[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 104 (Monday, June 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29761-29762]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14392]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-331]


IES Utilities Inc.; Notice of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued 
Amendment No. 223 to Facility Operating License No. DPR-49 issued to 
IES Utilities Inc.,(the licensee), which revised the operating license 
and the Technical Specifications for operation of the Duane Arnold 
Energy Center (DAEC), located in Linn County, Iowa. The amendment is 
effective as of the date of issuance and shall be implemented prior to 
October 1, 1998.
    The amendment modified the Technical Specifications by replacing 
the existing Technical Specifications in their entirety with a new set 
of Improved Technical Specifications based on NUREG-1433, ``Standard 
Technical Specifications, General Electric Plants BWR/4,'' Revision 1, 
dated April 1995, and on guidance provided in the Commission's ``Final 
Policy Statement on Technical Specifications Improvements for Nuclear 
Power Reactors,'' published on July 22, 1993 (58 FR 39132). The 
amendment also modified the license by adding a new license condition 
which established an Appendix B to the license for additional license 
conditions. For this amendment, a condition was added to Appendix B 
describing the relocation of certain Technical Specification 
requirements to licensee controlled documents. In addition to replacing 
the Technical Specifications with the Improved Technical 
Specifications, the amendment revised the combinations of emergency 
core cooling systems/subsystems that may be out of service and relaxed 
the required flowrates for the core spray, the low pressure coolant 
injection, and the high pressure coolant injection systems.
    The application for the amendment complies with the standards and

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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.
    Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operating License and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action as it applies to the Improved Technical Specifications was 
published in the Federal Register on July 22, 1997 (62 FR 39283). 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 the 
amendment will not have a significant effect on the quality of the 
human environment (63 FR 13078, dated March 17, 1998).
    Notices of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment to Facility 
Operation License, Proposed No Significant Hazards Consideration 
Determination, and Opportunity for a Hearing in connection with this 
action as it applies to the revised combinations of emergency core 
cooling systems/subsystems that may be out of service and to the 
relaxed required flowrates for the core spray, the low pressure coolant 
injection, and the high pressure coolant injection systems were 
published in the Federal Register on December 31, 1997 (62 FR 68306) 
and February 11, 1998 (63 FR 6986), respectively. No request for a 
hearing or petition for leave to intervene was filed following these 
notices and no significant hazards consideration comments were 
received.
    For further details with respect to the action see (1) the 
application for amendment dated October 30, 1996, as supplemented by 
letters dated June 10, September 5, 17, and 30, October 16, November 18 
and 21, December 8 and 15, 1997, January 2, 5, 12, 22 and 23, February 
10, 26, March 23, 31, and April 17, 1998, (2) Amendment No. 223 to 
License No. DPR-49, (3) the Commission's related Safety Evaluation, and 
(4) the Commission's Environmental Assessment. All of these items 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 local public document 
room located at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, 500 First Street, SE., 
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of May 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard J. Laufer,
Project Manager, Project Directorate III-3, Division of Reactor 
Projects, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 98-14392 Filed 5-29-98; 8:45 am]
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