ML20210B800

Notice of Denial of Amend to Facility Operating Licenses & Opportunity for Hearing Re Licensee Amend Request to Revise TSs to Delete Requirements for Tendon Surveillance & Reporting Because of Duplication of Requirements

ML20210B800
Person / Time
Site:	Calvert Cliffs
Issue date:	07/15/1999
From:	Bajwa S NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
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ML20210B770	List: ML20210B765 ML20210B794 ML20210B800
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Download: ML20210B800 (2)

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7590-01-P UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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BALTIMORE GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-317 and 50-318 NOTICE OF DENIAL OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has denied a request by Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (licensee) for an amendment to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR No. 53 and DPR No. 69 issued to the licensee for operation of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plants, Unit Nos.1 and 2, located in Calvert County, Maryland. Notice of i

Consideration of issuance of this amendment was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on i

December 16,1998 (63 FR 69334).

T he purpose of the licensee's amendment request was to revise the Technical Specifications (TS) to delete requirements for tendon surveillance and reporting because the i

TS requirements were a duplication of the requirements of 10 CFR 50.55a.

The NRC staff has concluded that the licensee's request cannot be granted. The licensee was notified of the Commission's denial of the proposed change by a letter dated July 15,1999.

By August 23,1999, the licensee may demand a hearing with respect to the denial described above. Any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding may file a written petition for leave to intervene.

A request for hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Commission,~ U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 Attention:

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building,2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC, by the above date.

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2-A copy of any petitions should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, and to Jay E. Silberg, Esquire, 2300 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037, attorney for the licensee.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application for amendment dated November 20,1998, and (2) the Commission's letter to the licensee dated July 15, 199 9 .

I These documents 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 l

document room located at the Calvert County Library, Prince Frederick, MD 20678.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of July 1999.

l FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION I l- S. Singh Bajwa, Acting Director ,

Project Directorate l Division of Licensing Project Management  ;

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation ~

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