ML19213A069

Withdrawal of an Amendment Request

ML19213A069
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	08/14/2019
From:	Justin Poole Plant Licensing Branch 1
To:	Bryan Hanson Exelon Generation Co, Exelon Nuclear
Poole J, NRR/DORL/LPLI, 301-415-2048
References
EPID L-2018-LLA-0571
Download: ML19213A069 (3)

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 August 14, 2019 Mr. Bryan C. Hanson Senior Vice President Exelon Generation Company, LLC President and Chief Nuclear Officer

' Exelon Nuclear 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT:

THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR STATION, UNIT 1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (EPID L-2018-LLA-0571)

Dear Mr. Hanson:

By letter dated December 14, 2018, you applied for an amendment to the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1, Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-50. The proposed change would have revised Technical Specification 6.8.5 "Reactor Building Leakage Rate Testing Program," to allow for a one-cycle extension to the 10-year frequency of the containment leakage rate test (i.e., Integrated Leakage Rate Test or Type A test).

Subsequently, by letter dated June 17, 2019, you withdrew the amendment request.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has filed the enclosed Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License with the Office of the Federal Register for publication.

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Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal cc: Listserv

ENCLOSURE FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE

[7590-01-P]

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-289; NRC-2019-0079]

Exelon Generation Company LLC Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 1 AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the request of Exelon Generation Company, LLC to withdraw its application dated December 14, 2018, for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-50 for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1. The proposed amendment would have revised Technical Specification 6.8.5 "Reactor Building Leakage Rate Testing Program," to allow for a one-cycle extension to the 10-year frequency of the containment leakage rate test (i.e., Integrated Leakage Rate Test (ILRT) or Type A test).

DATES: The withdrawal of the proposed amendment takes effect on [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0079 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0079. Address questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-9127; e-mail:

Jennifer.Borqes@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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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 (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this document.

• 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: Justin C. Poole, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2048, e-mail: Justin.Poole@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The NRC has granted the request, dated June 17, 2019 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19169A031), of Exelon Generation Company, LLC (the licensee) to withdraw its application, dated December 14, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18351A006), for proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-50 for the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1, located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

The amendment would have revised Technical Specification 6.8.5 "Reactor Building Leakage Rate Testing Program." The amendment would have allowed for a one-cycle extension to the 10-year frequency of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, 2

Unit 1, containment leakage rate test (i.e., ILRT or Type A test). The proposed change would have permitted the existing ILRT to be extended from 10 years to 11. 75 years.

This extension would have moved the performance of the next ILRT from the scheduled fall 2019 refueling outage to the fall 2021 refueling outage.

Exelon's December 14, 2018, request was noticed in the Federal Register on March 26, 2019 (84 FR 11338).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of August, 2019.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

IRA/

James G. Danna, Chief, Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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