ML19262C609
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| Site: | La Crosse File:Dairyland Power Cooperative icon.png |
| Issue date: | 02/04/1980 |
| From: | Ziemann D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML19262C609 (3) | |
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7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NO. 50-409 DAIRYLAND POWER COOPERATIVE NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO PROVISIONAL OPERATING LICENSE AND NEGATIVE E LARATION The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission (the Comission) has issued Amendment No.18 to Provisional Ope ating License No. DPR-45, issued to Dairyland Power Cooperative (the licensee), which amended the license and its appended Technical Specifications for operation of the La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor (the facility) located in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
The amendment is effective as of its date of issuance.
The amendment approves the design concept of the c ash pad and modifies the Technical Specifications to allow increase in the capacity of the spent fuel storage pool from 134 to 440 fuel assemblies, in accordance with the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's ( ASLB) Initial Decision dated January 10, 1980,as modified January 17,1980. The Initial Decision is subject to review by an Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board prior to its becoming final.
Any decision or action taken by an Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board in connection with the Initial Decision may be reviewed by the Comission.
Moreover, the amendment approves flexible license provisions and Tech-nical Specifications for the receipt, possession and use of special nuclear, byproduct and source materials.
The application for the amendment complies with the standards end requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act),
and the Comission's rules and regulations. The Comission has made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Comission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendment.
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7590-01 On May 25, 1978, the Comission published notice in the Federal Register, 43 FR 22462 that the Comission was considering issuance of an amendment to the provisional operating license which would allow modification of the spent fuel storage pool at the facility, and that an opportunity for intervention and hearing was being provided for those making a sufficient showing of interest in the proceeding.
Subsequently the Coulee Region Energy Coalition (CREC) petitioned to intervene and requested a hearing. The petitioner was admitted as a party and a notice of future evidentiary hearing was published on August 4, 1978 (43 FR 34564). CREC, the intervenor, submitted conten-tions, five of which were admitted for litigation.
The Comission's staff and the licensee submitted motic. for Summary Disposition of all the contentions and the motions were granted on September 21,1979, at the prehearing conference (Prehearing Conference Tr. 393,417).
Prior public notice of consideration for the approval of the flex-ible materials provisions and the related Technical Specifications was not required since this portion of the action does not involve a significant hazards consideration.
The Comission has prepared an environmental impact appraisal for the revised Technical Specifications pertaining to the spent fuel pool expansion and has concluded that an environmental impact statement for this particular action is not warranted because there will be no environmental impact attributable to the action other than that wnich has already been predicted and described in the Comission's Draft Environmental Statement for the facility issued in June 1976.
The Comission has determined that the flexible materials provisions and the related Technical Specifications will not result in any significant
7590-01 environmental impact and that pursuant to 1' CFR 551.5(d)(4) an environ-mental impact statement or negative declaration and environmental impact appraisal need not be prepared in connection with this portion of the action.
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the application for amendment dated April 20, 1978, and letters dated June 7, July 11, August 7, September 25, October 4, October 26, November 20 and 29,1978; January 4, January 11, February 14, March 1, May 17, June 26, July 11, and August 6,1979, (2) ASLB's Initial Decision dated January 10, 1980, and a correction thereto dated January 17,1980,(3) Amendment No.18 to License No. DPR-45, including the Comission's letter of transmittal, (4) the Comission's related Safety Evaluation, dated July 13, 1979, as revised January
, 1980, and (5) the Commission's Environmental Impact Appraisal, dated July 13, 1979. All of these items are available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N. W. Washington, D. C.
and at the La Crosse Public Library, 800 Main Street, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 54601.
A copy of items (2), (3), (4) and (5) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C.
20555, Attention:
Director, Division of Operating Reactors.
Dated at Bethesda, Mary'and, this 4th day of February,1980 F R THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Dennis L. Ziemann, hief Operating Reactors Branch #2 Division of Operating Reactors
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