Northeast Nuclear Energy Company Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-423]

Northeast Nuclear Energy Company Notice of Withdrawal of

Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted

the request of Northeast Nuclear Energy Company (the licensee) to

withdraw its May 30, 1997, application for proposed amendment to

Facility Operating License No. NPF-49 for the Millstone Nuclear Power

Station, Unit 3, located in New London County, Connecticut.

Technical Specification (TS) Surveillances 4.5.2.f and 4.6.2.2.b

require the periodic flow testing of the recirculation spray system

pumps. The proposed amendment would have changed the surveillances by

replacing the pump differential acceptance criteria with a pump

acceptance curve.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of

Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on July 2, 1997

(62 FR 35849). However, by letter dated October 15, 1997, the licensee

withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the

application for amendment dated May 30, 1997, and the licensee's letter

dated October 15, 1997, which withdrew the application for license

amendment. The above 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 document room

located at the Learning Resources Center, Three 2-Rivers Community-

Technical College, 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich, Connecticut, and

the Waterford Library, ATTN: Vince Juliano, 49 Rope Ferry Road,

Waterford, Connecticut.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of October 1997.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

James W. Andersen,

Project Manager, Special Projects Office--Licensing, Office of Nuclear

Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 97-28758 Filed 10-29-97; 8:45 am]

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