ML20207D703

Board Notification (Withdrawal of Application) & Motion to Terminate Proceeding & Dismiss Appeal.* Commission Suggests That Pending Appeal by Licensee from LBP-99-14,should Be Dismissed.With Certificate of Svc

ML20207D703
Person / Time
Site:	Yankee Rowe
Issue date:	05/26/1999
From:	Dignan T ROPES & GRAY, YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC CO.
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)
References
CON-#299-20459 LA, LBP-99-14, NUDOCS 9906040059
Download: ML20207D703 (5)

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DOCMETED USNRC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA before the 9 JUN -2 P2 :39 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION C.T In the Matter of g

YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC COMPANY (Yankee Nuclear Power Station)

BOARD NOTIFICATION (WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION)

AND MOTION TO TERMINATE PROCEEDING AND Dismiss APPEAL

1. Pursuant to Duke Power Co. (William B. McGuire Nuclear Station, Units l'and 2), ALAB-143, 6 AEC 623, 625-26 (1973)), Yankee Atomic Electric Company

(" Yankee") notifies this Board as follows: On Tuesday of this week, Yankee formerly

- withdrew the application for an operating license amendment approving the License Termination Plan ("LTP") that it had previously submitted to the Commission. See Letter Don K. Davis dated May 25,' 1999, copy attached. No date for the submission of a different license termination plan has been established.'

2. Pursuant to 10 C.F.R. $ 2.107, and given that the withdrawal of its application for approval of the former LTP has mooted any and all contentions regarding the sufficier,cy of that LTP for approval, Yankee moves that this proceeding be terminated.

See 'ouisiana Energy Services (Claiborne Enrichment Center), CLI-98-5,47 NRC 113 1998); Northern States Power Co. (Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation), LBP 17,46 NRC 227 (1997).

'Under the Commission's regulations, a licensee has the option of submitting a license termination plan either prior to or concurrently with a license termination request. Yankee Atomic Electric Company (Yankee Nuclear Power Station), CLI-98-21,48 NRC 185,196 (1998). Yankee presently does not envision a license termination request for at least a decade.

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3. Paripassu, Yankee advises the Commission of the foregoing and suggests that the pending appeal by Yankee from LBP-99-14, having become moot, should be dis-missed.

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R. K. Gad m Ropes & Gray One International Place Boston, Massachusetts 02110 Dated: May 26,1999.

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References:

(a) License No. DPR-3 (Docket No. 50-29)

(b) letter, A. C. Kadak, Yankee Atomic Electric Company (YAEC), to M.

B. Fairtile (NRC) " License Termination Plan for Yankee Nuclear Power Station", May 15,1997.

(c) Letter. D. K. Davis (YAEC) to M. B. Fairtile (USNRC) " Proposed License Amendment to Approve Yankee Nuclear Power Station License Termination Plan," December 18,1997.

(d) Letter, T. G. Dignan & R. K. Gad III (Ropes & Gray) to Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, May 13,1999.

(c) U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREO-1575, " Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual," December 1997.

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Withdrawal of Proposed License Amendment to Approve Yankee Nuclear Power Station's License Termination Plan References (b) and (c) submitted Yankee Atomic Electric Company's (YAEC) request for approval of the License Termination Plan for the Yankee Nuclear Power Station.

Reference (d) notified the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) that YAEC had decided to cmploy the " Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual" (MARSSIM) survey methodology (Reference (e)) for the Final Status Survey described in the License Tennination Plan. This decision will result in a major revision to the License Termination Plan. Therefore, YAEC hereby withdraws the proposed license amendment

e MAY-25-1999 TUE 03:29 PM ADMIN 2 FAX N0. 860 267 3535 P. 03 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attention: Document ControlDesk May 25,1999 Page 2 to approve the Yankee Nuclear Power Station. License Termination Plan. A new application will be submitted in the future.

Very truly youn, YANKES ATOMIC ELECTRIC COMPANY A

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