[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 103 (Friday, May 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29460-29461]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14240]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. STN-50-528, STN 50-529, and STN 50-530]


Arizona Public Service Company, et al.; Notice of Issuance of 
Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment Nos. 117 to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF-41, NPF-51, 
and NPF-74, issued to the Arizona Public Service Company, et al. (the 
licensee) for operation of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, 
Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3, respectively, located in Maricopa County, 
Arizona.
    The amendments are effective as of the date of issuance.
    The amendments replace, in their entirety, the current technical 
specifications (TS) with a set of TS based on NUREG-1432, ``Standard 
Technical Specifications, Combustion Engineering Plants,'' Revision 1, 
April 1995. In addition, the amendments add four license conditions to 
Appendix D that require (1) the relocation of previous TS requirements 
into licensee-controlled documents, (2) the first performance of new 
and revised surveillance requirements for the improved TS (ITS) to be 
related to the implementation of the ITS, (3) the addition of a listing 
to Section 17.2 of the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report (UFSAR) of 
the commitments in the Quality Assurance Program (QAP) that are not in 
Chapter 17 of the UFSAR, and (4) the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating 
Station commercial-grade equipment certification program to be adequate 
to detect certain types of failures. The implementation of the 
amendments and the license conditions will be on or about September 15, 
1998.
    The application for the amendments 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 
amendments.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendments and Opportunity 
for Hearing in connection with this action was published in the Federal 
Register on April 14, 1997 (62 FR 18153). No request for a hearing or 
petition for leave to intervene was filed following this notice.
    The Commission has prepared an Environmental Assessment related to 
the action and has determined not to prepare an environmental impact 
statement. Based upon the environmental assessment, the Commission has 
concluded that the issuance of this amendment will not have a 
significant effect on the quality of the human environment.
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendments dated October 4, 1996, as supplemented by 
(a) the 19 letters in 1997 dated January 31, March 16, May 30, May 30, 
June 6, July 18, July 18, July 18, July 18, July 18, August 31, 
September 18, September 18, September 19, September 19, November 7, 
November 14, November 26, and December 16, and (b) the three letters in 
1998 dated February 12, March 27, and May 1, (2) Amendment No. 117 to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-41, Amendment No. 117 to Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-51, and Amendment No. 117 to Facility 
Operating License No. NPF-74, and (3) the Commission's related Safety 
Evaluation and Environmental Assessment. All of these items are 
available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document 
Room, the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street,

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N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the local public document room located 
at the Phoenix Public Library, 1221 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 
85004.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of May 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jack N. Donohew,
Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate IV-1, Division of Reactor 
Projects III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-14240 Filed 5-28-98; 8:45 am]
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