Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc., Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and Updates to Tier 1 Table 2.5.2-3, 50700-50702 [2018-21912]
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Date of issuance: September 19, 2018.
Effective date: As of the date of
issuance and shall be implemented
prior to startup from the fall 2018
refueling outage.
Amendment No.: 322. A publiclyavailable version is in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18214A706;
documents related to this amendment
are listed in the Safety Evaluation
enclosed with the amendment.
Renewed Facility Operating License
No. DPR–59: The amendment revised
the Renewed Facility Operating License
and TS.
Date of initial notice in Federal
Register: July 13, 2018 (83 FR 32692).
The Commission’s related evaluation
of the amendment is contained in a
Safety Evaluation dated September 19,
2018.
No significant hazards consideration
comments received: No.
Florida Power & Light Company, Docket
Nos. 50–250 and 50–251, Turkey Point
Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 3 and 4,
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Date of amendment request: August
23, 2017, as supplemented by letters
dated October 19, 2017, and March 27,
2018.
Brief description of amendments: The
amendments revised the Technical
Specifications by relocating the
explosive gas monitoring
instrumentation, explosive gas mixture,
and gas decay tanks system
requirements to licensee-controlled
documents and establishing a gas decay
tank explosive gas and radioactivity
monitoring program. The amendments
also relocated the standby feedwater
system requirements to licenseecontrolled documents and modified
related auxiliary feedwater system
requirements.
Date of issuance: September 11, 2018.
Effective date: As of the date of
issuance and shall be implemented
within 90 days of issuance.
Amendment Nos.: 282 (Unit No. 3)
and 276 (Unit No. 4). A publiclyavailable version is in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18214A125;
documents related to these amendments
are listed in the Safety Evaluation
enclosed with the amendments.
Renewed Facility Operating License
Nos. DPR–31 and DPR–41: The
amendments revised the Renewed
Facility Operating Licenses and
Technical Specifications.
Date of initial notice in Federal
Register: November 21, 2017 (82 FR
55406). The supplemental letter dated
March 27, 2018, provided additional
information that clarified the
application, did not expand the scope of
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the application as originally noticed,
and did not change the NRC staff’s
original proposed no significant hazards
consideration determination as
published in the Federal Register.
The Commission’s related evaluation
of the amendments is contained in a
Safety Evaluation dated September 11,
2018.
No significant hazards consideration
comments received: No.
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating
Corporation, Docket No. 50–482, Wolf
Creek Generating Station, Unit 1
(WCGS), Coffey County, Kansas
Date of amendment request: June 28,
2017, as supplemented by letters dated
February 15, May 29, June 20, and
August 30, 2018.
Brief description of amendment: The
amendment added new Technical
Specification (TS) 3.7.20, ‘‘Class 1E
Electrical Equipment Air Conditioning
(A/C) System,’’ to the WCGS TSs. New
TS 3.7.20 includes (1) a limiting
condition for operation (LCO) statement,
(2) an Applicability statement, during
which the LCO must be met, (3)
ACTIONS to be applied when the LCO
is not met, including Conditions,
Required Actions, and Completion
Times, and (4) Surveillance
Requirements with a specified
Frequency to demonstrate that the LCO
is met for the Class 1E Electrical
Equipment A/C System trains at WCGS.
Additionally, the Table of Contents is
also revised to reflect the incorporation
of new TS 3.7.20.
Date of issuance: September 11, 2018.
Effective date: As of the date of
issuance and shall be implemented
within 90 days from the date of
issuance.
Amendment No.: 219. A publiclyavailable version is in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18219A564;
documents related to this amendment
are listed in the Safety Evaluation
enclosed with the amendment.
Renewed Facility Operating License
No. NPF–42: The amendment revised
the Renewed Facility Operating License
and Technical Specifications.
Date of initial notice in Federal
Register: October 3, 2017 (82 FR
46099). The supplemental letters dated
February 15, May 29, June 20, and
August 30, 2018, provided additional
information that clarified the
application, did not expand the scope of
the application as originally noticed,
and did not change the NRC 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
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Safety Evaluation dated September 11,
2018.
No significant hazards consideration
comments received: No.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day
of October, 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Gregory F. Suber,
Acting Director, Division of Operating Reactor
Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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[Docket Nos. 52–025 and 52–026; NRC–
2008–0252]
Southern Nuclear Operating Company,
Inc., Vogtle Electric Generating Plant,
Units 3 and Updates to Tier 1 Table
2.5.2–3
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Exemption and combined
license amendment; issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is granting an
exemption to allow a departure from the
certification information of Tier 1 of the
generic design control document (DCD)
and is issuing License Amendment Nos.
