ML110590078

Withdrawal of License Amendment Request Concerning the Extension of the Technical Specification Completion Time for Standby Liquid Control

ML110590078
Person / Time
Site:	LaSalle
Issue date:	02/28/2011
From:	Ellen Brown Plant Licensing Branch III
To:	Pacilio M Exelon Nuclear
Brown Eva, NRR/DORL, 415-2315
References
TAC ME3438, TAC ME3437
Download: ML110590078 (4)

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lINITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 February 28, 2011 Mr. Michael J. Pacilio President and Chief Nuclear Officer Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville,IL 60555

SUBJECT:

LASALLE COUNTY STATION UNITS 1 AND 2- WITHDRAWAL OF LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST CONCERNING THE EXTENSION OF THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION COMPLETION TIME FOR STANDBY LIQUID CONTROL (TAC NOS. ME3437 AND ME3438)

Dear Mr. Pacilio:

By letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) dated February 22, 2010 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML100550582), Exelon Generation Company, LLC submitted a request to amend the Technical Specifications (TSs) to extend the COMPLETION TIME for Condition B of TS 3.1.7 for the standby liquid control system from 8 to 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> for LaSalle County Station Units 1 and 2.

The NRC staff held a conference call with Mr. Mitchel Mathews of your staff on February 22, 2011, to discuss an extension to the response to a request for additional information which was due on February 22, 2011. Subsequently by letter dated February 22, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110540146), Exelon requested that the submittal be withdrawn. As a result, the NRC staff is treating the submittal as withdrawn.

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.

If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Eva Brown at (301) 415-2315.

Sincerely, IRA!

Eva A. Brown, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 111-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-373 and 50-374

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION EXELON GENERATION COMPANY, LLC DOCKET NOS. 50-373 AND 50-374 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has granted the request of Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Exelon, or the licensee) to withdraw its February 22,2010 application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-11 and Facility Operating License No. NPF-18 for LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, respectively, in LaSalle County, Illinois.

The proposed amendment would have relocated selected Surveillance Requirement frequencies from the LaSalle County Station Units 1 and 2 Technical Specifications (TSs) to a licensee-controlled program. The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on April 20, 2010 (75 FR 20637). However, by letter dated February 22,2011, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated February 22, 2010, and the licensee's letter dated February 22, 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 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,

- 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.resource@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28thday of February ,2011.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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February 28, 2011 Mr. Michael J. Pacilio President and Chief Nuclear Officer Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville,IL 60555

SUBJECT:

LASALLE COUNTY STATION UNITS 1 AND 2- WITHDRAWAL OF LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST CONCERNING THE EXTENSION OF THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION COMPLETION TIME FOR STANDBY LIQUID CONTROL (TAC NOS. ME3437 AND ME3438)

Dear Mr. Pacilio:

By letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) dated February 22, 2010 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML100550582), Exelon Generation Company, LLC submitted a request to amend the Technical Specifications (TSs) to extend the COMPLETION TIME for Condition B of TS 3.1.7 for the standby liquid control system from 8 to 72 hours8.333333e-4 days <br />0.02 hours <br />1.190476e-4 weeks <br />2.7396e-5 months <br /> for LaSalle County Station Units 1 and 2.

The NRC staff held a conference call with Mr. Mitchel Mathews of your staff on February 22, 2011, to discuss an extension to the response to a request for additional information which was due on February 22, 2011. Subsequently by letter dated February 22, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110540146), Exelon requested that the submittal be withdrawn. As a result, the NRC staff is treating the submittal as withdrawn.

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.

If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Eva Brown at (301) 415-2315.

Sincerely, IRA!

Eva A. Brown, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 111-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-373 and 50-374

Enclosure:

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