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 December 14, 1994, application for proposed amendment to

Facility Operating License No. 49 for the Millstone Nuclear Power

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

The proposed amendment would have (1) increased the upper bound of

the overall containment integrated leakage rate required by Technical

Specification (TS) 3.6.1.2.a from 0.3 wt.% per day to 0.65 wt.% per day

of the containment air per 24 hours at design basis pressure, (2)

revised TS 4.6.6.1.d.3 by providing more margin with respect to the

drawdown time for secondary containment vacuum, and (3) revised the

applicable Bases section.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of

Issuance of Amendment published in

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the Federal Register on February 15, 1995 (60 FR 8750). However, by

letter dated February 26, 1998, the licensee withdrew the proposed

change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the

application for amendment dated December 14, 1994, and the licensee's

letter dated February 26, 1998, 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 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 11th day of March 1998.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

James W. Andersen,

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

Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 98-7278 Filed 3-19-98; 8:45 am]

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