143 and 142 to Combined Licenses
(COLs), NPF–91 and NPF–92,
respectively. The COLs were issued to
Southern Nuclear Operating Company,
Inc., and Georgia Power Company,
Oglethorpe Power Corporation, MEAG
Power SPVM, LLC, MEAG Power SPVJ,
LLC, MEAG Power SPVP, LLC, and the
City of Dalton, Georgia (collectively
SNC); for construction and operation of
the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant
(VEGP) Units 3 and 4, located in Burke
County, Georgia.
The granting of the exemption allows
the changes to Tier 1 information asked
for in the amendment. Because the
acceptability of the exemption was
determined in part by the acceptability
of the amendment, the exemption and
amendment are being issued
concurrently.
SUMMARY:
The exemption and amendment
were issued on September 25, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2008–0252 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 Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
DATES:
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for Docket ID NRC–2008–0252. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer
Borges telephone: 301–287–9127; email:
Jennifer.Borges@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
‘‘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. The request for the
amendment and exemption was
submitted by letter dated April 20, 2018,
and available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18110A113.
• 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:
Chandu Patel, Office of New Reactors,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–3025; email: Chandu.Patel@
nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is granting an exemption
from paragraph B of section III, ‘‘Scope
and Contents,’’ of appendix D, ‘‘Design
Certification Rule for the AP1000,’’ to
part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), and issuing
License Amendment Nos. 143 and 142
to COLs, NPF–91 and NPF–92,
respectively, to SNC. The exemption is
required by paragraph A.4 of section
VIII, ‘‘Processes for Changes and
Departures,’’ appendix D, to 10 CFR part
52 to allow SNC to depart from Tier 1
information. With the requested
amendment, SNC sought proposed
changes that would revise the Updated
Final Safety Analysis Report in the form
of departures from the plant-specific
Design Control Document (DCD) Tier 2
information and involves changes to
plant-specific Tier 1 information with
corresponding changes to the associated
COL Appendix C information.
Specifically, the amendment proposes
changes to plant-specific Tier 1 (and
COL Appendix C) Table 2.5.2–3, ‘‘PMS
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Automatically Actuated Engineered
Safety Features,’’ to revise the
nomenclature for ‘‘Auxiliary Spray and
Letdown Purification Line Isolation’’
and to include ‘‘Component Cooling
System Containment Isolation Valve
Closure’’ in Table 2.5.2–3.
Part of the justification for granting
the exemption was provided by the
review of the amendment. Because the
exemption is necessary in order to issue
the requested license amendment, the
NRC granted the exemption and issued
the amendment concurrently, rather
than in sequence. This included issuing
a combined safety evaluation containing
the NRC staff’s review of both the
exemption request and the license
amendment. The exemption met all
applicable regulatory criteria set forth in
§§ 50.12, 52.7, and section VIII.A.4 of
appendix D to 10 CFR part 52. The
license amendment was found to be
acceptable as well. The combined safety
evaluation is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18232A535.
Identical exemption documents
(except for referenced unit numbers and
license numbers) were issued to SNC for
VEGP Units 3 and 4 (COL Nos. NPF–91
and NPF–92). The exemption
documents for VEGP Units 3 and 4 can
be found in ADAMS under Accession
Nos. ML18232A528 and ML18232A529,
respectively. The exemption is
reproduced (with the exception of
abbreviated titles and additional
citations) in Section II of this document.
The amendment documents for COL
Nos. NPF–91 and NPF–92 are available
in ADAMS under Accession Nos.
ML18232A530 and ML18232A532,
respectively. A summary of the
amendment documents is provided in
Section III of this document.
II. Exemption
Reproduced below is the exemption
document issued to VEGP Units 3 and
4. It makes reference to the combined
safety evaluation that provides the
reasoning for the findings made by the
NRC (and listed under Item 1) in order
to grant the exemption:
1. In a letter dated April 20, 2018,
SNC requested from the Commission an
exemption to allow departures from Tier
1 information in the certified DCD
incorporated by reference in 10 CFR
part 52, appendix D, as part of license
amendment request 18–010, ‘‘Updates
to Tier 1 Table 2.5.2–3.’’
For the reasons set forth in Section 3.2
of the NRC staff’s Safety Evaluation,
which can be found in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18232A535, the
Commission finds that:
A. The exemption is authorized by
law;
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B. the exemption presents no undue
risk to public health and safety;
C. the exemption is consistent with
the common defense and security;
D. special circumstances are present
in that the application of the rule in this
circumstance is not necessary to serve
the underlying purpose of the rule;
E. the special circumstances outweigh
any decrease in safety that may result
from the reduction in standardization
caused by the exemption; and
F. the exemption will not result in a
significant decrease in the level of safety
otherwise provided by the design.
