ML16341E228
| ML16341E228 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 05/12/1987 |
| From: | Holahan G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Kirsch D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8705270472 | |
| Download: ML16341E228 (16) | |
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MEMORANDUM FOR:
Dennis F. Kirsch, Director Division of Reactor Safety and Projects Region V
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Gary M. Holahan, Assistant Director for Region III and V Reactors Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV/V II Special Projects DIABLO CANYON 2 - RETURN TO MID-LOOP OPERATION This refers to your memorandum of May 4, 1987, which requested NRR review and concurrence that the actions described in PGIIE's letter of May 4, 1987, are appropriate and adequate for return to mid-loop operation during the current refueling outage.
We have completed our review of the PGIm(E letter.
We find that the actions described are fully consistent with the actions we are in the process of recommending to other licensees (see enclosure) regarding mid-loop operation and are acceptable.
Accordingly, we have no objection to allowing Diablo Canyon Unit 2 to return to mid-loop operation on or about May 18, 1987.
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Gary M. Holahan, Assistant Director for Region III and V Reactor Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV/V 5 Special Projects
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Rules and Procedures Branch MEMORANDUMFOR:
Division of. Rules and Records Office of Administration FROM Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
SUBJECT:
PACIPIC GAS 6 ELECTRIC CO?IPANY DIABLO CANYON NUCLEAR PLANT~, UNIT 2 One signed original of the Federal Register Notice identltied below Is enclosed for your transmittal to the Office of the Federal Register for publication. Additional conformed copies (
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) of the Notice are enclosed for your use.
Notice of Receipt of Application for Construction Permit(s) and Operating License(s).
Notice ot Receipt ot Partial Application tor Construction Permit(s) and Facility License(s): Time for Submission of Views on Antitrust Matters.
E2 Notice of Consideration ot Issuance of Amendment to Facility Operating License.
Notice ot Receipt ot Application for Facility License(s); Notice of Availability of Applicant's Environmental Report; and Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Facility License(s) and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing.
Notice of Availabilityof NRC Draft/Final Environmental Statement.
Notice of Limited Work Authorization.
Notice of Availabilityof Safety Evaluation Report.
Notice of Issuance of Construction Permit(s).
Notice ot issuance ot Facility Operating License(s) or Amendment(s).
Order.
Exemption.
Notice of Granting Exemption.
Environmental Assessment.
Notice of Preparation ot Environmental Assessment.
Other:
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Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY CONISSION PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-323 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF ANENDHENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERHINATION AND OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Coenission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operatjng License No.
DPR-82 issued to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (the licensee), for operation of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 2, located in San Luis Obispo County, California.
The request for amendment was submitted by letter dated March 17,
- 1987, as supp1emented Nay 6, l987.
The proposed amendment would revise the Diablo Canyon Unit 2 License Condition 2.C.(9) to allow the submittal of a plant-specific steam generator tube rupture (SGTR) analysis in April 1988, rather than prior to startup fo11owing the first refueling outage, to allow the use of the results and methodology of the Westinghouse Owners Group SGTR Subgroup (Subgroup).
Before issuan~ of the proposed license amendment, the Coamission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Coomission's regulations.
The Cownission has made a proposed determination that the request for amendment involves no significant hazards consideration.
Under the Coneission's regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means that operation of the facility in accordance with the proposed amendment would not (1) involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident
previously eva'luated; or (2) create the possibility of a new or.different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety.
The licensee has determined that the proposed change would not:
(I) Involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated because (a) based on the Subgroup's generic evaluation, the operators can respond to a design basis SGTR and perform the required actions to locate and terminate primary to secondary leakage before steam generator overfill occurs; (b) based on the Subgroup's generic evaluation, the offsite radiation doses for a design basis SGTR will be less than the allowable limits; and (c) the extension of time for submittal of the SGTR analysis is administrative in nature and has no effect on cause mechanisms.
(2) Create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated because the proposed extension does not necessitate physical alteration of the plant or changes in parameters governing normal plant operation.
(3) Involve a. significant reduction in the margin of safety because the i'xtension of time for submitting the SGTR analysis is an administrative change.
