ML19220B576
| ML19220B576 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/20/1974 |
| From: | Kniel K US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| FRN-740520, NUDOCS 7904270047 | |
| Download: ML19220B576 (9) | |
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w UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION In the Matter o f
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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
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JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT COMPANY)
Docket No. 50-320 PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC COMPANY
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(Three :lile Island Nuclear Station
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Unit 2)
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NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION FOR FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE: NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF ISSUANCE OF FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE AND NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR HEAPING In an application dated April 22, 1968, Jersey Central Pcwer
& Light Company, Madison Avenue at Punch Bowl Road, Morristown, New Jersey 07960, filed an application for authorization to construct and operate a pressurized water nuclear reactor, designated as the Oyster Creek Nuclear Station, Unit 2, on the applicant's site in Lacey Townshio, Ocean County, New Jersey.
A notice of receipt of application was published in the FEDERAL REGISTER on June 19, 1968 (3 3 F.R. 9038).
In license application Amendment No. 6 dated March 10, 1969, filed jointly by Jersey Central Power & Light Company and Metropolitan Edison Company, P.O.
Box 542, Reading, Pennsylvania 19603, the acplicants recuested authorization to construct and ocerate the previcusly designated Oyster Creek Nuclear Station,
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@ Unit 2, at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
The proposed reactor was redes gnated as the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2, and is prescntly under construction adjacent to and just south of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1.
Notice is hereby given that the Atomic Energy Commission (the Commission) has received an application for facility operating license for Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2 (the facility).
In license application Amendnent No. 13 dated April 4, 1974, filed jointly by Metropolitan Edison Comcany, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, and Pennsylvania Electric Company (the applicants), the applicants have requested authorization, pursuant to Section 104 (b) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to possess, use, and operate the facility, a pressurized water nuclear reactor, at a steady-state power level of 2772 megawatts thermal.
The applicants will share ownership of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2, and Metrocolitan Edison Ccmpany will have complete resconsibility for the engineering, design, construction, operation and maintenance of the facility.
Copies of Amendments 6 and 13 covering the relocation and joint ownership of the f acility are available for oublic 80-150
. inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H
- Street, N. W.,
Washington, D.
C.,
and at the Local Public Document Room established at the Government Publications Section, State Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg 17126.
The applicants have also filed, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and the regulations of the Commission in Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50, an environmental report dated December 10, 1971, as supolemented, which is incorporated in the Final Safety Analysis Report by ref erence.
The environmental report, which discusses environmental considerations related to the croposed oceration of the facility, is available for inspection at the above mentioned locations, and also at the State Clearinghouse, Office of State Planning and Development, P.O.
Box 1323, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120, and at the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission, 341 South Cameron Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101.
The Office of the Deputy Director for Reactor Proj ects,
Directorate of Licensing, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, issued a Final Environmental Statement relating to both construction and operation of the facility in December 1972 (37 F.R. 26144).
An updated Final Environmental Statement related to operation of the facility will be crepared, notice of availability of which. vill be published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.80-151 m
. The Commission will consider the issuance of a facility operatir.g license to Metropolitan Edison Comcany, Jersey Central Power & Light Company, and Pennsylvania Electric Company, which would authorize the applicants to possess, use, and operace the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 2, in accordance with the provisions of the license and the Technical Specifications appended thereto, upon:
(1) the completion of a favorable saf ety evaluation on the application by the Commission's Directorate of Licensing; (2) the completion of the environmental review required by the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix D; (3) the receipt of a report on the applicants' application for a facility operating license by the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; and (4) a finding by the Commission that the application for the facility license, as amended, complies with the requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Ccmmission's regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I.
Construction of the facility was authorized by Provisional Construction Permit No. CPPR-66, issued by the Commission on November 4, 1969.
Construction of the f acility is anticipated to be completed by May 1, 1977.80-152
. Prior to issuance of any ocerating license, the Commission will inspect the facility to determine whether it has been constructed in accordance with the acplication, as amended, and the provisions of the construction permit.
In addition, the license will not be issued until the Ccmmission has made the findings reflecting its review of the apolication under the Act, which will be set forth in the proposed license, and has concluded that the issuance of the license will not be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
Upon issuance of the license, the applicants will be required to execute an indennity agreement as requirec' by Section 170 of the Act and 10 CFR Part 140 of the Commission's regulations.
