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Karen J. York,

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Special Emphasis Panel in

Mathematical Sciences; Notice of

Meeting

In accordance with the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463, as amended), the National Science

Foundation announces the following

meeting.

Name and Committee Code: Special

Emphasis in Mathematical Sciences (1204).

Date and Time: November, 29–December 1,

2000; 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Place: Room 320, 330, & 360, National

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,

Arlington, VA 22230.

Type of Meeting: Closed.

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Deborah F. Lockhart, Benjamin M. Mann,

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Dated: October 31, 2000.

Karen J. York,

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Special Emphasis Panel in Physics;

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In accordance with the Federal

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463, as amended), the National Science

Foundation announces the following

meetings of the Special Emphasis Panel

in Physics (1208):

Date/Time: December 5, 2000; 8 a.m.–6

p.m.

Place: Sate University of New York at

Stony Brook.

Contact Person: Dr. Bradley D. Keister,

Program Director for Nuclear, Division of

Physics, National Science Foundation, 4201

Wilson Boulevard, Room 1015, Arlington,

VA 22230. Telephone: (703) 292–7377,

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scientific program of the nuclear physics

laboratory and experimental group at SUNY

Stony Brook.

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6 p.m.

Place: Indiana University Cyclotron

Facility, Indiana University.

Contact Person: Dr. Bradley D. Keister,

Program Director for Nuclear Physics,

Division of Physics, National Science

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1015, Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: (703)

292–7377.

Purpose of Meeting: To review the

scientific program of the nuclear physics

experimental group at Indiana University.

Date/Time: January 8–10, 2001; 8 a.m.–

5:30 p.m.

Place: National Science Foundation, 4201

Wilson Blvd., Room 320, Arlington, VA.

Contact Person: Dr. Bradley D. Keister,

Program Director for Nuclear Physics,

Division of Physics, National Science

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room

1015, Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: (703)

292–7377.

Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and

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financial support.

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salaries; and personal information

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in the Sunshine Act.

Dated: October 31, 2000.

Karen J. York,

Committee Management Officer.

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Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463, as amended), the National Science

Foundation announces the following

meeting:

Name: Special Emphasis Panel in Social,

Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (#1766).

Date/Time: January 4–5, 2001; 8 a.m. to 5

p.m.

Place: National Science Foundation, 4201

Wilson Blvd., Rooms 360, 3365, and 360,

Arlington, VA.

Type of Meeting: Closed.

Contact Person: Ms. Susan Parris, Program

Manager, International Research Fellowship

Program, Division of International Programs,

National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson

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Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and

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submitted to the National Science

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applications to the International Research

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the program announcement (NSF 00141).

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Dated: October 31, 2000.

Karen J. York,

Committee Management Officer.

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[Docket No. 50–461]

In the Matter of Amergen Energy

Company, LLC (Clinton Power

Station); Exemption

I

AmerGen Energy Company, LLC

(AmerGen, the licensee) is the holder of

Facility Operating License No. NPF–62

which authorizes operation of the

Clinton Power Station (CPS). The

license provides, among other things,

that the facility is subject to all rules,

regulations, and orders of the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the

Commission) now or hereafter in effect.

The facility consists of a boiling water

reactor located on the licensee’s CPS

site in DeWitt County, Illinois.

II

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) has established

requirements in Appendix G of Part 50

to Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations

(10 CFR Part 50, Appendix G), to protect

the integrity of the reactor coolant

pressure boundary in nuclear power

plants. This Appendix to Part 50

requires the pressure-temperature (P–T)

limits for an operating plant to be at

least as conservative as those that would

be generated if the methods of

Appendix G to Section XI of the

American Society of Mechanical

Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel

Code (Appendix G to the Code) were

applied. The methodology of Appendix

G to the Code postulates the existence

of a sharp surface flaw in the reactor

pressure vessel (RPV) that is normal to

the direction of the maximum applied

stress. For materials in the beltline and

upper and lower head regions of the

RPV, the maximum flaw size is

postulated to have a depth that is equal

to one-fourth of the thickness and a

length equal to 1.5 times the thickness.

For the case of evaluating RPV nozzles,

the surface flaw is postulated to

propagate parallel to the axis of the

nozzle’s corner radius. The basic

parameter in Appendix G to the Code

for calculating P–T limit curves is the

stress intensity factor, Kl, which is a

function of the stress state and flaw

configuration. The methodology

requires that licensees determine the

reference stress intensity (Kla) factors,

which vary as a function of temperature,

from the reactor coolant system (RCS)

operating temperatures, and from the

adjusted reference temperatures (ARTs)

for the limiting materials in the RPV.

Thus, the critical locations in the RPV

beltline and head regions are the 1⁄4-

thickness (1⁄4T) and 3⁄4-thickness (3⁄4T)

locations, which correspond to the

points of the crack tips if the flaws are

initiated and grown from the inside and

outside surfaces of the vessel,

respectively. Regulatory Guide (RG)

1.99, Revision 2, provides an acceptable

method of calculating ARTs for ferritic

RPV materials; the methods of RG 1.99,

Revision 2, include methods for

adjusting the ARTs of materials in the

beltline region of the RPV, where the

effects of neutron irradiation may

induce an increased level of

embrittlement in the materials.

The methodology of Appendix G

requires that P–T curves must satisfy a

safety factor of 2.0 on primary

membrane and bending stresses during

normal plant operations (including

heatups, cooldowns, and transient

operating conditions), and a safety

factor of 1.5 on primary membrane and

bending stresses when leak rate or

hydrostatic pressure tests are performed

on the RCS. Table 1 to 10 CFR Part 50,

Appendix G, provides the staff’s criteria

for meeting the P–T limit requirements

of Appendix G to the Code and 10 CFR

Part 50, Appendix G.

By letter dated August 25, 2000, as

supplemented September 21, October

14, and October 25, 2000, AmerGen

submitted a license amendment request

to update the P–T limit curves for CPS.

In the submittals, AmerGen also

requested NRC approval for exemptions

to use Code Cases N–588 and N–640 as

methods that would allow AmerGen to

deviate from complying with the

requirements in 10 CFR Part 50,

Appendix G, for generating the P–T

limit curves.

Code Case N–588

AmerGen has requested, pursuant to

10 CFR 50.60(b), an exemption to use

Code Case N–588 as the basis for

evaluating the axial and circumferential

welds in the CPS RPV. The current

methods of appendix G to the Code

mandate consideration of an axial flaw

in full penetration RPV welds, and thus,

for circumferential welds, dictate that

the flaw be oriented transverse to the

axis of the weld. Postulation of an axial

flaw in a circumferential weld is

unrealistic because the length of the

flaw would extend well beyond the

girth of the circumferential weld and

into the adjoining base metal material.

Industry experience with the repair of

weld indications found during

preservice inspection, and data taken

from destructive examination of actual

vessel welds, confirms that any

remaining flaws are small, laminar in

nature, and do not transverse the weld

bead orientation. Therefore, any

potential defects introduced during the

fabrication process, and not detected

during subsequent nondestructive

examinations, would only be expected

to be oriented in the direction of weld

fabrication. For circumferential RPV

welds, the methods of the Code Case

therefore postulate the presence of a

flaw that is oriented in a direction

parallel to the axis of the weld (i.e., in

a circumferential orientation).

An analysis provided to the American

Society of Mechanical Engineers

(ASME) Code’s Working Group on

Operating Plant Criteria (WGOPC) (in

which Code Case N–588 was developed)

indicated that if an axial flaw is

postulated on a circumferential weld,

then based on the correction factors for