MC5547)

Dear Mr. Bezilla:

By letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) dated January 5, 2005, you applied for an amendment to the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, Facility Operating License No. NPF-3. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications (TS) pertaining to TS 3/4.3.2.1, Safety Features Actuation System [SFAS] Instrumentation, to permit a single inoperable SFAS functional unit to be placed in a bypassed condition indefinitely.

In response to the NRC staffs request for additional information (RAI) dated November 23, 2005, your staff conducted a preliminary risk evaluation and determined that a full risk evaluation was too resource intensive and may not yield acceptable results. As a result, you did not submit a formal response to the RAI. Subsequently, by letter dated April 21, 2006, 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, Stephen J. Campbell, Project Manager /RA/

Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-346

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: See next page

Mr. Mark B. Bezilla Vice President FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Mail Stop A-DB-3080 5501 North State Route 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760

SUBJECT:

DAVIS-BESSE NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UNIT 1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST TO REVISE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 3/4.3.2.1 TO PERMIT A SINGLE INOPERABLE SAFETY FEATURES ACTUATION SYSTEM INSTRUMENT STRING FUNCTIONAL UNIT TO BE PLACED IN A BYPASSED CONDITION INDEFINITELY (TAC NO. MC5547)

Dear Mr. Bezilla:

By letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) dated January 5, 2005, you applied for an amendment to the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, Facility Operating License No. NPF-3. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications (TS) pertaining to TS 3/4.3.2.1, Safety Features Actuation System [SFAS] Instrumentation, to permit a single inoperable SFAS functional unit to be placed in a bypassed condition indefinitely.

In response to the NRC staffs request for additional information (RAI) dated November 23, 2005, your staff conducted a preliminary risk evaluation and determined that a full risk evaluation was too resource intensive and may not yield acceptable results. As a result, you did not submit a formal response to the RAI. Subsequently, by letter dated April 21, 2006, 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, Stephen J. Campbell, Project Manager /RA/

Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-346

Enclosure:

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

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Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 cc:

Manager - Regulatory Affairs FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company State of Ohio Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Public Utilities Commission 5501 North State - Route 2 180 East Broad Street Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760 Columbus, OH 43266-0573 Director, Ohio Department of Commerce Attorney General Division of Industrial Compliance Office of Attorney General Bureau of Operations & Maintenance 30 East Broad Street 6606 Tussing Road Columbus, OH 43216 P.O. Box 4009 Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-9009 President, Board of County Commissioners of Ottawa County Regional Administrator Port Clinton, OH 43252 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 801 Warrenville Road President, Board of County Lisle, IL 60523-4351 Commissioners of Lucas County One Government Center, Suite 800 Resident Inspector Toledo, OH 43604-6506 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 5503 North State Route 2 The Honorable Dennis J. Kucinich Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760 United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Barry Allen, Plant Manager FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company The Honorable Dennis J. Kucinich Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station United States House of Representatives 5501 North State - Route 2 14400 Detroit Avenue Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760 Lakewood, OH 44107 Dennis Clum Gary R. Leidich Radiological Assistance Section Supervisor President and Chief Nuclear Officer Bureau of Radiation Protection FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Ohio Department of Health Mail Stop A-GO-19 P.O. Box 118 76 South Main Street Columbus, OH 43266-0118 Akron, OH 44308 Carol OClaire, Chief, Radiological Branch Joseph J. Hagan Ohio Emergency Management Agency Senior Vice President of Operations and 2855 West Dublin Granville Road Chief Operating Officer Columbus, OH 43235-2206 FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Mail Stop A-GO-14 Zack A. Clayton 76 South Main Street DERR Akron, OH 44308 Ohio Environmental Protection Agency P.O. Box 1049 David W. Jenkins, Attorney Columbus, OH 43266-0149 FirstEnergy Corporation Mail Stop A-GO-18 76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308

Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1 cc:

Danny L. Pace Senior Vice President, Fleet Engineering FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Mail Stop A-GO-14 76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308 Manager, Fleet Licensing FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Mail Stop A-GHE-107 395 Ghent Road Akron, OH 44333 Manager, Site Regulatory Compliance FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station Mail Stop A-DB-3065 5501 North State Route 2 Oak Harbor, OH 43449-9760 Jeannie M. Rinckel Vice President, Fleet Oversight FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company Mail Stop A-GO-14 76 South Main Street Akron, OH 44308

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FIRSTENERGY NUCLEAR OPERATING COMPANY AND FIRSTENERGY NUCLEAR GENERATION CORP.

DOCKET NO. 50-346 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company and FirstEnergy Nuclear Generation Corp. (the licensees) to withdraw its January 5, 2005, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-3 for the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, located in Ottawa County.

The proposed amendment would have revised Technical Specification (TS) 3/4.3.2.1, Safety Features Actuation System [SFAS] Instrumentation, to permit a single inoperable SFAS functional unit to be placed in a bypassed condition indefinitely.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on February 15, 2005 (70 FR 7765). However, in response to answering the NRC staffs request for additional information (RAI) dated November 23, 2005, the licensees conducted a preliminary risk evaluation and determined that a full risk evaluation was too resource intensive and may not yield acceptable results. As a result, the licensees did not submit a formal response to the RAI. Subsequently, by letter dated April 21, 2006, the licensees withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated January 5, 2005, and the licensees letter dated April 21, 2006, 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.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 day of May 2006.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Stephen J. Campbell, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation