ML19322A996

Notice of Issuance of Amends 44,44 & 41 to Licenses DPR-38, DPR-47 & DPR-55,respectively

ML19322A996
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Site:	Oconee
Issue date:	07/14/1977
From:	Trammell C Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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O UNITED STATES NUCLEk' REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET NOS. 50-269, 50-270 AND 50-287 DUKE POWER COMPANY NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSES The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has issued Amendment Nos. 44, 44, and 41 to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-38, DPR-47, and DPR-55, respectively, issued to Duke Power Company which revised the Technical Specifications for operation of the Oconee Nuclear Station, Unit Nos. 1, 2 and 3, located in Oconee County, South Carolina.

The amendments arr effective as of the date of issuance.

The amendments authorized changes in the Technical Specifications

. to pennit irradiation of the remaining Oconee Nuclear Station, Units Nos.

1, 2 and 3 reactor vessel surveillance specimens at Crystal River Unit 3.

An exemption to that provision of Appendix H to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 50, which would have otherwis required irradiation of the Oconee capsules in the Oconee vessels, has also been granted.

Such action was in response to a generic failure of first-generation design Surveillance Specimen Holder Tubes (SSHTs) at Oconee and other operating Babcock & Wilcox 177 fuel assembly reactors.

The application for the amendments complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act),

and the Commission's rules and regulations.

The Commission has made l

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.. 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 amendments.

Prior !.ublic notice of these amendments was not required since the amendments do not involve a significant hazards consideration.

The Comission has determined that the issuance of these' amendments will not result in any significant environmental impact and that pursuant to 10 CFR 551.5(d)(4) an environmental impact statment or negative declaration and environmental impact appraisal need not be prepared in connection with the issuance of tnese amendments.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the coplication for amendments dated March 10, 1977, (2) Amendments Nos.44,

44 and 41 to License Nos. DPR-38, DPR-47 and DPR-55, respectively,

' and (3) the Comission's related Safety Evaluation.

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 Oconee County Library, 201 South Spring Street, Walhalla, South Carolina 29691.

A copy of items (2) and (3) may be obtained upon request addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D. C.

20555, Attention:

Do ector, Division of Operating Reactors.

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 14th day of July 1977.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION N

Charles M. Tramell, Acting Chief Operating Reactors Branch #1 Division of Operating Reactors

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