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Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amend to Facility Operating Licenses DPR-33,DPR-52 & DPR-68.Proposed Amend to Allow Traveling in-core Probe Sys to Be Considered Operable with Less than Five TIP Machines Operable
ML20154J827
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Site: Browns Ferry  Tennessee Valley Authority icon.png
Issue date: 10/07/1998
From: Raghavan L
NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
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7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY DOCKET NO. 50-259. 50-260 AND 50-296 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATilON FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has granted a request by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA or the licensee) to withdraw its June 16,1995, application for an amendment to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-33, DPR-52 and DPR-68

!ssued to the licensee for operation of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant (BFN), Units 1,2 and 3, respectively, located in Limestone County, Alabama. Notice of consideration of issuance of this amendme 1t was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on August 16,1995 (60 FR 42610).

The purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to allow the Traveling in-core Probe (TIP) system to be considered operable with less than five TIP machines operable. This change would allow the data normally supplied by the inoperable TIP unit to be sapplied by either substituting data from traverses of symmetric TIP locations or using normalized TIP readings calculated by the on-line core monitoring system.

On July 14,1998, NRC issued Amendment Nos. 234,253, and 212 to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-33, DPR-52, and DPR-69 for BFN Units 1,2, and 3 respectively, which approved conversion of CTS to improved Technical Specifications (ITS). With the implementation of the ITS, there are no explicit requirements for TIP operability. As a result, by letter dated September 18,1998, TVA informed the NRC staff that it no longer requires staff action on its June 16,1995 application for TIP operability. Thus the licensee's June 16,1995 application is considered withdrawn by the licensee.

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2-For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendments dated June 16,1995, the licensee's September 18,1998 letter and the staffs letter dated October ,

1998, which are available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building,2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC and at the local public document room located at the Athens Public Library,405 E. South Street, Athens, Alabama.

Dated at rew.kville, Maryland, this 7 th day of October 1998.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION L.Raghavan, nior Project Manager Project Directorate 11-3 Division of Reactor Projects-l/Il Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i

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