ML033090142

Withdrawal of an Amendment Request

ML033090142
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	11/13/2003
From:	Nerses V NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD1
To:	Peschel J, Warner M Florida Power & Light Energy Seabrook
Nerses V, NRR//DLPM, 415-1484
References
TAC MB4748
Download: ML033090142 (5)

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November 13, 2003 Mr. Mark E. Warner, Site Vice President c/o James M. Peschel Seabrook Station PO Box 300 Seabrook, NH 03874

SUBJECT:

SEABROOK STATION, UNIT NO.1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NO. MB4748)

Dear Mr. Warner:

By letter dated March 22, 2002, North Atlantic Energy Service Corporation (NAESCO), as the then licensee for Seabrook Station, Unit No. 1 (Seabrook Station), applied for an amendment to the Seabrook Station Facility Operating License No. NPF-86. On November 1, 2002, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) approved the transfer of the license for Seabrook Station, to the extent held by NAESCO, and certain co-owners of the facility, on whose behalf NAESCO was also acting, to FPL Energy Seabrook, LLC (FPLE Seabrook). By letter dated December 20, 2002, FPLE Seabrook requested that the NRC continue to review and act upon all requests before the Commission that had been submitted by NAESCO. The proposed March 22, 2002 amendment request would have modified the facility technical specifications pertaining to spent fuel assembly storage. Subsequently, by letter dated September 15, 2003, 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/

Victor Nerses, Senior Project Manager, Section 2 Project Directorate I Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-443

Enclosure:

As stated cc w/encl: See next page

November 13, 2003 Mr. Mark E. Warner, Site Vice President c/o James M. Peschel Seabrook Station PO Box 300 Seabrook, NH 03874

SUBJECT:

SEABROOK STATION, UNIT NO.1 - WITHDRAWAL OF AN AMENDMENT REQUEST (TAC NO. MB4748)

Dear Mr.Warner:

By letter dated March 22, 2002, North Atlantic Energy Service Corporation (NAESCO), as the then licensee for Seabrook Station, Unit No. 1 (Seabrook Station), applied for an amendment to the Seabrook Station Facility Operating License No. NPF-86. On November 1, 2002, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) approved the transfer of the license for Seabrook Station, to the extent held by NAESCO, and certain co-owners of the facility, on whose behalf NAESCO was also acting, to FPL Energy Seabrook, LLC (FPLE Seabrook). By letter dated December 20, 2002, FPLE Seabrook requested that the NRC continue to review and act upon all requests before the Commission that had been submitted by NAESCO. The proposed March 22, 2002 amendment request would have modified the facility technical specifications pertaining to spent fuel assembly storage. Subsequently, by letter dated September 15, 2003, 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/

Victor Nerses, Senior Project Manager, Section 2 Project Directorate I Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-443

Enclosure:

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Mr. J. A. Stall Mr. Stephen McGrail, Director Senior Vice President, Nuclear and ATTN: James Muckerheide Chief Nuclear Officer Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency Florida Power & Light Company 400 Worcester Road P.O. Box 14000 Framingham, MA 01702-5399 Juno Beach, FL 33408-0420 Philip T. McLaughlin, Attorney General Mr. Peter Brann Steven M. Houran, Deputy Attorney Assistant Attorney General General State House, Station #6 33 Capitol Street Augusta, ME 04333 Concord, NH 03301 Resident Inspector Mr. Donald Bliss, Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission New Hampshire Office of Emergency Seabrook Nuclear Power Station Management P.O. Box 1149 State Office Park South Seabrook, NH 03874 107 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301 Town of Exeter 10 Front Street Mr. Daniel G. Roy Exeter, NH 03823 Nuclear Training Manager Seabrook Station Regional Administrator, Region I FPL Energy Seabrook, LLC U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O. Box 300 475 Allendale Road Seabrook, NH 03874 King of Prussia, PA 19406 Mr. Gene F. St. Pierre Office of the Attorney General Station Director One Ashburton Place, 20th Floor Seabrook Station Boston, MA 02108 FPL Energy Seabrook, LLC P.O. Box 300 Board of Selectmen Seabrook, NH 03874 Town of Amesbury Town Hall Mr. M. S. Ross, Attorney Amesbury, MA 01913 Florida Power & Light Company P.O. Box 14000 Mr. Dan McElhinney Juno Beach, FL 33408-0420 Federal Emergency Management Agency Region I Mr. Rajiv S. Kundalkar J.W. McCormack P.O. & Vice President - Nuclear Engineering Courthouse Building, Room 401 Florida Power & Light Company Boston, MA 02109 P.O. Box 14000 Juno Beach, FL 33408-0420 Mr. Jack Devine Polestar Applied Technology One First Street, Suite 4 Los Altos, CA 94019

7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION FPL ENERGY SEABROOK, LLC DOCKET NO. 50-443 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of FPL Energy Seabrook, LLC (licensee) to withdraw its March 22, 2002, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-86 for the Seabrook Station, Unit No. 1, located in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

The proposed amendment would have revised Technical Specification (TS) 3/4.9.13, Spent Fuel Storage, and associated TS figures and index.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on May 14, 2002, (67 FR 34489).

However, by letter dated September 15, 2003, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated March 22, 2002, and the licensee's letter dated September 15, 2003, which withdrew the application for license amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the NRCs 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/adams/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 13th day of Novemeber, 2003.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

/RA/

Victor Nerses, Senior Project Manager, Section 2 Project Directorate I Division of Licensing Project Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation