Northeast Nuclear Energy Company, et al. Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit No. 3; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-423]

Northeast Nuclear Energy Company, et al. Millstone Nuclear Power

Station, Unit No. 3; 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 July 26, 1995, application, as supplemented by letter

dated July 17, 1996, for proposed amendment to Facility Operating

License No. NPF-49 for the Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit No. 3,

located in New London County, Connecticut.

The proposed amendment would have revised the facility technical

specifications pertaining to the protective functions instrumentation

surveillance interval, extending the interval from the current 18-month

to a 24-month fuel cycle, and would have revised the Reactor Trip

System (RTS) and Engineered Safety Features Actuation System (ESFAS)

instrumentation trip setpoints tables from the existing five columns to

a single column format that lists only nominal trip setpoints. Revision

to the RTS and ESFAS instrumentation trip setpoints tables were

subsequently resubmitted under a separate amendment request dated

October 15, 1997, as supplemented January 23 and April 8, 1998, and

approved in amendment number 159, issued on May 26, 1998.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of

Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on November 27,

1995 (60 FR 58402). However, by letter dated April 22, 1999, the

licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the

application for amendment dated July 26, 1995, as supplemented by

letter dated July 17, 1996, and the licensee's letter dated April 22,

1999, 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 Millstone Unit 3 local public document rooms

located at the Learning Resources Center, Three Rivers Community-

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

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

Waterford, Connecticut.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of May 1999.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

John A. Nakoski,

Sr. Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate I, Division of

Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 99-13775 Filed 5-28-99; 8:45 am]

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