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Letter, Notice of Withdrawal of License Amendment Request to Revise Technical Specification 3.8.1, AC Sources-Operating, for Note, Required Actions and Completion Times
ML102250196
Person / Time
Site: Wolf Creek Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation icon.png
Issue date: 08/20/2010
From: Balwant Singal
Plant Licensing Branch IV
To: Matthew Sunseri
Wolf Creek
Singal, Balwant, 415-3016, NRR/DORL/LPL4
References
TAC ME2675
Download: ML102250196 (4)


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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 August 20, 2010 Mr. Matthew W. Sunseri President and Chief Executive Officer Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation Post Office Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT:

WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST RE: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 3.8.1, "AC SOURCES - OPERATING" (TAC NO. ME2675)

Dear Mr. Sunseri:

By letter dated November 20,2009 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML093310430), as supplemented by letter dated April 6, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML101031093, Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (the licensee) applied for an amendment to the Wolf Creek Generating Station Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-42. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications (TSs) pertaining to TS 3.8.1, "AC [Alternating Current] Sources Operating," by adding a note to the Required Actions B.3.1 and B.3.2 to indicate that the TS 3.8.1 Required Actions B.3.1 and B.3.2 are satisfied if the diesel generator (DG) became inoperable due to an inoperable support system, an independently testable component, or preplanned preventive maintenance or testing. The licensee also proposed to revise the Completion Times for Required Actions B.3.1 and B.3.2 to specify a Completion Time based on the discovery of an issue or failure of the DG. SUbsequently, by letter dated August 10, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML102300387), the licensee 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.

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Balwant K. Singal, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch IV Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-482

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation Docket No. 50-482 Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Renewed 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 November 20,2009, as supplemented by letter dated April 6,2010, for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-42 for the Wolf Creek Generating Station, located in Coffey County, Kansas.

The proposed amendment would have revised the facility technical specifications (TSs) pertaining to TS 3.8.1, "AC [Alternating Current] Sources - Operating," by adding a note to the Required Actions 8.3.1 and 8.3.2 to indicate that the TS 3.8.1 Required Actions 8.3.1 and 8.3.2 are satisfied if the diesel generator (DG) became inoperable due to an inoperable support system, an independently testable component, or preplanned preventive maintenance or testing. The licensee also proposed to revise the Completion Times for Required Actions 8.3.1 and 8.3.2 to specify a Completion Time based on the discovery of an issue or failure of the DG.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on January 26,2010 (75 FR 4121).

However, by letter dated August 10, 2010, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated November 20, 2009 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS)

Accession No. ML093310430), as supplemented by letter dated April 6, 2010 (ADAMS

- 2 Accession No. ML101031093), and the licensee's letter dated August 10, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML102300387), which withdrew the application for license amendment.

Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC's 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 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.resource@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20 t hday of August 2010.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION b ~ \\v-- 'G31~~

Balwant K. Singal, Senior Projectt1anager Plant Licensing Branch IV Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

August 20, 2010 Mr. Matthew W. Sunseri President and Chief Executive Officer Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation Post Office Box 411 Burlington, KS 66839

SUBJECT:

WOLF CREEK GENERATING STATION - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST RE: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 3.8.1, "AC SOURCES - OPERATING" (TAC NO. ME2675)

Dear Mr. Sunseri:

By letter dated November 20, 2009 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML093310430), as supplemented by letter dated April 6, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML101031093, Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (the licensee) applied for an amendment to the Wolf Creek Generating Station Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-42. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications (TSs) pertaining to TS 3.8.1, "AC [Alternating Current] Sources Operating," by adding a note to the Required Actions B.3.1 and B.3.2 to indicate that the TS 3.8.1 Required Actions B.3.1 and B.3.2 are satisfied if the diesel generator (DG) became inoperable due to an inoperable support system, an independently testable component, or preplanned preventive maintenance or testing. The licensee also proposed to revise the Completion Times for Required Actions B.3.1 and B.3.2 to specify a Completion Time based on the discovery of an issue or failure of the DG. Subsequently, by letter dated August 10, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML102300387), the licensee 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, IRAJ Balwant K. Singal, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch IV Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-482

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv DISTRIBUTION:

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