ML19256D834
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/24/1968 |
| From: | Mccool W NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| NUDOCS 7910230784 | |
| Download: ML19256D834 (11) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY
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Docket No. 50-289
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(Three Mile Island Nuclear
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Station, Unit 1)
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPLICATION FOR PROVISIONAL CONSTRUCTION PERMIT Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, (the Act) and the regulations in Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities", and Part 2, " Rules of Practice", notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held at 10:00 a.m., local time on March 5,1968, in the Middletown Moose Home, 100 Mill Street, Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057, to consider the application filed under a 104 b. of the Act by Metropolitan Edison Company (the applicant) for a provisional construction permit for a pressurized water recctor designed to operate at 2,452 megawatts (thermal) to be located at the applicant's site on Three Mile Island, an island in the Susquehanna River,in Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
The hearing will be conducted by the Atomic Safety and
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Licensing Board designated by the Atomic Energy Commission con-sisting of Mr. Reuel C. Stratton, Hartford, 3nnecticut; Dr. Clarke Williams, Upton, Long Island, New York; and J. D. Bond, Esq.,
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. Chairman, Vashingtoe. D. C.
Dr. John Henry Buck, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, has been designated as a technically qualified alternate.
A prehearing conference will be held by the Board at 10:00 a.r., local time, on February 20, 1968, in the Middletown Moose home, 100 Mill Street, Middletown, Pennsylvania, to consider the matters provided for consideration by 8 2.752 of 10 CFR Part 2 and Section II of Appendix "A" to 10 CFR Part 2.
The Director of Regulation proposes to make affirmative findings on Item Numbers 1 - 3 and a negative finding on Item 4 specified below as the basis for the issuance of a provisional construction permit to the applicant substantially in the form proposed in Appendix "A".
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Whether in accordance with the provisiens of 10 CFR 8 50.35(a):
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(a) The applicant has described the proposed design of the facility, including, but not limited to, the principal architectural and engineering criteria for the design, and has identified the major features or 1454 030
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3 components incorporated therein for the protection of the health and safety of the public; (b) Such further technical or design information as may be required to complete the safety analysis and which can reasonably be left for later consideration, vill be supplied in the final safety analysis report; (c) Safety features or components, if any, which require research and development have been described by the applicant and the applicant has identified, and there vill be conducted, a research and develop-ment program reasonably designed to resolve any safety questions associated with such features or components; and (d) On the basis of the foregoing, there is reasonable assurance that (1) such safety questions will be satisfactorily resolved 1454 031 at or before the latest date stated in the application for completion of construction of the proposed facility, and (ii) taking into consideration the site criteria con-tained in 10 CFR Part 100, the proposed facility can be constructed and operated at the proposed location without undue risk to the health and safety of the public; 2.
Whether the applicant is technically qualified to design and construct the proposed facility; 3.
Whether the applicant is financially qualified to design and construct the proposed facility; and 4.
Whether the issuance of a permit for the cons +ruction of the facility will be intmical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
In the event that this proceeding is not a contested 4
proceeding, as defined by 8 2.4 of the Co= mission's " Rules of Practice",10 CFR Part 2, the Board will, without conducting a c!ji novo evaluation of the application, consider the issues of 1454 032
. whether the application and the record of the proceeding contain sufficient information, and the review by the Commission's regulatory staff has been adequate, to support the findings proposed to be made and the provisional construction permit proposed to be issued by the Director of Regulation.
In the event that this proceeding becomes a contested proceeding, the Board will consider and initially decide, as the issues in this proceeding, Item Number 1 through 4 above as the basis for determining whether the provisional construction permit should be issued to the applicant.
As they bec me available, the application, the report of the Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) and the Safety Evaluation by the Commission's regulatory staff will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W.,
'Jashington, D.
C., where they will be available for inspection by members of the public. Copies of the ACRS report and the regulatory staff's Safety Evaluation may be obtained by request to the Director of the Division of Reactor Licensing, United States Atomic Energy Commissica, Washington, D. C. 20545.
Any person who wishes to make an oral or written statement in this proceeding setting forth his position on the issues 1454 033
- apecified, but who does not wish to file a petition for leave to intervene, may request permission to maka a limited appearance pursuant to the provisions of 8 2.715 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice". Limited appearances will be permitted at the time of the hearing in the discretion of the Board, within such ibnite and on such conditions as may be fixed by the Board. Persons desiring to make a limited appearance are requested to inform the Secretary, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
20545, by February 16, 1968.
Any person whose interest may be affected by the proceeding who does not wish to make a ibnited appearance and who wishes to participate as a party in the proceeding must file a petition for leave to intervene.
Petitions for leave to intervene, pursuant to the provisions of 9 2.714 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice", must be received in the Office of the Secretary, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Ger=antown, Maryland, er the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 11 Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., not later than February 16, 1968, or in the event of a postponement of the prehearing conference, at such time as the Board may specify.
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. The petition shall set forth the interest of the petitioner in the proceeding, how that :erest may be affected by Commission action and the contentions of the petitioner. A petition for leave to intervene which is not timely filed will be denied unless the petitioner shows good cause for failure to file it on tLae.
A person permitted to intervene becomes a party to the proceeding, and has all the rights of the applicant and the regulatory staff to participate fully in the conduct of the hear'.ng.
For example, he may examine and cross-examine witnesses.
A pe. son persitted to make a ibnited appearance does not become a p;rty, but may state his position and raise quastions which he would like to have answered to the extent that the questions are u#. thin the scope of the hearing as specified in the issues set out above. A member of the public does not have the right to participate unless he has been granted the right to intervene as a party or the right of ILnited appearance.
An answer to thi, notice, pursuant to the provisions of 6 2.705 of the Cocsission's " Rules of Practice", must be filed by the applicant on or before February 16, 1968.
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- Papers required to be filed in this proceeding may be filed by mail or telegram addressed to the Secretary, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C. 20545, or may be filed by delivery to the Office of the Secretary, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Germantown, Maryland, or the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20545.
Pending further order of the Board, parties are required to file, pursuant to the provisions of a 2.708 of the Commission's
" Rules of Practice", an original and twenty conformed copies of each such paper with the Commission.
UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COM ISSION By: [/
V 3,FICool Secretary 1454 036 Dated at Germantown, Maryland this 24th day of January
, 1968.
APPENDIX "A" METROPOLITAN EDISON CCMPANY (Three Mile Island Station, Unit 1)
DOCKET NO. 50-289 PROVISIONAL CONSTRUCTION PERMIT Construction Permit No.
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Pursuant to a 104 b. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and Title 10, Chapter 1, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Pacilities", and pursuant to the order of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, the Atomic Energy Commission (the Commission) hereby issues a provisional construction permit to Metropolitan Edison Company. (the applicant) for a utilizstion facility (the facility), designed to operate at 2,452 megawatts (thermal),
described in the application ar.3 a=endments thereto filed in this matter by the applicant and as more fully described in the evidence received at the public hearing upon that application. The facility, known at the Three Mile Island Station, Unit 1,will be located at the applicant's site on Three Mile Island, an island in the Susquehanna River, in Londenderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
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This carmt_ ehti vi deemed to contain and be subject to the co-iiciens specified in 58 50.34 and 50.55 of said regulations; 1s sub'.. to all applicable provisions of the Act, and rules, regulations and orders of the Commission now or hereafter in effect; and is subject to the conditions specified or incorporated below:
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The earliest date for the completion of the facility is December 1, 1970, and the latest date for completion of the facility is December 1,1971.
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The facility shall be constructed and located at the site as described in the application, as amended, on Three Mile Island, Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
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This construction permit authorizes the applicant to construct the facilf ty described in the application and the hearing record in accordance with the principal architectural and engineering criteria set forth therein.
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This permit is provisional to the extent that a license authorizing operation of the facility will not be issued by the Commission unless (a) the applicant submits to the Co= mission, by 1454 OL38
11 amendment to the application, the complete final safety analysis report, portions of which may be submitted and evaluated from' time to time; (b) the Commission finds that the final design provides reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public will not be endangered by the operation of the facility in accordance with procedures approved by it in connection with the issuance of said license; and (c) the applicant submits proof of financial protection and the execution of an indemnity agreement as required by 8170 of the Act.
FOR THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION 1454 039 m.