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Federal Register: December 22, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 245)NoticesPage 70806-70807From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Docket Nos. 50-277 and 50-278PECO Energy Company, Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses

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

[Page 70807]granted the request of PECO Energy Company (the licensee) to withdraw its May 5, 1997, application for proposed amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-44 and DPR-56 for Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Units 2 and 3, located in York County, Pennsylvania.

The proposed amendments would have involved an unreviewed safety question (USQ) and modified the facility, as described in the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report, by replacing the suction strainers for emergency core cooling system.

The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on June 25, 1997 (62 FR 34318). However, by letter dated December 11, 1998, the licensee withdrew the proposed change.

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated May 5, 1997, as supplemented by letters dated August 22 and September 26, 1997; and the licensee's letter dated December 11, 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 Government Publications Section, State Library of Pennsylvania, (REGIONAL DEPOSITORY) Education Building, Walnut Street and Commonwealth Avenue, Box 1601, Harrisburg, PA, 17105.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of December 1998.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Mohan C. Thadani, Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate I-2, Division of Reactor Projects -I/II, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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