ML19338F072

Requests That Application Filed by Util 791019 & Notice Published in Fr on 800826 Be Amended to Reflect Fact That Util Is Seeking Issuance of OL Only for Unit 1.Lists Three Items for Correction in Amended Notice

ML19338F072
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Site:	Wolf Creek, Callaway, 05000484
Issue date:	10/01/1980
From:	Bryan J UNION ELECTRIC CO.
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML19338F073	List: ML19338F072
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ULNRC-392, NUDOCS 8010070497
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Mr. Harold R. Denton Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 ULNRC- 392

Dear Mr. Denton:

Docket Numbers 50-483 50-486 Union Electric Company Callaway Plant, Units 1 & 2 On October 19, 1979, I transmitted (see ULNRC-326, attached) an amendment to Union Electric Company's application of April 30, 1974, for two Construction Permits and two Operating Licenses for a nuclear plant designated Callaway Plant, Units 1 and 2. As I stated on October 19, 1979:

"This amendment contemplates that the NRC staf f will conduct its review through the issuance

. of a Safety Evaluation Report for Callaway Plant Units 1 and 2, and an Environmental Impact State-ment on Callaway Plant, Unit i leading to the issuance of an operating license for Unit 1."

l' I also stated in the letter that additional information required to complete the amended application for the issuance of an operating license for Callaway Plant, Unit 2, will be filed at a later date consistent with the scheduled completion of l construction of that unit.

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! It is our belief that this approach -- which seeks a complete operating license review for Callaway Plant, Unit 1, but only a safety evaluation for Unit 2 -- is consistent with and specifically responsive to the guidance you provided in your letter of August 9, 1978 (attached) to the SNUPPS utilities.

In that letter you stated:

"The SMUPPS FSAR will be submitted with the operating license application for the lead SNUPPS plant, along with the site-related ard applicant-related portions of the FSAR and with the Environ- f0()/

mental Report for that application. At that time' 5

the applicants for the other three SNUPPS plants j will state their intent of referencing the SNUPPS FSAR in their applications.... After this (lead) f/j application has been accepted for review,we plan l

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Mr. Harold R. Denton October 1, 1980 Page Two to issue a notice of opportunity for hearing on both environmental and safety matters for the lead SNUPPS plant application. For t'.e other three SNUPPS plants, we also plan to issue at that time notices of receipt of the SNUPPS FSAR which the applicants intend to reference in their operating license applications, and will also notice the opportunity for hearing on safety matters relating to the SNUPPS FSAR for these plants. These latter notices will state that the notices for opportunity for hearing on the remaining radiological safety matters (i.e., the site-related and applicant-related portions of the FSAR) and on environmental matters (i.e., the Environmental Report) for these plants will be issued after the operating license appli-cations, including these documents, have been accepted for review." (Emphasis added).

Our filing of October 19, 1979, transmitted a complete application for the lead SNUPPS plant (Callaway Plant, Unit 1), and referenced the SNUPPS FSAR for Callaway Plant, Unit 2.

The notice of Receipt of Application for Facility Operating Licenses, Consideration of Issuance of Facility Operating Licenses and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing

("the Notice") published in the Federal Register on August 26, 1980 (attached) does not reflect differences in the scope of review contemplated at this time for Units 1 and 2, as reflected in your letter of August 9, 1978, and my transmittal of October 19, 1979. We have discussed the Notice with your staff and advised them that in our view the Notice does not accurately reflect our amended application. Following these discussions, we have been advised that the NRC Staff will not amend the Notice, as it applies to Callaway Plant, Unit 2, to include the opportunity '

for hearing on safety matters relating to the SNUPPS FSAR. We have been advised that in order to notice Unit 2 safety matters relating to the SNUPPS FSAR, we must now file all of the other i information required to consider the issuance of an operating license for Unit 2, or seek an exemption.

Faced with dris change in staff policy on the treatment of the SNUPPS applications, we request that the Notice be amended to reflect the fact that the Company is seeking the issuance at this time of an operating license only for Callaway Plant, Unit 1.

The Environmental Report filed on October 19, 1979, includes information on the environmental effects of the combined operation of both Callaway Plant units, consistent with past NRC practice in the evaluation of sites for multiple plant use. Because i Callaway Plant, Unit 2, is a part of the Company's generation expansion plan, we believe the staff's environmental review of Unit 1 should be conducted on the basis of these combined effects.

