ML19326C897
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| Site: | Arkansas Nuclear  |
| Issue date: | 09/17/1968 |
| From: | Mccool W US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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i UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIC ENERGY C0tDilSSION g
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Docket No. 50-313
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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 ir.. Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, '" Licensing of Production'and Utilization Facilf.cies", and
. Part 2, " Rules of Practice", notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held at 10:00 a.m., local time, on October 30, 1968, in the Young Student Center, Arkansas Polytechnic College, Russellville, Arkansas, to consider the application filed under $ 104 b. of the
. Act by Arkansas Power and Light Compt.ny (the applicant),, for a a
provisional construction permit for a pressurized water reactor designed to operate initia11y at 2,452 megawatts (thermal) located on a peninsula in Dardanelle Reservoir on the Arkansas River,J.n Pope County about six miles west northwest from Russellville, Askansas, and about two miles southeast from London, Arkansas.
The hearing will be conducted by the Atomic Safety and Licens-ing Board designated by the Atomic Energy Coc: mission, consisting of j
Mr. R. B. Briggs, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Dr. Lawrence R. Quarles, Charlottesville, Virginia; Mr. A. A. Wells, Esq., Chairman, Washington,
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Dr. John P. Ceyer, Baltimore, Maryland, has been designated
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as n' technically qualified alternate,,and Mr. J. D. Bond, Esq.,
Washington, D.
C., has been designated as an alternate que.lified in the conduct of administrative proceedings.
A prehearing conference will be held by the Board at 10:00 a.m.,
local time, on.0ctober 15, 1968, in Room 115, Lafayette Building, 811 Vermont Street, N. W.,. Washington, D. C.
20420 to consider the matters i
provided for consideration by 8 2.752 of 10 CFR Part 2 and Section II of Appendix A to 10 CFR Part 2.-
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The Director of Regulation proposes to make affi.rmative findings on Item Nu' mbers 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 substantial 1y in the form proposed in Appendix "A"
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Whether in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR I 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, ant has identified the major features or
, components incorporated ther61n 'for the protection of the ' health and safety of'.
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(b) Such further technical or design information I
'as may be required to complete the safety
' analysis and which can reasonably be left for later consideration, will be supplied in the final safety analysis report; 1
(c) Safety features or components, if any, which require research and development '
have been described by the applicant and
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'the applicant has identified, and there will be conducted, a research and develop-r ment. pr'ogram reasonably designed to resolve any safety questions associated with such
' features or components; and
'(d), On the ba:,:.s of the foregoing, there is reasonable assurance 'that (i)'such'ssfety
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into consideration the site -criteria con-tained in 10 CFR Part 100, the proposed
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facilit'y 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 l
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Whether the issuance of a permis for the construction of the facility will be inimical to the common defense
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and security or to the health and safety of the public.
In the event that this proceeding is not a contested proceeding,
. -as defined by 5 2.4 of the Commission's." Rules of Practice",10 CFR Part 2, the Board will, without conducting a de novo evaluation of the application, consider the issues of wheth'er the application
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and the record of the proceeding contain sufficient information, and the review by,the Commission's regulatary staff has been adequate, to support the findings proposed to 1 q a ad, ar,0 the' provisional con-struction permit proposed to be i.esd e, ;he Df rector of Regulation.
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In the event that this proceeding becomes a contested proceed-ing, the Board will' consider and initially decide, as the issues in this proceeding, Item Numbers 1 throu.gh 4 above as the basis for determining whether a provisional construction permit should be issued to the applicant.
As they become available, the epplication, the applicant's summary of the application, the report of the Commission's Advisory Commt. tee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) and the Safety Evaluation by the commission's regulatory staff will be placed in the Comis-i I
sion's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.,
where they will'be available for inspection by members of the public.
Copics of this notice of hearing, the ACRS report, the applicant's summary of the application and the regulatory staff's Safety Evaluation will also be available at th'e office of Everett Evell, Public Service Director, Arkansas Polytechnic College, Russellville, Arkansas, for inspection by members of the public each weekday between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Copies of the ACRS report and tl$e regulatory staff's Safety Evaluation may be obtained by request
, to the Director of the Div'ision of Reactor Licensing, United States
. Atomic ' Energy Commission, Washington, D. C.
20545.
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s Any person who wishes to make an oral or written statement in j
this proceeding setting forth his position on the issues specified, but who does not wish to file a petition for leave'to intervene,
.may request permission to make a limited appearance pursuan.; 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 I
.in the. dis'cretion of the Board, within such limits 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,
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by October 10, 1968.
Any person whose interest may be affected by the proceeding who does not wish to make a limited appearance and who wishes to participate as a party in tihe proceeding must file a petition for x
leave to intervene.
Petitions for leave to initervene, pursuant to the provisions of 8 2.714 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice", must be received in the Office of the Secretary, nited States Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C. 20545, Attention:
Chief, Public Proceedings Branch, or the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C., not later than October 10, 1968, or in the event of 4
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a post. onement of the prehearing conference, at such time as the Board may specify. The petition shall set forth the interest of
,the petitioner in the proceeding, how that interest may be affected
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,by Commission action, and the contentions of the petitioner in reasonably specific detail. 'A petition which sets forth contentions relating only to matters outside the commission's jurisdiction will be denied. A petition for 1 cave to intervene which is not timely filed will be denied unless the petitioncr shows good cause for failure to file it on time.
A person permitted to intervene becomes a party to thd pro-ceeding, and has all.the rights of the applicant and the regulatory staff to participate fully in the conduct of the hearing. For example, he may examine and cross-examine witnesses. A person i,
permitted to make a limited. appearance does not become a party,
- but may state.his position and raise questions which he would like to have answered to the extent that the questions are within the scope of the hearing as specified in the issues set out'above. A member of the phblic does not have the right to participate unless he has been granted the right to intervene as a party or the right
.of limited appearance.
An answer to this notice, pur'suant to the provisions of I 2.705 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice", must be filed by the applicant on or before October 10, 1968.
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' i 8-I Papers required to be filed in this proceeding may be filed by mail or telegram addressed to the Secretary, United States Atomic Energy Comission, Washington, D. C. 20545, Attention:
Chief, Public
/ Proceedings Branch, or may be filed by delivery to the Comission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.
Pending further order of the Board, parties are required to file, pursuant to the provisions of a 2.708 of the Comission's
" Rules of Practice", an originni and twenty conformed ' copies of i
each such paper 'with the Comission.
UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMfISSION l
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- Dated at Washington, D. C.
this lilth day of September,1968.
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