ML14184B360

Letter, Withdrawal of an Amendment Request

ML14184B360
Person / Time
Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	07/24/2014
From:	Siva Lingam Plant Licensing Branch II
To:	James Shea Tennessee Valley Authority
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TAC MF2699
Download: ML14184B360 (5)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 July 24, 2014 Mr. Joseph W. Shea Vice President, Nuclear Licensing Tennessee Valley Authority 1101 Market Street, LP 3D-C Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801

SUBJECT:

WATTS BAR NUCLEAR PLANT, UNIT 1 -WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NO. MF2699)

Dear Mr. Shea:

By letter dated August 28, 2013, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) applied for an amendment to the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN), Unit 1, Facility Operating License No. NPF-90. The proposed change would have modified the facility technical specifications (TSs) TS 3.8.4, "DC

[Direct Current] Sources - Operating," TS 3.8.5, "DC Sources- Shutdown," and TS 3.8.6, "Battery Cell Parameters." The request included changes consistent with both Technical Specifications Task Force (TSTF) change traveler TSTF-360, Revision 1, "DC Electrical Rewrite," and TSTF-500, "DC Electrical Rewrite- Update to TSTF-360," which provided an update to the changes approved in TSTF-360. However, as stated in the application, the proposed TS changes were based on the TSTF-360 and TSTF-500 changes that were appropriate to the WBN Unit 1 design, because the direct current electrical power distribution system referenced in the model application is significantly different than the sy.:;tem that exists at WBN, Unit 1. Because of this, TVA did not utilize the model application for TSTF-500, but rather provided plant-specific justifications for the related TSTF-500 changes that were proposed in this License Amendment Request. In addition to the TSTF-360 and TSTF-500 related changes, editorial and clarification changes to TSs 3.8.4, 3.8.5, and 3.8.6 V\ere proposed in this request.

Subsequently, by letter dated June 20, 2014, 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,

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Siva P. Lingam, Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-390

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No.: 50-390; NRC-2013-0266]

Tennessee Valley Authority Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 1, AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal.

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) has granted the request of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA or the licensee) to withdraw its August 28, 2013, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-90 for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN), Unit 1, Rhea County, Tennessee.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0266 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly-available information related to this document using any of the following methods:

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.requlations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0266. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-3668; e-mail: Carol. Gallaqher@nrc. qov.

• NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):

You may access publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/readinq-rmladams.html. To begin the search, select "ADAMS Public Documents" and then select "Begin Web-based ADAMS Search." For problems with

ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc. gov. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.

• NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room 01-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Siva Lingam, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1564; e-mail: Siva.Lingam@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The proposed amendment would have modified the facility technical specifications (TSs)

TS 3.8.4, "DC [Direct Current] Sources-Operating," TS 3.8.5, "DC Sources-Shutdown," and TS 3.8.6, "Battery Cell Parameters." The request included changes consistent with both Technical Specifications Task Force (TSTF) change traveler TSTF-360, Revision 1, "DC Electrical Rewrite" (ADAMS Accession No. ML003778381), and TSTF-500, "DC Electrical Rewrite-Update to TSTF-360" (ADAMS Accession No. ML092670242), which provided an update to the changes approved in TSTF-360. However, the proposed TS changes were based on the TSTF-360 and TSTF-500 changes that were appropriate to the WBN Unit 1 design, because the direct current electrical power distribution system referenced in the model application is significantly different than the system that exists at Watts Bar. Because of this, TVA did not utilize the model application for TSTF-500, but rather provided plant-specific justifications for the related

TSTF-500 changes that were proposed in this License Amendment Request. In addition to the TSTF-360 and TSTF-500 related changes, editorial and clarification changes to TS 3.8.4, 3.8.5, and 3.8.6 were proposed in this request.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on December 10,2013 (78 FR 74186).

However, by letter dated June 20, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. ML14178B301 ), the licensee withdrew the proposed changes.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated August 28, 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13248A250}, and the licensee's letter dated June 20, 2014, which withdrew the application for license amendment.

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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1.4 day of July 2014.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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Siva P. Lingam, Project Manager Watts Bar Special Projects Branch Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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