Mr. Harold R. Denton October 1, 1980 Page Three Because petitions for leave to intervene are being filed in response to the August 26, 1980 notice, and because an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board will be appointed shortly to rule on the petitions, this request for issuance of an amended notice warrants prompt action. It is important that the public and the Board understand the actual scope of this licensing proceeding.

I would also like to call your attention to the following errors in the Notice, which might be corrected in the amended notice:

1. The per unit net electrical output is 1150 mega-watts, and not 1.500 megawatts.

2. The SNUPPS FSAR was filed on October 19, 1979, and not on October 19, 1980.

3. The Environmental Report was filed on October 19, 1979, so that it is in error to state that it is expected to be filed and accepted by February, 1981.

It is also our view that the Notice is confusing in that it is unclear whether interested members of the public were invited to petition for leave to intervene on health and safety matters alone, or whether the Notice was intended to invite participation on environmental matters as well. We request that the amended notice apply clearly to both environmental and safety matters associated with the Unit 1 application.

Very truly yours,

'l , p-( Jo n K. Bryan V sla

'l cc: Gerald Charnoff, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Roy P. Lessy, Jr., Esquire Office of Executive Legal Director, USNRC Treva J. Hearne, Esquire Missouri Public Service Commission Mr. Richard L. Stark

UNION ELECTRIC COMf*ANY 1901 GRATIOT STREET ST. Leuss. M rssouRt October 19, 1979 =~gof,ooa;==

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ULNRC- 3 2 6 Mr. Harold R. Denton Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-

Dear Mr. Denton:

DOCKET NUMBERS 50-483 50-486 UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY CALLAWAY PLANTS, UNITS 1 & 2 Union Electric Company hereby files an amendment to its application of April 30, 1974, for two Construction Permits and two Operating Licenses for a nuclear plant designated Callaway Plant, Units 1 and 2.

With respect to callaway Plant, Unit 1, docket no. STN~

50-483, this amended application for the issuance of an operating license consists of: (1) the general information required by 10 CFR 50.33; (2) the technical information required by 10 CFR 50.34, in the form of the SNUPPS Final Safety Analysis Report and the Callaway.

Plant Site Addendum to that report; and (3) the Environmental Report required by 10 CFR 51.21. The Callaway Plant Security Plan and anti-trust review information are being submitted under separate cover.

With respect to Callaway Plant, Unit 2, docket no. STN 50-486, this amended application consists of the technical information required by 10 CFR 50.34 and identified above as the SNUPPS Final Safety Analysis Report and Callaway Plant Site Addendum.

In addition, the Environmental Report identified above for Unit 1 of the Callaway Plant includes information on the environmental effects of the operation of both units. Additional information required to complete the amended application for the issuance of an operating license for Callaway Plant, Unit 2, including supplementation of the general information and environmental report identified above, will be filed at a later date consistent with the scheduled completion of construction of that unit.

This amendment contemplates that the NRC staff will conduct its review through the issuance of a Safety Evaluation Report for Callaway Plant, Units 1 and 2, and an Environmental Impact Statement on Callaway Plant, Unit 1 leading to the issuance of an operating license for Unit 1. Following the later supplement to the

s. . operating license application for Unit 2, it is anticipated that an Environmental Impact Statement on Callaway Plant, Unit 2 would be prepared.

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Mr. Harold R. Drnton October 19, 1979 Pursuant to 10 CFR 50, furnished herewith are:

1) Three signed originals and ten copies of that portion of the information specified in 10 CFR 50.33 excluding the financial information requested in 10 CFR 50.33 (f).

The financial information will be supplied in June, 1981; however, a copy of the 1978 Annual Report is included herewith as Exhibit 1.

2) Fifteen copies of that portion of the application containing the information specified in 10 CFR 50.34 (b) consisting of:

a) The SNUPPS Standard Plant FSAR.

This portion of the application was-submitted to the NRC by Mr. N. A. Petrick, Executive Director, SNUPPS on October 2, 1979, and is hereby incorporated by reference.

b) Fifteen copies of the Callaway Plant Site Addendum.

3) Twenty copies of the information required by 10 CFR 51.21 (Environmental Report) .

(' An acknowledgement of the Commission's receipt of this application would be appreciated.

Very ruly yours,

! b ohn K. Bryan I

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