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Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amends to Licenses NPF-14 & NPF-22 & Opportunity for Prior Hearing.Amends Revise Tech Specs to Change Required Tolerance for Diesel Generator Loading Timers Associated W/Rhr Pumps
ML17146B141
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Site: Susquehanna  
Issue date: 01/20/1988
From: Butler W
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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7590-01 UNITFD STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PENNSYLVANIA >OliIER 8

LIGHT COMPANY ALLEGHENY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.

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50-387 AND 50-388 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR PRIOR HEARING The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considerinq issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos.

NPF-14 and NPF-22, issued to Pennsylvania Power and Light Company (the licensee),

for operation of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2 located in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

The amendment wnuld revise the provisions in the Technical Specifications relating to the required tolerance for the diesel generator loading timers associated with the Residual Heat Removal (RHR) pumps, in accordance with the licensee's application for amendment dated October 15,

1987, as revised October 30, 1987.

Specifically, the licensee proposes to revise the Technical Specification 4.8. 1. 1.2d. 12 to permit each diesel generator loading sequencer timer setpoint ranqe to be changed from +105 to +20% and -10$.

Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Fnergv Act nf 1954, as amended

( he Act) and the Commission's regulations.

By February 29, 1988 the licensee may file a request for a hearing with respect to issuance of the amendment the subiect fa ilcity operating BiaORO9os 7

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license and any person whose interest may be affected by this proceeding and who wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding must file a written petition for leave to intervene.

Requests for a hearing and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Commission's "Rules of Practice for Domestic Licensinq Proceedings" in 10 CFR Part 2.

If a request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene is filed by the above date, the Coomission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated'by the Comnission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will rule on the request and/or petition 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 5P.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth with particularity the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, and how that interest may be affected by the results of the proceeding.

The petition should specifically explain the reasons why intervention should be permitted with particular reference to the followinq factors:

(1) 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 aspect(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.

Not 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 irclude a list of the contentions which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and the bases for each contention set forth 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 permitted 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'he hearing, including the opportunity to present evidence and cross-examine witnesses.

A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, O.C.

20555, Attention:

Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document

Room, 1717 X
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. by the above date.

Where petitions are filed during the last ten (10) days of the notice period, it is requested that the petitioner or representative for the petitioner promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at (800) 325-6000 (in Missouri (800) 342-6700).

The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to Walter R. Butler:

petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this

FFDERAL REGISTER notice.

A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Office of the General

Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mashington, D.C.
20555, and to Jay Silberg, Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, attorney for the licensee, 2300 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20037.

Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing wi 11 not be entertained absent a determination by the Commission, the presiding officer or the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board designated to rule on the petition and/or request, that the petitioner has made a substantial showing of good cause for the granting of a late petition and/or request.

That determination will be based upon a balancing of factors specified in 10 CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)-(v) and 2.714(d).

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated October 15,

1987, as revised October 30, 1987, which is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document
Room, 1717 M Street, N.M., Washington, D.C. at the Osterhout Free Library, Reference Department, 71 South Franklin Street, Wi lkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18701.

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 20th day of Janua~

1988.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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Walter R. Butler, Director Project Directorate I-2 Division of Reactor Projects I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation