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Renewed Facility Operating License
Nos. NPF–68 and NPF–81: Amendments
revised the Renewed Facility Operating
Licenses and Technical Specifications.
Date of initial notice in Federal
Register: May 24, 2016 (81 FR 32809).
The Commission’s related evaluation
of the amendment is contained in a
Safety Evaluation dated August 4, 2016.
No significant hazards consideration
comments received: No.
Southern Nuclear Operating Company,
Docket Nos. 50–348 and 50–364, Joseph
M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2,
Houston County, Alabama
Date of amendment request: March
16, 2016.
Brief description of amendments: The
amendments revised the Technical
Specifications to allow the use of
Optimized ZIRLOTM as an approved fuel
rod cladding.
Date of issuance: August 4, 2016.
Effective date: As of the date of
issuance and shall be implemented
within 90 days of issuance.
Amendment Nos.: 204 (Unit 1) and
200 (Unit 2). A publicly-available
version is in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML16179A386; documents related
to these amendments are listed in the
Safety Evaluation enclosed with the
amendments.
Renewed Facility Operating License
Nos. NPF–2 and NPF–8: Amendments
revised the Renewed Facility Operating
Licenses and Technical Specifications.
Date of initial notice in Federal
Register: May 24, 2016 (81 FR 32808).
The Commission’s related evaluation
of the amendment is contained in a
Safety Evaluation dated August 4, 2016.
No significant hazards consideration
comments received: No.
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Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating
Corporation, Docket No. 50–482, Wolf
Creek Generating Station, Coffey
County, Kansas
Date of amendment request: January
27, 2016, as supplemented by letter
dated May 19, 2016.
Brief description of amendment: The
amendment revised the Technical
Specifications to allow the use of
Optimized ZIRLOTM as an approved
fuel rod cladding.
Date of issuance: The amendment is
effective upon issuance and shall be
implemented within 90 days of the date
of issuance.
Effective date: August 3, 2016.
Amendment No.: 216. A publiclyavailable version is in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML16179A293;
documents related to this amendment
are listed in the Safety Evaluation
enclosed with the amendment.
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Renewed Facility Operating License
No. NPF–42. The amendment revised
the Operating License and Technical
Specifications.
Date of initial notice in Federal
Register: April 12, 2016 (81 FR 21603).
The supplemental letter dated May 19,
2016, provided additional information
that clarified the application, did not
expand the scope of the application as
originally noticed, and did not change
the staff’s original proposed no
significant hazards consideration
determination as published in the
Federal Register.
The Commission’s related evaluation
of the amendment is contained in a
Safety Evaluation dated August 3, 2016.
No significant hazards consideration
comments received: No.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day
of August 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anne T. Boland,
Director, Division of Operating Reactor
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50–285; NRC–2016–0096]
Omaha Public Power District; Fort
Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: License amendment application;
withdrawal by applicant.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has granted the
request of the Omaha Public Power
District (the licensee) to withdraw its
license amendment application dated
April 4, 2016, for a proposed
amendment to Renewed Facility
Operating License No. DPR–40 for the
Fort Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1 (FCS).
The proposed amendment would have
modified License Condition D, Fire
Protection Program, by withdrawing the
commitments in REC–119 and REC–120
to implement certain plant
modifications as stated in License
Condition Paragraph 3.D.(3)(b).
DATES: The license amendment was
withdrawn by the licensee on August
18, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2016–0096 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly-available
information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
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• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2016–0096. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it is available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that
it is mentioned in this document.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl
F. Lyon, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001; telephone: 301–415–2296, email:
Fred.Lyon@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC
has granted the request of the licensee
to withdraw its April 4, 2016, license
amendment application (ADAMS
Accession No. ML16103A348), for a
proposed amendment to Renewed
Facility Operating License No. DPR–40
for the FCS, located in Washington
County, Nebraska.
The proposed amendment would
have modified License Condition D, Fire
Protection Program, by withdrawing the
commitments in REC–119 and REC–120
to implement certain plant
modifications as stated in License
Condition Paragraph 3.D.(3)(b), due to
the fact that they are not necessary to
meet the performance requirements of
the risk-informed fire protection
standard.
This proposed amendment was
noticed in the Federal Register on June
7, 2016 (81 FR 36605). By letter dated
August 18, 2016 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML16231A512), the licensee
withdrew its license amendment
application.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day
of August 2016.
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 168 / Tuesday, August 30, 2016 / Notices
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Carl F. Lyon,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV–
1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016–20807 Filed 8–29–16; 8:45 am]
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[Docket Nos. 50–317 and 50–318; NRC–
2016–0181]
Exelon Generation Company, LLC;
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant,
Units 1 and 2; Update Schedule for
Updated Final Safety Analysis Report
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Exemption; issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing an
exemption in response to a January 29,
2016, application from Exelon
Generation Company, LLC (Exelon), the
licensee for Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power
Plant (CCNPP), Units 1 and 2, for
Renewed Facility Operating License
Nos. DPR–53 and DPR–60, which
requested an exemption from the
updated final safety analysis report
(UFSAR) update schedule requirements
in the NRC’s regulations. The NRC staff
reviewed this request and is granting an
exemption from the requirement that an
update to the UFSAR be submitted 6
months after the refueling outage for
each unit. The exemption allows the
update to the CCNPP UFSAR to be
submitted within 6 months following
the completion of each CCNPP Unit 2
refueling outage, not to exceed 24
months from the last submittal.
DATES: The exemption was issued on
August 18, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2016–0181 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly-available
information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2016–0181. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
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ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that
a document is referenced.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard V. Guzman, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
1030, email: Richard.Guzman@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The CCNPP is a two-unit plant, both
units of which share an UFSAR. A strict
interpretation of the language contained
in 50.71(e)(4) of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), would
require Exelon to update this single
UFSAR within 6 months after each
unit’s refueling outage. In August 1992,
the NRC promulgated a rule change
entitled ‘‘Reducing the Regulatory
Burden on Nuclear Licensees,’’ which
affected 10 CFR 50.71(e)(4). This rule
change was published in the Federal
Register on August 31, 1992 (57 FR
39358), with an effective date of October
1, 1992, and was intended to provide a
reduction in regulatory burden by, in
part, providing licensees with the
option to submit UFSAR updates once
per refueling outage, not to exceed 24
months between successive updates,
instead of annually. However, when a
single UFSAR is shared between the
units of a multi-unit plant and those
units have staggered refueling outages
(i.e., one unit a year on alternating
years), as is the case with CCNPP, 10
CFR 50.71(e)(4) has the net effect of still
requiring that the UFSAR be updated
annually. Therefore, as written, the
burden reduction provided by 10 CFR
50.71(e)(4) of providing licensees with
the option to submit UFSAR updates
each refueling outage instead of
annually can only be realized by singleunit facilities, by multi-unit facilities
that maintain separate UFSARs for each
unit, or by multi-unit facilities that
share a single UFSAR and have nonstaggered refueling outages—none of
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which is the case for CCNPP.
Consequently, since CCNPP is a multiunit facility with a single shared USFAR
and a staggered refueling outage
schedule, the phrase ‘‘each refueling
outage’’ in 10 CFR 50.71(e)(4) does not
decrease the regulatory burden on the
licensee as was the intent of the rule.
II. Request/Action
Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, ‘‘Specific
exemptions,’’ the licensee has, by
application dated January 29, 2016
(ADAMS Accession No. ML16033A048),
requested an exemption from the
requirements of 10 CFR 50.71,
‘‘Maintenance of records, making of
reports,’’ paragraph (e)(4), related to the
schedule for submitting periodic
updates to the CCNPP UFSAR. Pursuant
to 10 CFR 50.12(a), the NRC may, upon
application by any interested person or
upon its own initiative, grant
exemptions from the requirements of
the regulations of this part, which are
authorized by law, will not present an
undue risk to the public health and
safety, and are consistent with the
common defense and security and when
special circumstances are present.
III. Discussion
Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, the NRC
may, upon application by any interested
person or upon its own initiative, grant
exemptions from the requirements of 10
CFR part 50, including 10 CFR
50.71(e)(4) when: (1) The exemptions
are authorized by law, will not present
an undue risk to the public health or
safety, and are consistent with the
common defense and security; and (2)
when special circumstances are present.
Under 10 CFR 50.12(a)(2), special
circumstances include, among other
things, when application of the specific
regulation in the particular
circumstances would not serve, or is not
necessary to achieve, the underlying
purpose of the rule.
Authorized by Law
In accordance with 10 CFR 50.12, the
NRC may grant an exemption from the
requirements of 10 CFR part 50 if the
exemption is authorized by law. The
exemption requested in this instance is
authorized by law because no other
prohibition of law exists to preclude the
activities which would be authorized by
the exemption. Additionally, even with
the granting of the exemption, the
underlying purpose of the regulation
will continue to be served. The
underlying purpose of 10 CFR
50.71(e)(4) is to ensure that licensees
periodically update their UFSARs to
assure that the UFSARs remain up-todate such that they accurately reflect the
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-285; NRC-2016-0096]
Omaha Public Power District; Fort Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License amendment application; withdrawal by applicant.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted the
request of the Omaha Public Power District (the licensee) to withdraw
its license amendment application dated April 4, 2016, for a proposed
amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No. DPR-40 for the Fort
Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1 (FCS). The proposed amendment would have
modified License Condition D, Fire Protection Program, by withdrawing
the commitments in REC-119 and REC-120 to implement certain plant
modifications as stated in License Condition Paragraph 3.D.(3)(b).
DATES: The license amendment was withdrawn by the licensee on August
18, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0096 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0096. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this
document.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl F. Lyon, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2296, email: Fred.Lyon@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC has granted the request of the
licensee to withdraw its April 4, 2016, license amendment application
(ADAMS Accession No. ML16103A348), for a proposed amendment to Renewed
Facility Operating License No. DPR-40 for the FCS, located in
Washington County, Nebraska.
The proposed amendment would have modified License Condition D,
Fire Protection Program, by withdrawing the commitments in REC-119 and
REC-120 to implement certain plant modifications as stated in License
Condition Paragraph 3.D.(3)(b), due to the fact that they are not
necessary to meet the performance requirements of the risk-informed
fire protection standard.
This proposed amendment was noticed in the Federal Register on June
7, 2016 (81 FR 36605). By letter dated August 18, 2016 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML16231A512), the licensee withdrew its license amendment
application.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of August 2016.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Carl F. Lyon,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV-1, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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