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Notice of Proposed Issuance of Amend to License DPR-74.Amend Would Increase Power Level to 3,411 Mwt & Increase Max Fuel Enrichment to 3.84% U-235
ML17319B521
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Site: Cook American Electric Power icon.png
Issue date: 08/19/1982
From: Varga S
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8209230459
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00-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-316 INDIANA AND MICHIGAN ELECTRIC COMPANY NOTICE OF PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE f

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) is considering issuance of amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-74, issued to Indiana and Michigan Electric Company (the licensee),

for operation of the D. C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Unit No.

2 located in Berrien County, Michigan.

The amendment, as a result of changing to fuel supplied by a different

vendor, would revise the provisions of the Facility Operating License, item c(l) on increasing the maximum power level from 3391 megawatts thermal to 3411 megawatts thermal (an increase of about 0.6%)

and item c(3)(.s) on changing the maximum fuel enrichment from 3.5% 'uranium 235 to 3.841. uranium

235, and the Technical Specifioations relating to the change to a different fuel design in accordance with the licensee's application for amendment dated April 7, 1982, as supplemented by letters dated June ll and June 30, 1982 and July 8, 1982.

Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commi'ssion will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Commission's regulations.

By September 27, 1932, the licensee may file a request for a hearina with respect to issuance of the amendment to the subject facility operating 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 8209230459 820819 PDR ADOCK 050003th P

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7-01 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 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, designated by the Commission or by the Chairman of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board I

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 1Q CFR

$2.714, 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 following factors:

(1) the nature of the petitioner's right under the Act to be made a party to the proceeding; (2) the natur e and extent of the petitioner's property, financial, or'ther 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.

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3 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 include 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 the 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, D. C.

20555, Attention:

Docketing and Service Section, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, NW., 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'etitioner or representative for the petitioner 'promptly so inform the Commission by a toll-free telephone call to Western Union at (800) 325-,6000 r

[in Missouri (800) 342-6700].

The Western Union operator should be given Datagram Identification Number 3737 and the following message addressed to Steven A. Varga, Chief, Operating Reactors Branch No. 1, Division of Licensing:

7590-01 (petitioner's name and telephone numbers; date petition was mailed); (D,C.

Cook Unit 2); and publication date and pa.ge number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice).

A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C.

20555, and to Gerald Charnoff, Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Points and Trowbridge, 1800M Street, NW.,

Washington, D. C.

20036, attorney for the licensee.

Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or requests for hearing will 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 the factors specified in 10 CFR

$2.714(a)(i)(v) and

$2;714(d).

For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated April 7, 1982, as supplemented June 11 and June 30, 1982, and July 8, 1982, which is available for public inspection at the Commission's public Document

Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and at the Maude Preston Palenske Memorial Library, 500 Market Street, St. Joseph, Michigan 49085.

1 Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 19 day of August, 1982.

THE NUC A

REGULATORY COMMISS ION

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