ML19330B789

Notice of Issuance of Amend 47 to License NPF-1

ML19330B789
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Site:	Trojan File:Portland General Electric icon.png
Issue date:	07/25/1980
From:	Clark R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ISSUANCES-SP, TAC-11299, TAC-13152, NUDOCS 8008050539
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o 7590-01 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DOCKET N0. 50-344 PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, ET AL.

NOTICE OF ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has, pursuant to the Initial Decision of its Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) dated July 11, 1980, issued Amendment No. 47 to Facility Operating License No. NPF-1, issued to Portland General Electric Company, the City of Eugene, Oregon, and Pacific Power and Light Company (the licensee), which revised the license and appended Technical Specifications for operation of the Trojan Nuclear Plant (the facility), located in Columbia County, Oregon. The amendment is effective as of its date of issuance.

The amendment authorizes modifications to the Control Building in order to substantially restore the originally intended seismic design margins and requires that the modification program be completed by not.

later than 12 months from the date of this amendment.

In addition, the amendment adds 22 license conditions related to the conduct of the modification program, and two new Technical Specifications applicable to the modified Control-Auxiliary-Fuel Building Complex.

The Technical Specifications add operability and surveillance requirements for the new through-wall bolts used to tie reinforced concrete and the steel plate to the Control Building west and east walls, and add restrictions on any future modifications which may be made to the Control-Auxiliary-Fuel Building Complex.

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2-The Initial D &ision is subject to review by an Atomic Safsty 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.

The amendment complies with the standards and requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Comission's rules and regulations. The Commission has.made appropriate findings as required by the Act and the Commission's rules and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in the license amendment.

On May 26, 1978, the NRC's Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation issued an Order for Modification of License that set forth findings that design errors in the Control Building shear walls had reduced the seismic capability of the Control Building; that the originally intended seismic capability should be substantially restored by modifications to that structure; and that operation of the facility with the Control Building in its as-built condition would violate the existing facility license.

Based on the related safety evaluation by the NRC staff, however, the Order stated that the Control Building nevertheless had adequate structural capacity to resist the licensed Safe Shutdown Earthquake and that the facility operating license should-be modified to permit operation, with conditions, in the interim period prior to approval and completion of modifications required by the Order.

The Order also provided opportunity for hearing and was published in the Federal Register on June 1, 1978 (43 F.R. 23768).

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that a hearing was ordered, the terms of the Order would not become effective until_a further order issued pursuant to suct. hearing.

Numer'ous requests for a nearing were received. The requests filed by:

Columbia Environmental Council; Eugene Rosolie, acting on his own behalf and as representative of the Coalition for Safe Power;' Stephen M. Willingham; David B. McCoy; C. Gail Parson; Nina Bell; and the Bonneville Power Administration were granted.

In addition, the State of Oregon was granted leave to participate as an interested State.

The hearing was subsequently divided into two phases.

The first phase considered the safety'of interim operation pending completion of modifications to restore the originally intended seismic design margins.

This portion of the hearing was held October 23 through November 3, and December 11-14, 1978 in Salem and Portland, Oregon. A Partial Initial Decision allowing interim operation, subject to certain conditions, was issued by the ASLB on December 21, 1978, and a conforming license amendment was issued on December 22, 1978.

Phase II of the hearing involved consideration of the structural adequacy of the proposed Control Building modifications and the safety aspects of their implementation.

This portion of the hearing was held in Portland, Oregon on March 31 - April 3 and April. 16-17, 1980. The above-referenced Initial Decision was subsequently issued on July 11, 1980.

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4-The-Commission ~has determined that the issuance of this am'endment will not "esult in any significant environmental impact and that i

pursuant to 10 CFR 151.5(d)(4) an environmental impact statement-l or negative declaration and environmental impact appraisal need l

not be prepared in connection with issuance of this amendment.

For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the Initial Decision of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board dated July 11, 1980; (2) Amendment No. 47 to License No. NPF-1; (3) Order for Modification of License dated May 26, 1978 and related Safety Evaluation; and (4) the Partial Initial Decision of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board dated December 21, 1978.

All of these items are available for public inspection at the Commission'.s Public. Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20555, and at the Columbia County Courthouse, Law Library, Circuit Court Room, St. Helens, Oregon 97051.

Single copies may be obtained upon request. addressed to the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D. C. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Licensing.

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 25th day of July,1980.

i FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION a

I Robert A. Clark, Chief Operating Reactors Branch #3 Division of Licensing

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