2. Accordingly, SNC is granted an
exemption from the certified DCD Tier
1 information, with corresponding
changes to Appendix C of the facility
Combined License, as described in the
licensee’s request dated April 20, 2018.
This exemption is related to, and
necessary for the granting of License
Amendment No. 143 (Unit 3) and No.
142 (Unit 4), which is being issued
concurrently with this exemption.
3. As explained in Section 5.0 of the
NRC staff’s Safety Evaluation (ADAMS
Accession No. ML18232A535), this
exemption meets the eligibility criteria
for categorical exclusion set forth in 10
CFR 51.22(c)(9). Therefore, pursuant to
10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental
impact statement or environmental
assessment needs to be prepared in
connection with the issuance of the
exemption.
4. This exemption is effective as of the
date of its issuance.
III. License Amendment Request
By letter dated April 20, 2018
(ADAMS Accession No. ML18110A113),
SNC requested that the NRC amend the
COLs for VEGP, Units 3 and 4, COLs
NPF–91 and NPF–92. The proposed
amendment is described in Section I of
this Federal Register notice.
The Commission has determined for
these amendments that the application
complies with the standards and
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the
Commission’s rules and regulations.
The Commission has made appropriate
findings as required by the Act and the
Commission’s rules and regulations in
10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in
the license amendment.
A notice of consideration of issuance
of amendment to facility operating
license or COL, as applicable, proposed
no significant hazards consideration
determination, and opportunity for a
hearing in connection with these
actions, was published in the Federal
Register on May 22, 2018 (83 FR 23738).
No comments were received during the
30-day comment period.
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The Commission has determined that
these amendments satisfy the criteria for
categorical exclusion in accordance
with 10 CFR 51.22. Therefore, pursuant
to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental
impact statement or environmental
assessment need be prepared for these
amendments.
IV. Conclusion
Using the reasons set forth in the
combined safety evaluation, the staff
granted the exemptions and issued the
amendments that SNC requested on
April 20, 2018. The exemption and
amendment were issued on September
25, 2018, as part of a combined package
to SNC (ADAMS Accession No.
ML18232A526).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day
of October 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jennifer L. Dixon-Herrity,
Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of
Licensing, Siting, and Environmental
Analysis, Office of New Reactors.
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base units by seventy percent in each of
three consecutive years; or (2)
permanently ceases to have an
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obligation under one or more but fewer
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Although the general rules on
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entertainment industry, except that the
pertinent jurisdiction is the jurisdiction
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of the collective bargaining agreement.
In contrast, the general definition of
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Congress also established special
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construction and entertainment
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ERISA, ‘‘[a]n employer to whom section
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 52-025 and 52-026; NRC-2008-0252]
Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc., Vogtle Electric
Generating Plant, Units 3 and Updates to Tier 1 Table 2.5.2-3
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Exemption and combined license amendment; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is granting an
exemption to allow a departure from the certification information of
Tier 1 of the generic design control document (DCD) and is issuing
License Amendment Nos. 143 and 142 to Combined Licenses (COLs), NPF-91
and NPF-92, respectively. The COLs were issued to Southern Nuclear
Operating Company, Inc., and Georgia Power Company, Oglethorpe Power
Corporation, MEAG Power SPVM, LLC, MEAG Power SPVJ, LLC, MEAG Power
SPVP, LLC, and the City of Dalton, Georgia (collectively SNC); for
construction and operation of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant
(VEGP) Units 3 and 4, located in Burke County, Georgia.
The granting of the exemption allows the changes to Tier 1
information asked for in the amendment. Because the acceptability of
the exemption was determined in part by the acceptability of the
amendment, the exemption and amendment are being issued concurrently.
DATES: The exemption and amendment were issued on September 25, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2008-0252 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search
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for Docket ID NRC-2008-0252. Address questions about NRC dockets to
Jennifer Borges telephone: 301-287-9127; email:
[email protected]. 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 ``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 [email protected]. 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. The request for the
amendment and exemption was submitted by letter dated April 20, 2018,
and available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML18110A113.
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: Chandu Patel, Office of New Reactors,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001;
telephone: 301-415-3025; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is granting an exemption from paragraph B of section III,
``Scope and Contents,'' of appendix D, ``Design Certification Rule for
the AP1000,'' to part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR), and issuing License Amendment Nos. 143 and 142 to COLs, NPF-
91 and NPF-92, respectively, to SNC. The exemption is required by
paragraph A.4 of section VIII, ``Processes for Changes and
Departures,'' appendix D, to 10 CFR part 52 to allow SNC to depart from
Tier 1 information. With the requested amendment, SNC sought proposed
changes that would revise the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report in
the form of departures from the plant-specific Design Control Document
(DCD) Tier 2 information and involves changes to plant-specific Tier 1
information with corresponding changes to the associated COL Appendix C
information. Specifically, the amendment proposes changes to plant-
specific Tier 1 (and COL Appendix C) Table 2.5.2-3, ``PMS Automatically
Actuated Engineered Safety Features,'' to revise the nomenclature for
``Auxiliary Spray and Letdown Purification Line Isolation'' and to
include ``Component Cooling System Containment Isolation Valve
Closure'' in Table 2.5.2-3.
