ML18347A560
| ML18347A560 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 09/03/1976 |
| From: | Sewell R Consumers Power Co |
| To: | Rusche B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| Download: ML18347A560 (2) | |
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General Offices: 212 West Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan 49201
- Area Code 517 788-0550
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- September 3, 1976 Mr B. C. Rusche Director, Nuclear Reactor Regulation US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 DOCKET 50-255, LICENSE DPR PALISADES PLANT On August 4, 1976 Consumers Power Company transmitted a proposed change to the Palisades Plant Technical Specifications.
As the proposed change affected limits associated with the amount of heat that could pe discharged from the closed-cycle cooling system into Lake Michigan during the months of August and September 1976, we confirmed that the parties specified in the Palisades Plant Settlement Agreement between Consumers Power Company and Michigan Steelhead and Salmon Fisherman's Association, et al, had been notified as required by that Agreement.
On August 5, 1976 representatives of Consumers Power Company met with members of your staff to discuss this proposed change, At that time, Consumers Power Com-pany informed the members of your staff that we did not yet know Interveners' position on the proposed change.
Your staff informed us that if the Interveners objected to the change, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would offer them an opportunity to request a hearing on this matter prior to allowing Consumers Power Company to institute the change. It has been our past experience that in such a situation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would provide the Interven-ers 30 days in which to determine whether they wish to request such a.hearing.
Subsequently, by letters dated August 19, 1976, Mr Myron M. Cherry informed you and Consumers Power Company that the Interveners did not agree to this change.
As a significant portion of the expected benefits (both test data and economic) of this proposed change would accrue in August and early September 1976, a 30-day time period granted to Interveners to determine whether they wished to re-quest a hearing would effectively preclude Consumers Power Company from utiliz-ing the requested change.
We, therefore, withdraw our August 4, 1976 proposed Technical Specifications change.
.We are presently evaluating whether a similar change would be of benefit during the warm weather months of 1977 and are also evaluating the possibility of other changes to those portions of th~ Technical Specifications which were imposed pursuant to the Intervener Agreement.
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- This evaluation will depend on the results which we obtained in late August 1976 from operation of the turbine at higher back pressures as well as the results of
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The purpose of this operation and testing was an attempt to determine whether the plant power output could be increased by divert-ing some dilution flow to the condenser while still meeting Technical Specifica~
tions limits.
As noted in the Licensee Event Report submitted August 31, 1976 the 5°F ~T limit was exceeded briefly during this testing.
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