ML12076A023

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Letter - Withdrawal of Application for Amendment Request to Facility Operating License
ML12076A023
Person / Time
Site: Oconee  Duke Energy icon.png
Issue date: 04/12/2012
From: Stang J
Plant Licensing Branch II
To: Gillespie P
Duke Energy Carolinas
Stang J
References
TAC ME5070, TAC ME5071, TAC ME5072
Download: ML12076A023 (4)


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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 April 12, 2012 Mr. Preston Gillespie Site Vice President Oconee Nuclear Station Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC 7800 Rochester Highway Seneca, SC 29672

SUBJECT:

OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1,2, AND 3 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. ME5070, ME5071, AND ME5072)

Dear Mr. Gillespie:

By letter dated November 15,2010 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML103220101), as supplemented by letters dated February 18, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110550616), May 12, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11137A112),

August 2, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11215A198), October 10, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11285A302), and December 15, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11354A253), you applied for an amendment to the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1,2, and 3, Renewed Facility Operating Licenses DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55. The proposed change would approve changes to the updated final safety analysis report to allow operation of a reverse osmosis system during normal plant operation to remove silica from the borated water storage tank and the spent fuel pool. Subsequently, by letter dated April 3, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12095A184), you withdrew the amendment request.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 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, )t

~g, senJProject Manager Plant Licensing Branch 11-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC DOCKET NOS. 50-269, 50-270, AND 50-287 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (the licensee) to withdraw its November 15, 2010, application for proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating Licenses DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55, for the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, respectively, located in Oconee County, South Carolina.

The proposed amendment would approve changes to the updated final safety analysis report to allow operation of a reverse osmosis system during normal plant operation to remove silica from the borated water storage tank and the spent fuel pool.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on December 14, 2010 (75 FR 77911).

However, by letter dated April 3, 2012 (Agencywide Documents and Access Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML12095A184), the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated November 15, 2010 (ADAMS Accession No. ML103220101), as supplemented by letters dated February 18, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110550616), May 12, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11137A112), August 2,2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11215A198), October 10,2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11285A302), and December 15,2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11354A253), and the licensee's letter dated April 3, 2012, which withdrew the application for

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- 2 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 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 12th day of April 2012.

Sincerely,

~ng, Project Manager Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

April 12, 2012 Mr. Preston Gillespie Site Vice President Oconee Nuclear Station Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC 7800 Rochester Highway Seneca, SC 29672

SUBJECT:

OCONEE NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1,2, AND 3 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. ME5070, ME5071, AND ME5072)

Dear Mr. Gillespie:

By letter dated November 15, 2010 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML103220101), as supplemented by letters dated February 18, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML110550616), May 12, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11137A112),

August 2, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11215A198), October 10, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11285A302), and December 15, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11354A253), you applied for an amendment to the Oconee Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, Renewed Facility Operating Licenses DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55. The proposed change would approve changes to the updated final safety analysis report to allow operation of a reverse osmosis system during normal plant operation to remove silica from the borated water storage tank and the spent fuel pool. Subsequently, by letter dated April 3, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12095A184), you withdrew the amendment request.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 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, IRA!

John Stang, Senior Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 11-1 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-269, 50-270, and 50-287

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