Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-482]

Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation; Notice of Withdrawal of

Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License

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

the request of Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (the licensee)

to withdraw its June 30, 1999, application for proposed amendment to

Facility Operating License No. NPF-42 for the Wolf Creek Nuclear

Generating Station, Unit 1, located in Coffey County, Kansas.

The proposed amendment would have revised Technical Specification

3.7.5 regarding the allowed value of the ultimate heat sink

temperature. The Commission issued Amendment No. 125 on July 8, 1999,

that revised the maximum allowed value of the ultimate heat sink

temperature to 94 deg.F. In the June 30, 1999, letter, the licensee

proposed a maximum plant inlet water temperature of 95 deg.F; however

Amendment No. 125 only approved a maximum value of 94 deg.F to allow

the amendment to be within the scope of the no significant hazards

considerations published in the Federal Register on February 24, 1999

(64 FR 9203) and to be issued before the hot weather period of July and

August 1999 in and around the Wolf Creek Generating Station. The

Commission issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment

for the June 30, 1999, request that was published in the Federal

Register on July 15, 1999 (64 FR 38221). However, by conference call of

September 8, 1999, the licensee withdrew the proposed change because

the hot weather period of 1999 had past.

For further details with respect to this action, see the

application for amendment dated June 30, 1999. The above document is

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 rooms located at the Emporia State

University, William Allen White Library, 1200 Commercial Street,

Emporia, Kansas 66801 and the Washburn University School of Law

Library, Topeka, Kansas 66621.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of September 1999.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Jack N. Donohew,

Senior Project Manager, Section 2, Project Directorate IV and

Decommissioning Division of Licensing Project Management, Office of

Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 99-25348 Filed 9-28-99; 8:45 am]

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