ML20137L534
| ML20137L534 | |
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| Site: | Byron, Braidwood  |
| Issue date: | 04/02/1997 |
| From: | Assa R NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| NUDOCS 9704070256 | |
| Download: ML20137L534 (2) | |
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I DOCKET NOS. STN 50-454.'STN 50-455. STN 50-456 AND STN 50-457 NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMrNDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued Amendment No. 86 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-37, Amendment No. 86 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-66, Amendment No. 78 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-72 and Amendment No. 78 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-77, l
f issued to Commonwealth Edison Company (L.c'ta, the licensee), which revised the l
Technical Specifications (TS) for operation of the Byron Station, Unit Nos.1
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and 2, located in Ogle County, Illinois and Braidwood Station, Unit Nos. I and 2, located in Will County, Illinois. The amendments are effective as of the date of issuance and shall be implemented within 45 days.
The amendments modified +.he TSs to allow the licensee to take credit, on a temporary basis, for soluole boron in the spent fuel storage pool water in
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maintaining an acceptable margin of subcriticality.
The application for the amendments complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules and regulations. The Commission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendments.
Notice of Cc.1deration of Issuance of Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this action was
' published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on February 10, 1997 (62 FR 6016). No 9
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request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice.
The Comaission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to the j
action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact statement.
Based upon the environmental assessment, the Comission has concluded that the issuance of the amendments will not have a significant effect on the quality of the human environment (62 FR 13403).
For further details with respect to the action see (1) the application
.for amendments dated November 5, 1996, as supplemented February 27 and March 30, 1997, (2) Amendment No. 86 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-37, Amendment No. 86 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-66, Amendment No. 78 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-72 and Amendment No. 78 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-77, (3) the Comission's related Safety Evaluation, j
and (4) the Comission's related Environmental Assessment. All of these items are available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Roc.s,
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the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC, and at the local public document rooms located at:
for Byron, the Byron Public Library District,109 N. Franklin, P.O. Box 434, Byron, Illinois 61010; for Braidwood, the Wilmington Public Library, 201 S. Kankakee Street, Wilmington, Illinois 60481 Dated at Reckville, Maryland, thi: ?nd day of April 1997.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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Ramin R. Asse, Project Manager Project Directorate III-2 Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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