ML18040A694
| ML18040A694 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 07/01/1983 |
| From: | Schwencer A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8307200050 | |
| Download: ML18040A694 (7) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PENNSYLVANIA POMER AND LIGHT COMPANY ALLEGHENY ELECTRIC COOPERATIYE INC.
DOCKET NO. 50-387 NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO (7590-01)
FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND PROPOSED NO SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS CONSIDERATION DETERMINATION'AHD OPPORTUNITY FOR HEARING The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission} is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. NPF-14, issued to Pennsylvania Power 5 Light Company and'Allegheny Electric Cooperative, Inc.
(the licensees),
for operation of the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Unit 1 located in Luzerne C'ounty, Pennsylvania.
The amendment would modify the trip setpoint and the allowable value for the High Pressure Coolant Igection (HPCI) Steam Line Flow - High (Trip Function 6a) presented in Technical Specification Table 3.3.2-2, in accordance with the licensee's application for amendment dated April 15, 1983.
Before issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will have made findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act) and the Comaission's regulations.
The Comission has made a proposed determination that the amendment request, involves no significant hazards consideration.
Under the Comission'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 evaluated; 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.
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(7590-01)
The proposed Technical Specification modification to Table 3.3.2-2 is consistent with previously approved setpoint methodology.
The change may result in some increase to the probability or consequences of a previously analyzed accident or may reduce in some way a safety margin, but the results of the change are clearly within all acceptable criteria with respect to the system specified in the Standard Review Plan.
The change is a result from the application of a small refinement of a previously used calculational model.
One of the examples of actions involving no significant hazards consideration, example vi, appl ies.to such a change (48 FR 14871).
The Commission is seeking public comments on this proposed determination.
Any co+vents received within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice will be considered in making any final determination.
The Commission will not normally make a final determination unless it receives a request for a hearing.
Comaents should be addressed to the Secretary of the Comission, U. S.
Nuclear Regulatory Comaission, Mashington, D. C..
- 20555, ATTN:
Docketing and Service Branch.
By AUg i i ig83 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 may be affected by this proceeding'and who wishes to participate as a party fn the proceeding must file a written petition for
'eave to intervene.
Request for a hear ing and petitions for.leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Comoission's "Rules of Practice for 1
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 Coneission or an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, designated by the Coomission 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 52.714, 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 fa'ctors:
(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 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.
(7590-01)
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.
If a hearing is requested, the Comnission 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.
If the final determination is that the. amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration, the Commission may issue the amendment and make it effective, notwithstanding the request for a hearing.
Any.
hearing held would take place after issuance of the. amendment.
If the final determination is that the amendment involves a significant hazards consideration, any hearing held would take place before the issuance of any amendment.
Normally, the Commission will not issue the amendment until the expiration of the 30-day notice period.
However, should circumstances change during the notice period such that failure to act in a timely way would result in derating or shutdown of the facility, the Comnission may issue the license amendmeht before the expiration of the 30-day notice period, provided that-its final determination is that the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration.
The final determination will consider all public and state comaents received.
Should the Comaission take this action, it will publish a notice of issuance and provide for opportunity for a hearing after issuance.
The Coaeission expects that the need to take this action will occur very infrequently.
(7590-01)
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to intervene must be filed with the Secretary of the Commission, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C.
- 20555, ATTN:
Docketing and Service Branch, or may be delivered to the Cori'ssion'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, it is requested that 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 A. Schwencer:
petitioner's name and telephone number; date petition was mailed; plant name; and publication date and page number of this FEDERAL REGISTER notice.
A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Cormission, Washington, D. C. 20555, and to Jay Silberg, Esquire, Shaw, Pittman, Potts 8 Trowbridge, 1800 M Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20036, 'attorney for the licensee..
Nontimely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petitions, supplemental petitions and/or request for hearing will not be entertained absent a determination by the Comaission, 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 GFR 2.714(a)(1)(f)-(v) and 2.714(d).
(7590-01)
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. M., Mashington, D. C., and at the Osterhout Free Library, Reference Department, 71 South Franklin Street, Milkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 187Q1.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 1st day of July 1983.
FOR THE NUCLEAR EGULATORY COMMISSION C
A.
- chwencer, Chief Licensing Branch No. 2 Division of Licensing