Part of the justification for granting the exemption was provided
by the review of the amendment. Because the exemption is necessary in
order to issue the requested license amendment, the NRC granted the
exemption and issued the amendment concurrently, rather than in
sequence. This included issuing a combined safety evaluation containing
the NRC staff's review of both the exemption request and the license
amendment. The exemption met all applicable regulatory criteria set
forth in Sec. Sec. 50.12, 52.7, and section VIII.A.4 of appendix D to
10 CFR part 52. The license amendment was found to be acceptable as
well. The combined safety evaluation is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML18232A535.
Identical exemption documents (except for referenced unit numbers
and license numbers) were issued to SNC for VEGP Units 3 and 4 (COL
Nos. NPF-91 and NPF-92). The exemption documents for VEGP Units 3 and 4
can be found in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML18232A528 and ML18232A529,
respectively. The exemption is reproduced (with the exception of
abbreviated titles and additional citations) in Section II of this
document. The amendment documents for COL Nos. NPF-91 and NPF-92 are
available in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML18232A530 and ML18232A532,
respectively. A summary of the amendment documents is provided in
Section III of this document.
II. Exemption
Reproduced below is the exemption document issued to VEGP Units 3
and 4. It makes reference to the combined safety evaluation that
provides the reasoning for the findings made by the NRC (and listed
under Item 1) in order to grant the exemption:
1. In a letter dated April 20, 2018, SNC requested from the
Commission an exemption to allow departures from Tier 1 information in
the certified DCD incorporated by reference in 10 CFR part 52, appendix
D, as part of license amendment request 18-010, ``Updates to Tier 1
Table 2.5.2-3.''
For the reasons set forth in Section 3.2 of the NRC staff's Safety
Evaluation, which can be found in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML18232A535, the Commission finds that:
A. The exemption is authorized by law;
B. the exemption presents no undue risk to public health and
safety;
C. the exemption is consistent with the common defense and
security;
D. special circumstances are present in that the application of the
rule in this circumstance is not necessary to serve the underlying
purpose of the rule;
E. the special circumstances outweigh any decrease in safety that
may result from the reduction in standardization caused by the
exemption; and
F. the exemption will not result in a significant decrease in the
level of safety otherwise provided by the design.
2. Accordingly, SNC is granted an exemption from the certified DCD
Tier 1 information, with corresponding changes to Appendix C of the
facility Combined License, as described in the licensee's request dated
April 20, 2018. This exemption is related to, and necessary for the
granting of License Amendment No. 143 (Unit 3) and No. 142 (Unit 4),
which is being issued concurrently with this exemption.
3. As explained in Section 5.0 of the NRC staff's Safety Evaluation
(ADAMS Accession No. ML18232A535), this exemption meets the eligibility
criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(9).
Therefore, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental impact
statement or environmental assessment needs to be prepared in
connection with the issuance of the exemption.
4. This exemption is effective as of the date of its issuance.
III. License Amendment Request
By letter dated April 20, 2018 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18110A113),
SNC requested that the NRC amend the COLs for VEGP, Units 3 and 4, COLs
NPF-91 and NPF-92. The proposed amendment is described in Section I of
this Federal Register notice.
The Commission has determined for these amendments that the
application complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Commission's rules
and regulations. The Commission has made appropriate findings as
required by the Act and the Commission's rules and regulations in 10
CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendment.
A notice of consideration of issuance of amendment to facility
operating license or COL, as applicable, proposed no significant
hazards consideration determination, and opportunity for a hearing in
connection with these actions, was published in the Federal Register on
May 22, 2018 (83 FR 23738). No comments were received during the 30-day
comment period.
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The Commission has determined that these amendments satisfy the
criteria for categorical exclusion in accordance with 10 CFR 51.22.
Therefore, pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental impact
statement or environmental assessment need be prepared for these
amendments.
IV. Conclusion
Using the reasons set forth in the combined safety evaluation, the
staff granted the exemptions and issued the amendments that SNC
requested on April 20, 2018. The exemption and amendment were issued on
September 25, 2018, as part of a combined package to SNC (ADAMS
Accession No. ML18232A526).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of October 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jennifer L. Dixon-Herrity,
Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of Licensing, Siting, and
Environmental Analysis, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2018-21912 Filed 10-5-18; 8:45 am]
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