ML15027A605

Withdrawal of an Amendment Request

ML15027A605
Person / Time
Site:	Susquehanna
Issue date:	02/09/2015
From:	Jeffrey Whited Plant Licensing Branch 1
To:	Rausch T Susquehanna
Jeffrey Whited, NRR/DORL 415-4090
References
TAC ME9609, TAC ME9610
Download: ML15027A605 (7)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 February 9, 2015 Mr. Timothy S. Rausch Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer PPL Susquehanna, LLC 769 Salem Boulevard Berwick, PA 18603-0467

SUBJECT:

SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2 -

WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NOS. ME9609 AND ME9610)

Dear Mr. Rausch:

By letter dated September 18, 2012, 1 as supplemented by letter dated, May 10, 2013, 2 PPL Susquehanna, LLC (PPL, the licensee) submitted a license amendment request for Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2, to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for review. The proposed amendment would make changes to Technical Specification (TS) Surveillance Requirement (SR) 3.8.1.19 in TS 3.8.1 "AC Source - Operating." Specifically, the proposed amendment would increase the minimum steady state frequency for Diesel Generator E during the loss of offsite power and emergency core cooling system surveillance.

A notice of the NRC's consideration of the proposed amendment was published in the Federal Register on November 27, 2012 (77 FR 70843).

Subsequently, by letter dated December 22, 2014, 3 PPL requested to withdrawal the amendment request. In this letter, PPL stated that the reason for withdrawing the license amendment request was related to plans for new design analysis that will impact the original proposal. PPL further stated that it intends to request a pre-submittal meeting with the NRC staff to discuss submitting an amendment to change the above stated TS SRs based on this new design analysis.

The NRC staff has ceased all work on this licensing action and closed Technical Assignment Control (TAC) Nos. ME9609 and ME9610. The NRC has filed the enclosed Notice of Withdrawal of Application to Amend the Facility Operating Licenses with the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

1 Agencywide Documents Access and Management System Accession No. ML12262A321.

2 ADAMS Accession No. ML13130A127.

3 ADAMS Accession No. ML15022A013.

T. Rausch If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact me at 301-415-4090.

Sincerely,

~AtJ.:il Jeffrey A. Whited, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc w/encl: Distribution via Listserv

ENCLOSURE FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE

[7590-01-P]

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388; NRC-2012-0283]

PPL Susquehanna, LLC; Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the request of PPL Susquehanna, LLC to withdraw its application dated September 18, 2012, as supplemented by letter dated May 10, 2013, for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-14 and NPF-22, for the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2. The proposed amendment would have made changes to Technical Specification (TS) Surveillance Requirement (SR) 3.8.1.19 in TS 3.8.1 "AC Source - Operating." Specifically, the proposed amendment would increase the minimum steady state frequency for Diesel Generator E during the loss of offsite power and emergency core cooling system surveillance.

DATES: Notice of withdrawal of license amendment application given on [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAi:.REGISTER]

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0283 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.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0283. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-3422; e-mail: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.

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

You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.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 document (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: Jeffrey A. Whited, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone:

301-415-4090, e-mail: jeffrey.whited@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The NRC has granted the request of PPL Susquehanna, LLC (the licensee) to withdraw its application dated September 18, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12262A321), as

supplemented by letter dated May 10, 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13130A127), for a proposed amendment to the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2, located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

The proposed amendment would have made changes to TS SR 3.8.1.19 in TS 3.8.1 "AC Source - Operating." Specifically, the proposed amendment would increase the minimum steady state frequency for Diesel Generator E during the loss of offsite power and emergency core cooling system surveillance.

The NRC published a Biweekly Notice in the Federal Register on November 27, 2012 (77 FR 70843), that gave notice that this proposed amendment was under consideration by the NRC. However, by letter dated December 22, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No ML15022A013), the licensee requested to withdraw the proposed amendment.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this C:/ day of February 2015.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Je!?f{.:f/!.:!~r, Plant Licensing Branch 1-2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

T. Rausch If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact me at 301-415-4090.

Sincerely, IRA/

Jeffrey A. Whited, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch 1-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388

Enclosure:

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