[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 235 (Monday, December 8, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 68428]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-30359]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50-369 and 50-370]


Duke Energy Corporation; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for 
Amendment to Facility Operating License

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has 
granted the request of Duke Energy Corporation (the licensee) to 
withdraw its February 27, 2003, application for proposed amendment to 
Facility Operating License No. NPF-9 and NPF-17 for the McGuire Nuclear 
Station, Units 1 and 2, located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
    The proposed amendment would have revised the Technical 
Specifications to allow the use of four mixed oxide (MOX) fuel lead 
test (LTA) assemblies at either of the Catawba Nuclear Station, Units 1 
and 2, (Catawba) or the McGuire Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2.
    The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of 
Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on July 25, 
2003 (68 FR 44107). However, by letter dated September 23, 2003, the 
licensee amended the application to apply only to the use of MOX LTAs 
at the Catawba units and not to the McGuire units. The NRC staff is 
treating this as a withdrawal of application for amendment dated 
February 27, 2003, for McGuire.
    For further details with respect to this action, see the 
application for amendment dated February 27, 2003, and the licensee's 
letter dated September 23, 2003, which is being treated as a withdrawal 
of application for amendment. Documents may be examined, and/or copied 
for a fee, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), located at One 
White Flint North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first 
floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available records will be 
accessible electronically from the Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management Systems (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the 
internet at the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/html. 
Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR 
Reference staff by telephone at 1-800-397-4209, or 301-415-4737 or by 
email to [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 2nd day of December 2003.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert E. Martin,
Senior Project Manager, Section 1, Project Directorate II, Division of 
Licensing Project Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 03-30359 Filed 12-5-03; 8:45 am]
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