ML111930201

Withdrawal of a License Amendment Request

ML111930201
Person / Time
Site:	Vermont Yankee
Issue date:	07/18/2011
From:	James Kim Plant Licensing Branch 1
To:	Entergy Nuclear Operations
kim J, NRR/ADRO/DORL, 415-4125
References
TAC ME4554
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SUBJECT:

VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NO. ME4554)

Dear Sir or Madam:

By letter dated August 19, 2010, you applied for an amendment request to the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (the licensee), Facility Operating License No. DPR-28. The proposed change would have revised Technical Specifications to be consistent with Standard Technical Specifications 3.6.1.8 "Suppression Chamber-to-Drywell Vacuum Breakers" and 3.6.2.5 "Drywell-to-Suppression Chamber Differential Pressure," along with the associated Bases, of NUREG-1433, Revision 3, "Standard Technical Specifications General Electric Plants, BWRl4,"

modified to account for plant specific design details. Subsequently, by letter dated July 7, 2011, you withdrew the license 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.

Please contact me at (301) 415-4125 if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

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James Kim, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-271

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER STATION DOCKET NO, 50-271 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U,S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (the licensee) to withdraw its August 19,2010, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No, DPR-28 for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, located in Vernon, Vermont.

The proposed amendment would have revised the Technical Specifications to be consistent with Standard Technical Specifications 3,6.1.8 "Suppression Chamber-to-Drywell Vacuum Breakers" and 3.6.2.5 "Drywell-to-Suppression Chamber Differential Pressure," along with the associated Bases, of NUREG-1433, Revision 3, "Standard Technical Specifications General Electric Plants, BWR/4," modified to account for plant specific design details.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on October 5,2010 (75 FR 61525),

However, by letter dated July 7,2011, the licensee withdrew the proposed change, For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated August 19, 2010 (Agencywide Documents and Access and Management System (ADAMS)

Accession No, ML102360042), and the licensee's letter dated July 7, 2011 (Accession No. ML11193A009), 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

-2 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 accessible electronically through the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) in the NRC Library at 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 18th day of July 2011.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION James Kim, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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