The facility is subject to the provisions of Section C of Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50, which sets forth procedures applicable to review of environmental considerations for production and utilization facilities for which construction permits were issued prior to January 1, 1970.
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 10 CFR Part 2,
" Rules of Practice", and Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities", that the Commission is oroviding an cpportunity for hearing with respect to whether, considerinc 80-153
. those matters covered by Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50, the provisional construction permit in the captioned proceeding should be continued, modified, terminated cr appropriately conditioned to protect environmental values.
Within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice in the FEDERAL REGISTER, the apolicant may file a request for a hearing, and any member of the public whose interest may be affected by the prcceeding may file a request for a public hearing in the form of a cetition for leave to intervene (1) as respects, considering those matters covered by Appendix D to 10 CFR Part 50 of the Commission's regulations, (a) whether the provisional construction permit should be continued, modified, terminated or appropriately conditioned to protect environmental values and/or (b) the issuance or denial of an operating license or its appropriate conditioning to protect environmental values, and alternatively, or jointly (2) as respects issuance of the operating license in consideration of those matters covered by 10 CFR Part 50 of the Commission's regulations.
Requests for a haaring and petitions for leave to intervene shall be filed in accordance with the Ccmmission's
" Rules of Practice" in 10 CFR Part 2.
If a request for a hearing er petition for leave to intervene is filed within the time prescribed in this notice, the Commission or an Atonic 80-154
g Safety and Licensing Board designated by the Commission or by the Chairman of the Atcmic 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.
A petition for leave to intervene must be filed under oath or affirmation in accordance with the crovisions of 10 CFR Section 2.714.
As required in 10 CFR Section 2.714, a petition for leave to intervene shall set forth the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, how that interest may be affected by the results of the proceeding, and any other contentions of the petitioner including the facts and reasons why he should be permitted to intervene, with particular reference to the following factors:
(1) the natur 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 o 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.
Any such petition shall be accompanied by a supporting affidavit identifying the specific aspect or ascects of the subject matter of the proceeding as to which the petitioner wishes to intervene and setting forth with 80-155
8-particularity both the facts pertaining to his interest and the basis for his contentions with regard to each aspect on which he desires to intervene.
A petition that sets forth contentions relating only to matters outside the jurisdiction of the Commission will be denied.
A request for a hearing or a petition for leave to inter-vene must be filed with the Secretary of the Comminsion, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.
C.
- 20545, Attention:
Chief, Publ.c Proceedings Staff, or may be delivered to the Commission's Public Document Room 1717 H Street, N. W.,
Washington, D.
C.,
by June 27, 1974.
A copy of the cetition and/or request should also be sent to the Chief Hearing Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, Regulation, U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.
C.
20545, and to George F.
Trowbridge, Esq., Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, 910 17th Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.
C.
20006, attorney for the applicant.
A petition for leave to intervene which is not timely will not be granted unless the Commission, the presiding officer, or the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board designated to rule on the petition determines that the petitioner has made a sub-stantial showing of good cause for failure to file on time and after considering those factors specified in 10 CFR Section
- 2. 714 (a) (1)- (4 ) and Section 2. 714 (d).80-156
. For further details pertinent to the matters under con-sideration, see the application for the facility operating license dated April 4, 1974; the applicants' revised Environ-mental Report dated December 10, 1971; Amendment No.
l~ there to dated March 3, 1972, and Amendment No. 2 dated April 30, 1973; the Draft Detailed Statement dated June 1972; and the Final Environmental Statement dated December 1972, which are available for public inspection at the above mentioned locations in Washington, D.
C.,
and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
As they become available, the following documents may be inspected at the above locations:
(1) the safety evaluation report prepared by the Directorate of Licensing; (2) the Ccmmission's updated Final Environmental Statement; (3) the report of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards on the application for facility operating license; (4) the proposed facility operating license; and (5) the technical specifications, which will be attached to the proposed facility operating license.
Copies of the above items, when available, may be obtained by request to the Deputy Director for Reactor Proiects, Directorate of Licensing, U.S.
Atcmic Energy Commission, Washington, D.
C.
20545.
FOR THE ATCMIC ENERGY COMMISSION orfginal signed by L Kdd Karl Kniel, Chief Light Water Reactors Branch 2-2 Directorate of Licensing Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 20th day of May 1974.
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