ML20199E732
| ML20199E732 | |
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| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 12/24/1998 |
| From: | Harris P NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| NUDOCS 9901210067 | |
| Download: ML20199E732 (3) | |
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m UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY Cd8IMif510N is BIG ROCK POINT PLANT @ g DOCKET NO. 50-155 i
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CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPAN( $ 3 ch NOTICE OF PARTIAL WITHDRAWAL OF APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Consumers Energy Company (Consumers or the licensee) to withdraw parts of l
its September 19,1997, application, as supplemented October 10 and November 12, l 1997, and June 5, July 21 and 27, October 14, November 25 and December 21,1998, for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-6 for the Big Rock Point (BRP) Plant located in Charlevoix County, Michigan.
The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Reaister on December 3,1997 (62 FR 63974), l pursuant to the licensee's September 19,1997, request, as supplemented. This proposed amendment was to amend the DPR-6 license and change Appendix A, Technical Specifications (TS), to the license to reflect the permanently shutdown and defueled condition of the BRP facility.
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2 By letters dated November 25 and December 21,1998, the licensee proposed to withdraw parts of its September 19,1997, request, as supplemented. As requested in l the November 25,1998, letter, these parts include withdrawal of proposed changes with regard to: (1) storage of spent fuel with a decay time of greater than one year in the outer three rows of the fuel rack adjacent to the south wall of the spent fuel poo!;
(2) deletion of portions of TS 6.12.1.b regarding the use of a radiation monitoring device which continuously integrates the radiation dose rate in the area and alarms when a preset integrated dose is received; (3) applicability of TS 6.12.2 wording to dose rates equal to
-1000 millirem per hour at 30 centimeters but less than 500 rads per hour at 1 meter from the radiation source; (4) replacement of TS 6.12.2 regarding the dose rate levels in the immediate work areas and the maximum stay time for individuals in that area; (5) rt. placement of TS 13.1.3.1 regarding limitations on dose rate due to radioactive materials released in gaseous effluents; and, (6) deletion of TS 13.1.4.3 regarding dose to a member of the public from tritium and all radionuclides in particulate form with half lives greater than 8 days in gaseous ef fluents. In its December 21,1998, letter, Consumers requested to withdraw its proposed revision of the first sentence in paragraph 2.A. of the DPR-6 license that added the phrase " decommissioning of" prior to " Big Rock Point Plant."
For further details with respect to this action, see application for amendment dated September 19,1997, as supplemented October 10 and November 12,1997, and June 5, July 21 and 27, October 14,1998, and letters dated November 25 and December 21, 1998, the last two of which, in part, withdrew certain portions of the proposed amendment request. The above documents are available for public inspection at the
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, Commission's Public Document Room, the Gelman Building,2120 L Street, NW.,
Washington DC, and at the local public document room located at the North Central Michigan College Library,1515 Howard Street, Petoskey, MI 49770.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of December 1998.
FOR TH UCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 1
P u[Vd. Harris anager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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