ML11132A188

Withdrawal of Amendment Requests

ML11132A188
Person / Time
Site:	Catawba
Issue date:	05/19/2011
From:	Jacqueline Thompson Plant Licensing Branch II
To:	Morris J Duke Energy Carolinas
Thompson J
References
TAC ME3982, TAC ME3983
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 May 19, 2011 Mr. J. R. Morris Site Vice President Catawba Nuclear Station Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC 4800 Concord Road York, SC 29745 SUB~IECT: CATAWBA NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 - WITHDRAWAL OF AMENDMENT REQUESTS (TAC NOS. ME3982 AND ME3983)

Dear Mr. Morris By letter dated May 20, 2010, as supplemented by letter dated January 19, 2011, you applied for an amendment to the Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-35 and NPF-52. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications to allow the reactor building pressure boundary to be opened under administrative controls. Subsequently, by letter dated February 2,2011, 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, Jon Thompson, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 11-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-413 and 50-414

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC DOCKET NOS. 50-413 AND 50-414 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission, NRC) has granted the request of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (the licensee) to withdraw its May 20,2010, application, as supplemented by letter dated January 19, 2011, for proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-35 and NPF-52 for the Catawba Nuclear Station, Unit Nos.

1 and 2, located in York County, South Carolina.

The proposed amendment would have revised the Technical Specifications to allow the reactor building pressure boundary to be opened under administrative controls.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on January 25 (76 FR 4383). However, by letter dated February 2, 2011, the licensee withdrew the proposed change, For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated May 20, 2010, as supplemented by letter dated January 19, 2011, and the licensee's letter dated February 2, 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 documents created or received at the NRC are available online in the NRC library http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) or who encounter

-2 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 19th day of May 2011.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Jon Thompson. Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 11-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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