ML110280244

Letter, Withdrawal of License Amendment Request to Revise Technical Specification Limiting Conditions for Operation Applicable to Movement of Fuel Assemblies

ML110280244
Person / Time
Site:	San Onofre
Issue date:	01/31/2011
From:	Hall J Plant Licensing Branch IV
To:	Peter Dietrich Southern California Edison Co
Hall, J R, NRR/DORL/LPL4,301-415-4032
References
TAC ME3136, TAC ME3137
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555*0001 January 31~ 2011 Mr. Peter T. Dietrich Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Southern California Edison Company San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station P.O. Box 128 San Clemente, CA 92674-0128

SUBJECT:

SAN ONOFRE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION, UNITS 2 AND 3 WITHDRAWAL OF AMENDMENT REQUESTS FOR APPROVAL OF REVISED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR MOVEMENT OF FUEL ASSEMBLIES (TAC NOS. ME3136 AND ME3137)

Dear Mr. Dietrich:

By letter dated January 14, 2010 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML100210200), Southern California Edison (SCE) applied for amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-10 and NPF-15 for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), Units 2 and 3, respectively. The proposed amendments would have revised a number of Technical Specification (TS) requirements, to impose similar restrictions on the movement of non-irradiated fuel assemblies to those currently in place for movement of irradiated fuel assemblies. The additional restrictions would limit the movement of all fuel assemblies over irradiated fuel assemblies in containment or in the fuel storage pool.

Subsequently, by letter dated January 27, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110280380), SCE withdrew the license amendment request (LAR). The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff acknowledges your request to withdraw the application; staff review activities have ceased and Technical Assignment Control (TAC) numbers ME3136 and ME3137 have been closed.

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of the proposed amendment was published in the Federal Register on May 18, 2010 (75 FR 27832). Therefore, the NRC staff has filed the enclosed Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License with the Office of the Federal Register for publication SCE submitted this LAR in accordance with NRC Administrative Letter (AL) 98-10, "Dispositioning of Technical Specifications that are Insufficient to Assure Plant Safety," following your staff's determination that the current SONGS TSs are non-conservative regarding handling of non-irradiated fuel assemblies. Based on the guidance in that AL, the SONGS staff has been managing this situation using administrative controls, as described in your LAR dated January 14, 2010. In your withdrawal letter, you indicated that SCE intends to submit a revised LAR with additional information later this year. The NRC staff supports the prompt resolution of the identified non-conservative TS and is willing to meet with SCE on this subject prior to your submittal of a revised LAR.

P. Dietrich - 2 If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact me at (301) 415-4032.

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7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-361 AND 50-362 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Southern California Edison (SCE, the licensee) to withdraw its January 14, 2010, application for proposed amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-10 and NPF-15 for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), Units 2 and 3, respectively, located in San Diego County, California.

The proposed amendments would have revised a number of Technical Specification (TS) requirements, to impose similar restrictions on the movement of non-irradiated fuel assemblies to those currently in place for movement of irradiated fuel assemblies. The additional restrictions would limit the movement of all fuel assemblies over irradiated fuel assemblies in containment or in the fuel storage pool.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on May 18, 2010 (75 FR 27832). However, by letter dated January 27, 2011, the licensee withdrew the proposed changes.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated January 14, 2010, and the licensee's letter dated January 27, 2011, 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

-2 will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (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 31 st day of January 2011.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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