ML073610533

Withdrawal of an Amendment Request to Technical Specification 5.5.13, Primary Containment Leakage Rate Testing (Tac No. MD5798)

ML073610533
Person / Time
Site:	LaSalle
Issue date:	01/14/2008
From:	Sands S P NRC/NRR/ADRO/DORL/LPLIII-2
To:	Pardee C G Exelon Generation Co
Sands S P
References
TAC MD5798
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January 14, 2008

Mr. Charles G. Pardee Chief Nuclear Officer and Senior Vice President Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT:

LASALLE COUNTY STATION, UNIT 1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST TO TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 5.5.13, "PRIMARY CONTAINMENT LEAKAGE RATE TESTING" (TAC NO. MD5798)

Dear Mr. Pardee:

By letter dated June 18, 2007, as supplemented by letter dated September 7, 2007, Exelon Generation Company, LLC applied for an amendment to the LaSalle County Station (LSCS),

Unit 1, Facility Oper ating License No. NPF-11. The proposed change would have modified facility Technical Specification (TS) 5.5.13 pertaining to primary containment l eakage rate testing to reflect a one-time extension of the LSCS, Unit 1 primary containment Type A Integrated Leak Rate Test date from the current requirement of no later that June 13, 2009, to prior to startup following the thirteenth LSCS refueling outage for Unit 1. Subsequently, by letter dated October 12, 2007, you withdrew the amendment request.

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

Sincerely,

/RA/ Stephen P. Sands, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Docket No. 50-373

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal

cc w/encl: See next page

Mr. Charles G. Pardee January 14, 2008 Chief Nuclear Officer and Senior Vice President Exelon Generation Company, LLC 4300 Winfield Road Warrenville, IL 60555

SUBJECT:

LASALLE COUNTY STATION, UNIT 1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST TO TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 5.5.13, "PRIMARY CONTAINMENT LEAKAGE RATE TESTING" (TAC NO. MD5798)

Dear Mr. Pardee:

By letter dated June 18, 2007, as supplemented by letter dated September 7, 2007, Exelon Generation Company, LLC applied for an amendment to the LaSalle County Station (LSCS),

Unit 1, Facility Oper ating License No. NPF-11. The proposed change would have modified facility Technical Specification (TS) 5.5.13 pertaining to primary containment l eakage rate testing to reflect a one-time extension of the LSCS, Unit 1 primary containment Type A Integrated Leak Rate Test date from the current requirement of no later that June 13, 2009, to prior to startup following the thirteenth LSCS refueling outage for Unit 1. Subsequently, by letter dated October 12, 2007, you withdrew the amendment request.

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

Sincerely, /RA/ Stephen P. Sands, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Docket No. 50-373

Enclosure:

Notice of Withdrawal

cc w/encl: See next page

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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

EXELON GENERATION COMPANY, LLC

DOCKET NO. 50-373

NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR

AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Exelon Generation Company, LLC (the licensee), to withdraw its June 18, 2007, application for

proposed amendment, as supplemented by letter dated September 7, 2007, to Facility Operating License No. NPF-11, for the LaSalle County Station (LSCS), Unit 1, located in Will County. The proposed amendment would have revised the facility Te chnical Specif ication 5.5.13 pertaining to primary containment leakage rate testing, to reflect a one-time extension of the LSCS, Unit 1 primary containment Type A Integrated Leak Rate Test date from the current requirement of no later that June 13, 2009, to prior to startup following the thirteenth LSCS refueling outage for Unit 1. The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on July 31, 2007 (72 FR 41784). However, by letter dated October 12, 2007, the licensee withdrew the proposed change. For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated June 18, 2007, as supplemented by letter dated September 7, 2007, and the licensee's letter dated October 12, 2007, which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC

=s Public Document Room (PDR), located at One White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by email to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of January, 2008. FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/ Stephen P. Sands, Project Manager Plant Licensing Branch III-2 Division of Operating Reactor Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2

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