ML19210C044
| ML19210C044 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Maine Yankee |
| Issue date: | 10/16/1979 |
| From: | Conner E Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| ML19210C039 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 7911130186 | |
| Download: ML19210C044 (4) | |
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UNITED STATEF NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-309 7590-01 MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY
' '!0TICE OF PROPOSED ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) is considering issuance of an amendment to Facility Operating License No. DPR-36, issued to Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company (the licensee), for operation of the Maine Yankee Atomic Dower Station (the facility), located in Lincoln County, Maine.
In accordance with the licensee's application for amendment dated September 18, 1979, the amendment would revise the provisions in the Technical Specifications to permit the expansion of the facility's spent fuel storage capacity from 953 to l'545 spent fuel assemblies through a modified spent fuel pin storage concept involving the disassembly of spent fuel assemblies and reassembly into consolidated fuel bundles desianed to nrovide a more compact fue.1 pin array within the existing spent fuel racks. Accordingly, the amend-ment would not involve an increase in storage locations.
Prior to issuance of the proposed license amendment, the Commission will have made the findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act),
and the Commission's regulations.
By h0VEESER 2 3 gg ', 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 b2 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 Cornission'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 Panel, will rule en the request and/or 1319 290 7911130 /b
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7590-01 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 12.714, 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 nature and extent of the petitioner's property, financial, or other interest in the proceed-ing; 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 intertene or who has been admitted as a party may anend the petition without requesting leave of the Board up to fifteen (15) dL : prior to the first prehearing conference scheduled in the pro-cecding, but such an a. Tended :etition rust satisfy the specificity requirements described above.
.Not later than fifteen (15) days prior to the first preb. earing cen-ference scheduled in the proceeding, a petitioner shall file a supplement to the petition to intervene which must include a list of the contentions 1319 291
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which are sought to be litigated in the matter, and 5he bases for each contention set forth with reasonable specificity.
Contentions shall be linited to matters within the scope of the amendment under consideration. A petitioner who fails to file such a supp-lement which satisfies these requirements with respect to at least one contantion will not be permitted to participate os a carty.
Those pemitted 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 Comission, Uniteo States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C.
20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Section, or may be delivered to the Comission's Public Document Room, 17i 7 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 or representstive for the petitioner promptly so infom the'Comission 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 folicwing message acdressed to Robert Reid:
(petitioner's name and telephcne number);
date petition was mailed); (fiaine Yankee); and (publication date and nane number of this FEDEPAL REGISTER Notice). A copy of the petition should also be sent to the Executive Legal Director, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C.
20555, and to John A. Ritsher, 5 squire, Ro,,es & Gray, 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, attorney for the licensee.
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sass-vi Ncr.tirely filings of petitions for leave to intervene, amended petiticns,. su;plemental petitions and/r recuests fer hearing will net be
' entertained absent a determinatic: by the Cc mission, the presiding officer cr the A:ctic Safety and Licensing Ecard designated to rule on the petition ar, cr re:.es, that the petiticner has mace a substantial shewinc of gecd That determina-cause fcr the granting of a late petition and/or reques.
tien will be based upon a balancing of the factors s;ecified in 10 CFR 52.714(a)(i)-(v) and 12.714(d).
For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated September 18, 1979, which is available for public inspection at tbe Commission's Public Document Room.1717 H Street, NW., Washington, D. C.,
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and at the Wiscasset Public Library Association, High Street, Wiscasset, Maine.
Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 16th day of October 1979, FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION W
w Eben L. Conner, Acting Chief Operating Reactors Branch #4 Division of Operating Reactors F319
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