Accordingly, the licensee has determined that the proposed change to License Condition 2.C.(9) involves no significant hazards consideration.
The NRC staff has reviewed the licensee's no significant hazards consideration determination and agrees with the licensee's analysis.
Therefore, the staff proposes to determine that no significant hazards consideration is involved in the proposed amendment.
The Commission is seeking public comments on this proposed determination.
Any comments received within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final determination.
The Coomission will not normally make a final detemination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
I Comments should be addressed to the Rules and Procedures Branch, Division of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and should cite the publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
By June ll, 1987. the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject facility operating
- license, and any person whose interest aey be affected by this proceeding and who wishes to participate as a party fn the proceeding eust file a written petition for leave to intervene.
Request for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene must be filed in accordance with the Conmission's "Rules of Practice for Danestic Licensing Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2. If a request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Commission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel will rule on the request and/or petftion, and the Secretary or the designated Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will issue a notice of hearing or an appropriate order.
As required by 10 CFR 2.714, a petition for leave to intervene must set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how that interest may bc affected by the results of the proceeding.
The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be permitted with particular reference to the following factors: (I) the nature of the petitioner's right under the Act to be made a party to the proceeding;
(2) the nature and extent of the petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the proceeding; and (3) the possible effect of any order which may be entered in the proceeding on the petitioner's interest.
The petition should also identify the specific aspects(s) of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which petitioner wishes to intervene.
Any person who has filed a petition for leave to intervene or who has been admitted as a party may amend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, but such an amended petition must satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
'ot later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene which must include a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set for th with reasonable specificity.
Contentions shall be limited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration.
A petitioner who fails to file such a supplement which satisfies these requirements with respect to at least one contention will not be permitted to participate as a party.
Those permittdd to intervene become parties to the proceeding, subject to any limitations in the order granting leave to intervene, and have the opportunity to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing, including the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.
If a hearing is requested, the Coomission will make a final determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration.
The final determination will serve to decide when the hearing is held.
<1 If the final 'determination fs that the request for amcndacnt involves no significant hazards consideration, the Comnfssfon may issue the amendment and make ft effective, notwithstanding the request for a hearing.
Any hearing held would take place after issuance of thc amendment.
Normally, the Commission will not issue the amendment until the expiration of the 30-day notice period.
Kowever, should circumstances change during the notice such that failure to act fn a timely way would result, for example, in derating or shutdown of the facility. the Ceanfssfon may issue the license amendment before the expiration of the 30-day notice period, provided that its final determfnation is that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration.
The final determination will consider all public and State cooments recefved.
Should the Commission take this action, ft will publish a notice of issuance and provide for opportunity for a hearing after issuance.
The Comnfssfon expects that the need to take this action will occur very infrequently.
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Conlnfssfon, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
20555, Attention:
Docketing and Service Branch, I'r may be delivered to the Cotlnfssfon's Public Document
- Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., by the above date.
Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, ft is requested that the petitioner promptly so inform thc Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at (800) 325-6000 (in Hfssouri (800) 342-6700).
The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to George W. l;nfghton:
petitioner's name and
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A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Office of the General Counsel-Bethesda, U. S.
Nuclear Regulatory Coomission, Washington, D.C. 20555, and to Richard R,
Locke, Esq., Pacific Gas and Electric Company, P. 0.
Box 7442, San Francisco, California 94120 and Bruce Norton, Esq., c/o Pacific Gas and Electric Company, P. 0.
Box 7442, San Francisco, California 94I20, attorneys for the licensee.
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for *earing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Conmission, the presiding officer or the presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, that the petition and/or request should be granted based upon a balancing of the factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714 (a)(l)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment which is available for public inspection at the Comnission's Public Document
- Room, 1717 H Street, N. W., Washington, D.C., and at the California Polytechnic State University Library, Government Documents and Maps Department, San Luis Obispo, California 93407.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 7th day of l1ay 1987.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Charles H. Trammell, Project Nanager Project Directorate V
Division of Reactor Projects - III/IV/V and Special Projects
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